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"By the Way" is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their eighth studio album, By the Way. It was released as the album's foremost single and, eventually, a climactic music video was made as an accompaniment. It is one of the few tracks on its identically named recording which has successfully safeguarded the once quintessential Chili Peppers style of agro-bass lines and rhythmic, rap-driven verses. However more melodic works are at play in the chorus as a preview of the subsequent tracks to come. It is, in essence, the beginning of a new chapter in their extensive and ever changing song catalogue.

The track is a popular and energetic number when played in concert, and always included in a live act albeit circumstances when they include only a small amount of songs (such as special performances) in their repertoire. Most recently, it has established itself among the final songs to be engaged at a concert whereas two years previously, it may perhaps have been the show’s introduction.

Simian are an English electro-rock band, best-known for their song "La Breeze", which was featured in the Peugeot 1007 commercial. The members are Simon William Lord, James Ellis Ford, Alex MacNaghten & James Anthony Shaw. Their second album "We Are Your Friends" was produced by ambient music composer and producer for U2 and Talking Heads, the famed Brian Eno.

The band split up in 2005 with Ford and Shaw forming the splinter group Simian Mobile Disco. The new group is more dance oriented and are in demand as remixers and Djs. In 2006, "We Are Your Friends", a remix of their song "Never Be Alone" was released on a reactivated Virgin label called Ten Records.

This single was credited to "Justice vs. Simian" and started life as a submission by the French electro outfit Justice in a remix competition. The video for the single won the award for best video at MTV Europe Video Awards 2006.

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