Kick Out The Jams (Live)

This album is just horrendous. Somewhat reminiscent of Spinal Tap but without the satire or humor. If ever an album was worthy of the review “Shit Sandwich”, this one fits the bill.

So much distortion and feedback that it’s hard to make out the already chaotic instrumentals, and the singer is all over the place too. I like high energy music, but you need more than energy to be great. There were a couple cool solos, but they were hard to make out in the cacophony.

Nope.

scheiße

I understand the significance, but it just doesn’t sound good. Just because it’s one of the first in a genre doesn’t mean it has to be bad. (1)

Didn’t receive this name from you

Not good, extremely lacking in talent. However I do appreciate the energy level.

Kinda boring rock. Forgettable

Heard these guys were we great but this live album is a bit of a mess

Music full of sound and fury signifying nothings..except a total lack of talent

The only thing this had going for it was the fact it's loud and seemed to be newer than the 60s. But even compared to the pink albums we've had it's trash.

Kick Out The Jams (Live) is a poor effort, live albums should elevate the experience or at least make it seem like a time capsule of an event that was significant or noteworthy, but this does neither. It doesn't really show off anything in its best light, most of it is a wall of noise mixed terribly, incomprehensible vocals, and just really really bad. No idea why it's apparently so widely revered. 1/5.

Garage rock? More like garbage schlock.

I can see every pretentious poser in my high school raving about how this album was so great, and influential. It’s not. It’s garbage. Trash. Was this band even successful at sucking? Never heard of them before now, and this will simply be the most forgotten album I listen to on this list. They suck so much I won’t even remember how much they suck. I’m thankful that they suck that much at least.

Never been a punk rock jam kinda gal...That's all I will say...

Basically just loud noise.

This was poor, loud, and pointless noise with over sexualized lyrics. With reagrds to the tracks nothing stood out. I am guessing this made the list as its very early punk and at the start of the era. Favourite song: None Least favourite: All of them, its a poor album Album artwork: meh

The fuck was that

Not for me. 1/5

Absolutely not

This is garbage but I can see the good parts that make up the whole. The guitar work is impressive. The drums are high energy. The zeppelin style guitar hooks. Good message in the rants between songs. I can see the influence they would have had on future punk acts. Fav Track: Rocket Reducer No. 62 - Talk

Awful, just awful

something is wrong with my earbuds.

I don't get why this album is as praised as it is. I didn't find it interesting, and I really don't see how this was important for the revolution of punk rock. Really, I don't know why people like it as much as they do.

This is far too rockist for me - a '60s audio equivalent of Banksy, a shallow caricature of political rock posturing. Often lumped in with Stooges, Iggy's band were so far ahead of this. There is no real light here, just macho shade. I would have liked this kind of thing when I was 14 and angry, but it just sounds obvious and one-dimensional now.

Funky; impressive. Not for me.

Finished Eagles - Eagles just before this and this was basically like listening to the same album but worse

Sounds like a bootleg to me. I generally like this kind of music and I´m sure it was a hell of experience to attend this concert 🤘 but neighter the recording quality nor the quality of the performance of the singer and the band matches my nowadays demands. Because I generally question live albums on this list I rate it down further one star. 1,5

Unpolished, aimless, and mostly unremarkable other than maybe (if I'm being generous) "Motor City is Burning." Ends on the 8-minute "Starship" which is a weird sort of almost performance art piece. That kind of track usually works well for me, but even it wasn't really compelling.

Eh, not impressed by this. It might be ahead of its time but it's still stodgy, uninspired rock. And there's something vaguely cultish about the performance which doesn't do it any favours. I'm probably being overly harsh, but... 1.5 stars

Were they a proto punk pioneer? Yes. Does that mean their album belongs on this list? No. With the exception of "Kick Out the Jams" there is nothing else of value on this album, except for the forward thinking intro of the psychedelic "Starship" at the end of the album. It should be noted that pretty much every cover of "Kick Out the Jams" by anyone else is performed and recorded better than the original. My favorite was a collaboration between Henry Rollins and Bad Brains from the PUMP UP THE VOLUME film soundtrack. By the way, that entire record is amazing. This on the other hand is a terrible recording of live performances carried out over two days in 1968.

Gesangs- und Gitarrenlärm

Did not enjoy.

Really?

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Underneath all the screaming there were some good riffs but no. 1.5.

The punk rock I've learned to respect was either political (The Clash) or tongue in cheek (Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys). This band is neither, they do love to compose songs about sex or the lack of.

Glad to hear that punk had cemented its iconic repetitive and annoying nature early on in its lifespan by giving a live album full of the same song six times in a row, only to end with frankly disturbing mouth noises and a rock space odyssey somehow just as meandering and dull as the rest of the album. Sure, you could argue that the raw energy is what fuels this record's angst and influence, but by '69 I could've certainly found that within another album, live or otherwise. The instrumentation is sloppy, the vocals are poor, and the message is ham-fisted. Must be a punk record! A bad one, at that.

It's got plenty of energy, but this one’s not for me.

Proto Punk, nix für mich

Not enough there for me at this exact point in my life.

1969 Hard rock / punk. No thanks.

This album sucked

Too loud. Too much yelling. Too much punk and not enough proto.

