The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

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THE UPLIFT MOFO PARTY PLAN
 
 
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 Records.  The Uplift Mofo Party Plan is the only studio album to feature all four founding members of the band on every single track:  vocalist Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, guitarist Hillel Slovak, and drummer Jack Irons.  “Fight Like a Brave” was released as the album’s only single; however, “Me and My Friends” received minor radio airplay even though it was never released as a single.  In 1992, “Behind the Sun” was released as a single and music video to promote What Hits!?.  Flea later referred to the album as “the ‘rockingest’ record” the band has ever made.  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.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

In the following year (1985)What Is This? released their only full-length album, What Is This? plus a live EP, 3 out of 5 Live.  After that, What Is This? broke up, and Jack Irons returned to Red Hot Chili Peppers also.  According to Wikipedia, the band’s third album, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987) is the only Red Hot Chili Peppers album to feature all four original members – Hillel SlovakJack IronsFleaand Anthony Kiedis – on each track. 

 

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