MC5
Gli MC5, sigla che sta per Motor City 5, (Motor City è il nomignolo della città di Detroit) sono stati un gruppo rock di Detroit, considerato tra i precursori dei generi punk rock e heavy metal, e tra i più influenti gruppi americani di sempre, in compagnia dei Velvet Underground e dei concittadini The Stooges.Fondamentali per la nascita del punk, gli MC5 portano la celebrazione della sacra trinità sesso, droga e rock&roll ad un nuovo e inaudito livello che coinvolge testi (mai così sfrontatamente rivoluzionari, anche al livello politico: il manager e ideologo del gruppo sarà nulla meno che John Sinclair, leader delle White Panthers) e sound capaci di spazzare via ogni convenzione.
Storia
Nascono alla fine del '64 a Lincoln Park (Michigan), patria di Iggy Pop e del Garage rock, ancora liceali e grezzi musicalmente, ma già sperimentatori di feedback e distorsioni che, lasciando poco all'originalità delle composizioni, mostrano tutta la forza incendiaria dei loro strumenti. La voce di Rob Tyner e l'interplay fra la chitarra solista di Wayne Kramer e quella ritmica di Fred "Sonic" Smith costituiscono l'asse portante del gruppo che, pur non riuscendo ad uscire dai confini di Detroit, catalizza su di sé le attenzioni delle avanguardie protopunk. L'album di svolta, registrato dal vivo per l'incapacità degli MC5 di portare in studio la loro leggendaria energia, Kick Out the Jams non vende, ma il segno nella storia del rock è tracciato e poco importa se questa pietra miliare verrà riscoperta solo ad anni di distanza (il successo non era la loro prerogativa del resto) dai primi fermenti punk.Nel 2003 i membri superstiti (Tyner e Smith erano deceduti, entrambi per attacco cardiaco, rispettivamente nel 1991 e nel 1994) si riunirono insieme al cantante dei Dictators Handsome Dick Manitoba. Questa formazione proseguì l'attività fino al febbraio 2012, quando si sciolse in seguito alla morte, per insufficienza epatica, del bassista e membro fondatore Michael Davis.
Stile musicale
Indiscussi anticipatori del punk rock, i MC5 sono stati esponenti di un garage rock violento e improvvisato che è stato ricondotto più volte al rock 'n' roll e al blues rock. La loro aggressività, anche evidente nei testi iconoclasti e politicizzati, ha spinto qualcuno a definire le loro esibizioni dal vivo "orgasmi collettivi, ubriacature selvagge, valanghe di suono scaricate alla rinfusa sul pubblico, traboccanti di oscenità e slogan." Lo storico esordio Kick Out the Jams (1969) è citato come un capolavoro del proto-punk, mentre il meno violento Back in the USA (1970) è un'altra pietra miliare della musica rock che anticipa il power pop. Il loro ultimo album in studio High Time (1971) sperimenta una formula sonora più vicina al jazz e all'R&B. La band statunitense è stata anche inserita fra le esponenti dell'hard rock.Influenza ed eredità
Gli MC5 influenzarono gruppi importanti per il punk come Sex Pistols, Ramones e l'hardcore punk come Dead Kennedys arrivando fino al rapcore/funk metal dei Rage Against the Machine, vicini come attitudine sia musicale che politica agli MC5 e anche gruppi Garage rock come gli Hellacopters sono stati influenzati dai MC5.Film dedicati
- MC5: Kick Out the Jams (MC5: Kick Out the Jams), 1999
- MC5: A True Testimonial (MC5: La vera testimonianza), 2002
Formazione
Ultima
- Handsome Dick Manitoba - voce
- Wayne Kramer - chitarra
- Dennis Thompson - batteria
Formazione di Kick Out the Jams
- Rob Tyner - voce
- Fred Smith - chitarra
- Wayne Kramer - chitarra
- Michael Davis - basso
- Dennis Thompson - batteria
Ex componenti
- Michael Davis - basso
- Pat Burrows - basso
- Bob Gaspar - batteria
- Rob Tyner - voce
- Fred Smith - chitarra
Discografia
Album in studio
- 1970 - Back in the USA
- 1971 - High Time
