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featuring 17 songs recorded in contention for the band's tenth studio album, '' I'm with You'' (2011). Produced by
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, each release contains two songs featuring an
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and a
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and they are available worldwide through
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and digital download. The singles were also released as a double LP vinyl set, entitled ''
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Background

During a Q&A on May 5, 2012, Chad Smith announced through his Twitter page that the album's unreleased songs would eventually see the light of day. On May 27, 2012, Smith said in response to a tweet that, at some point in the next six months, the band would be releasing 10 unreleased songs on 7-inch and as digital downloads. Flea followed up Smith's announcement a few days later on May 29, 2012, by stating that 18 unreleased songs from the ''I'm with You'' sessions would be released over the next six months. He also confirmed that the band has been writing new music while touring. Josh Klinghoffer commented on the unreleased songs by saying "Finding songs that seem to want to join hands with others is a special task that require the right people...and the right songs! Some songs seem to have a lot more of an agenda than others. Some songs play well with others and some songs need more attention and a little extra care. Here are some songs that seemed to want to pair up and take a later train. Keep your eye on them, they're up to something..." Smith said in July 2012 of the unreleased songs that "We just wanted them to come out because we just really like them. We didn't want them to get lost, so we're gonna put them out, mainly for our fans. They would've waited for the Warner Bros. box set in, like, 2020, if there's even a record company around then. I'm glad they're going to see the light of day because it's an important part of the band and what we were doing at the time." On the sound of the songs, Smith says he finds it "hard to explain" what the first two songs to be released sound like but describes "Long Progression" as "kind of a flowing, kind of midtempo funk". He also stated the band is currently working on new music. "Those are just waiting," Smith said. "We'll go back to those when we start writing again, I'm sure – or not. We're just always trying to come up with new stuff; usually the latest and greatest is what we use, but you never know."


Writing and composition

All of the seventeen songs were recorded during the sessions for ''I'm with You''. "Long Progression", the B-side to "Strange Man" which was the first single released, almost made the album's final cut but was left off in favor of "Goodbye Hooray". One of the songs, "In Love Dying" is an eight-minute rocker captured in a single studio take that occupies both sides of a single, as Klinghoffer told Rolling Stone from a recent tour stop in Berne, Switzerland. “We’re going to have to do that old trick where it fades out and fades back in on the B-side.” Another cut, “Victorian Machinery” “sounds like a big three-headed monster playing drums,” Klinghoffer said, adding that the band captured “absolute magic” with “Never Is a Long Time,” a “pop-tastic” number featuring
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on piano. “It's really one of those cases where they had too many good songs to fit on an album. They have this cohesive thing in the studio – when they get that take, that’s the take that they keep.” “It's always difficult, but we use a democratic process and the songs with the most votes are usually the backbone of the album,” producer
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wrote in an email. “I can just say as is always the case, some of my personal favorites don’t make the cut. I’m sure everyone in the band can tell you the same.” In an interview, Klinghoffer said the band spent time in 2012 and 2013 doing post-session work for some of the B-sides. Klinghoffer also said they recorded 48 songs during the album's sessions and some could eventually see the light of day. “It's possible,” Klinghoffer said. “We just had so much material back then that certain things just straight-up didn’t get enough attention. There’s a couple that will probably just remain in our
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Artwork

Each of the nine seven-inches feature cover artwork by Kelsey Brookes, and when combined, form one larger piece of artwork. The artwork is titled "Iris" and featured in Brookes' new "Meditations on Symmetry" series which was displayed from March 2012 at Compound Project in
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. Brookes' well-documented background in microbiology, surf culture and folk art combine in explosive prisms of raucous color, bold imagery and timeless motifs. His work has appeared in countless group shows, art fairs, and magazines such as '' GQ'', ''
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'', ''Beautiful Decay'' and '' Dazed & Confused''. However, the artwork was sightly modified for the single's release, by rotating the image 45 degrees. The back cover of each release features handwritten lyrics by vocalist and lyricist
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Track listing

