By the Way being RHCP's 2002 release and their 8th studio album was met with positive reviews from the critiques with Allmusic, Rolling Stone and Q giving it 4/5. The album spawned 5 singles. These being "By the Way", "The Zephyr Song", "Can't Stop", "Dosed" and "Universally Speaking". The booklet is a mixed bag. It has some all the lyrics and but not a list of whom plays what. The photographs of the band is great but the font is so so. The cover makes no sense and I have no idea what they want to convey with this. 4/5.

Highlights from this album are ONLY "On Mercury," "Can't Stop," and "The Zephyr Song". Most disappointing follow-up album EVER. Only the "One Hot Minute" album is worse in the RHCP catalog. Read Kiedis' autobiography- Flea almost left the band because this album sucked so INCREDIBLY bad. If you want solid RHCP, check out Freaky Styley, Mother's Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Californication, or Stadium Arcadium. Anyone who equates By The Way with ANY of these albums or somehow thinks it is pffffff (HA!) better than any of these albums is a complete Idiot and ought to be dragged out into the street and shot.

For some lame reason, Amazon does not have the track list displayed for this CD, so here it is.....

1. By the Way
2. Universally Speaking
3. This Is the Place
4. Dosed
5. Don't Forget Me
6. The Zephyr Song
7. Can't Stop
8. I Could Die For You
9. Midnight
10. Throw Away Your Television
11. Cabron
12. Tear
13. On Mercury
14. Minor Thing
15. Warm Tape
16. Venice Queen

Damn......... the chili peps are the bomb, and I love all their albums, but i'd have to say this is my favorite because they seem to be in their prime. After doing it all, they just lay it down sweet and sexy on this album.

HANDLE BOYS.

I'd give this album 4.5 stars, because it isn't perfect. Almost no albums are. This album tends to lean towards being less funky than the last. It's softer, but i like it better. or me californiacation was too much. I love tracks one through eight. especially dosed. But one song i hate is cabron. basically i just love john frusciante's guitar playing. every note he hits even if it's as simple as two in a solo is just perfect. you need this album.

Amazing album, amazing band, they never dissapoint.

RHCP's best album since "Blood Sugar Sex Majik".

thought it was gonna b better

Just a great CD with all great songs.

this album gets better and better the more you spin it. 5 stars!

At first appealing, but rapidly boring. The Chilis have yet to repeat the energy of Bloosugarsexmagic. And even that was overrated. Very formulaic

Quite a good collection of songs. The lyrics, melodies, and harmonies on this album are quite magnificent, and John Frusciante has really proven himself to be one of the greatest guitarists of our time. However, this album suffers from the fact that it is very long, and too many of the songs sound similar. This is something that has plagued pretty much every RHCP album. All of the songs are great individually, but it's hard to listen to the entire album at once because it's not all that diverse.

That single they keep hammering at us on the radio is the worst song I have ever heard! And I like the RHCP! They totally lost it ever since Kiedis bleached his hair.

Couple of really, really good tracks, but overall a little disappointing. Once you have heard "By the Way," "Cabron," "Throw Away Your Television" and "Tear", there's not much else here.

This album is bloody amazing! It follows on nicely from Californication. The opening track- 'By The Way' is so easy to sing along to and the the lyrics are fantastic. One of my favourites is 'I Would Die For You'. You'll find that this is one of those albums where you can sing along to every single song - buy it.