Claude says:John Frusciante built the title track's riff by stripping guitar and bass down to near-silence, borrowing the sparse approach from The Cure's "Carnage Visors" — the whole album marked the band's 1999 comeback with him back in the lineup after years away. The video became their most-watched ever (over a billion views), rendered as a fictional open-world game that someone finally coded into a real playable thing in 2022. You picked it up in late 2016, sixteen years after release, and you keep going back hardest to "Scar Tissue," "Californication," and "Otherside" — the big three that defined their late-'90s redemption arc.