''I'm Beside You'' track listing All songs written and composed by
Anthony Kiedis Anthony Kiedis ( ; born November 1, 1962) is an American singer and songwriter. He is a founding member and lead vocalist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis and his fellow band members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fa ...
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Chad Smith Chad Gaylord Smith (born October 25, 1961) is an American musician who has been the drummer of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers since 1988. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Smith is also the drummer of the h ...
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Josh Klinghoffer Josh Adam Klinghoffer (born October 3, 1979) is an American musician best known for being the guitarist for the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers from 2009 to 2019, with whom he recorded two studio albums, '' I'm with You'' (2011) and '' The Getaw ...
. Side one # "Strange Man" – 3:36 # "Long Progression" – 3:58 # "Magpies on Fire" – 3:44 # "Victorian Machinery" – 4:06 Side two # "Never is a Long Time" – 2:46 # "Love of Your Life" – 4:06 # "The Sunset Sleeps" – 3:58 # "Hometown Gypsy" – 4:02 # "Pink as Floyd" – 4:54 Side three # "Your Eyes Girl" – 5:08 # "In Love Dying" – 8:04 # "Catch My Death" – 4:19 # "How it Ends" – 3:43 Side four # "This is the Kitt" – 4:23 # "Brave from Afar" – 3:44 # "Hanalei" – 4:17 # "Open/Close" – 4:30 Notes: *The first eight songs are also featured on the ''I'm with You – Australian Tour Edition'' which was released on January 11, 2013, exclusively in Australia to promote the band's 2013 tour dates in that country on a second extra disc, the first disc featuring the ''I'm with You'' studio album.


Personnel

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Anthony Kiedis Anthony Kiedis ( ; born November 1, 1962) is an American singer and songwriter. He is a founding member and lead vocalist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis and his fellow band members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fa ...
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Josh Klinghoffer Josh Adam Klinghoffer (born October 3, 1979) is an American musician best known for being the guitarist for the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers from 2009 to 2019, with whom he recorded two studio albums, '' I'm with You'' (2011) and '' The Getaw ...
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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
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Chad Smith Chad Gaylord Smith (born October 25, 1961) is an American musician who has been the drummer of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers since 1988. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Smith is also the drummer of the h ...
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drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...
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;Additional musicians *
Mauro Refosco Mauro Refosco is a Brazilian percussionist. He is best known for working with singer David Byrne and as the former touring and session percussionist for the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. He is a member of the experimental supergroup A ...
 – additional percussion ("Strange Man", "Long Progression", "Victorian Machinery", "This Is the Kitt") *
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 – additional percussion ("Magpies on Fire") *
Greg Kurstin Gregory Allen Kurstin (born May 14, 1969) is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter. He has won nine Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year, Non-Classical in 2017 and 2018, and written and produced four songs t ...
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piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
("Never Is a Long Time", "Hometown Gypsy", "How It Ends") *Henry Kwapis – shaker ("Never Is a Long Time") *
Vanessa Freebairn-Smith Vanessa Freebairn-Smith is a cellist, based in Los Angeles, California. She is a founding member of the Sonus Quartet, formed in 2003, which presents art music in alternative and unusual ways, fusing classical with pop, rock, and hip-hop. Freebai ...
 – string arrangements,
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("Pink as Floyd") *Alwyn Wright –
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("Pink as Floyd") *
Caroline Campbell Caroline Campbell is an American violinist. She is a Solo (music), soloist and chamber music, chamber musician who performs and records classical music, classical, jazz, film and popular music. Early life Campbell was born in Albany, New York, A ...
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("Pink as Floyd") *
Kathleen Sloan Kathleen Sloan is an American violinist based in Los Angeles, CA and a member of the Sonus Quartet. Early life Sloan grew up in a ranching family in Breckenridge, Texas. At 15, Sloan left home and enrolled in the Young Artist Program at the Cle ...
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("Pink as Floyd")


References

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