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MC5 – High Time – Cassette
High Time is the third studio album by the American rock band MC5, released in 1971. This album showcases MC5’s raw and energetic style, blending elements of rock, garage rock, and proto-punk.
High Time features tracks like ‘Sister Anne,’ ‘Skunk (Sonically Speaking),’ and ‘Over and Over,’ which highlight the band’s powerful guitar riffs, driving rhythms, and politically charged lyrics. The album demonstrates MC5’s evolution as musicians, moving towards a more polished sound while maintaining their rebellious spirit and social consciousness.
High Time was not as commercially successful as some of MC5’s earlier releases, it has since gained a cult following among fans of garage rock and proto-punk. The album’s raw energy and defiant attitude continue to inspire generations of rock musicians.
High Time stands as a testament to MC5’s influential role in shaping the punk rock and alternative music scenes. With its relentless energy and uncompromising spirit, the album remains a classic in the annals of rock history.
Unhappy with the more chart performance and more cultivated sound of their last album, BACK IN THE U.S.A., the MC5 returned to the barnstorming rock & roll of their popular debut, KICK OUT THE JAMS, for their third and final album, 1971’s HIGH TIME. While JAMS was a live recording, HIGH TIME was created in the studio, but does manage to retain the rough and spontaneous edge of their debut.
Unfortunately, the album didn’t serve as the MC5’s big commercial breakthrough and the quintet broke up in a shroud of bickering and drug abuse soon after. The songwriting is once again experimental and unpredictable, fueled by the band’s barely contained playing. While the songs are pretty obscure outside of the MC5’s rabid cult following, almost all of them easily hold their own. Most of the tracks exceed the five-minute mark, such as the groovy ‘Future/Now,’ the anthemic ‘Baby Won’t Ya,’ and the percussive album-closer ‘Skunk (Sonically Speaking),’ while the punk rocker ‘Poison’ and the bluesy ‘Gotta Keep Movin” are shorter but just as exhilarating. HIGH TIME is a criminally underrated early-’70s rock masterwork.
Rhino Records
Brand new, never played and still in the factory plastic
Song List
1. Sister Anne
2. Baby Won’t Ya
3. Miss X
4. Gotta Keep Movin’
5. Future / Now
6. Poison
7. Over And Over
8. Skunk (Sonicly Speaking)
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