{"id":59,"date":"2006-01-13T21:03:30","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T03:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/2006\/01\/13\/mc5-back-in-the-usa\/"},"modified":"2006-01-13T21:03:30","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T03:03:30","slug":"mc5-back-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/mc5-back-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"MC5 &#8212; Back In The USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/mc5backintheusa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-812\" title=\"MC5 -- Back In The USA\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/mc5backintheusa.jpg\" alt=\"MC5 -- Back In The USA\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> MC5<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Back In The USA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1970<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 8<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1987 ? &#8211; Another MC5 platter with mysterious origins. I&#8217;m pretty sure I got this one at Vinyl Solution in London. Which is way ironic&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the second record by MC5 and it was stunning in its restraint compared to the freaked out Kick Out The Jams. Of course I didn&#8217;t buy their records when they first came out but I did buy them in order. So, I was just as baffled as the original fans. That said, this album has grown on me over the years. It&#8217;s still high energy, and I&#8217;m tapping my foot as I type this, a good sign. Very catchy stuff for the most part. Roots rock\/power pop\/proto-punk if any of those make sense.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read that their third album was insane, more like the first, and that nobody listened. I&#8217;ve never heard it. I really need to start looking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read Leg McNeil&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0140266909\/104-8595605-1919932?v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Please Kill Me<\/a> for some funny background on MC5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: MC5 Title: Back In The USA Year: 1970 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 8 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1987 ? &#8211; Another MC5 platter with mysterious origins. I&#8217;m pretty sure I got this one at Vinyl Solution in London. Which is way ironic&#8230; Keeper: Yes This is the second record by MC5 and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[475,452,453],"tags":[493,724,821,46,910,936,1033],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-493","tag-hard-rock","tag-mc5","tag-music","tag-protopunk","tag-rock-and-roll","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}