Low Rider

"'Infobox Song
Name = Low Rider


Artist = War
Album = Why Can't We Be Friends?
Released = 1975
Format = LP
Genre = Funk, Latin, Rock
Length =
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"Low Rider" is a song written by the band War and appearing on their album "Why Can't We Be Friends?", released in 1975. It reached number one on the Billboard R&B charts and peaked at number 7 on the Pop Singles chart.

According to the Allmusic review of the song, "the lyric takes the cool image of the low rider — the Chicano culture practice of hydraulically hot-rodding classic cars — and using innuendo, extends the image to a lifestyle."

Music video

The music video for the song consists of various pimpmobiles on a typical traffic suburban style street, showing two men each driving a pimpmobile. At one point, an animated version of the face of the album "Why Can't We Be Friends" is lip-synching as well as a man wearing a mask of the album's face. There are also scenes consisting of a driver showing off the album holding it out the window or on the windshield.

Cover versions

*The song has been covered by the following artists:
**Blues Traveler
**Peter Cetera
**The Fantômas Melvins Big Band
**George Clinton
**Cypress Hill
**Earth Eatz Dog - on their album "Sniff This!"
**Epsilon Minus
**Exodus
**Gary Hoey
**JFA
**Terry Kath
**Korn
**Latin Alliance
**Phish
**Popa Chubby featuring Galea
**Quando Quango
**Son Of Dave
**Cedar Walton
**Widespread Panic
**Barry White
**Yukon Kornelius
**ZZ Top

*"Low Rider" was sampled by The Offspring in the remix version of "Pretty Fly For A White Guy".
*War's "Low Rider" was also significantly sampled by The Beastie Boys for their track "Slow Ride" on the 1986 album Licensed to Ill.
*The song "Jorge Regula" by The Moldy Peaches borrowed the main riff from "Low Rider."
*Sublime sampled the song in the bassline of Forman Freestyle on disc 2 of their posthumous release Everything Under the Sun.

Cultural references

*CWF Superstar 'The Casino Kid' Vegas Ford used the song as his entrance theme from 1996-97.
*The song was featured on the first compilation in the Lowrider Soundtrack series.
*The song has been featured in eleven movies, including the "Cheech and Chong" series, A Gnome Named Gnorm, "Robots", "21 Grams", "Dazed and Confused", "Paulie", "Beverly Hills Ninja", "A Knight's Tale", the 2000 remake of "Gone in Sixty Seconds", "The Young Poisoner's Handbook" and "Friday".
*"Low Rider" is the theme song for "The George Lopez Show" and for its titular star's stand up comedy appearances.
*At the 2007 ALMA Awards, George Lopez also called this song, "The Chicano National Anthem".
*"Low Rider" is featured in the video games ' (playing on ) and '.
*Los Angeles Dodger Nomar Garciaparra and Houston Astros Mark Loretta use this song as their entrance music when they come up to bat.
*In That 70's Show, it is considered by Eric to be his and Donna's song, since they heard it on their first date.
* It can be heard in , a Playstation 2, PSP, and PS3 game.
*Part of the song was used in advertisements for Marmite.
*It can also be heard in the 2001 movie A Knight's Tale

External Links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyBhAglWZ9Q Low Rider Music Video] on YouTube.