Pretty balsy to record your debut live. My score sheet says one of my lowest rated album genres is punk so I’m going to save myself the time on this one.

1. ramblin roze - 0 2. kick out the jamz - 1 3. come together - 1 4. rocket reducer - 1 5. borderline - 1 6. motor city - 0 7. uuant you - 1.5 8. ztar zhip - 1

I stopped listening. It was just noise. I couldn't get into it.

Wenn da nicht 1969 stehen würde, hätte ich eher auf Punk Mitte 70er getippt. Musste mich erstmal schlau lesen. Ok, Detroit und Sex, Drugs, Rockn'Roll. Ist bestimmt für viele Leute ("68er") ein wegweisendes Album gewesen. Wer dieser Nostalgie nicht folgen kann (so wie ich) ist raus. Das zeigt aber ein grundsätzliches Problem auf. Wer mit einer Musik ausfgewachsen ist, wen eine Musik als Jugendlicher geprägt hat, der wird so ein Album vermutlich besser bewerten als jmd. dem diese Sozialisation fehlt. Ok, ist ein Thema für eine Masterarbeit oder nur eine Binse, keine Ahnung.

Don't like the album, but do like the song Kick out the jams (Dad Band will play instead of Gardener of Eden)

Not great

I did not enjoy this at all - didn’t make it past the third song.

It's a live album so it sucks by definition. Any of the shouting annoyed the hell out of me and attempts to sing weren't much better. Guitar riffs were doing at least something to push it towards two stars but that last abomination of a song killed such attempts.

Didn’t enjoy it.

Erm, I wasn’t much impressed. Found it just kinda… noisy?

Not really my type of music

I listened to 3-4 songs and just couldn’t do it longer

Live albums are rarely good and this one is not an exception

I did not enjoy this. The songs all sounded the same (except the last one, which just sounded bad). The singer's voice was awful. And if I had to hear the band say "thank you! thank you!" or "rama lama" one more time, I was going to lose it. It all just sounded like noise to me. I don't mind punk rock if it is a little more deliberately crafted, but this just didn't sound good IMO. Worst album so far I think.

I don't know, I didn't love it. A little loud/screamy for me I guess. I'm sure it was super cool to be at the concert live in 1969, probably a real rager. It's just not doing it for me as a casual listener in 2023.

It doesn't matter if people tell me this album is important because its the original punk album. There is so much wrong with it, it was hard to listen to. One dang star. My face after listening to this is the same as the guy's face on the album cover. 1 star for kick out the jams

nah, I don't get this one. Maybe if I listened more carefully I could enjoy the themes, but right now, this isn't worth finishing.

Not great not great. Just kind of noise

Totalt forgettable

Poorly played, uninspired and just not very good. Can't think of any redeeming qualities.

Gillar inte live-plattor. Än mindre med grupper jag enbart känner till namnet på. Dessutom är det här pissdåligt.

Такое се, не могу поверить что это написано в одном жанре с битлз. Ритм сопровожления иногда не совпадает с ритмом текста 0/5

говно "протопанк ебааа фазерс оф панк хуйня ебаная

The album is good, but 1 star for being live

Pretty flat for a live punk album

hated it lmao, i dont understand what they're saying.

Not for me.

I do NOT like the falsetto in the first track, and no matter if I like some of the punk music that follows, this recording quality is shit and the vocals are unintelligible.

Too much noise. Not enough music. Read it's important in punk music history, but it was more painful than pleasurable to listen to. Sounds of chaos but not in a good way

Sound quality is terrible... I generally don't go in for live albums from the '60s for this reason. I really dug the opening speech though. Got me pumped!

Af en toe een leuke gitaarsolo, maar verder gewoon een berg takkeherrie. Het zal vast mensen hebben geïnspireerd, maar als hier iets goeds uit is voortgekomen, dan luister ik daar liever naar. Je eet toch ook liever friet dan rauwe aardappels met de schil er nog om en de kluiten aarde er nog aan.

I usually don’t like live albums. This was no exception. I hated this one. Terrible sound. Terrible songs.

I understand it’s foundational, but it just doesn’t lend itself to my ear. Nothing redeeming here, from lyrics to instrument work to vocals.

This one gave me a headache.

Oh wow, I’ve heard of MC5 and the phrase Kick out the Jams through a local night, but had no idea what kind of music it was, so I was interested to hear how this actually goes. Unfortunately, it was talentless, god awful noise. Maybe ahead of it’s time but not an enjoyable experience at all. How disappointing.

I didn't enjoy this. Dated and messy.

An interesting listen! I learned some about early punk and MC5 today, but primarily I learned it just isn’t for me.

Horribly produced, you can barely tell what’s going on. The band playing noise doesn’t help.

de vraag is, wat heeft deze man genomen om dit bij zijn top albums te zetten? I don't feel it

Production quality leaves a lot to be desired. Seems like there's some good songs in here, but it just sounds like noise, or is too quiet most of the time.

Not for me at all. 1/5 stars.

2 nummers geluisterd, maar kon het niet meer aanhoren.

meh

I did not "come together" on yet another live album. Maybe if I were there I'd get into it more but this is just another "look what you missed" album and it doesn't even really sound like I missed much.

awesome energy. tunes meh

not my style

Good vibes never heard of these guys