By The Way Music Cd

Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way

See Larger Image

By the Way      Artist : Red Hot Chili Peppers      List Price : $18.98 USD        Your Price : $14.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2002-07-09      Studio : Warner Bros / Wea      Label : Warner Bros / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (692 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for By The Way      Great, essential, classic album      Rating:      How 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.     Customer Reviews for By The Way Cd      The Not-So-Hot Chili Peppers      Rating:      I'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 album to the Tired Chili Peppers. Or maybe the Medium Mild Chili Peppers. Or maybe the Weak Pepperoncinis. Or.... You get the idea. It actually makes me upset to see all these kids that are "hardcore RHCP fans" and their only exposure to the band is By the Way and Californication. These people have no idea what the RHCP are about. It's appalling. "OMG 'BY THE WAY' IS SOOOOO COOL DOOD OMG1!!!!!!!!!11!! RHCP ROCKS$%#$#@!!" Umm, yeah. Right. Let's go rock out to "The Zephyr Song" together. The good: "Can't Stop" and "Throw Away Your Television" are far and away the best tracks on the record and are actually really good. The band must have decided not to take any downers the day they wrote those. Too bad they didn't make that decision for the rest of the album sessions. The title track tries to be good, and succeeds at times, but it all comes crashing down for the awful chorus. The bad, boring, bland: Everything else. The only reason this album didn't earn 1 star is because of the two tracks mentioned above. There are a few tracks that actually make you want to throw away your *stereo*, they're THAT BAD. "By the Way" singlehandedly turned me off of all future RHCP efforts. To this day I haven't listened to Stadium Arcadium for fear I may do something rash. If you're a teen punk who's music-listening life started in 2001 or later, do yourself a favor and go buy the Red Hot Chili Pepper's debut album (self-titled), "Freaky Styley", "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan", and hell even "Mother's Milk" and find out what the Red Hot Chili Peppers are REALLY all about. On the other hand, this is a great album to listen to if you want to go to sleep. Red Hot Chili Pepper's worst effort of their 24-year career.