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Diverse within a particular spectrum that you find awesome, yes, fair enough. But to me, By The Way sounds like Californication II and Stadium Arcadium like Californication III - what evolution they've gone through between their earlier works and Californication is all well and good (certainly not a particularly noticable one IMO), but it strikes me that they're no longer progressing their music into new territory.
Hold up though, because I can say the same for In Flames, Levellers, Eels, Dark Tranquillity and Nile, many of my absolute favourite artists. It's not really a negative thing - each have dabbled with different aspects of their musicianship within a noticable tagent of what makes them recognisable as 'that band'. This is not what I consider to be musically diverse however.
Who I do consider to be just that are the likes of Primal Scream, Fantomas, Devin Townsend, Radiohead, Bjork, UNKLE and their ilk, where most releases are confoundingly different from the last. Even Madonna as Conner said. I reserve my labelling of music as being diverse quite conservatively but it's by no means a bad thing. In fact, artists who doggedly pursue diversity too much make the odd stinker of an album.
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