Band Name: MC5
Music Album: Purity Accuracy
Album Release Date: October 2004
Music Genre: Punk Rock Garage Rock Psychedelic Rock
Record Label: Easy Action
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 73 Tracks CD Box Set
Rob Tyner (v), Wayne Kramer (g), Fred "Sonic" Smith (g), Michael Davis (b), Dennis Thompson (d)
The Motor City Five started in Detroit in 1966 and were responsible for some of the loudest, most energetic rock music to be created in the late sixties and early seventies. They were a huge influence on punk not only by their sound, but by their sheer attitude: they ran a newspaper advertisement saying "Fuck Hudson's" after Hudson's (a department store) refused to carry their record (Kick Out the Jams (1969)) due to the explicit lyrics. This eventually had them fired from their label, Elektra. They created two more studio albums before disbanding in 1972.
| Rehearsals | ||
| 1-1 | Skunk (Sonicly Speaking) | 5:15 |
| 1-2 | Poison | 3:26 |
| 1-3 | Gotta Keep Movin' | 3:19 |
| 1-4 | Baby Won't Ya | 4:49 |
| 1-5 | Sister Anne | 6:47 |
| 1-6 | Future/Now | 3:06 |
| 1-7 | Over & Over | 2:13 |
| 1-8 | Train Music | 3:03 |
| 1-9 | The Pledge Song | 2:27 |
| 1-10 | Power Trip | 3:23 |
| 1-11 | Tutti-Frutti | 1:36 |
| 1-12 | Tonight | 2:50 |
| 1-13 | Teenage Lust (Instrumental) | 2:39 |
| 1-14 | Looking At You (2nd Version) | 3:21 |
| 1-15 | High School (Instrumental) | 3:01 |
| 1-16 | Call Me Animal (Instrumental) | 2:16 |
| 1-17 | The American Ruse | 2:30 |
| 1-18 | Shaking Street | 2:33 |
| 1-19 | The Human Being Lawnmower | 2:22 |
| 1-20 | Back In The USA | 2:36 |
| 1-21 | Looking At You Inst | 3:10 |
| 1-22 | What Is Zenta? | 0:42 |
| 1965-68 | ||
| 2-1 | Looking At You | 2:48 |
| 2-2 | Borderline | 3:19 |
| 2-3 | Looking At You (Instrumental) | 2:33 |
| 2-4 | I Can Only Give You Everything | 2:40 |
| 2-5 | I Just Don't Know | 2:38 |
| 2-6 | One Of The Guys | 2:18 |
| 2-7 | Little Red Riding Grmph | 0:27 |
| 2-8 | I Don't Mind | 2:58 |
| 2-9 | Look What You've Done Done | 5:05 |
| 2-10 | Baby Please Don't Go | 3:57 |
| 2-11 | Break Time | 1:00 |
| 212 | I'm A Man | 4:12 |
| 2-13 | Looking At You | 6:53 |
| 2-14 | Black To Comm | 7:51 |
| 2-15 | I Put A Spell On You | 6:49 |
| 2-16 | Born Under A Bad Sign | 5:02 |
| 2-17 | I Want You Right Now | 5:44 |
| 2-18 | I Believe To My Soul | 3:41 |
| Live At The Saginaw Civic Centre 1st Jan 1970 | ||
| 3-1 | Intro Rambling Rose | 3:52 |
| 3-2 | Human Being Lawnmower | 2:44 |
| 3-3 | Tonight | 3:28 |
| 3-4 | Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa) | 5:02 |
| 3-5 | It's A Man's World | 5:51 |
| 3-6 | Teenage Lust | 3:14 |
| 3-7 | Looking At You | 5:32 |
| 3-8 | Fire Of Love | 4:05 |
| 3-9 | Shakin' Street | 3:41 |
| 3-10 | Starship/Kick Out The Jams/Black To Comm | 11:49 |
| Live at the Grande Ballroom 1968 | ||
| 4-1 | Brother J.C Intro | 2:54 |
| 4-2 | Motor City Is Burning | 4:28 |
| 4-3 | I Believe To My Soul | 3:00 |
| 4-4 | Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama La Fa Fa Fa) | 6:11 |
| 4-5 | I'm Mad Like Eldridge Cleaver | 18:53 |
| 4-6 | Ice Pick Slim | 18:11 |
| 4-7 | Black To Comm | 7:19 |
| Live at the Sturgis Armory, Michigan 27th June 1968 | ||
| 5-1 | Kick Out The Jams | 3:41 |
| 5-2 | Come Together | 5:42 |
| 5-3 | Revolutionary Blues | 6:16 |
| 5-4 | Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa) | 6:47 |
| 5-5 | James Brown Medley: Cold Sweat, I Can't Stand Myself, There Was A Time | 8:17 |
| 5-6 | Upper Egypt | 5:34 |
| 5-7 | Tutti Frutti | 1:45 |
| 5-8 | Borderline | 3:01 |
| 5-9 | Born Under A Bad Sign | 5:01 |
| 5-10 | I Want You | 5:57 |
| 5-11 | Starship | 7:29 |
| 5-12 | Black To Comm | 10:59 |
| 13th March 2003 London 100 Club | ||
| 6-1 | Sister Anne | 6:24 |
| 6-2 | Gotta Keep Movin' | 4:04 |
| 6-3 | Looking At You | 4:08 |
| 6-4 | Skunk (Sonicly Speaking) | 5:25 |
Includes two MC5 stickers.
CD1: Rehearsals
1.4: Fred Smith guide vocals - 1970 Unreleased version
1.7: Fred acoustic instrumental 1970
1.8: from the soundtrack 'Gold'
1.9: early version of Sister Anne, no vocals. Head Sounds Ypsilanti Oct/Nov 70
1.10: early version of Skunk no vocals. Head Sounds Ypsilanti Oct/Nov 70
1.18: Acoustic version summer '69 with Fred on vocals
CD2: 1965-68
2.1-3: United Sound Studios January 1968
2.4 & 2.5: United Sound Studios January 1966
2.6: Terra Sherma Studios Detroit 1966
2.7-10: Basement rehearsal Mrs Kramers
2.11: Recorded at a Polish wedding
2.12: Artists workshop
2.13 & 2.14: Cody High School
2.15 & 2.16: Live at 'Dialogue '68' First Unitarian Church Detroit Sept 7th 1968
2.17: Live at 'Dialogue '68' First Unitarian Church Detroit Sept 8th 1968
2.18: Sunday Sept 8th 1968 live First Unitarian Church Detroit
CD3: Live at the Saginaw Civic Centre 1st Jan 1970
(3.10: "Teenage Lust" is also listed as the fourth part of the medley, but is not played.)
CD4: Live at the Grande Ballroom 1968
4.1 & 4.5: 27th Oct 1968
4.2 & 4.3: 30/31 Oct 1968
4.4: 31st Oct 1968
4.6: 26th May 1968
4.7: unknown recording date
CD5: Live at the Sturgis Armory, Michigan 27th June 1968
CD6: 13th March 2003 London 100 Club
"Dedicated to Rob & Sonic * You are truly missed by more than you will ever know."
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