The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
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| The Uplift Mofo Party Plan | ||
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| Studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers | ||
| Released | September 29, 1987 | |
| Recorded | May 1987 | |
| Genre | Funk-Rock Rapcore Funk Metal Rock Funkcore |
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| Length | 37:50 | |
| Label | EMI/Capitol Records | |
| Producer(s) | Michael Beinhorn | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers chronology | ||
| Freaky Styley (1985) |
The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987) |
The Abbey Road E.P. (1988) |
The Uplift Mofo Party Plan is the third album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, released in 1987 through EMI America. This is the first, and only studio album that featured the original members of the band formed in 1983 - Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Hillel Slovak, and Jack Irons. After the release of the album, Hillel Slovak died of a heroin overdose on June 25, 1988, resulting in Jack Irons quitting the band. It is considered by many to be one of the band's best early albums. It was also their first album to make it onto the Billboard Hot 200, charting at #148.
"Fight Like a Brave" was featured in 2001's Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 video game.
[edit] Track listing
- 1. "Fight Like a Brave" – 3:53
- 2. "Funky Crime" – 3:00
- 3. "Me & My Friends" – 3:09
- 4. "Backwoods" – 3:08
- 5. "Skinny Sweaty Man" – 1:16
- 6. "Behind the Sun" (Beinhorn, Flea, Irons, Kiedis, Slovak) – 4:40
- 7. "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (Dylan) – 2:34
- 8. "Party On Your Pussy" ("Special Secret Song Inside" on pre-remaster versions) – 3:16
- 9. "No Chump Love Sucker" – 2:42
- 10. "Walkin' on Down the Road" (Flea, Irons, Kiedis, Martinez, Slovak) – 3:49
- 11. "Love Trilogy" – 2:42
- 12. "Organic Anti-Beat Box Band" – 4:10
2003 Remastered Version Bonus Tracks
- 13. "Behind the Sun" (instrumental demo) (Beinhorn, Flea, Irons, Kiedis, Slovak) – 2:55
- 14. "Me And My Friends" (instrumental demo) – 1:56
[edit] Miscellanea
- 'Fight Like a Brave' is a song related to drug addicts, as stated in Anthony's book 'Scar Tissue'[citation needed].
- Slovak uses a talkbox on "Funky Crime".
- Several of the Red Hot Chili Peppers themselves and critics have often complained about the sound of Jack Irons's drums on the recording. In the booklet that accompanied the 2003 remastered version of the album, Flea states that "The only thing that is lame about it is those stupid triggered drum sounds that rob the drums of their dynamics".
- Despite the noticeably short length of the song "Skinny Sweaty Man", it actually adopts a conventional song structure, comprising of 2 verses and choruses, followed by a bridge then a final verse and chorus. The character of the song's title refers to guitarist Hillel Slovak.
- On the original album release, "Fight Like a Brave" fades out to silence at the end, but on the remastered version the song instead comes to a rather abrupt halt. This also happens with "American Ghost Dance" on the remastered version of the band's preceding album Freaky Styley, a song that also fades out in the original.
[edit] Credits
- Anthony Kiedis - Vocals
- Michael "Flea" Balzary - Bass
- Hillel Slovak - Guitar (sitar on "Behind The Sun")
- Jack Irons - Drums
- Michael Beinhorn - Background vocals, producer
- Angelo Moore - Background vocals
- John Norwood Fisher - Background vocals
- David Kenoly - Background vocals
- Annie Newman - Background vocals
- Judy Clapp - Engineer
