Fight Like A Brave / Funky Crime / Me&My Friends / Backwoods / Skinny Sweaty Man / Behind The Sun / Subterranean Homesick Blues / Special Secret Song Inside / No Chump Love Sucker / Walkin' Down The Road / Love Trilogy / Organic Anti-Beat Box Band

First of all, i'd like to point the evolution in the aspect of sound production. The sounds of former albums were not so clear, and had a blur impressions, but in this album Michael Beinhorn, the producer made the edge of the sounds clear and tight. At the same time, the music RHCP create also developed to a certain extent. Especially i wanna emphasize that the guitar sounds by Hillel Slovak became loud and heavy. The general images of guitar sounds through the album are hardcore, but if you listen to that carefully they're slightly different on every song. He made his sounds very delicate. In regard to his work in this piece, i have nothihg to say but "Just great!"

As the hardcore-punk oriented approach increases, in proportion to it, stinky funky spirits are going into depth. Getting two elements fused at the exquisite balance, the unique sound only RHCP could make is being developed in this album. In Japan(in the US too, maybe), next "Mother's Milk" is accepted as the album by which they have made their name, but the base of the style which called "Mixture Rock"(i hate this term though) was completed in this album. It can be said that they firstly showed themselves at their best in this work. i think this album is estimated lowly, which i've been thinking for a long time.

i admit my personal devotion to this album because of the fact UMPP was the first one i met. But, standing on the point of objectivity(with all of my efforts), this work is just cool simply, and never sound old nevertheless going through the period of over ten years now.

"Fight Like A Brave," the tune makes you high-spirited like a camphor injection, "Me And My Friends" which is played at the last of the show(except for an encore) recently, "Organic Anti-Beat Box Band," party song which is often played at the show, "No Chump Love Sucker" which is, i call "Hardcore Funk" tune, hyper "Skinny Sweaty Man" how do i say... "Slash Funk?" And "Love Trilogy" changing its figure from dub to hardcore to slash kaleidoscopically...it would be endless if i talk about the charms of this work(this album is FULL of charms to me!). But i'd like to focus the tune "Funky Crime" here.

RHCP kept on doing funk from the beggining, which is black music originally. But the "white funk" band like them is in danger of unfavorable criticism from the core black music fans like "That's not the funk." In opposite, they have a possibility to be accused from the "ordinary" rock fans saying "Why do white people have to take the trouble to play funk music?" That is, they were standing on the grey area of rock music scene i think. Most important thing in this situation was not to just mimic the black funk, but to establish their own attitude of "Funk as being white people." At this point of view, RHCP on the former albums seemed to be perplexed somehow. i guess they were often refered to that point at the interviews, and the answer from them to that kind of questions was the tune "Funky Crime." The lyric of this song is composed as the answer to the questions of "Mr. Interview."

In this tune, funk is expressed as "color blind("Don't you know Funk's color blind?")." As you know, the term "color blind" means the state of "no racial prejudice." That is, funk is a originally free-minded concept with no distinction like white or black or red or yellow. As the answer to the question "Why do white people play funk?," they just say "i do what i want to do," "This is what i grew into." And dared to declare "Funk is my attitude."

For RHCP, funk is not limited to only a form of music. They tried to acquire the "funkiness"(to being funky) truly by selling their body...even their soul to someone. What the phrase "well i've committed a funky crime, against a state of mind" is trying to say is what i said, i believe.

That fight must be truly a painful one, but through the process of their struggle trying to be seriously funky, the "selling of soul," being expressed in this tune, is thought as the inevitable "ritual." Anyway, in "Funky Crime," they established their original "white funk" about which no one can complain. In this point, i think the meaning of this tune, this album is very important.