MC5 – High Time

MC5's almost masterpiece of rebellious high-energy max hard-garage-punk-rock that defined the late-60s/early-70s Motor City sound.
A meaty sonic onslaught with compelling musicianship & consistent songcraft.
Their swansong LP that could be considered their crowning glory,
Exhilarating stuff that’s rock solid through & through.

bought 3 different copies, all warped! did someone else got the same problem?

Brothers and sisters, are you ready to testify? Thunder in the night forever!

Was wondering if this reissue is a gatefold or regular jacket?

Does anyone know anything about a mc5 high time crc copy? I've got one and can't find it listed thank you

Fantastic LP from beginning to end without any filler. If this album would've had the promotion and tour support of the first two, this one would have become a rock classic. (It still is classic to those that know this album). The production, performances, and songwriting is spot on! This is must-have LP.

oh yes, I missed out on a mono 25 years ago for $75.

hi , this is a fold down but it must sound amazing.

I feel like Kevin McCarthy ranting and raving at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I am convinced there was an error in mastering this LP and it was cut a touch too slow. For years this LP was unfairly dismissed as inferior to KOTJ and BITUSA. Perhaps this was in part because my theory is correct. I could be wrong. I could be right. You be the judge. Whichever way you hear it, it is monumental, MC5 are one the greatest bands the planet Earth has produced to date. Play them in repeat in the direction of Sirius!

...third offering from the 5 sees them getting into some hard rocking with explosive missives rolling out all across the land, with the 50s rock'n'roll obsession from the second wax put on hold as they develop a sound more in keeping with the times, sometimes getting busy with their jazz leanings coming to the fore...they come off with a stooges riff more than once but given more flesh than the originals would have had so the years of the stooges supporting the mighty 5 have paid off in reverse, they helped the 5 get back on track as some of their live outings were getting tired, they'd been through a lot in the last four years, being the most politically important band in amerikkka at the time they suffered continual pig harassment/record co. getting cold feet, which shows up the liberal hippy ethics as shallow to non-existence...some of this disk is heading in the prog direction though this is jazz prog taken further, all sorts of yanquee musics show up if only in feel, fleeting moments of the fading empire, yes, the 5 still knew how to slip the ongoing revolution into tunes but they were warning of the dangers of too much rhetoric and not enough action, the 5 haven't given up looking for a 'better tomorrow' but they realized plenty cats will sell out and make some bread by selling the revolution 'down the river'...even at this late point in their lifespan the 5 are putting more into making this wax than hardly anyone back in the hard rock early 70s, a time of stoner rock/singer songer/glam, all things the 5 had already done back in the whirlwind riot days-their whole trip was full of words backed up by stoned out jazz boogie, draped in the glamest thing ever, the amerikkkan flag made over into a symbol of freedom instead repression (which annoyed the pig no end, proving the 5 were right)...without any hesitation a cat's got to know this is still the real deal, it stands alongside the other two, all allowing the listener to get the full picture, very much an art movement in their own right, they strove to turn on the masses by any means possible, the evolutionary next step from the merry pranksters bus trip of 1964 and the following years acid tests...this was for real in the heart of riot amerikkka, not in suburban bohemia, this was ken keseys vibe taken and expanded on with black panther consciousness/R&B/rock'n'roll/freejazz and mighty amounts of mind altering chemicals/the earths good herb and some old fashion beer...extremely important wax in its own right this is very much the sound of avant rock taking on the main stream as this could have taken off with the great unwashed and not just the underground, it's easy to see this as sound being accepted by the square teenagers in the early seventies and when they'd deciphered the message they be turned onto the revolution, they'd not get drafted, they'd not work for uncle sams autocracy making 'shoddy cars and cheap guitars'...the history of rock'n'roll is littered with great rocking combos who all contribute a little something to make it all bearable in the face of adversity bought on by a dose of 'society' and none more so than the 5 who took it to the streets and turned on cats planet wide and still to this day inspire all that step within the hallowed boundaries of the grande ballroom of the mynd and groove outer spacesways with in the starship of the MC5...