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.
^Reynolds, Simon (May 24, 1991). "Hybrid sounds". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 5, 2022. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
rejoined the Chili Peppers in 1985 and recorded the albums Freaky Styley (1985) and TheUpliftMofoPartyPlan (1987) with them. During his career, Slovak...
was preparing to record TheUpliftMofoPartyPlan. Due to his addiction, Kiedis lacked the motivation to contribute to the band musically, and appeared...
Reinventing the Steel TheUpliftMofoPartyPlan, a 1987 album by Red Hot Chili Peppers Uplift Community High School, Chicago, Illinois, US Racial uplift, concept...
third, TheUpliftMofoPartyPlan (1987). Irons left after Slovak died of a drug overdose in June 1988. With new recruits Frusciante and Smith, the Red Hot...
albums—1984's The Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1985's Freaky Styley, and 1987's TheUpliftMofoPartyPlan—to virtually no commercial success during the mid to late...
Brave" is the first and only single from the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers' third studio album TheUpliftMofoPartyPlan (1987). The single also...
and Slovak, whose guitar playing helped shape the group as a cohesive unit. TheUpliftMofoPartyPlan (1987) was produced by Michael Beinhorn and featured...
Peppers. Irons played drums on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' first demo tape and their third album, 1987's TheUpliftMofoPartyPlan. When Slovak died of a heroin...
gig in Dallas, Texas. The result of that van ride was 1987's TheUpliftMofoPartyPlan, which finally put the band on the map. The record was as much a...
Of Style (by Thelonious Monster, saxophone on "If I") 1987 - TheUpliftMofoPartyPlan (by Red Hot Chili Peppers, background vocals on "Organic Anti-Beat...
rhythms and poignant, pointed lyrics". On the Red Hot Chili Peppers' album TheUpliftMofoPartyPlan, released the same year, guitarist Hillel Slovak started...
Detroit. Martinez recalled that "George had a party atmosphere in the studio all the time, but a productive party atmosphere. You took care of business, but...
released 1985 and 1987. TheUpliftMofoPartyPlan Keziah Jones, Seal, and Stevie Salas released funk rock albums. And in the early 1990s, several bands...
on the 1987 album The Uplift MofoPartyPlan; the Cajun-style fiddle player Doug Kershaw on Louisiana Man in 1978; and the singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson...
Global Information