Universally Speaking
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| Single by Red Hot Chili Peppers from the album By the Way |
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| B-side | "Slowly Deeply" | ||||
| Released | July 2003 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | ||||
| Length | 4:19 | ||||
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | ||||
| Producer | Rick Rubin | ||||
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"Universally Speaking" is the fifth single by US alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 2002 album By the Way. It is the second track on the album and was released solely in the UK. The track was also included on their live album Live in Hyde Park which was recorded over three nights in 2004 at record-breaking shows in London's Hyde Park.
The video for the song features Doug Wilson, who plays a deranged concertgoer who attempts to return a book to vocalist Anthony Kiedis, who left the book in his taxi in the video to "By the Way". The book he is returning to Kiedis is "Lexicon Devil", which is the biography of Darby Crash, the late frontman for the late 70's punk band The Germs. The music video was directed by longtime friend Dick Rude who also directed the video for "Catholic School Girls Rule" and the live DVD Off the Map.
The covers for the single were taken from the cover of the By the Way album. The colors were inverted back to normal, as they had been originally inverted on the cover of By the Way.
Contrary to popular belief, the B-Side "Slowly Deeply" was originally recorded in the Californication era sessions in 1998, it was not recorded for By The Way.
XFM online said it was a "fairly upbeat rock ode" and Rolling Stone said it was "beatlesque psychedelia".[1] [2]
[edit] Track list
CD single (2003)
- "Universally Speaking" (Album) – 4:18
- "By the Way" (Live Acoustic) – 4:59
- "Don't Forget Me" (Live) – 5:07
CD version 2 (2003)
- "Universally Speaking" (Album) – 4:20
- "Slowly Deeply" (Unreleased) – 2:40
- "Universally Speaking" (Enhanced Video)
[edit] References
- ^ New CDs: Chilis. Rolling Stone (July, 2002). Retrieved on 2007-12-13.
- ^ Singles Released June 16 2003 - Xfm
