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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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 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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| ! | 43 hours ago |  AfterHours | 836 | 75/100 |
| ! | 07/18/2026 22:23 | xhitmanx | 1,522 | 77/100 |
| ! | 04/15/2026 23:23 | mrmcrook | 1,106 | 77/100 |
| ! | 02/28/2026 21:53 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 |
| ! | 02/01/2026 00:43 |  UofTBlues | 3,636 | 71/100 |
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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 77.4/100, a mean average of 76.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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After seeing them live as a renewed version and renamed MC50 I was highly impressed. Plus I've read numerous articles citing this album as a major influence on many bands basically calling it one of the earliest heavy pre-punk albums. I had high expectations. But I must say I was a tad let down. Very raw feel to it with it being recorded live, there is an early punk element to it, but the overall song structures and sound come across as a heavy pub band with shit equipment. Quite disappointed as I expected better since this is touted with being an iconic rock album.
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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.
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.
This platter is a nifty lil toe tapper
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.
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