Live
- 1969 - Kick Out the Jams
Raccolte
- 1983 - Babes in Arms
- 2000 - Big Bang: The Best of the MC5
- 2004 - MC5 - Are You Ready to Testify? - The Live Bootleg Anthology
Singoli
- I Can Only Give You Everything, 1966
- One of the Guys, 1967
- Looking at You, 1968
- Borderline, 1968
- Kick Out the Jams, 1969
- Motor City is Burning, 1969
- Tonight, 1969
- Shakin' Street, 1970
- The American Ruse, 1970
- Over and Over / Sister Anne, 1971 (mai realizzato, esiste solo il testo)
MC5 had a promising beginning that earned them a January 1969 cover appearance in Rolling Stone and a story written by Eric Ehrmann before their debut album was released. They developed a reputation for energetic and polemical live performances, one of which was recorded as their 1969 debut album Kick Out the Jams. Their initial run was short-lived, though. In 1972, just three years after their debut record, the band came to an end. MC5 was often cited as one of the most important American hard rock groups of their era. Their three albums are regarded by many as classics, and their song "Kick Out the Jams" is widely covered.
Tyner died of a heart attack in late 1991 at the age of 46. Smith also died of a heart attack, in 1994 at the age of 45. The remaining three members of the band reformed in 2003 with The Dictators' singer Handsome Dick Manitoba as its new vocalist, and this reformed line-up occasionally performed live over the next nine years until Davis died of liver failure in February 2012 at the age of 68. MC5 were nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 2002, 2016 and 2018.
First incarnation
Early years
The origins of MC5 can be traced to the friendship between guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred Smith. Friends since their teen years, they were both fans of R&B music, blues, Chuck Berry, Dick Dale, The Ventures, and what would later be called garage rock: they adored any music with speed, energy and a rebellious attitude. Each guitarist/singer formed and led a rock group (Smith's Vibratones and Kramer's Bounty Hunters). As members of both groups left for college or straight jobs, the most committed members eventually united (under Kramer's leadership and the "Bounty Hunters" name) with Billy Vargo on guitar and Leo LeDuc on drums (at this point Smith played bass), and were popular and successful enough in and around Detroit that the musicians were able to quit their day jobs and make a living from the group.Kramer felt they needed a manager, which led him to Rob Derminer, a few years older than the others, and deeply involved in Detroit's hipster and left-wing political scenes. Derminer originally auditioned as a bass guitarist (a role which he held briefly in 1964, with Smith switching to guitar to replace Vargo and with Bob Gaspar replacing LeDuc). They quickly realized that Derminer's talents could be better used as a lead singer: Though not conventionally attractive and rather paunchy by traditional frontman standards, he nonetheless had a commanding stage presence, and a booming baritone voice that evidenced his abiding love of American soul and gospel music. Derminer renamed himself Rob Tyner (after Coltrane's pianist McCoy Tyner). Tyner also conceived their new name, MC5, short for "Motor City Five" based on their Detroit roots. In some ways the group was similar to other garage bands of the period, composing soon-to-be historic workouts such as "Black to Comm" during their mid-teens in the basement of the home of Kramer's mother. Upon Tyner's switch from bassist to vocalist, he was initially replaced by Patrick Burrows before the line-up stabilized in 1965 with the arrival of Michael Davis and Dennis Thompson to replace Burrows and Gaspar, respectively.
