MC5 Thunder Express -coloured-

Side One: Kick Out The Jams, Empty Heart, Ramblin’ Rose, Thunder Express, I Can Only Give You Everything*, I Just Don’t Know*. Side Two: Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa, Motor City Is Burning, Looking At You*, Borderline* *bonus early singles.

MC5 (Motor City Five) – the legendary Detroit band. Their first single, included here, was released in 1967. In 1968 they played the infamous Democratic Convention that turned into a police riot, and became the ‘Official White Panther Party Band’. Their manager John Sinclair became a hippie activist martyr, after being jailed for 10 years for 2 joints, inspiring John Lennon’s ‘10 For 2’ song. Thrown off their first label Electra, they signed to Atlantic for two more albums but only achieved underground success. Today they are greatly revered as one of the seminal rock’n’roll bands and a huge inspiration for punk.