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Rating: Only two reviews, only two reviews for a masterpiece like "Kick Out The Jams", much could be said about this album recorded at the Grand Ballroom in Detroit in the glorious 1969.
Woodstock was the event of the year, but here we're not talking about peace, here we're talking about four guys from Detroit who can't play, forget Robert Fripp and Gentle Giant here we're talking about the purest Rock ever released from a Live, if Iggy Pop's Stooges scandalized the crowds and changed Rock their "rivals" competed with any emerging and angry band of the time.
One of the most authentic testimonies of Detroit Rock, if a few years later the Ramones and the Sex Pistols started one of the most discussed movements in the history of Rock, here we are talking about true ancestors of Punk, "Kick Out The Jams" is the proof that people like Wayne Kramer and Rob Tyner can change music.
MC5 do nothing but carry forward the music of Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly, fundamentally it is a band of angry and high kids, this is the beauty of this show, the urge to smash everything carried forward by the Who, the MC5 didn't want concepts, didn't want to amaze people or aspire to become one of the greatest bands in history, they just wanted to scream their anger and play like crap and this was the secret of the already mentioned Iggy Pop and we know how it ended for Kramer's and Iggy's band. "Are you ready to testify are you ready and I give you the MC5" starts Ramblin Rose with Kramer's guitars scratching as always and Tyner out of his mind, as the Live tradition made in Detroit wants the title track arrives with another phrase "And right now, right now, right now is time to..kick out the jams motherfuckers!" a track that releases the strength of this band and the primitiveness of the sound, personally the first time I listened to the album I thought it was a manifesto, today I listen to it with pleasure and even the following songs, including blues pieces like "Borderline", "Rocket Reducer" and the famous version of "Starship" are manifestos, the influence MC5 had is impressive, roots of punk.
As for many bands this Live was the first and last great work, later they released "Back In The U.S.A." with references to the Stones' blues, Kramer after a few years joined Johnny Thunders for a period with whom he formed a great friendship, often blurred in quarrels and fights in the Punk world, the MC5 are often forgotten, they couldn't play and had no great ambitions but they made history with a fantastic record, if today they are often ignored by critics and sites like this one (2 reviews) like "Quicksilver Messenger Service" and "Foetus" evidently they left a mark, often we forget who made music great and this is a pity for masterpieces like Kick Out The Jams.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Ramblin' Rose (04:15)
Love is like a Ramblin' Rose
The more you feed it
The more it grows,
Ramblin'Rose, Ramblin'Rose,
Come on home
Ramblin' Rose,
Is such a ball
Diamond rings
And a Cadillac car,
Ramblin' Rose, Ramblin' Rose
Come on home
Ramblin' Rose
Ramblin' around,
Ramblin' Rose
I'm gonna put you down
Ramblin' Rose, Ramblin' Rose
Come on home
Love is like a Ramblin' Rose
The more you feed it,
The more it grows
Ramblin' Rose, Ramblin' Rose
Come on home
I need a Ramblin' Rose
Ramblin' Rose
(repeat 'til end)
02 Kick Out the Jams (02:52)
Kick out the jams motherfuckers !
Yeah! I, I, I, I, I'm gonna
I'm gonna kick 'em out ! Yeah !
Well i feel pretty good
And i guess that i could get crazy now baby
Cause we all got in tune
And when the dressing room got hazy now baby
I know how you want it child
Hot, quick and tight
The girls can't stand it
When you're doin'it right
Let me up on the stand
And let me kick out the jam
Yes, kick out the jams
I want to kick'em out !
Yes i'm starting to sweat
You know my shirt's all wet
What a feeling
In the sound that abounds
And resounds and rebounds off the ceiling
You gotta have it baby
You can't do without
When you get that feeling
You gotta sock'em out
Put that mike in my hand
And let me kick out the jam
Yes ! Kick out the jams
I want to kick'em out
( guitar )
So you got to give it up
You know you can't get enough Miss Mackenzie
Cause it gets in your brain
It drives you insane
With the frenzy
The wigglin guitars girl
The crash of the drums
Make you wanna keep-a-rockin'
Till the morning comes
Let me be who i am
And let me kick out the jam
Yes, kick out the jams
I done kicked em out !!!
03 Come Together (04:29)
I AM OUT YOU ARE IN
LET US FORM A LINK
AND MOVE IN RHYTHMS
SLIDE APART AND SLIDE APART
COME TOGETHER YES
TOGETHER IN THE DARKNESS...
COME WITH ME
LET US DANCE THE
LET US DANCE THE DANCE
THE DANCE FROM WHICH ALL DANCES COME
YES TOGETHER IN THE DARKNESS
ASTOUNDING OHH
TOGETHER MAMA YES YES YES
TOGETHER MOMMA YES YES YES YES
ALL THE GUIDING RHYTHMS OF THE
ALL THE NERVE THAT TAKES A LOVER
NIPPLES STIFFEN, NIPPLES STIFFEN,
NIPPLES STIFFEN MAMA
LET ME GIVE TONGUE TO IT YES
LET ME GIVE TONGUE TO IT YES
TOGETHER IN THE DARKNESS... COME WITH ME
YES YES YES TOGETHER MOMMA
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES WOW!
