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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Wea International
Salesrank: 488865
Released: May 23, 2000 |
| Our Price: $34.24 |
| Used Price: $2.98 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Otherside, Pt. 2 Track Listing:
1. Otherside [Album Version]
2. My Lovely Man [Live]
Editorial Review:
The third single from the funky alternative act's top five 1999 album 'Californication'. Follow-up to Billboard Top 10 hit 'Scar Tissue. Taken from the platinum selling 'Californication'. Tracks 'Otherside' (Album Version) and 'My Lovely Man (Live) plus the enhanced CD includes the video to 'Around The World'. 1999 release. Slimline jewel case.
Otherside, Pt. 2 Reviews:
Good Value, But Missing Something. 
2006-07-31 - "Otherside" is the third single lifted off of the album Californication. It's a complex song that fuses dark, ominous themes with perfectly matched backing-vocals and superb drum playing (that can feel a little lagging at times). The song plays great, and instantly fills you with dark sensations. It's not the best Chili Pepper creation, and could be picked up on the album for more bang to your buck.
This single itself is coupled with "My Lovely Man" and two music videos--"Scar Tissue" and "Around the World". "My Lovely Man" is a song that bursts with on-stage energy (like all their live performances) and forces you to enjoy it, even if you'd rather skip it on the CD, Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Much energy that was missing from the actual album is made up for here, and, clearly, the Peppers love to sing and play their hearts out. This is a real gem that will ruminate in your mind for days.
The two music videos on here are nice. Scar Tissue is a great video that thrusts the band out into the harsh desert, scarred and left for dead. It's a powerful, moving piece that makes you feel their pain. Around the World, on the other hand, is an upbeat, glorified, orange-tang masterpiece that keeps your adrenaline rushing from start to finish. However, one could watch both of these, for free, online. I recommend this for collectors only.
Great live performance on the b-side, but get the import...
2005-09-29 - "Otherside", the third single from "Californication", was released in two parts domestically and one part overseas. Given that it's now out of print, digging up the import makes more sense since it gets you all the material and is likely to cost less.
The title track is one of the best songs on "Californication"-- a moody piece that in many ways points to the future, its a mellow piece with a chorus that becomes progressively more soaked in vocal harmonies, it lacks that sort of funk sound, but it has a great drive to it even though it sits midtempo-- Chad Smith's drumming is phrased ahead of the beat leaving a feeling of being pulled along.
The b-side on part 2 is a live take of "My Lovely Man"-- a great song from "Blood Sugar Sex Magick" about Hillel Slovak. The piece comes off great live, as Kiedis has gained confidence in his vocals and the detail of the piece seems to shine much better with the instruments sounding clearer, more distinct, and further separated than they did on the album. This single also includes a data segement with videos for "Scar Tissue" and "Around the World"-- quite honestly, I was never one for music videos, they're pretty goofy, but they weren't a big selling point for the single.
Still, I knock its rating because the import version has part 1 and part 2. Find that, it's far better value for the money.
It's Only For Collectors 
2005-01-15 - This cd only has one song that may be hard to find, "My lovely man" live. The enhanced video is of pretty bad quality. Only for collectors.