The music also reflected Smith and Kramer's increasing interest in free jazz—the guitarists were inspired by the likes of Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra and late period John Coltrane, and tried to imitate the ecstatic sounds of the squealing, high-pitched saxophonists they adored. MC5 even later opened for a few U.S. midwest shows for Sun Ra, whose influence is obvious in "Starship". Kramer and Smith were also deeply inspired by Sonny Sharrock, one of the few electric guitarists working in free jazz, and they eventually developed a unique interlocking style that was like little heard before: Kramer's solos often used a heavy, irregular vibrato, while Smith's rhythms contained an uncommon explosive energy, including patterns that conveyed great excitement, as evidenced in "Black to Comm" and many other songs.[citation needed]
Success in Detroit
Playing almost nightly any place they could in and around Detroit, MC5 quickly earned a reputation for their high-energy live performances and had a sizeable local following, regularly drawing sellout audiences of 1000 or more. Contemporary rock writer Robert Bixby stated that the sound of MC5 was like "a catastrophic force of nature the band was barely able to control", while Don McLeese notes that fans compared the aftermath of an MC5 performance to the delirious exhaustion experienced after "a street rumble or an orgy". (McLeese, 57)Having released a cover of Them's "I Can Only Give You Everything" backed with original composition "One of the Guys" on the tiny AMG label over a year earlier, in early 1968 their second single was released by Trans-Love Energies on A-Square records (though without the knowledge of that label's owner Jeep Holland). Housed in a striking picture sleeve, it comprised two original songs: "Borderline" and "Looking at You". The first pressing sold out in a few weeks, and by year's end it had gone through more pressings totaling several thousand copies. A third single that coupled "I Can Only Give You Everything" with the original "I Just Don't Know" appeared at about the same time on the AMG label, as well.
That summer MC5 toured the U.S. east coast, which generated an enormous response, with the group often overshadowing the more famous acts they opened up for: McLeese writes that when opening for Big Brother and the Holding Company audiences regularly demanded multiple encores of MC5, and at a memorable series of concerts, Cream—one of the leading hard rock groups of the era—"left the stage vanquished". (McLeese, 65) This same east coast tour led to the rapturous aforementioned Rolling Stone cover story that praised MC5 with nearly evangelistic zeal, and also to an association with the radical group Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers.
MC5 became the leading band in a burgeoning hard rock scene, serving as mentors to fellow South-Eastern Michigan bands The Stooges and The Up, and major record labels expressed an interest in the group. As related in the notes for reissued editions of the Stooges' debut album, Danny Fields of Elektra Records came to Detroit to see MC5. At Kramer's recommendation, he went to see The Stooges. Fields was so impressed that he ended up offering contracts to both bands in September 1968. They were the first hard rock groups signed to the fledgling Elektra.
Radical political affiliations
According to Kramer, MC5 of this period was politically influenced by the Marxism of the Black Panther Party and Fred Hampton, and poets of the Beat Generation such as Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders, or Modernist poets like Charles Olson. Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton prompted John Sinclair to found the White Panthers, a militant leftist organization of white people working to assist the Black Panthers. Shortly after, Sinclair was arrested for possession of marijuana.Under the "guidance" of John Sinclair (who dubbed his enterprise "Trans-Love Energies" and refused to be categorized as a traditional manager), MC5 were soon involved in left-wing politics: Sinclair was active with the White Panther Party and Fifth Estate. In their early career, MC5 had a politically provocative stage show: they would appear onstage toting unloaded rifles, and at the climax of the performance, an unseen "sniper" would shoot down Tyner. The band members were also all using the drugs LSD and marijuana.
The band performed as part of the protests against the Vietnam War at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that were broken up by a police riot. The group's appearance at the convention is also notable for their lengthy performance. In an interview featured in the documentary Get Up, Stand Up, Kramer reported that while many musicians were scheduled to perform at a day-long concert, only the MC5 initially appeared. The MC5 played for over eight hours straight. Of the other scheduled performers, Kramer stated in Get Up, Stand Up that only Neil Young actually arrived, though due to the chaos at the convention, Young didn't perform. Dennis Thompson asserted years later that "Country Joe" McDonald (Country Joe and the Fish) was also present at the scene (Thompson, 2000). Other performers at the convention included the protest folk singer Phil Ochs.
