MC5 - High Time

45th Anniversary Edition 180-gram gatefold reissue

The final and triumphant release from the original MC5 (Motor City Five)

Includes Fred "Sonic" Smith's "Skunk (Sonicly Speaking" and "Sister Anne"

The rockers from Lincoln Park, Michigan, released their second studio album High Time in 1971 on Atlantic. MC5 (Motor City Five) were emerging innovators of punk music in the United States. Their loud, energetic style of back-to-basics rock and roll included elements of garage rock, hard rock, blues rock, and psychedelic rock.

Lenny Kaye, writing for Rolling Stone, called High Time "the first record that comes close to telling the tale of their legendary reputation and attendant charisma."

In his retrospective review, Mark Deming of AllMusic called it "[MC5's] most accessible album, but still highly idiosyncratic and full of well-written, solidly played tunes. ... While less stridently political than their other work, musically it's as uncompromising as anything they ever put to wax and would have given them much greater opportunities to subvert America's youth if the kids had ever had the chance to hear it."

Side 1

Sister Anne

Baby Won't Ya

Miss X

Gotta Keep Movin'

Side 2

Future/Now

Poison

Over And Over

Skunk (Sonicly Speaking)

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