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MC5

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Biography

Alongside their Detroit-area brethren The Stooges, MC5 essentially laid the foundations for the emergence of punk; deafeningly loud and uncompromisingly intense, the group's politics were ultimately as crucial as their music, their revolutionary sloganeering and anti-establishment outrage crystallizing the counterculture movement at its most volatile and threatening. Under the guidance of svengali John Sinclair (the infamous founder of the radical White Panther Party), MC5 celebrated the holy trinity of sex, drugs, and rock, their incendiary live sets offering a defiantly bacchanalian counterpoint to the peace-and-love reveries of their hippie contemporaries. Although corporate censorship, label interference, and legal hassles combined to cripple the band's hopes of mainstream notoriety, both their sound and their sensibility remain seminal influences on successive generations of artists.

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Top Tracks

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  1.  
    Lyrics
    Well, I feel pretty good
    And I guess that I could get crazy now, baby
    'Cause we all got in tune
    When the dressing room got hazy now, baby
    I know how you want it, child
    Kick Out The Jams - (2:43)  -  18,477 plays
  2.  
    Lyrics
    Love is like a Ramblin' Rose
    The more you feed it, the more it grows
    Ramblin' Rose, Ramblin' Rose
    Come on home
    Ramblin' Rose, I'm such a bore
    Ramblin' Rose - (3:06)  -  7,258 plays
  3.  
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    I am out, you are in, let us form a link
    And move in rhythms
    Slide apart and slide apart
    Come together, yes, together in the darkness
    Come with me
    Come Together - (5:13)  -  5,762 plays
  4.  
    Lyrics
    I'm at my borderline
    I'm at my borderline
    Love you girl, but I just don't know why
    I, have to love you so
    When I make love to you
    Borderline - (3:14)  -  4,790 plays
  5.  
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    Ya know, the Motor City is burning, babe
    There ain't a thing in the world they can do
    Ya know, the Motor City is burning people
    There ain't a thing that white society can do
    Ma home town burning down to the ground
    Motor City Is Burning - (4:20)  -  4,665 plays
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