True Men Don't Kill Coyotes

Infobox Single
Name = True Men Don't Kill Coyotes


Released = August 10, 1984
Artist = Red Hot Chili Peppers
from Album = The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Radio Release =
Single Release =
Format =
Recorded = April 1984
Genre = Rock
Funkcore
Length = 3:40
Label = EMI
Writer = Kiedis/Flea/Sherman/Martinez
Producer = Andy Gill
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Chart position =
Last single =
This single = "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes"
(1984)
Next single = "Get Up and Jump"
(1984)

"True Men Don't Kill Coyotes" was the first song the Red Hot Chili Peppers ever released as a single. It is the first track from their 1984 debut album "The Red Hot Chili Peppers".

This song was written by Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Jack Sherman and Cliff Martinez, rather than the original line-up (Anthony and Flea with Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons).

It was included on the band's "What Hits!?" collection on CD and DVD.

Music video

A video was made for "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes". However, as few people heard the song, fewer people saw the video.

The clip, which used a lot of fluorescent colours, showed the band playing the song on a cartoonish desert-like scenario. In the beginning of the video, a farmer character pours a radioactive-labeled liquid substance into a patch of desert in front of a crudely assembled Hollywood sign. From this the entire band bursts from the ground, and begin to perform the song.