Recordings
Kick Out the Jams
MC5 earned national attention with their first album, Kick Out the Jams, recorded live on October 30 and 31, 1968, at Detroit's Grande Ballroom. Elektra executive Jac Holzman and producer Bruce Botnick recognized that MC5 were at their best when playing for a receptive audience. Containing such songs as the proto-punk classics "Kick Out the Jams" and "Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)", the spaced-out "Starship" (co-credited to Sun Ra because the lyrics were partly cribbed from one of Ra's poems), and an extended cover of John Lee Hooker's "Motor City Is Burning" wherein Tyner praises the role of Black Panther snipers during the Detroit Insurrection of 1967. Critic Mark Deming writes that Kick out the Jams "is one of the most powerfully energetic live albums ever made ... this is an album that refuses to be played quietly."The album caused some controversy due to Sinclair's inflammatory liner notes and the title track's rallying cry of "Kick out the jams, motherfucker!" According to Kramer, the band recorded this as "Kick out the jams, brothers and sisters!" for the single released for radio play; Tyner claimed this was done without group consensus (Thompson, 2000). The edited version also appeared in some LP copies, which also withdrew Sinclair's excitable comments. The album was released in January 1969; reviews were mixed, but the album was relatively successful, quickly selling over 100,000 copies and peaking at #30 on the Billboard album chart in May 1969 during a 23-week stay.
When Hudson's, a Detroit-based department store chain, refused to stock Kick Out the Jams due to the obscenity, MC5 responded with a full page advertisement in the local underground magazine Fifth Estate saying "Stick Alive with the MC5, and Fuck Hudson's!", prominently including the logo of MC5's label, Elektra Records, in the ad. Hudson's pulled all Elektra records from their stores, and in the ensuing controversy, Jac Holzman, the head of Elektra, dropped the band from their contract. MC5 then signed with Atlantic Records.
Back in the USA
Their second album, Back in the USA, produced by future Bruce Springsteen mentor Jon Landau, virtually provided a prototype for punk rock with its short, fast, hard-edged angry guitar rock. Released on Atlantic with a vastly different production and marketing effort, the band's sound radically differed from Kick, to such an extent that, except for Tyner's vocals, they were "barely recognizable as the same band." (McLeese, 96) The second album's production also sounded compressed and somewhat limited in the band's sonic palette compared to their earlier — band members later said that Landau was overbearing and heavy-handed in production, trying to shape the group to his own liking.Reviews were again mixed, resulting in mediocre sales (it only peaked at #137 in the American charts in March 1970 during a seven-week stay), while the band's tours were not as well-received as before. Exhaustion was partly to blame, from the band's heavy touring schedule and increasingly heavy drug use.
They had fallen out with Sinclair as well, and were conspicuously not allowed to play at the December, 1971 John Sinclair Freedom Rally, organized to protest his incarceration on marijuana possession, even though they were at the gig.[citation needed]
High Time
Their third album, High Time, produced by Geoffrey Haslam and recorded by Artie Fields, would also prove influential on 1970s hard rock bands. The album was poorly promoted, and sales were worse than ever, but High Time was the best-reviewed of the band's original records upon its initial release. The group had much more creative control, and were very satisfied with the results. This release saw the band stretch out with longer, more experimental pieces like "Future/Now" and the Sun Ra-influenced "Skunk (Sonicly Speaking)" [sic].Late career and disbandment
Both Back in the USA and High Time lost money for Atlantic Records, which dropped the band. Early in 1972, the band toured Europe, playing dates in England including Cambridge with Syd Barrett's band Stars and Canterbury with former Tyrannosaurus Rex percussionist Steve Peregrin Took, as well as a TV session in Bremen, Germany for Beat Club.On February 13, 1972, Michael Davis left the band (he was using heroin and was all but forced out by the others), and was replaced by a series of bassists (Steve Moorhouse, Derek Hughes, and Ray Craig). The remaining members recorded two new songs—"Gold Rush" (also known as "Gold" and "Train Music") and "Inside Out"—in London shortly afterwards for the soundtrack of a film called Gold. This would be the band's final recording session.
