- Audio CD (19 July 2004)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Rhino
- ASIN: B000046PVF
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 47,314 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. I Can Only Give You Everything | |||
| 2. Looking At You (Original 'A-Square' Single Version) | |||
| 3. I Just Don't Know | |||
| 4. Ramblin' Rose | |||
| 5. Kick Out The Jams (Uncensored Version) | |||
| 6. Come Together | |||
| 7. Rocket Reducer No.62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa) | |||
| 8. Tonight | |||
| 9. Teenage Lust | |||
| 10. High School | |||
| 11. Call Me Animal | |||
| 12. The American Ruse | |||
| 13. Shakin' Street | |||
| 14. The Human Being Lawnmower | |||
| 15. Back In The USA | |||
| 16. Sister Anne | |||
| 17. Baby Won't Ya | |||
| 18. Miss X | |||
| 19. Over And Over | |||
| 20. Skunk (Sonicly Speaking) | |||
See all 21 tracks on this disc
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Product Description
Album Description
The original influence of current bands such as the Hives and Jet, The MC5 are still one of the most iconic rock bands from the late 60s/early 70s, combing raucous rock'n'roll with real subversive political overtones. The Big Bang focuses on their three studio albums and adds 3 pre-"Kick Out The Jams" single sides plus a live 1972 French TV recording of "Thunder Express". Bolstered by in-depth sleeve notes, this is the ideal introduction to Detroit, Michigan's loudest and finest.
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Format:Audio CD
You have to get this album. And listen to it loud over and over until you understand. As fresh today as when they were playing it back in the day. If the revolution had taken off then this would be the World Anthem.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A compilation of some of the sharpest work - and also some of the most irritating - by Detroit's second noisiest, second most incendiary rocking teen combo. The MC5 were loud, sloppy, pretentious and full of half-baked revolutionary nonsense, but they could kick ass, as witnessed by the finest tracks on this album: the legendary uncensored version of "Kick Out the Jams", an extremely murky but fun version of "I Can Only Give You Everything" (Phil Coulter's finest hour), their late masterpiece "Over and Over", a sort of "Won't Get Fooled Again" without the druggy grandiosity. There's also some dull bar band rock which doesn't do them any favours (Wayne Kramer engagingly explains in the sleevenotes that they listened to playbacks of their second album at full volume and hence failed to realise how thin it sounded.) They were wild, they were full of it, and they were more than a bit ridiculous, but they rocked a good deal harder than Quicksilver Messenger Service. Kick out the jams, melonfarmers, indeed.
12 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A compilation of some of the sharpest work - and also some of the most irritating - by Detroit's second noisiest, second most incendiary rocking teen combo. The MC5 were loud, sloppy, pretentious and full of half-baked revolutionary nonsense, but they could kick ass, as witnessed by the finest tracks on this album: the legendary uncensored version of "Kick Out the Jams", an extremely murky but fun version of "I Can Only Give You Everything" (Phil Coulter's finest hour), their late masterpiece "Over and Over", a sort of "Won't Get Fooled Again" without the druggy grandiosity. There's also some dull bar band rock which doesn't do them any favours (Wayne Kramer engagingly explains in the sleevenotes that they listened to playbacks of their second album at full volume and hence failed to realise how thin it sounded.) They were wild, they were full of it, and they were more than a bit ridiculous, but they rocked a good deal harder than Quicksilver Messenger Service. Kick out the jams, melonfarmers, indeed.
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