Song 179: “Kick Out the Jams” by the MC5 (Public Clean Version)
7/18/20250 min
This episode, we look at the song “Kick Out the Jams” by the MC5, and the brief career of the most revolutionary guitar band of the sixties. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.
As explained in the episode itself, it would be impossible to do this episode without using one particular Oedipal epithet, but use of that term would lose this podcast its clean rating. Therefore this is a censored version of the episode, with the many, many, many uses of that word replaced. Patreon back...
Transcript
12 sentencesAndrew Hickey· Host0:00
[rock music] A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs by Andrew Hickey. Song 179, Kick Out the Jams by the MC5. Before we begin, this episode contains some brief mention of child sexual abuse, as well as discussion of hard drug use and of political and police violence, as well as brief mentions of death by cancer. If you're likely to be upset by those subjects, you may wish to skip this episode or read the transcript. Also, this episode would simply not be possible without the repeated mention of a word which would, if I used it on the main feed, cause the podcast to lose its clean rating. For this reason, I have made an unexpurgated version of the podcast available to my Patreon backers, but on the main feed, I've replaced that word whenever it comes up in what I hope is a way that lets you understand what's being said and isn't too jarring. So let's look at the brief, tragic story of the MC5, or to put it another way- Right now, right now, right now it's time to- [cheering] [guitar strumming] kick out the jams Morton Feldman.
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[rock music] Jams. Ah, ah, ah, ah. Come on. Come on and kick out the jams. Well, I feel pretty good, and I guess that I