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<span style="font-weight: bold;">By The Way</span><br />
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artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers<br />
year: 2002<br />
genre: Rock<br />
quality: 320kbps, fully tagged<br />
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tracklist<br />
01 By The Way <br />
02 Universally Speaking <br />
03 This Is The Place <br />
04 Dosed <br />
05 Don't Forget Me <br />
06 The Zephyr Song <br />
07 Can't Stop <br />
08 I Could Die For You <br />
09 Midnight <br />
10 Throw Away Your Television <br />
11 Cabron <br />
12 Tear <br />
13 On Mercury <br />
14 Minor Thing <br />
15 Warm Tape <br />
16 Venice Queen<br />
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Amazon Review<br />
When the Red Hot Chili Peppers first appeared smeared in neon <br />
body paint with socks dangling precariously from their wieners, <br />
even the most faithful funk-metal convert couldn't have conceived <br />
they would be around some 20 years later, carrying on in much <br />
the same fashion. Despite a long history of tragedies and personnel <br />
upheavals, the California quartet's eighth album is mostly business <br />
as usual--and business, as usual, is quite good. The title track, <br />
"By the Way," is a powerful, bruised piece of slap-bass and <br />
intermediary white-boy rapping. "Universally Speaking" pays sweaty,<br />
soulful tribute to singer Anthony Kiedis's hometown of Detroit.<br />
And "Lemon Trees on Mercury" sounds eerily like it could have been<br />
lifted from 1984's Freaky Styley. The band's reliable eclectic <br />
side, meanwhile, surfaces on the Latin-flavored "Cabron" and moody <br />
"Venice Queen." But the biggest surprise is "Tear," a masterful <br />
homage to the Beach Boys that suggests the Chili Peppers' <br />
perpetual state of arrested development may someday lift.<br />
--Aidin Vaziri<br />
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have fun!
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