Sold Date: June 26, 2019
Start Date: June 19, 2019
Final Price: $211.19 (USD)
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1st pressing VG+ condition vinyl and gatefold cover UNCENSORED album by the MC5 ‎titled KICK OUT THE JAMS. 1969 Elektra ‎– EKS-74042. SONGS:Ramblin' Rose; Kick Out The Jams; Come Together; Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa); Borderline; Motor City Is Burning; I Want You Right Now ; Starship. This is the real deal you Motherfu**ers! 
Original uncensored Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute pressing. Mustard colored Big 'E' labels, 'Motherfu**ers' intro, and controversial liner notes in gatefold cover. MC5 was recorded "live" on stage at Russ Gibb's Grande Ballroom, Detroit, on the Zenta New Year, October 30-31, 1968. Side A: T o EKS-74042-A-(CTH); Side B: T o EKS-74042-B-(CTH) 1.
WHY THIS ALBUM IS RARE AND SIGNIFICANT:
The album peaked at number 30 on the Billboard albums chart, "in the wake of a publicity blitz", wrote Robert Christgau in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).
While "Ramblin' Rose" and "Motor City Is Burning" open with inflammatory rhetoric, it was the opening line to the title track that stirred up controversy. Vocalist Rob Tyner shouted, "And right now... right now... right now it's time to... kick out the jams, motherfu**ers!" before the opening riffs. Elektra Records executives were offended by the line and had preferred to edit it out of the album (replacing the offending words with "brothers and sisters"), while the band and manager John Sinclair adamantly opposed this.[citation needed]
The original release had "kick out the jams, Motherfu**ers!" printed on the inside album cover, but was soon pulled from stores. Two versions were then released, both with censored album covers, with the uncensored audio version sold behind record counters.
Making matters worse, Hudson's department stores refused to carry the album. Tensions between the band and the Hudson's chain escalated to the point that the department stores refused to carry any album from the Elektra label after MC5 took out a full-page ad that, according to Danny Fields, "was just a picture of Rob Tyner, and all it said was 'Fu** Hudson's.' And it had the Elektra logo". To end the conflict and to avoid further financial loss, Elektra dropped MC5 from their record label.
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