Alot of people who claim to be Red Hot Chili Pepper fans are always talking about how great of an album Californication and By The Way are. Now don't get me wrong they are amazing albums, but I think that alot of the Chili Peppers creativeness comes from their older albums, especially The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. My two favorite songs on this album are Walkin' On Down The Road and Organic Anti-Beat Box Band. These songs show that this band doesn't think inside the box. They always do something entirely different and this album shows that. Like on the song Behind The Sun, Hillel plays the sitar and the song sounds INCREDIBLY COOL with it. And Flea is amazing throughout the entire album, especially on Skinny Sweaty Man and Love Trilogy. Anthony Kiedis' vocals show that you dont have stay within the limits of being a singer, and you can be totaly crazy and it sounds amazingly good, and it just goes so well with the song and style of music. Jack Irons style of drumming goes insanely well with Flea's bass style and it makes the songs sound really good. Overall this album is definitely one of the Chili Peppers most creative and inspirational albums ever. And if you seriously want to become a true fan of them, you better pick this album up.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers' early material suffered from a lack of energy, focus and consistency. But by 1987, when the time came to enter the studio for their third album, "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan", things were poised to change. With the original band finally in place on a professional recording (vocalist Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons) and a producer whose personality would neither constrict the Peppers (as Andy Gill did) nor dominate them (as George Clinton did) in Michael Beinhorn, the band finally hit their stride.

What Beinhorn did was stand out of the band's way, and their explosiveness could cut loose. Cuts like "Fight Like a Brave", the brief "Sweaty Skinny Man" and guitar feature "Walkin' On Down the Road" display a band in full flight-- their funk/punk/rap/metal blend fully realized. Perhaps more important was the band's ability to use what they learned from both Gill (the clinically-explosive "Me and My Friends") and Clinton (tight groove of "Funky Crime") and to develop new ideas an sounds (their first real ballad in "Behind the Sun"). The Peppers were finally poised to conquer the world.

This reissue is remastered with unnervingly superb sound-- the Chili Peppers remasters really put the records way in your face and augments the album with two instrumental demos (which are largely unessential). Included in the liner notes is an essay by Flea discussing the album, sessions, and this time in the band's career.

This would, unfortunately, be the last album this band would do-- guitarist Hillel Slovak died of a heroin overdose, and a distraught Jack Irons quick the band, leaving Kiedis and Flea, as they were in 1984, holding the bag by themselves. The Chili Peppers that would re-emerge would be a quite different band. This record is the only real example of what the Kiedis/Slovak/Flea/Irons lineup had to offer. Recommended.

This cd is possibly the best album ever put out by RHCP, which as i presume you know, is saying a hell of a lot. In this cd they keep their original funk, before they refined their music. Although californication is good, its too perfect, too acoustically sound, this album is just madness, they dont care if it isnt acoustically perfect, they had far too much fun playing all of hte songs on the cd to care about those things, so enjoy this cd as much as they did!

The Red Hot Chili Peppers like any band have changed and evolved, this was the last album the Chili Peppers did with Hillel Slovak before he passed away. The sound then was raw and more funky and less produced, as well the songs were more creative. The latest RHCP albums are more heavily produced and commericalized. This album rocks and is a whole lot of fun. This album is vital for any fan of the Chili Peppers. Flea just goes nuts laying down the funky bass lines. Any fans of funk-rock and great bass lines should have this album.

No question the Red Hot Chili Pepper's best work. It's a pity it had to be the last with original founding guitarist Hillel Slovak.

Party Plan's greatness hits you from the first glance at the cover right through to the last track. You know it's going to be great before you even peel off the shrinkwrap. It's one powerful, driving song after another. If this album doesn't get you pumped up, you're a lost cause. I'm not going to do a song-by-song breakdown because they are all killer. This was the band's creative peak IMO, and the music reflects that. The cover is a perfect depiction of the soundscape the tracks convey to your eardrums. My only beef with Party Plan is that it's too short.

I highly recommend Party Plan for any RHCP fans who like their later album BloodSugarSexMagik. Party Plan is like the older brother to that record, and BSSM recycled a few of the musical ideas that originated on Party Plan. If you like the atrocious trainwreck called By the Way, you will probably hate Party Plan. Either way, I still recommend it to you people so you can see what the Red Hot Chili Peppers are REALLY all about.

When you pick up Party Plan (notice I didn't say "if"), GO FOR THE REMASTERED VERSION. The production on the original album is downright AWFUL. The remastered re-release completely fixes the mix and the songs sound as they should. You also get a beautiful booklet with liner notes from Flea.

You are not a RHCP fan until you own this record.