The group limped along a while longer, eventually reduced to Kramer and Smith touring and playing with Ritchie Dharma on drums and Derek Hughes on bass, playing R&B covers as much as their original material.
MC5 reunited for a farewell show on December 31, 1972 at the Grande Ballroom. The venue that had only a few years before hosted over a thousand eager fans now had a few dozen people, and, distraught, Kramer left the stage after a few songs. The band dissolved not long after the event.
Post-break up
Fred "Sonic" Smith formed a new group called Ascension, consisting of Smith on guitar, Thompson on drums, Davis on piano, and to replace Davis on bass a local working bass player, John Hefty, was brought in. They assembled a set of mostly original music and a few R&B and rock covers. Smith said the name Ascension symbolized the music and the band ascending to new heights and in new directions. They brought in a new manager, Chato Hill. They played only a few live performances and disbanded after less than a year. One live recording was made but never edited or released.[citation needed]After this, Smith formed a new group called Sonic's Rendezvous Band, married singer Patti Smith, retired from music to raise a family, and died in 1994. Sonic's Rendezvous Band released only the "City Slang" single during their initial time as a group, though later recordings were released posthumously, and a reconstituted Rendezvous Band (including original member Scott Morgan, of The Rationals and a newly added Deniz Tek of Radio Birdman) reunited in tribute years afterward. Smith also co-produced his wife's 1988 album Dream of Life and co-wrote all the songs with her, including the single "People Have the Power."
Wayne Kramer made scattered appearances on other people's records before being incarcerated in 1975 for two years for drug offenses. While in federal prison in Kentucky, he was unexpectedly reunited with MC5 bassist Michael Davis, also behind bars on a drug charge. After his parole, Kramer worked straight jobs for several years and focused on kicking drugs. In 1979 he played with Johnny Thunders in the band Gang War. By the early 1990s, he returned to the music industry and subsequently released several well-received albums.
Rob Tyner performed under his own name for many years but also performed under "The MC5" for some live gigs for a brief period, though he was the only active original member involved. He also collaborated with Eddie and the Hot Rods, releasing a 7" with them in 1979. During the mid-1980s, Tyner produced a single for Detroit band Vertical Pillows, and occasionally made brief guest appearances during some of their live shows, singing MC5 covers. Tyner became a successful producer, manager and promoter in Detroit, and released the warmly-reviewed Blood Brothers album in 1990, a year before his death in September, 1991.
Michael Davis joined Detroit band Destroy All Monsters for several years in the late 70s /early 80s; the band broke up in 1983. Dennis Thompson played with various bands, including The New Order, New Race, The Motor City Bad Boys, and The Secrets.
Second incarnation
First reunions
The first real public reunion of the band after their recording years as a group was as a four-piece, at a performance celebrating the life of the late Rob Tyner, a concert event at the State Theater in Detroit on February 22, 1992. The event was heavily attended, and included The Rationals, Scott Richardson (SRC), The Romantics, Dee Dee Ramone, The Cult, and other musicians. The band on this evening was unbilled, but their appearance had been rumored—Wayne Kramer was the only group member advertised—and the set lasted about thirty minutes. The recording of this show remains unreleased.2003 saw the three surviving members of MC5—Kramer, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson (Smith had died in 1994)—performing as the MC5 at the 100 Club in London with Fred "Sonic" Smith's place temporarily being taken by Nicke Andersson of The Hellacopters, vocals at that time being taken variously by David Vanian of The Damned, Lemmy of Motörhead, Ian Astbury of The Cult, and singer Kate O'Brien, as well as seeing Charles Moore and Buzzy Jones reprise their roles in the brass section from the High Time album.
In 2004, the band set out on an extensive world tour using the name DKT/MC5. As with the 100 Club concert, a host of special guests joined them on tour such as Mark Arm of Mudhoney, Nicke Royale of The Hellacopters, Evan Dando of The Lemonheads, Marshall Crenshaw, Deniz Tek of Radio Birdman, Lisa Kekaula of the Bellrays, and others.
