“I Saw Red” by Warrant

"I Saw Red" is where Warrant's glam metal turned the lights down. A power ballad, it followed the title track as the second single from Cherry Pie, the band's second album, late in 1990, and it came out of real betrayal: Jani Lane caught his girlfriend with his best friend, and the fallout sent him into a nervous breakdown that pushed back the band's debut, Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich.

Lane, Joey Allen, Jerry Dixon, Steven Sweet and Erik Turner share the writing credit, and Beau Hill produced it for Columbia. It climbed to No. 10 on the Hot 100 in February 1991, one of the band's biggest singles, and it came with two music videos. An acoustic version, first tucked onto the B-side, shows Lane alone in its clip; it later earned a single release of its own and a spot on The Best of Warrant.

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