Kick Out The Jams
by MC5
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Kick Out The Jams is ranked as the best album by MC5.
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Kick Out The Jams track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 02/01/2026 00:43 |  UofTBlues | 3,616 | 71/100 |
| ! | 01/15/2026 13:18 | Leginlists | 2,178 | 85/100 |
| ! | 01/15/2026 00:32 | This_is_handsome | 769 | 79/100 |
| ! | 12/16/2025 00:25 | Exist-en-ciel | 7,411 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/05/2025 14:55 | Leschoses | 53 | 85/100 |
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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 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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1st Punks
Jboy56 12/03/2021 20:06 | #277071
Frontloaded but effectively kicking the assess of Chicago audience.
live R and R with a touch of punk
StefanR10 12/31/2020 17:17 | #263546
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.
Really good raw album. First two songs are the best.
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.
planetneutral 01/15/2018 05:23 | #205637
Gloriously self-indulgent.
Raw rock'n'roll at it's most fiery. Full of grit, hunger and passion. Just what it should all be about.
RoundTheBend 02/24/2016 04:32 | #160640
Awesome energy and guitar work, but is kinda lacking in songwriting (although Motor City Is Burning showed they could do more than just be hard, loud and fast)... or at least the recording doesn't allow for it to translate well. I wonder if kick out the jams would be just another track on here if it weren't for the RATM cover (meaning is it the RATM cover that gives the songwriting clarity and translates it into something much greater similar to All Along the Watchtower with Hendrix/Dylan?)?
Part of me wishes it had this energy, but was a studio release, but part of me loves the raw live energy.
exileonthehell 10/31/2015 01:21 | #152319
I feel the vibe of this album, it's noise and loud.
Every live album has it's own vibe, but this one is really unique
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