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Kick Out The Jams.

(Mother F——r)

MC5

Recorded live, 1968, Grande Ballroom Detroit

Released 1969

Legendary, seminal LP

This is the rare original red Elektra Label EKS-74042 AND the gatefold cover which opens out (people used to clean their w—-d) with LPs like this, don’t CHA know)

The LP had a cutout mark on the upper right hand corner, but is otherwise very good. Original Elektra sleeve included. The LP is in excellent condition and plays very well indeed; you’d be hard pressed to find a better copy, without making any warranties or representations.

“Kick Out the Jams is the debut album by American proto-punk band MC5. It was released in February 1969, through Elektra Records. It was recorded live at Detroit's Grande Ballroom over two nights, Devil's Night and Halloween, 1968….

The LP peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard 200 chart, with the title track peaking at No. 82 in the Hot 100. Although the album received an unfavorable review in Rolling Stone magazine upon its release, it has gone on to be considered an important forerunner to punk rock music, and was ranked number 294 in both 2003 and 2012 editions of Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" lists,[5][6] and at number 349 in a 2020 revised list…..

While "Ramblin' Rose" and "Motor City Is Burning" open with the band's typical leftist and revolutionary 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, motherfuckers!" 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, Motherfuckers!" 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 'Fuck Hudson's.' And it had the Elektra logo".[9] To end the conflict and to avoid further financial loss, Elektra dropped MC5 from their record label.

Later the same year, Jefferson Airplane recorded the song "We Can Be Together" for their Volunteers album, a song containing the word "motherfucker". Unlike Elektra, RCA Records released the album wholly uncensored…..

modern opinion of the album generally holds it in very high regard, noting its influence on rock music that has followed. Mark Deming of AllMusic called it "one of the most powerfully energetic live albums ever made" in a retrospective review.[11] PopMatters reviewer Adam Williams wrote, "For my money, 'Kick Out the Jams' is one of the greatest records ever pressed. It is a magnificent time portal into the past, a fleeting glimpse of a band that actually had the balls to walk it like they talked it" and that "no live recording has captured the primal elements of rock more than the MC5's inaugural effort."[18] Bangs himself would change his mind about the album, writing in a footnote in his Troggs essay "James Taylor Marked for Death":

Incidentally, I'm not trying to run down the Five, or write them off as some Troggs trifle. When I reviewed their first album in Rolling Stone, I finished by mentioning "The Troggs, who appeared with a similar sex-and-violence thing a couple of years back, and promptly sank into oblivion, where I imagine they are laughing at the MC5," and that of course is as snottily unkind to the Troggs as to the Five. But then, it was the first review I ever had published, and even if more death threats came in after that review than any other save Jann Wenner's Wheels of Fire massacre (and most of them from sweet home Detroit), I can see why people privileged enough to be part of the apocalyptic birth of the Five would be enraged. And to compound the irony, Kick Out the Jams has been my favorite album or at least one of the two or three most played for about three months now….

Rob Tyner – lead vocals

Wayne Kramer – lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Ramblin' Rose"

Fred "Sonic" Smith – rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Michael Davis – bass guitar

Dennis Thompson – drums

Additional personnel

Brother J. C. Crawford – "spiritual advisor"

John Sinclair – "guidance", liner notes

Bruce Botnick – engineer

Robert L. Heimall, William S. Harvey – artwork

Joel Brodsky – album cover photo

Magdalena Sinclair – liner photography

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_Out_the_Jams

This is a used LP. We make no representations of any kind whatsoever as to its condition or even as to its playability. If you do not like it, you may return it and receive a full refund. However, you are knowingly buying it AS IS.