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The Big Bang!: Best of the MC5
Greatest hits album by MC5
ReleasedFebruary 15, 2000
GenreProtopunk
Length78:42
LabelRhino Entertainment
ProducerMC5, John Sinclair, Jac Holzman, Bruce Botnick, Jon Landau, Geoffrey Haslam
MC5 chronology
Teen Age Lust
(1996) 		The Big Bang!: Best of the MC5
(2000) 		Heavy Lifting
(2024)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
The Austin Chronicle
Kerrang!
NME9/10

The Big Bang!: Best of the MC5 is a greatest hits album by MC5, released in 2000. Rhino remastered and released the anthology, which draws from three of their four albums. It also adds several of their early singles, which pre-date Kick Out the Jams, and concludes with a live 1972 number, "Thunder Express."

Track listing

  1. "I Can Only Give You Everything" - 2:59
  2. "Looking at You" (Original "A-Square" Single Version) - 2:48
  3. "I Just Don't Know" - 2:40
  4. "Ramblin' Rose" - 4:25
  5. "Kick Out the Jams" (Uncensored Version) - 2:46
  6. "Come Together" - 4:34
  7. "Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)" - 5:44
  8. "Tonight" - 2:33
  9. "Teenage Lust" - 2:33
  10. "High School" - 2:40
  11. "Call Me Animal" - 2:04
  12. "The American Ruse" - 2:30
  13. "Shakin' Street" - 2:19
  14. "The Human Being Lawnmower" - 2:22
  15. "Back in the USA" - 2:26
  16. "Sister Anne" - 7:22
  17. "Baby Won't Ya" - 5:32
  18. "Miss X" - 5:09
  19. "Over and Over" - 5:13
  20. "Skunk (Sonicly Speaking)" - 5:31
  21. "Thunder Express" - 4:22

References

  1. "The Big Bang: The Best of the MC5 - MC5 | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ Jeff Mccord (2020-02-21). "Review: MC5 The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino) - Music". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  3. Chainsaw, Billy (March 25, 2000). "Albums". Kerrang!. No. 794. EMAP. p. 44.
  4. "The Big Bang! Best Of The MC5". Nme.com. 12 September 2005. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  5. Carson, David A. (24 March 2011). Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll - David A. Carson - Google Books. ISBN 9780472026654. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  6. "A Look Back at Bad-Boy Pioneers MC5, Stooges". Los Angeles Times. 25 March 2000. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  7. Unterberger, Richie. "The Big Bang: The Best of the MC5: Review". AllMusic. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
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