Kick Out The Jams

“Kick Out The Jams” is the debut album by MC5. It was originally 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.

While “Ramblin’ Rose” and “Motor City Is Burning” open with the band’s typical leftist and revolutionary rhetoric, it was the opening line to the title track that stirred up controversy. Vocalist Rob Tyner shouted, “And right now it’s time to kick out the jams, motherfuckers!” before the opening riff. 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.

This is a very early censored French repress from 1971 in superb shape!