MC5 "Kick Out The Jams" 12"LP UNCENSORED Tan Elektra EKS-74042 Orig Inner Punk

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MC5 "Kick Out The Jams" 12"LP UNCENSORED Tan Elektra EKS-74042 Orig Inner Punk! Columbia Pressing (CTH) in runout. Considered the First Punk album and Band. First pressing with Original Uncensored album notes and Uncensored song intro. QUITE RARE INDEED! Cover is split on bottom. Wax has a warp that doesn't cause any skips or pops, but does included a "wow" when played. Play graded at VG because of the warp, otherwise it's clean with no pops!

I HAVE ACCURATELY GRADED THIS ALBUM. IT IS QUITE ROUGH BECAUSE OF THE WARP.  I DO NOT WANT IT RETURNED PLEASE, UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE BUYING. LH

The album peaked at number 30 on the Billboard albums chart, "in the wake of a publicity blitz", wrote Robert Christgau in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).
While "Ramblin' Rose" and "Motor City Is Burning" open with inflammatory rhetoric, it was the opening line to the title track that stirred up controversy. Vocalist Rob Tyner shouted, "And right now... right now... right now it's time to... kick out the jams, motherfu**ers!" before the opening riffs. Elektra Records executives were offended by the line and had preferred to edit it out of the album (replacing the offending words with "brothers and sisters"), while the band and manager John Sinclair adamantly opposed this.[citation needed]
The original release had "kick out the jams, Motherfu**ers!" printed on the inside album cover, but was soon pulled from stores. Two versions were then released, both with censored album covers, with the uncensored audio version sold behind record counters.
Making matters worse, Hudson's department stores refused to carry the album. Tensions between the band and the Hudson's chain escalated to the point that the department stores refused to carry any album from the Elektra label after MC5 took out a full-page ad that, according to Danny Fields, "was just a picture of Rob Tyner, and all it said was 'Fu** Hudson's.' And it had the Elektra logo". To end the conflict and to avoid further financial loss, Elektra dropped MC5 from their record label.

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