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By the Way by: Red Hot Chili Peppers List Price: $18.98 CD-Charts Price: $14.99 You Save: $3.99 (21%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0093624814023 Label: Warner Bros / Wea Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea Release Date: July 09, 2002 Studio: Warner Bros / Wea Sales Rank: 3561 MPN: 48140 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: 2002 album. Amazon.com: When the Red Hot Chili Peppers first appeared smeared in neon body paint with socks dangling precariously from their wieners, even the most faithful funk-metal convert couldn't have conceived they would be around some 20 years later, carrying on in much the same fashion. Despite a long history of tragedies and personnel upheavals, the California quartet's eighth album is mostly business as usual--and business, as usual, is quite good. The title track, "By the Way," is a powerful, bruised piece of slap-bass and intermediary white-boy rapping. "Universally Speaking" pays sweaty, soulful tribute to singer Anthony Kiedis's hometown of Detroit. And "Lemon Trees on Mercury" sounds eerily like it could have been lifted from 1984's Freaky Styley. The band's reliable eclectic side, meanwhile, surfaces on the Latin-flavored "Cabron" and moody "Venice Queen." But the biggest surprise is "Tear," a masterful homage to the Beach Boys that suggests the Chili Peppers' perpetual state of arrested development may someday lift. --Aidin Vaziri Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Great, essential, classic albumHow can this not get five stars from someone? It takes many, many listens and all the songs grow on you at their own rates. My favorites are the title track, Universally Speaking, Dosed, The Zephyr Song, Cabron, On Mercury, Minor thing, and Venice Queeen, which are all essential. This group has taken it upon themselves to get our generation out of the shadows of the Beatles the Doors, and Hendrix. Fortunately, they are succeeding. Stadium Arcadium is also very good. Rating:  - The Not-So-Hot Chili PeppersI've been a RHCP fan since their debut. As such, I'm much a fan of the style of music they pioneered in the 1980's and played on their early efforts, even as late as 1995's One Hot Minute. I faithfully bought By The Way right when it came out, as a loyal RHCP fan. Boy.... What a let down. Where, uh, is the "red hot?" The band took the musical idea behind "Otherside" from Californication (probably the most annoying song on that album) and created a whole album of "Otherside" remixes and reworkings. Well, almost. There are maybe 4 or 5 tracks here that are listenable. One or two of them are actually really good. But the rest is just slow, boring, mostly acoustical stuff that lacks energy or drive. They should have changed their name for this ... Read More: Rating: - close to flawless albumSome reviewers said they lost their passion and energy during this album. I'd like to state clearly that they certainly did not, but they definitely redirected it into a somewhat slower-paced but more introspective group of songs. I see this album as so much more of a reflection on what the group had done as a whole, the obstacles they overcame, the people they lost along the way (Hillel is def. referenced), and a great bunch of somber-type love songs. The California sun-drenched melodies permeate through the entire album and although it ends up feeling bittersweet, the mix of emotions through the whole CD are a perfect blend. I especially like Warm Tape and Venice Queen as songs that took some time to grow on me, but after a few years of loving ... Read More: Rating: - What happened to the intensity?Man, what happened to the Chili peppers? I love the vocal harmonies, but the passion and intensity are nowhere to be found on this CD. It bored the hell out of me. Rating: - my favorite band,my favorite albumthis is by far the best rhcp album ever.i listen to every track of this cd.each track is filled with awsomeness.people diss this beacause ''its not like the chili peppers to make this kind of album'' it is awsome.i highly recomend. |
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