I got into the MC5 in high when my friends older brother played me Kick out the Jams for the first time. It kinda stood punk rock on it's head while i wondered how hippies like them were more badass than anyone who passed as punk rock at that point in time. eventually i figured out that thier guitarist was none other than Wayne Kramer, who i knew as the guy who had those re-hashed blues songs at the end of the punk-o-rama compilations (a staple in your record collection if you were 13 and your only source of music was the Blockbuster Music used bin).
At this point, i feel i should warn you that the grandiose introduction is not for some killer MC5 bootleg or something, but for Wayne's 1991 masterpiece DEATH TONGUE.
I cant tell what i like more about this record. Foremost is the the way they got the bad cocaine they were doing to translate to record, kinda like sonic baby laxative. Also notable is the insanely huge reverb on the drums, the wonky sing along choruses to "take your clothes off" and "spend the rent" and the FUCKING COVER!!!! look at this shit! Perhaps they thought the generic Aidan Hughes art might cause people to mistake this for a KMFDM album so they made sure to put pictures of thier faces going down the side. Almost as classy as the starbust which proclaims "'who shot you dutch' was produced by Don Was". I don't know if that was an attempt to disavow responsibility for the last song on the album, or maybe to market to the huge fan base of Was (Not Was).
so now it is up to you to decide; Turd or brainchild. What does Wayne Kramer think about this album now? Maybe this record is some next level shit that nobody can appreciate until the 20 year cycle allows it. so maybe in 2 years this will suddenly sound brilliant and everyone will wonder how they over looked it. asdgdgfdfs?
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i went to this weird show at slim's once where fuckface opened for wayne kramer, which made him sound realllly slow and old, i think he might have even played "kick out the jams", but even worse was jello biafra reading passages from "please kill me", which i think had just come out, which was why the show was free or something. i heard third hand that jello remarked backstage "fuckface? aren't they one of those mission speed bands?"
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