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Red Hot Chili Peppers “Taste the Pain”

sfilzen — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:37:34 +0000

Red Hot Chili Peppers “Taste the Pain” 1989. Late 80’s funk metal, “Taste the Pain” was the third and final single from RHCP’s ’89 LP Mother’s Millk. It didn’t chart in the US but made it to #29 in the UK. Fishbone’s Philip “Fish” Fisher performs drums on the track (though Chad Smith appears in the video) and it was the first song guitarist John Frusciante recorded with the Peppers. Flea plays trumpet! (and bass, of course). The Peppers are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me: some of my friends like to give a lot of shit about the band (“everything sucked after The Uplift Mofo Party Plan” “total punk sellouts, man” etc etc) but, with some exceptions (oh god the funk ballads, please no), they always get my ass shaking. Mother’s Milk in particular holds loads of fuzzy, funky warm feelings as I listened to it on repeat while in Madison for college (I’m pretty sure I found the used CD – which I still have – in early ’90 at a Madison records store for cheap). “Taste the Pain” was always a highlight of the album: a slinky, sexy hip wiggler with a dark edge. The b-side has two non-album singles: “Show Me Your Soul,” a smoother, rap-funk track (released as a single in 1990 when it was featured on the soundtrack for the film Pretty Woman) and “Millionaires Against Hunger” (recorded during sessions for 1985’s Freaky Styley) which is heavy funk and reminiscent of the late 70’s NYC rap sound.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers “Fight Like a Brave”

sfilzen — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:19:34 +0000

Red Hot Chili Peppers “Fight Like a Brave” 1987. Today, April 13th, would have been original RHCP guitarist Hillel Slovak’s 60th birthday (b. 1962, d. 1988). “Fight Like a Brave” was the only single from RHCP’s 1987 LP The Uplift Mofo Party Plan and is about Anthony Kiedis’ heroin addiction and struggles to get clean. Like most Red Hot tracks, it is funky as hell with a ton of killer metal guitar swagger and riffs. The track wasn’t a hit but the album did squeak onto the charts, making it to #148. The Uplift Mofo Party Plan was Slovak’s last record; he died shortly after the album tour after trying and failing to kick his own addiction heroin. According to wiki, Slovak said about the LP, “This is the most beautiful thing we’ve ever done…I’m so extremely proud of everybody’s work—it is at times genius.”

Our copy of “Fight Like a Brave” is the 12″ single promo version so it has the same track on both sides. The commercial 12″ has a few remixes including “Not Our Mix,” “Boner Beats Mix” and “Mofo Mix” as well as a cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire.” Here’s a pretty hilarious video of them sort-of lip-synching “Fight Like a Brave” on Belgian TV: they don’t even bother to pretend to play, they just cause chaos and trash the stage.

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers “The Uplift Mofo Party Plan”

sfilzen — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:27:58 +0000

The Red Hot Chili Peppers “The Uplift Mofo Party Plan” released on this date, September 29th, 1987. RHCP’s third album went to #148 on the US chart and is the only record upon which all four original band members play on all the record’s tracks (and the last: guitarist Hillel Slovak died of a heroin overdose nine months later). It’s funky, of course, with a lot of metal guitar and swagger. They released “Fight Like a Brave” as a single (also on Sept. 29th ‘87; it did not chart) and then a few years later, in ‘92, released the mellow rocking, sitar-tinged (played by Slovak) “Behind the Sun” to help promote the What Hits!? comp; that single went to #7 on the US Modern Rock chart. My favorite track on The Uplift Mofo Party Plan is “Skinny Sweaty Man” – I’m pretty sure someone put this on a mixtape for me at some point back in the late 80′s (I didn’t have this LP in our collection until recently) – because it’s funny as hell. The singles are good, and I also like “Me and My Friends” and “Walkin’ On Down the Road” is OK, too. I’m not a fan of their cover of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” – it’s pretty much unrecognizable from the original (that’s one of the few Dylan songs I actually like) nor do I care for “Party on Your Pussy” (for obvious reasons that track is listed on the album cover as “Special Secret Song Inside”).

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers “Get Up and Jump”

sfilzen — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 22:33:56 +0000

The Red Hot Chili Peppers “Get Up and Jump” 1984. 12″ single (dance mix, produced by post punk/funk Gang of Four’s Andy Gill and remixed by Rob Stevens, who also has worked with Yoko Ono, Herbie Hancock and others) b/w “Baby Appeal (Club Mix).” “Get Up and Jump” was RHCP’s first (and only) single from their debut self-titled album (that album credited as being the first funk metal record and, for better or worse, “the little spark that ignited the rap rock revolution) and it was also the second song the band ever wrote, back when they were going by the name Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem. It’s extra-super funky with simple rap/sing lyrics (consisting mostly of the lines “Get up and jump, jump on down, jump around” etc.) with a fairly out-front bright horn section. The B-side “Baby Appeal” is a slower groove, heavy on the funky bass (Flea!) with a metal (almost tinny) guitar sound backing Anthony Kiedis’ whiteboy rap.

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