Artist
MC5
MC5 is a hard rock artist from Detroit, Michigan, USA formed in 1964. 29 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Hard Rock · Detroit, Michigan, USA · Best hard rock albums
- 29
- Releases
- 1969–2026
- Active years
- 1964
- Formed
Discography
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Artist
MC5 is a hard rock artist from Detroit, Michigan, USA formed in 1964. 29 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Hard Rock · Detroit, Michigan, USA · Best hard rock albums
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
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Are You Ready To Testify: The Live Bootleg Anthology
2026
Motor City Is Burning
2026
10 More
2025
10xMC5 LIVE
2025
Music For The American Revolution – Vol. 3: Unadulterated America
2015
Music for the American Revolution, Vol. 4: Mother Country Madmen
2015
Music for the American Revolution, Vol. 1: Rock City Roots
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
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Kick Out The Jams [Live] [Japan Remastered]
1991
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Back In The USA [Japan Remastered]
1970
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. 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. The…
