ALBUMS: ‘Kick Out the Jams’ (1969)
MVC Rating: 3.5/$$$ (I don’t think you are going to be able to get this for under $10 and maybe not under $15.)
There’s no other way to describe this band. They are punk.
Loud shouted vocals, thrashing, loosely played, guitars and an ideology bordering on anarchy.
The only thing about MC-5. They formed their band Motor City 5 in 1964. Yes that’s right, they were screaming their heads off and playing relatively sloppy G and A chords while the Sex Pistols were getting out of Kindergarten.
It would be another decade before the Sex Pistols, often called the first punk band ,would start doing their thing. Don’t believe me check em out. I saw this used in great condition and snapped it up at WUXTRY in Athens as a teenager. So I was prepared when the Sex Pistols and the Clash, Black Flag and Dead Kennedy’s. et al. began their angry and cathartic outbursts — about 10 years later.
In 1969 MC5 put out their signature song: ‘Kick Out the Jams.’
Because they often started that song with an obscenity, the Hudson Department store chain refused to stock and sell their records. Another omen of things to come.