Snow (Hey Oh)
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| Single by Red Hot Chili Peppers | ||||||||
| from the album Stadium Arcadium | ||||||||
| B-side | "Funny Face" "I'll Be Your Domino" |
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| Released | November 20, 2006 | |||||||
| Format | CD single, vinyl, digital download | |||||||
| Recorded | March - December 2005 at The Mansion in Los Angeles, California | |||||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||||||
| Length | 5:34 (album version) 4:37 (radio edit) |
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| Label | Warner Bros. | |||||||
| Writer(s) | Flea, Frusciante, Kiedis, Smith | |||||||
| Producer | Rick Rubin | |||||||
| Red Hot Chili Peppers singles chronology | ||||||||
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"Snow (Hey Oh)" (stylized "Snow ((Hey Oh))") is a song from the Red Hot Chili Peppers Grammy–winner 2006 double album, Stadium Arcadium. The song was released as the follow-up single to "Tell Me Baby" on November 20, 2006 and became the band's third straight number one hit on the Billboard Modern Rock chart, a spot it held for five straight weeks. The single was their 11th to top the charts giving the band the all-time record for any artist on that chart, a record they still hold to date and even passed in 2011.
Vocalist Anthony Kiedis states that the track is "about surviving, starting fresh. I've made a mess of everything, but I have a blank slate—a canvas of snow—and I get to start over."[1]
Despite the song being very popular and a big hit, it hasn't been performed since the Stadium Arcadium tour.
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[edit] Song background
It is a characteristically soft, melodic song, much like those from the band's prior album By the Way. The song is driven by a rapid guitar riff by John Frusciante, and makes use of double stops on the bass by Flea.
Frusciante.net revealed that this was going to be the third of seven songs released as a single from Stadium Arcadium. Before even being released as a single, it climbed to #53 in the UK iTunes top 100 on May 13. Like its predecessor "Tell Me Baby", it peaked at #16 in the UK Singles Chart.
On 17 January 2007, "Snow (Hey Oh)" became the band's record breaking 11th number one Modern Rock single in the United States and is the third consecutive chart-topping Modern Rock single from Stadium Arcadium.
In Germany, it was the band's most successful song, reaching #5, making it the band's only Top-10-song there.[2]
[edit] Music video
In an interview, Tony Kaye, who also directed the video for "Dani California", told MTV he would be directing the video for the song. However, his footage wasn't used (pictures of this shoot can be seen here [1]). Instead, Warner commissioned director Nick Wickham to shoot a new video showing the band at the 17 October and 18 October 2006 shows at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey, along with black and white film of fans at the parking lot and lines at the live show.
[edit] Usage
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- The song is played during the credits of the second Death Note movie, Death Note: The Last Name.
- It was used by ESPN in commercials for the X Games.
- During the summer of 2007, the song was used in a promotion for the new season of PBS's news-magazine program Frontline.
- It was even used in some TV Spots for the 2006 film Happy Feet.
- The song was also used as a theme song for WWE's pay-per-view event WrestleMania XXIV.
- The song is also available for download for the Rock Band series of music video games, along with "Tell Me Baby"; notably it is one of the harder guitar songs in the game due to its abnormal pattern and back and forth motion.
- The song was also used during a flashback scene on an episode of the show Cold Case, entitled "Sabotage".
- The song was also used during the season eight finale of Scrubs, "My Finale", where the main character is seen to be ending one part of his life and beginning a new one.
[edit] Track listings and formats
- CD-single
- "Snow (Hey Oh)" – 5:34
- "Permutation" (Live) – 3:43
- Maxi-single 9362 42983-2
- "Snow (Hey Oh)" – 5:34
- "Funny Face" – 4:46
- "I'll Be Your Domino" – 3:54
- International CD-single 5439 15624-2
- "Snow (Hey Oh)" – 5:34
- "Funny Face" – 4:46
- 7" Picture disk 5439 15623-7
- "Snow (Hey Oh)" – 5:34
- "Funny Face" – 4:46
- iTunes Version Single
- "Snow (Hey Oh)" – 5:34
- "Funny Face" – 4:46
- "I'll Be Your Domino" – 3:54
- "Permutation" (Live) – 3:43
[edit] Chart performance
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[edit] Year-end charts
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| Preceded by "Anna-Molly" by Incubus |
Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks number-one single January 27, 2007 – February 24, 2007 |
Succeeded by "Pain" by Three Days Grace |
[edit] References
- ^ "Tattooed Love Boys". invisible-movement.de. 1 June 2006. http://www.invisible-movement.net/articles/2006-press/0601-rollingstone/. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
- ^ "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, News, etc.". musicline.de. http://musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/RED+HOT+CHILI+PEPPERS/?type=single. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
- ^ "Red Hot Chili Peppers' Snow (Hey Oh): Chart Positions". ACharts. http://acharts.us/song/8589. Retrieved 29 June 2009.
- ^ "ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Radio Top100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert {{{year}}}{{{week}}} into search.
- ^ "Singles chart 2007" (in German). MTV. Archived from the original on 15 June 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090615213352/http://www.mtv.de/charts/Single_Jahrescharts_2007. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
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