In a perfect world, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' breakthrough album wouldn't have been 1989's ‘Mother's Milk’, but 1987's ‘The Uplift Mofo Party Plan’. Veterans Anthony Kiedis (vocals)and Flea (bass) had welcomed back original guitarist Hillel Slovak for the preceding ‘Freaky Styley’ album, doing the same at this point for original drummer Jack Irons, who replaced Cliff Martinez. The energy of having these four friends from Los Angeles back together jumps out of the opening anthem ‘Fight Like a Brave’ and the experimental ‘Funky Crime’; tracks like the autobiographical ‘Me & My Friends’ and closing ‘Organic Anti-Beat Box Band’ would stay in the group's live repertoire for the next decade or more.
