"Taste the Pain" is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...

 from the album Mother's Milk

Mother's Milk

Mother's Milk is the fourth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 16, 1989, on EMI America Records. It was the first album to feature the band's most well-known lineup...

, and was the third and final single from that album. The music video was filmed with the band playing in an art room, where artists are in the middle of painting a mural artwork, directed by Tom Stern

Tom Stern

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 and Alex Winter

Alex Winter

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. A slightly longer version of the song also appeared on the soundtrack for the film Say Anything.... The song was recorded prior to Chad Smith

Chad Smith

Chad Smith is an American musician, best known as the longtime and current drummer of Red Hot Chili Peppers. Smith is also the drummer of the hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot which includes Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, and Michael Anthony, former Deep Purple vocalist Glenn Hughes' backing band and...

's joining the band; drums are played by Fishbone's Philip "Fish" Fisher. When the song is played backwards, the voice heard at the start is Anthony Kiedis

Anthony Kiedis

Anthony Kiedis is an American vocalist/lyricist, and occasional actor best known as the lead vocalist of the Grammy-winning American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis spent his youth in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his mother before moving, shortly before his 12th birthday, to Hollywood,...

 clearly singing the chorus. This song also features a trumpet

Trumpet

The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

 solo by Flea

Flea (musician)

Michael Peter Balzary , better known by his stage name Flea, is an Australian-American musician and occasional actor. He is best known as the bassist, co-founding member, and one of the composers of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers...

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"Show Me Your Soul

Show Me Your Soul

"Show Me Your Soul" is a song by the funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers that was originally written and recorded in for the band's 1989 album Mother's Milk although it was left off the album. "Show Me Your Soul" first appeared on the "Knock Me Down" and "Taste the Pain" singles as a B-side, and...

" was recorded during the Mother's Milk sessions and was also later released as a single in 1990. "Millionaires Against Hunger" was recorded during the 1985 Freaky Styley

Freaky Styley

Freaky Styley is the second studio album by American funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 16, 1985 on EMI America. The album name holds its origins in a commonly used phrase in the 80's to describe anything as being "freaky styley". Freaky Styley marks founding guitarist Hillel...

 sessions. The song was featured on the film Say Anything... starring Kiedis' girlfriend at the time, Ione Skye

Ione Skye

Ione Skye Lee is an English-born American actress, who became a teen idol after the 1989 movie Say Anything.... In 2006 VH1 placed her at number 84 in the "100 Greatest Teen Stars" list.-Early life:...

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The single reached number twenty-nine in the UK—the highest position for the band up to that point.

Despite being a popular single for the band they rarely performed it live and the song hasn't been performed live since the Mother's Milk tour.

Track listing

1989 Limited Edition CD Single (also called "Unbridled Funk and Roll 4 Your Soul!")

1. "Taste the Pain" (Album Version)
2. "Millionaires Against Hunger" (Unreleased / written by Kiedis/Balzary/Slovak/Martinez)
3. "Castles Made of Sand" (Live / originally written by J. Hendrix)
4. "Higher Ground" (Daddy-O Mix) (originally written by Stevie Wonder)

1990 CD Single

1. "Taste The Pain" (Album Version)
2. "Show Me Your Soul" (Unreleased)
3. "If You Want Me To Stay"
4. "Nevermind"

12" Pop-Out Sleeve

1. "Taste The Pain" (Album Version)
2. "Show Me Your Soul" (Unreleased)
3. "If You Want Me To Stay"
4. "Nevermind"

UK 1990 CD Single

1. "Taste The Pain" (single version)
2. "Taste The Pain" (lp version)
3. "Show Me Your Soul" (Unreleased)
4. "Nevermind"