Kick Out the Jams
Kick Out the Jams is the debut album by American protopunk 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 in 2003 was ranked number 294 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.
Release
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, 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.
Kick Out the Jams (song)
Kick Out the Jams is a song by MC5, released as a single in March 1969 by Elektra Records.
Formats and track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Kick Out the Jams liner notes.
Charts
Release history
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The KLF
The KLF (also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, furthermore known as The JAMs, The Timelords and other names) were a British acid house band of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Beginning in 1987, Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) released hip hop-inspired and sample-heavy records as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, and on one occasion (the British number one hit single "Doctorin' the Tardis") as The Timelords. The KLF released a series of international hits on their own KLF Communications record label, and became the biggest-selling singles act in the world for 1991. The duo also published a book, The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way), and worked on a road movie called The White Room.
From the outset, they adopted the philosophy espoused by esoteric novel series The Illuminatus! Trilogy, gaining notoriety for various anarchic situationist manifestations, including the defacement of billboard adverts, the posting of prominent cryptic advertisements in NME magazine and the mainstream press, and highly distinctive and unusual performances on Top of the Pops. Their most notorious performance was a collaboration with Extreme Noise Terror at the February 1992 BRIT Awards, where they fired machine gun blanks into the audience and dumped a dead sheep at the aftershow party. This performance announced The KLF's departure from the music business, and in May 1992 the duo deleted their entire back catalogue.
Podcasts:
Kick Out the Jams
ALBUMS
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Kick Out The Jams
by: MC5Yeah, I'm gonna kick 'em out!
Well, I feel pretty good and I guess that I could
Get crazy now, baby
'Cause we all gotta [Incomprehensible] of what we gotta do
Gettin' 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
When I'm up on the stand
I'm [Incomprehensible] to kick out the jams
Yes, kick out the jams
I done kick 'em out!
Yes, I'm a starting to sweat, you know my shirt's all wet
What a feeling!
It's a sound that abounds and resounds
And rebounds off the ceiling
You gotta have it, baby, you can't do without
Oh, when you get that feeling you gotta sock 'em out
Put that [Incomprehensible] in my hands
And let me kick out the jams
Yeah, kick out the jams
I done kick 'em out!
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 a frenzy
The wigglin' guitars, girl, the crash of the drums
Makes me wanna rock until the morning comes
Let me be who I am
I [Incomprehensible] kick out the jams
Yeah, kick out the jams
I done kicked 'em out!