Red Hot Chili Peppers – discography
The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
Original Release Date: 1987
Produced by: Michael Beinhorn
Tracks:
- Fight Like A Brave*
- Funky Crime
- Me & My Friends*
- Backwoods
- Skinny Sweaty Man
- Behind The Sun*
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Special Secret Song Inside ( Party On Your Pussy)
- No Chump Love Sucker
- Walkin’ On Down The Road
- Love Trilogy
- Organic Anti Beat Box Band
(* marks the tracks released as singles)
Review
The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, a 12 tracks’ album, was their most successful one yet – as Anthony and Flea welcomed back original guitarist Hillel Slovak and original drummer Jack Irons. The energy and charisma that each of these four friends had, combined so well when they were creating together and turned out to be very unique and successful by all means, as the chemistry between them had never been and never would be the same again. Slovak and Irons definitely brought some new wild energy and positive vibes to Red Hot Chili Peppers, that no one else ever has. Even though everything seemed just right, only a year after releasing The Uplift Mofo Party Plan Hillel Slovak died of a heroin overdose, and Jack Irons quit the band from the depression of the loss, leaving two friends, Anthony and Flea, to cope with the situation by themselves.
All songs on this album are filled with heavy sounds, which gives The Uplift Mofo Party Plan more of a rock feel to it, although the legendary funk sound is still there. Starting with the anthem Fight Like a Brave, followed by autobiographical Me & My Friends, this album lyrically and instrumentally described their reunion and the way they felt about it. The energy was there, everyone could feel it, and that was what made this album popular – it was the first to make it onto the BillBoard Hot 200. The Uplift Mofo Party Plan was their first and last studio album that featured the original members of the bend formed back in 1983. However, the famous “what would have happened with the band if Hillel had still been alive” question is still being asked among the critics, fans and probably the band itself.
