Kick Out The Jams (live album) by MC5

Kick Out The Jams by MC5
(Live album)
Year: 1969
Overall rank: 1,009th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 411 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1969 (30th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (111th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,009th)
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Kick Out The Jams is ranked as the best album by MC5.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 411 votes)
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09/07/2025 03:26 JoshN125  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 17486/100
 
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08/23/2025 19:11 LittleM1971  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 5,71381/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.5/100, a mean average of 76.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.

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90/100
From 03/19/2023 12:18
1st Punks
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75/100
From 12/03/2021 20:06
Frontloaded but effectively kicking the assess of Chicago audience.
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55/100
From 03/18/2021 15:44
live R and R with a touch of punk
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85/100
From 12/31/2020 17:17
I like all the songs very much pre punk music. But it is like The Stooges or The Who just a little bit different. The Track Starship is one of the kind i don´t like so much because of the squeak. But the rest is quite good.
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From 10/25/2020 02:34
Starts great, finishes somewhat weak. But man does this album have a lot of energy. Accurately reflects the ethos of the band (in both the glorious and the overwrought) and is an early template for punk music in both sound and attitude. The MC5 are not a band that I think of as an album band as they were created and functioned as a live band.
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From 03/21/2020 05:32
This platter is a nifty lil toe tapper
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90/100
From 07/22/2019 01:44
Really good raw album. First two songs are the best.
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90/100
From 05/03/2018 18:26
These guys are up there with the Stooges and the Who as the greatest proto-punk bands, it's a crime that this album isn't in the top 1000.
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80/100
From 01/15/2018 05:23
Gloriously self-indulgent.
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85/100
From 07/13/2016 20:14
Raw rock'n'roll at it's most fiery. Full of grit, hunger and passion. Just what it should all be about.
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