OH GOD, IT’S GETTING CLOSER
OH AND WHEN IT GETS CLOSER
OH GOD IT’S SO CLOSE NOW
GOD IT’S SO CLOSE YES YES YES
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
ALL RIGHT BUILD TO A RISING
BUILD TO A GATHERING
BUILD TO A QUAKING
BUILD TO ERUPTION
BUILD TO A PEAK AND
FALL GASPING OVER
TOGETHER YES TOGETHER IN THE DARKNESS
OWWW! NOW, NOW, NOW, OWWW! YOWWW!
04 Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa) (05:41)
After some good tokes and a six pack
We can sock 'em out for you
Till you're flat on your back
You know i got to keep it up
Cause i'm a natural man
I'm a born hell raiser
And i don't give a damn
I'm the man for you baby
I'm the man for you baby
I'm the man for you baby
I'm the man for you baby
I'm the man for you
Workin' here before your momma
soakin wet
You think you're satisfied
You ain't seen nothing yet
I said WHAM BAM THANK YOU MA'AM
I'm a born ass pincher
And i don't give a damn
(chorus)
lead…
Rama lama fa fa fa…
You can lay it down on me, momma
Any old time
We can shimmy so good
We'll both be stoned O-Mind
I'm irresistably bad
The cooles' what am
Robin Tyner's the name
And i kick out the jams
(chorus)
05 Borderline (02:54)
I'm at my borderline
I'm at my borderline
Love you girl, but I just don't know why
I, have to love you so.
When I make love to you
when I make love to you
Love is true, but I just don't know why
I, have to love you so.
Need you girl, can't say why
come on over here, love me now
you know you know, you got to know,
you're movin around, pushin me past
my borderline, yeah yeah.
It's about time
it's about time
Love you girl, but I just don't know
why I have to love you so.
Need you girl, can't you feel
I just got to know, if it's real
Big and strong, hard and fine,
but you're movin around, pushin me past
my borderline, yeah yeah
ooooooooooh, ooooooooooh
I'm at my borderline
I'm at my borderline
I'm at my borderline
06 Motor City Is Burning (06:04)
Ya know, the Motor City is burning babe,
there ain't a thing in the world that they can do.
Ya know, the Motor City is burning people,
there ain't a thing that white society can do.
Ma home town burning down to the ground,
worser than Vietnam.
Let me tell you how it started now ...
it started on 12th and Clairmount that morning.
It made the beat cops all jump and shout,
Ah said, it started on 12th and Clairmount that morning,
It made the pigs in the street freak out.
The fire wagons kept comin', baby,
but the Black Panther snipers wouldn't let them put it out, wouldn't let them put it out, wouldn't let them put it out.
Guitar solo "get it on ... "
Well, there were fire bombs bursting all around, people, Ya know there were soldiers standing everywhere.
I said there was fire bombs bursting all around me, baby, Ya know there was National Guard everywhere.
Ah can hear my people screaming.
Sirens fill the air, fill the air, fill the air.
Guitar solo
Your mama papa don't know what the trouble is
you see, they don't know what it's all about.
Ah said, your mama papa don't know what the trouble is, baby,
they just can't see what it's all about.
Read the news, read the newspapers, baby?
You just get out there in the street and check it out!
Guitar solo
Ah said, the Motor City is burning, people,
I ain't hanging round to fight it out.
Ah said, the Motor City is burning, people,
just not hang around to fight it out.
Well, I'm taking my wife and my people and ???
Well, just before I go, baby, ???? ,
firemans on the street, people all around,
Now, I guess it's true,
I'd just like to strike a match for freedom myself,
I may be a white boy, but I can be bad, too.
Yes, it's true now, yes, it's true now.
Guitars, end
"Let it all burn! Let it all burn!"
08 Starship (08:24)
Starship, starship take me
Take me where I want to go
Out there among the planets
Let a billion suns cast my shadow
Starship, starship take me
Stretch our legs in time and space
Take a passage through the vacuum
Let me feel the stars burnin' on my face
Ten for the gravity, checkpoint
Nine for polarity, checkpoint
Eight for the (?)
Seven for the prismatic time warp
Six for the spirit of the captain, captain
Five for the power of the nucleus nebula
Four for the eyes, ears, nose, think, feel, speak
Three for the many levels
Two for the chromosome
One for the energy
One for the energy
One check
One check
One check
One check
One check
One check
Leaving the solar system
Leaving the solar system
Leaving the solar system
Leaving the solar system
Leaving
Leaving
Leaving
Leaving
It's cold in sunfire glory
From this point I rise to infinity
There is a land whose beauty is almost
Unimaginable to the human mind
In a daze we stand there and look further
Than the ordinary eye can see
Children, far above the roof of this world
We can encompass vistas of the worlds
There is a land where the sun shines eternally
Eternally, eternally
Out there in outer space is a living
Blazing fire so vital and alive
That it burns our eyes to witness it's spendor
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By VincVega
Kick Out The Jams is a fundamental album for subsequent generations, influencing more than one genre, from punk to garage, from hard rock to metal.
Tyner unleashes chaos by shouting their battle cry, 'Kick Out The Jams, motherfuckers!!!'
By telespallabob771
MC5 represents what the world could have been today.
Listening to them, it’s hard not to nod and smile, and think about how to make a change.
