10 Rock Bands That Ripped Off Their Own Songs

The '90s were the beginning of a new age for rock music, and change was in the air for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. After Mother's Milk made for one of the heaviest records they ever made, collaborating with Rick Rubin paved the way forward for the rest of their career, with Blood Sugar Sex Magik having some of the most radio friendly tunes they ever made, from the acoustic Breaking the Girl to the funk rock masterpiece Give It Away. The turning point for the record though was Under the Bridge, a song so good that they wrote it twice.

When assembling material for the proper album, Soul to Squeeze ended up being thrown out as a B-side, even though it was one of the most hooky songs that the band would ever write. Despite the record being packed to the gills with funk rock songs already, the band decided to leave this one behind because they thought it sounded a little too much like Under the Bridge, relegating it to a B-side and eventually using it on the Coneheads soundtrack.

If you stack it against Under the Bridge, there are certain elements that this song does a lot better than their first true ballad, painting a picture of Anthony Kiedis drifting through the world and trying to keep on the straight and narrow. You can understand the Peppers not wanting to look like one trick ponies, but it's saying something when you throw a song like this out as a B-side and it still winds up on the track list of your greatest hits album.