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“Fight Like a Brave” by Red Hot Chili Peppers
From the album The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987)
“Fight Like a Brave” by Red Hot Chili Peppers appears on 11 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1988 and 2014. It was first released in 1987 on the album The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. Its best result is #389 on the WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,346 alternative song of all time.
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"Fight Like a Brave" was the only single the Red Hot Chili Peppers pulled from their third album, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, in 1987, and it's a sobriety pep talk played at a full funk-metal gallop. Anthony Kiedis had hit bottom on heroin, badly enough that Flea threw him out of the band and meant to keep him out until he proved he was sober. Kiedis got clean in rehab, phoned Flea with the news, was let back in, and wrote the song on the flight home, aiming it at anyone else still fighting that fight.
Kiedis, Flea, Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons play it like a street brawl, with Michael Beinhorn producing. The B-side was a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Fire", which resurfaced as a tribute to Slovak after his death in 1988.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 500 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1988) | 496 |
| 1989 | 389 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989) | 500 |
| 1998 | 399 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998) | 488 |
| 2005 | 399 | 99X | 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) | 1000 |
| 2007 | 1242 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1187 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1202 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1237 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1291 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1331 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 1374 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
Also listed as: Fight Like A Brave.
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