- alternative rock, rock, pop rock, funk rock
- 69 min
- 16 tracks
- Warner Bros. Records
By the Way is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released July 9, 2002, on Warner Bros. Records. It sold more than 286,000 copies in its first week, and peaked at number two on the Billboard 200.
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Character
Spare, character-led, contemporary and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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Metacritic 70/100
- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Blender3/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3/4 ★
- NME3.5/5 ★
- Q5/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- USA Today3/4 ★
- The Village VoiceB−
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Tracks
- A1By the Way3:40
- A2Universally Speaking4:21
- A3This Is the Place4:20
- A4Dosed4:40
- A5Don’t Forget Me5:14
- A6The Zephyr Song3:55
- A7Can’t Stop4:31
- A8I Could Die for You3:16
- B1Midnight4:58
- B2Throw Away Your Television3:47
- B3Cabron3:40
- B4Tear5:19
- B5On Mercury3:30
- B6Minor Thing3:40
- B7Warm Tape4:19
- B8Venice Queen6:07
16 tracks, 69 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Label
- Warner Bros. Records
- Released
- 2002
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Cassette
- Country
- XE
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