Reformation
After February 2005, MC5 stabilized into a new lineup, consisting of Kramer, Thompson, and Davis, with Handsome Dick Manitoba, vocalist of the 1970s New York punk band The Dictators, singing lead for the band. This lineup continued to exist until Michael Davis' death in February 2012, upon which the band dissolved.In 2006, MC5 was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.
In May 2006, Davis injured his back in a motorcycle accident. In August 2007, Davis joined the Lords of Altamont on bass. He also founded and led the Michael H. Davis Music Is Revolution Foundation, dedicated to supporting music education programs in public schools. Davis died of liver failure in February 2012 at the age of 68.
In May 2018, Wayne Kramer announced the MC50 tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kick Out the Jams, with a line-up including himself, plus rock stalwarts Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron of Soundgarden, Brendan Canty of Fugazi, and Doug Pinnick of King's X, as well as Marcus Durant and Don Was. Pinnick was eventually replaced by Faith No More bassist Billy Gould.
Personnel
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Discography
- Albums
- Kick Out the Jams (1969) #30 US
- Back in the USA (1970)
- High Time (1971)
- Compilations
- Babes in Arms (1983)
- Black to Comm (1994)
- Power Trip (1994)
- Looking At You (1995)
- The American Ruse (1995)
- Ice Pick Slim (1997)
- 66 Breakout (1999)
- The Big Bang!: Best of the MC5 (2000)
- Thunder Express (1999) (Recorded in 1972)
- Live
- Teen Age Lust (recorded 1970, released 1996)
- Phun City, UK (recorded 1970, released 1996)
- Live At The Sturgis Armoury (recorded 1968, released 1998)
- Are You Ready To Testify?: The Live Bootleg Anthology (2005)
- Live At The Grande Ballroom 68 (2006)
- Box sets
- Purity Accuracy (2004)
- Singles
- "I Can Only Give You Everything" (1966)
- "One of the Guys" (1967)
- "Looking at You" (1968)
- "Kick Out the Jams" (1969) - #82 US
- "Ramblin' Rose" (1969)
- "Tonight" (1969)
- "Shakin' Street" (1970)
- "Over and Over"/"Sister Anne" (1971) (Never officially released, only test pressings exist)
Filmography
- MC5: Kick Out the Jams, 1999
- MC5: A True Testimonial, 2002
- Danny Says, 2016
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Kick out the Jams
MC5
Yeah, 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 of what we gotta do
Gettin' hazy now, baby
Get crazy now, baby
'Cause we all gotta 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
The girls can't stand it when you're doin' it right
When I'm up on the stand
I'm? to kick out the jams
Yes, kick out the jams
I done kick 'em out!
I'm? 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
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
Oh, when you get that feeling you gotta sock 'em out
Put that in my hands
And let me kick out the jams
Yeah, kick out the jams
I done kick 'em out!
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
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
Makes me wanna rock until the morning comes
Let me be who I am
I kick out the jams
Yeah, kick out the jams
I done kicked 'em out!
I kick out the jams
Yeah, kick out the jams
I done kicked 'em out!
