Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Song Info

The song reached #69 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA, and #16 on the UK charts, and hit #1 on both US Modern Tracks and US Mainstream Rock Tracks. It is notable for its sparse combination of guitar and bass notes in the intro, and its unique music video. The song is mainly about the dark side of Hollywood. The song opens to the "Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation." Kiedis says in his book Scar Tissue that he got the inspiration for the lyric from when he Read more...

Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Awards

This song has not won any awards that are recognised by Song of the Decade. We include BRIT Awards, Ivor Novello Awards, NME Awards, MTV Europe Awards, MOBO Awards and BPI Awards.

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___Greg___

@ 11:25pm on 28 November 2009

It was released in June 2000. ♥

mrk_ck

@ 12:55pm on 27 November 2009

just an amazing song!! video brilliant and the lyrics are just so clever!! RHCP are the best band the world has ever seen!! and this is their greatest song!!

emrok

@ 9:48pm on 25 November 2009

this reminds me of a gr8 family hol to cornwall (along with drift and die by pud of mud) the vids brill as well

scartissue1973

@ 9:33pm on 25 November 2009

I wanted to vote for Scartissue but believe it was released in '99, anyway it's not on the list to choose from however the next best, in my opinion is Californication...what a record, in fact any record of the RHCP deserves to be in the top 10!!