Universally Speaking

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"Universally Speaking"
"Universally Speaking" cover
Single by Red Hot Chili Peppers
from the album By the Way
B-side(s) "Slowly Deeply"
Released 2003
Format CD
Genre Rock
Length 4:19
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer(s) Rick Rubin
Red Hot Chili Peppers singles chronology
"Dosed"
(2003)		 "Universally Speaking"
(2003)		 "Fortune Faded"
(2003)

Universally Speaking is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 2002 album By the Way. It is the second track on the album and was released as a single in the UK only.

The music video for the song features Doug Willson playing a deranged concertgoer who tries to return a book to singer, Anthony Kiedis, who left the book in his taxi in the video to "By the Way". The book he is returning to him 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.

In a controversial move, "Universally Speaking" was included on the Chili Peppers' Greatest Hits compilation whereas strangely, two considerably more popular tracks from the By the Way album, in terms of both chart success and amongst fans ("Can't Stop" and "The Zephyr Song") were left off.

CD single (2003)

  1. "Universally Speaking" (Album) – 4:18
  2. "By the Way" (Live Acoustic) – 4:59
  3. "Don't Forget Me" (Live) – 5:07

CD version 2 (2003)

  1. "Universally Speaking" (Album) – 4:20
  2. "Slowly Deeply" (Unreleased) – 2:40
  3. "Universally Speaking" (Enhanced Video)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Anthony Kiedis | John Frusciante | Flea | Chad Smith
Hillel Slovak | Dave Navarro | Cliff Martinez | Jack Sherman | Arik Marshall | Jesse Tobias | D. H. Peligro | Jack Irons
Discography
Studio albums: The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984) | Freaky Styley (1985) | The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987) | Mother's Milk (1989) | Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) | One Hot Minute (1995) | Californication (1999) | By the Way (2002) | Stadium Arcadium (2006)
EPs, Live albums and compilations: The Abbey Road E.P. (1988) | What Hits!? (1992) | Live Rare Remix Box (1994) | Out in L.A. (1994) | Under the Covers: Essential Red Hot Chili Peppers (1998) | The Best of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (1998) | Greatest Hits (2003) | Live in Hyde Park (2004)
Singles: 1984: True Men Don't Kill Coyotes, Get Up and Jump | 1985: Jungle Man, American Ghost Dance, Catholic School Girls Rule, Hollywood (Africa) | 1987: Fight Like a Brave, Me & My Friends | 1989: Knock Me Down, Higher Ground, Taste the Pain | 1990: Show Me Your Soul | 1991: Give It Away | 1992: Under the Bridge, Suck My Kiss, Behind the Sun, Breaking the Girl | 1993: If You Have to Ask, Soul to Squeeze | 1995: Warped, My Friends | 1996: Aeroplane, Coffee Shop, Shallow Be Thy Game, Love Rollercoaster | 1999: Scar Tissue, Around the World | 2000: Otherside, Californication, Road Trippin', Parallel Universe | 2002: By the Way, The Zephyr Song | 2003: Can't Stop, Dosed, Universally Speaking, Fortune Faded | 2006: Dani California, Tell Me Baby, Snow ((Hey Oh)) | 2007: Desecration Smile, Hump de Bump
Other pages: Videography | Songs | B-sides Compilation
Related articles
Chain Reaction | What Is This? | Jane's Addiction | Pearl Jam | Fear | The Mars Volta | Rick Rubin | "Krusty Gets Kancelled"
Categories: Red Hot Chili Peppers | Red Hot Chili Peppers Songs
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