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List Price: $12.99 | | Label: Wea International
Salesrank: 160125
Released: July 23, 2002 |
| Our Price: $1.61 |
| Used Price: $0.62 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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By the Way Track Listing:
1. By The Way
2. Search And Destroy (Live)
3. What Is Soul (Live)
Editorial Review:
Taken from their 2002 Rick Rubin produced album of the same name, this format of 'By The Way' contains 2 non-LP tracks 'Search & Destroy' (Iggy Pop cover) (Live in Portland OR, Sept. 2000) and 'What Is Soul' (Live in Portland OR, Sept. 2000).
By the Way Reviews:
Great Energy. 
2006-07-30 - By The Way (The first single off of their ground-breaking album By The Way) is a fast paced, no-nonsense number that goes through harsh, abrasive times, and calm, sedate moods. The verses are rapped in Kiedis' old, BSSM type of style. When thrusting itself through the chorus, however, one can hear a divulging of harmonic masterpieces of simplicity and excellence. Being a generally "rougher" track, By The Way is somewhat out of place on the album, apart from a few other songs that keep true to their roots in funk and rap.
This single (version two) is paired with two energy-bursting songs: "Search and Destroy" and "What is Soul".
"Search and Destroy" is a prevailing Iggy Pop cover that explodes with vigor and awe. Always one to be potent in their live performances, The Chili Peppers never fail to provide excellent, music-high tracks of delirium.
"What is Soul" has clean, crisp guitar solos and amazing improvisation by Anthony Kiedis. It sounds funky, and churned in groovy pockets of elation. Not a second of this is done in vain. Precision from start to finish, on all three songs I might add.
Highly Recommended.
Great live b-sides.
2005-09-29 - Another one of those two-part singles, this particular single (title track and leadoff single from the album "By the Way") contains the title track backed by two non-album b-sides, both live covers-- the Stooges' "Search and Destroy" and Funkadelic's "What Is Soul?".
Interested parties are advised to be careful-- there are two formations of the two parts of these singles-- if you're looking for all four b-sides, make sure you get a matching set.
So things have changed with the Peppers, and in many ways, "By the Way" is sort of a culmination of the band's career-- a chorus of clean tone guitars washed in vocal harmonies and a funky, slap-bass driven distorted verse mingle to put together just a fantastic song.
The b-sides are great- on "Search and Destroy" the Peppers bristle with a live energy and explosiveness, doing a relatively straight punk reading of the piece before opening up into a spectacular extended jam. "What Is Soul?" lets the Chili Peppers sink way deep into the groove of the piece and Anthony Kiedis makes up his own verse true to the original before opening into a frantic jam.
In the end, these live takes will likely please old fans of the Chili Peppers, and the performance is great. Recommended.