Yo, yeah, out
Songwriters:
Dennis A. Tomich / Frederick D. Smith / Frederick Dewey Smith / Michael
Davis / Michael H. Davis / Robert W. Derminer / Wayne Kramer / Wayne S
Kramer
Kick out the Jams lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc
MC5 - Ramblin' Rose 1972 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZbjseBPjhw
Lyrics
Love is like a Ramblin´ Rose
The more you feed it
The more it grows,
Ramblin´Rose, Ramblin´Rose,
Come on home
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
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
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
The more you feed it,
The more it grows
Ramblin´ Rose, Ramblin´ Rose
Come on home
I need a Ramblin´ Rose
Ramblin' Rose
Ramblin' Rose
Songwriters: Fred B. Burch / Marijohn Wilkin
Ramblin' Rose lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Artist: MC5
Album: Kick Out the Jams
Released: 1969
Genre: Hard Rock
MC5 - Motorcity is burning - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDmIv93Qvs
Lyrics
Ya know, the Motor City is burning, babe
There ain't a thing in the world they can do
Ya know, the Motor City is burning people
There ain't a thing that white society can do
There ain't a thing in the world 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
Worser than Vietnam
Let me tell you how it started now
It started on 12th Clair Mount that morning
It made the, the pig cops all jump and shout
I said, it started on 12th Clair Mount that morning
It made the, the pigs in the street go freak out
It made the, the pig cops all jump and shout
I said, it started on 12th Clair Mount that morning
It made the, the pigs in the street go 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
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
Get it on
Well, there were fire bombs bursting all around the people
Ya know there was soldiers standing everywhere
I said there was fire bombs bursting all around me, baby
Ya know there was National Guard everywhere
Ya know there was soldiers standing everywhere
I said there was fire bombs bursting all around me, baby
Ya know there was National Guard everywhere
I can hear my people screaming
Sirens fill the air, fill the air, fill the air
Sirens fill the air, fill the air, fill the air
Your mama, papa don't know what the trouble is
You see, they don't know what it's all about
I said, your mama, papa don't know what the trouble is, baby
They just can't see what it's all about
You see, they don't know what it's all about
I said, your mama, papa don't know what the trouble is, baby
They just can't see what it's all about
I get the news, read the newspapers, baby, baby?
You just get out there in the street and check it out
You just get out there in the street and check it out
I said, the Motor City is burning, people
I ain't hanging 'round to fight it out
I said, the Motor City is burning, people
Just not hang around to fight it out
I ain't hanging 'round to fight it out
I 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 they're on TV
Well, just before I go, baby, [Incomprehensible]
Fireman's on the street, people all around
Well, just before I go, baby, [Incomprehensible]
Fireman's 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
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
Yes
Let it all burn, let it all burn, let it all burn
Songwriters: Albert B Smith
Motor City Is Burning lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Artist: MC5
Album: Kick Out the Jams
Released: 1969
Genre: Rock
MC5-"Come Together" from "Kick Out the Jams" - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IBcey6i_X4
Testo
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!
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!
Songwriters: Dennis A. Tomich / Frederick Dewey Smith / Michael Davis / Robert W. Derminer / Wayne Kambes
Come Together lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc
Artista: MC5
Album: Kick Out the Jams
Data di uscita: 1969
Genere: Hard rock
MC5 - Looking At You (Live 1970) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDoUIh23Wg
Lyrics
When it happened, Something Snapped inside me
Made me wanna hide
All on my own, all on my own
I stood up on the stand my eyes shut tight
Made me wanna hide
All on my own, all on my own
I stood up on the stand my eyes shut tight
Didn't wanna see anybody
Feeling alright, having a good time heh
Doing alright, doing alright
Doing alright, doing alright
Feeling alright, having a good time heh
Doing alright, doing alright
Doing alright, doing alright
I saw into the dancing crowd
Felt like screaming out loud
I saw you standing there
Saw your long, your long hair yeah
Felt like screaming out loud
I saw you standing there
Saw your long, your long hair yeah
Opened up my eyes baby
You made me realize what I wanna do now
I wanna do now babe, looking at you
Looking at you babe, looking at you
Looking at you, looking at you baby
You made me realize what I wanna do now
I wanna do now babe, looking at you
Looking at you babe, looking at you
Looking at you, looking at you baby
You baby (x6)
Yeah yeah
Songwriters: Cole Porter
Looking at You lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc
Artist: MC5
Album: Back in the USA
Released: 1970
Genre: Rock
MC5- Borderline - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xic_N1BtZLE
Testo
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ooh, ooh
I'm at my borderline
I'm at my borderline
I'm at my borderline
I'm at my borderline
I'm at my borderline
Songwriters: Louis Sedmak / Mark Anthony Smith
Borderline lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc
Artista: MC5
Album: Kick Out the Jams
Data di uscita: 1969
Genere: Hard rock
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