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Red Hot Chili Peppers
By the Way
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AMG Review of By the Way
Zac Johnson
All Music GuideThe Red Hot Chili Peppers' eighth studio album finds the California foursome exploring the more melodic freeways of harmony and texture, contrasting the gritty, funky side streets of their early days. Luckily, with this more sophisticated sound, the Peppers have not sacrificed any of their trademark energy or passions for life, universal love, and (of course) lust. Although they recorded the spiky Abbey Road EP in 1988, this album actually sounds a lot closer to the Beatles' Abbey Road, with a little of Pet Sounds and elements of Phil Spector's lushest arrangements all distilled through the band's well-traveled funk-pop stylings. Harmony vocals and string arrangements have replaced some of the aggressive slap bass that the group was initially recognized for, but fans of both the gentle and the fierce Chili Peppers styles will embrace the title track and first single, "By the Way." In fact, this song on its own could almost be a brief history of everything the Red Hot Chili Peppers have recorded: fiery Hollywood funk, gentle harmonies, a little bit of singing about girls, a little bit of hanging out in the streets in the summertime, some rapid-fire raps from Anthony Kiedis, some aggro basslines from Flea -- the song plays like a three-and-a-half-minute audio version of Behind the Music. Overall, the album leans more toward the melodic end of their oeuvre, but they have grown into this kinder, gentler mode organically, progressively working toward this groove little by little, album by album. What once were snapshots of a spastic punk-funk lifestyle have grown into fully realized short stories of introspection and Californication. Though the pace of the album falters at times (particularly in the verses; the choruses are all pretty spectacular), it is refreshing to see that as the four Chili Peppers continue to grow older and more sure of themselves, their composition and performing skills are maturing along with them.
By The Way (a.k.a. Happiness)
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Hmmm..... I went to bed last night with my earphones on and I put this song on repeat. I have to take sleeping pills now cause I have really bad insomnia but they took a long time to take effect, they were just making me really drowzy (if that's how you write it). But the main point is, the feeling with this song playing was amazing. I felt like I was in a whole other dimension !
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scar tissue
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hi everybody listen to this song its pretty cool dunna think so,hmmm?
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Sideways Falling
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This is one of my favorite songs of all time. there is so much imagary in the lyrics. the guitar is so simple but truely awesome and genuis. There are so many layers to this song its amazing. I get goosbumps everytime I hear it. Dont Forget Me is ONE of rhcp's most overlooked songs.
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Just a Cool Video
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and song...It's been a while since I heard or seen this one. Sleep easy friends. Can I get your hand to write onJust a piece of lead to bite onWhat am I to fly my kite onDo you want to flash your light onTake a look its on display - for youComing down no not todayDid you meet your fortune tellerGet it off with no propellorDo it up its always stellarWhat a way to finally smell herPick it up its ...
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Monks of Funk.....can't stop, won't stop, hu-uh
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I have been meaning to post about these guys ever since catching them at "Coachella":http://coachella.com . I was there to see rage, but I gotta say that the Chilli Peppers were the best show that I saw while in Indio. They played a killer set that featured old, new and FUNKY! Love'em or hate'em, they have been around sine '83 and they rock as hard now as ever (some of their newer albums see...
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By The Way (a.k.a. Happiness)
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Madonna, Queen and Red Hot Chili Peppers can make you run longer/faster
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In the category of pointless surveys, this week Brunel University London came out with the results of their latest research, letting 30 participants (what do you mean, "small-scale" project) run on treadmills to the beat of popular tracks to prove that motivational music could create a 15% increase in endurance.http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/listening-to-queen-can-help-you-run-faster-17...
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the reason i ramble
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so here is the reason i keep blabbing about the chili peppers and "don't forget me". especially john's playing/background vocals. anthony screws up a little in this video, but john is dead on. his guitar part is so simple, yet so powerful. i can't explain it, just watch.
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Hmmm..... I went to bed last night with my earphones on and I put this song on repeat. I have to take sleeping pills now cause I have really bad insomnia but they took a long time to take effect, they were just making me really drowzy (if that's how you write it). But the main point is, the feeling with this song playing was amazing. I felt like I was in a whole other dimension !
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Sideways Falling
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This is one of my favorite songs of all time. there is so much imagary in the lyrics. the guitar is so simple but truely awesome and genuis. There are so many layers to this song its amazing. I get goosbumps everytime I hear it. Dont Forget Me is ONE of rhcp's most overlooked songs.
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scar tissue
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hi everybody listen to this song its pretty cool dunna think so,hmmm?
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 "By the Way")
