19 - John Frusciante - Of Before (Shadows Collide With People)

John Frusciante - Of Before
Album: Shadows Collide With People (2004)

Shadows Collide with People is the fourth studio album by John Frusciante, released February 24, 2004. The album was written during the recording of By the Way, and is widely regarded as his most accessible work, featuring a mix of guitar-driven alternative rock, folk ballads, and electronica. Frusciante has stated that this was his most expensive album to date, costing around $150,000 to produce.

Flea plays a double bass on "The Slaughter", the closing track of the album. All tracks were written by John Frusciante and the majority of the vocal work is performed by him.

Frusciante also made acoustic and demo versions of these tracks available to fans through his official site, now only a blog, as an alternative to the highly produced sound of the record. A promo version of the album was also made, with the tracks "Omission", "Song to Sing When I'm Lonely", and "Failure 33 Object".

The album reached number 191 on the Billboard 200 and #11 on Heatseekers.

On the vinyl release of the album the words "One step away" were inscribed on side A, "There's riddles in the shadows" on side B, "A hint of sadness" on side C, and '"What they least suspect is coming next" on side D. All of these were hints to lyrics on John's next solo album The Will to Death.

1. Carvel [4:14]
2. Omission [4:34]
3. Regret [2:58]
4. Ricky [3:57]
5. Second Walk [1:42]
6. Every Person [2:38]
7. -00Ghost27 [3:50]
8. Wednesday's Song [3:31]
9. This Cold [2:00]
10. Failure33Object [2:55]
11. Song To Sing When I'm Lonely [3:17]
12. Time Goes Back [3:23]
13. In Relief [3:36]
14. Water [4:06]
15. Cut-Out [3:34]
16. Chances [1:50]
17. 23 Go In To End [6:42]
18. The Slaughter [3:52]
19. Of Before [3:17] (Japanese bonus track)


Lyrics:

In this light I'm lost
In the darkness of before I walked
And I knew where I was all the time
Seeing with every part of who I am

Anyway you're a ghost in life
Pushed right out and kept inside of a bodiless weight
Pressure that has no space

As he goes along
He takes what he's lost and discards what he's won
He's every bit as alive as you and I
Everybody kills the light
When they're about to sleep for the night

As you go through life
You're a star in flight
When you close your eyes at night
Someone clears a path for you to ride

When you wake the next day
You will only go that way
That was cleared for you, cleared for you
Made for you, made for you


Credits:

Release date: 23rd February 2004 in US, 24th February in the rest of the world, 3rd March in UK and 6th March in Japan
Released: Worldwide
Publisher: Warner Bros
Duration: 1 hour, 4 minutes, 50 seconds
Bonus track: "Of Before" available on the Japanese import of the CD
John plays: Guitar, bass, synthesizer, drums and percussion
Other musicians: Josh Klinghoffer plays the same instruments as John (they're listed together in the credits); Chad Smith plays drums and percussion, Omar Rodriguez plays slide guitar on "Chances" and "23 go in to end" Flea plays upright bass on "The Slaughter" and Charlie Clouser did orchestral programming on "Regret" and "Chances"
Produced by: John Frusciante
Engineered by: Jim Scott, Ryan Hewitt; "23 go in to end" and "Failure33Object" by Ethan Mates
Mixed by: Jim Scott
Assisted by: Chris Holmes, Jason Grossman, Chris Ohno
Recorded/mixed at: Cello Studios, Hollywood, CA, USA
Mastered by/where: Bernie Grundman/Bernie Grundman Mastering Hollywood, CA, USA
Designed by: Richard Scane Goodheart
Cover painting by: Rene Ricard
Art direction by: John Frusciante
Equipment by: Dave Lee
Management: Q-Prime Inc.


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[ElvisLivesUpstairs]

WTF? Is this a secret song or something?????

[oliverberg]

@ElvisLivesUpstairs

It was on the Japanese version of SCWP as a bonus track.

[Proximity42]

Why do the Japanese releases always get the cool secret songs? It's No Fair!

[qwerty93k]

@Proximity42 japanese have cheats for everything

[Head333Rock]

dat part 1:56 - 2:17 must be in fcking top 10 moments in music

[lilghosties]

@fenderstrat609 he's playing distorted guitar though an analog synthesizer's filter section. He also does this at the end of "Unreachable" from The Empyrean. On that track, he uses the keyboard to control which frequencies the filter accents.

[mpain69]

They get secret songs to make up for their tiny peewees.. :D

[gewoondana]

sounds a bit like ratatat

[greengumby62]

This song gives me hope for the future. not because of its greatness, but because its effect it has on me

[JFru13]

Sometimes I wanna be Japanese!

[Seanus32]

@Proximity42 Oh, come on. The Japanese have given us a few things ;) ;0 ;)

[zrobertez]

@fenderstrat609 I'm pretty sure it's just some distortion and reverb with an octave up effect. Look up some videos of an octave pedal for guitar.