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Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Listener, 22 November 1967

2012 NOTE: In the third (and last) column below written for The Listener in late 1967, I tried to begin to grope towards construction ...

MC5: The MC5: Kick Out the Jams (Elektra)

Review by Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 17 March 1969

"Works of art which lack artistic quality have no force, however progressive they are politically. Therefore, we oppose both works of art with a wrong ...

MC5: Kick Out The Jams (Elektra EKS-74042)

Review by Mick Farren, International Times, 28 March 1969

MC5 Muddle ...

MC5: Kick Out The Jams

Review by Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone, 5 April 1969

WHOEVER THOUGHT when that dirty little quickie Wild In The Streets came out that it would leave such an imprint on the culture? First the ...

Judy Collins: Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (Elektra EKS74033)

Review by Miles, International Times, 11 April 1969

THOUGH GLITTERING ecstatic static runs through Hendrix Fudge USA Touch, there's nothing but boring old feedback, too loud for subtlety, in MC5 & Blue Cheer ...

MC5: Kick Out The Jams (Elektra EKS-74042)

Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, May 1969

'Ramblin' Rose'; 'Kick Out The Jams'; 'Come Together'; 'Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)'; 'Borderline'; 'Motor City Is Burning'; 'I Want You ...

Fats Domino, Flying Burrito Brothers, MC5, Moby Grape, Neil Young, Paul Winter Consort, John Braden: Albums from the MC5, Neil Young, Flying Burrito Brothers et al

Review by John Mendelssohn, UCLA Daily Bruin, 7 May 1969

"I guess you could say our thing is a condemnation of everything that is false and deceitful in our society." — John Sinclair, of the ...

Blossom Toes: If Only For A Moment (Marmalade 608 010)

Review by Mark Williams, Rolling Stone, 26 July 1969

IN THESE days of repressive mass media and a pop press that still bases the bulk of its criticism and coverage on what is happening ...

Tommy James & The Shondells: Cellophane Symphony (Roulette)

Review by Danny Goldberg, Fusion, 14 November 1969

WE ALL AGREE that Gary Puckett and The Union Cap is pretty awful and we all agree that The Rolling Stones are pretty good. Those ...

Spooky Tooth, Stooges, The: Albums from Spooky Tooth and the Stooges

Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 7 December 1969

Spooky Tooth: Spooky Two (A&M SP 4194) This is quite representative of the latest albums by unfamiliar British rock groups (in which category Free, ...

MC5: Back In The USA (Atlantic)

Review by Ben Edmonds, Fusion, 20 March 1970

WHAT A difference a year can make. This time last year the MC5 were riding high on the crest of the biggest hype in the ...

MC5: Back in the USA

Review by Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone, 14 May 1970

WOP-BOP-A-LU-BOP-A-LOP-BAM-BOOM. Thud. 'Tutti Frutti', which opens the partly excellent MC5 album, is easily the worst cut on it, and in a way a clue to ...

Stooges, The: The Stooges: Funhouse (Elektra)

Review by Lester Bangs, Creem, December 1970

Of Pop And Pies And Fun: Part Two A Program For Mass Liberation In The Form Of A Stooges Review Or, Who's The Fool? ...

Burning Red Ivanhoe, The Byrds, MC5: The Byrds: (Untitled); MC5: Back in the U.S.A.; Burning Red Ivanhoe

Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 12 December 1970

BESIDES BEING ONE of the seminal rock and roll bands, the Byrds also possess perhaps the music's oldest case-history. Of the group which came out ...

MC5: Back In The USA (Atlantic stereo SUPER 2400 016. 42s 6d)

Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 19 December 1970

STUDIO DRIVE ...

MC5: High Time (Atlantic)

Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 1971

‘SISTER ANNE,’ ‘Over And Over,’ and ‘Gotta Keep Movin’’ on the new MC5 album are without doubt among the best hard rock performances of the ...