Artist
MC5
MC5 is a hard rock artist from Detroit, Michigan, USA formed in 1964. 33 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Hard Rock · Detroit, Michigan, USA · Best hard rock albums
- 33
- Releases
- 1969–2026
- Active years
- 1964
- Formed
Discography
24
Most popular
Back in the USA
1970 · 11 tracks
High Time
1971
Kick Out the Jams
1969
Thunder Express
1999
- Extended Versions: The Encore Collection
Extended Versions: The Encore Collection
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Are You Ready To Testify: The Live Bootleg Anthology
2026
Motor City Is Burning
2026
10xMC5 LIVE
2025
MC50 - 10 More Live
2025
10 More
2025
Music for the American Revolution, Vol. 4: Mother Country Madmen
2015
Music for the American Revolution, Vol. 1: Rock City Roots
2015
Music For The American Revolution – Vol. 3: Unadulterated America
2015
The Anthology 1965-1971
2011
The Very Best Of
2008
Sister Anne / One Of The Guys
2008
Live 1969/70
2005
The Big Bang - The Best Of MC5
2000
The Big Bang: The Best of the MC5
2000
Babes In Arms
1997
American Ruse
1995
Power Trip
1994
![Kick Out The Jams [Live] [Japan Remastered] cover](https://cdn-images.dzcdn.net/images/cover/af93f5a16b61cd28092e430848d85377/1000x1000-000000-80-0-0.jpg)
Kick Out The Jams [Live] [Japan Remastered]
1991
![Back In The USA [Japan Remastered] cover](https://cdn-images.dzcdn.net/images/cover/73dcb80139aa165c31d9db9dacafbe65/1000x1000-000000-80-0-0.jpg)
Back In The USA [Japan Remastered]
1970
Singles & EPs
9
Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa) (Live)
Single · 2025
Looking At You (Live)
Single · 2025
Kick out the Jams (Live)
Single · 2025
Boys Who Play with Matches
Single · 2024
Can't Be Found
Single · 2024
Heavy Lifting
Single · 2024
Heavy Lifting (feat. Tom Morello)
Single · 2024
Time To Testify (Live 1972)
EP · 2023
American Ruse (Single)
Single · 2018
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About
The MC5 was an American rock band from Lincoln Park, Michigan, formed in 1964. The original band line-up consisted of vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson. "Crystallizing the counterculture movement at its most volatile and threatening", according to Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the MC5's far left political ties and anti-establishment lyrics and music positioned them as emerging innovators of the punk movement in the United States. Their loud, energetic style of back-to-basics rock 'n' roll included elements of garage rock, hard rock, blues rock, and psychedelic rock.
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The MC5 had a promising beginning which earned them a January 1969 cover appearance in Rolling Stone and a story written by Eric Ehrmann even before their debut album was released. They developed a reputation for energetic and polemical live performances, one of which was recorded as their 1969 debut album Kick Out the Jams. Their initial run was ultimately short-lived, though within just a few years of their dissolution in 1972, the MC5 were often cited as one of the most important American hard rock groups of their era. Their three albums are regarded by many as classics, and their song "Kick Out the Jams" is widely covered. Tyner died of a heart attack in late 1991 at the age of 46. Smith also died of a heart attack in 1994 at the age of 45. The remaining three members of the band reformed in 2003 with The Dictators' singer Handsome Dick Manitoba as its new vocalist, and this reformed line-up occasionally performed live over the next nine years until Davis died of liver failure in February 2012 at the age of 68.
MC5 in brief
- How many MC5 releases are on Riffiter?
- 33 releases are catalogued, spanning 1969 to 2026.
- When was MC5 formed?
- MC5 formed in 1964, in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- What genre is MC5?
- MC5 is catalogued under Hard Rock.
- What is the most recent MC5 release on Riffiter?
- Are You Ready To Testify: The Live Bootleg Anthology, released in 2026.