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List Price: $20.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 38093
Released: July 9, 2002 |
| Our Price: $17.41 |
| Used Price: $68.33 |
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| Media: Vinyl |
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Editorial Review:
Japanese edition of 2002 album (their first in three years). Includes one bonus track, 'Time'. 17 tracks in all including the lead off single, 'By The Way'.
Description of By the Way:
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
By the Way Reviews:
The Abbey Road LP. 
2009-11-10 - They sing. They croon. They harmonize. "By the Way" is the most musically-accomplished LP yet from the Chilis, revealing subtleties and even a certain sweetness heretofore unheard of from these often-naked fratboys. The funk is still there, although this time tamed (perhaps a bit too much for longtime fans), and the musical palette widens to include country-rock, Beatle-esque harmonies, and an overall feeling of intimacy and relaxed studio discipline.
By the Way
2009-10-03 - By the Way being RHCP's 2002 release and their 8th studio album was met with positive reviews from the critiques with Allmusic, Rolling Stone and Q giving it 4/5. The album spawned 5 singles. These being "By the Way", "The Zephyr Song", "Can't Stop", "Dosed" and "Universally Speaking". The booklet is a mixed bag. It has some all the lyrics and but not a list of whom plays what. The photographs of the band is great but the font is so so. The cover makes no sense and I have no idea what they want to convey with this. 4/5.
Only "One Hot Minute" is worse. 
2009-09-01 - Highlights from this album are ONLY "On Mercury," "Can't Stop," and "The Zephyr Song". Most disappointing follow-up album EVER. Only the "One Hot Minute" album is worse in the RHCP catalog. Read Kiedis' autobiography- Flea almost left the band because this album sucked so INCREDIBLY bad. If you want solid RHCP, check out Freaky Styley, Mother's Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Californication, or Stadium Arcadium. Anyone who equates By The Way with ANY of these albums or somehow thinks it is pffffff (HA!) better than any of these albums is a complete Idiot and ought to be dragged out into the street and shot.
Track list
2009-08-24 - For some lame reason, Amazon does not have the track list displayed for this CD, so here it is.....
1. By the Way
2. Universally Speaking
3. This Is the Place
4. Dosed
5. Don't Forget Me
6. The Zephyr Song
7. Can't Stop
8. I Could Die For You
9. Midnight
10. Throw Away Your Television
11. Cabron
12. Tear
13. On Mercury
14. Minor Thing
15. Warm Tape
16. Venice Queen
By the way exactly.... 
2009-08-21 - Damn......... the chili peps are the bomb, and I love all their albums, but i'd have to say this is my favorite because they seem to be in their prime. After doing it all, they just lay it down sweet and sexy on this album.
HANDLE BOYS.
