The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
Studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Released	September 29, 1987 (1987-09-29)
Recorded	May 1987
Studio	Capitol (Hollywood), Eldorado (Hollywood)
Genre	Funk rock[1] funk metal[2]
Length	38:19
Label	EMI Manhattan
Producer	Michael Beinhorn
Red Hot Chili Peppers chronology
Freaky Styley (1985) The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987) The Abbey Road E.P. (1988)
Singles from The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
"Fight Like a Brave" Released: September 29, 1987

The Uplift Mofo Party Plan is the third studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on September 29, 1987, by EMI Manhattan. Due to prior obligations resulting in temporary personnel changes following the band's formation in 1983, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan is the only studio album to feature all four founding members of the band on every track: vocalist Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons. This is also the last album with Slovak before his death from a drug overdose in 1988, and the only full-length album to feature Irons. "Fight Like a Brave" was released as the album's only single, although "Me and My Friends" received minor radio airplay. In 1992, "Behind the Sun" was released as a single and music video to promote What Hits!?.

The album features the band's signature funk rock musical style, but also is influenced by reggae and heavy metal. For the album, the Red Hot Chili Peppers recruited new producer Michael Beinhorn, who encouraged the members to expand their musical horizons in order to create a more diverse work. Bass player Flea later referred to the album as "the 'rockingest' record" the band has ever made.^[3]

The album was much more successful than its predecessors, both critically and commercially, and was the band's first album to enter the Billboard 200, where it charted at number 148. Although Uplift's follow-up Mother's Milk would reach Gold first, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan would go on to become the band's earliest effort to do so. Following the tour to promote the album, Slovak died of a heroin overdose, and shortly thereafter, Irons decided to leave the band, unable to cope with his friend's death.