MC5 - Skunk (Sonicly Speaking) Lyrics

I 'd like to hear this song rerecorded in 2020 with more low end. This could be a modern monster.

A "Top Ten Guitar Duos" countdown video - which did not include Wayne and Fred - brought me here.

Pre historic punk rock babe

Never before we ear that sound, that sound that speaking fury and angry, the man in this time of convultions

Are there any live versions of this song on any media?

I wish. The closest we get is a very short segment from the Mc5 documentary

Tremendous intro....takes me back to when rock meant total fire on politics !!! Make the world skunky again :)

Robert Cubinelli flush out the corrupt bastards worldwide

WHAT A DRUMMMER...

WK got a lot of mileage out of those particular licks 1:57

Does anyone think Radiohead may have heard this before they wrote "The National Anthem"?

Greatest MC5 track.

isnt this great??? :D

Way ahead of their time , still stands up

Great tune, no thanks to John Sinclair. That greedy lying mf'er ruined the MC5.

Without a doubt. Makes me so angry they were conned like that.

Fuck off all you Fascist ba$tards....rock will eliminate all you haters like it did back then...have no doubt Fa$cist pigs :)

Robert Cubinelli scum bag censors , i want lsd now

Never noticed before that the clock got smashed at 5:00.

freetofu Good eyes

They don't call him "Machine Gun" Thompson for nothin"!

Had a buddy in a class with him down at Wayne State. He said he just sat in class drumming with his pencils or even his fingers during the entire class.

epica miscela musicale , una band esplosiva ììììì

Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson!

He used to work at a machine shop down in Wyandotte, Michigan called Iverson Industries. I've known the owners Tom and Bill Iverson since 1989.

Thats cool! You ever meet him?@Michael Bachman

mp3's suck!

That's why they're re-issuing their 3 LPS on VINYL!!!!

I think that if the third album had come out first, they would have been Superstars. And "Over and Over" would be used as often as "For What its Worth" or "White Rabbit" when people were making films about the '60s

the 3rd album was badly sequenced....and label dropped them.

Extremely stupid move on Elektra's part!

Or if they had been at Woodstock. If the rest of the world had seen them there they'd have blown that place sky-HIGH.

At the start, you can almost hear Diamond Dave coming in with "I like ... I like the way the line runs up the back of those stockings."

when free jazz met rock-n-roll

Tago mago that's right

This is one of those "Holy Shit..." songs. Because that's all you can say about it.

Nope, I could say a lot more than that.

One of the most exciting Rock n Roll songs ever committed to tape!

without great management--the 5 was no more..I saw them in brooklyn--they were banned from the fillmore east.

Machine Gun Thompson on drums. Fucking legend.

Still think this is the greatest rock and roll song ever recorded. The band's playing is just in the eye of a hurricane on this. It's incredible.

Well said man. It makes the hair on the back of yer neck stand up.

This is the most perfect rock and roll song ever written. An alien asks for a definition of rock and roll just give them this and watch their big grey head explode. There are only two legitimate reactions to this song - dance or die.

What about screaming and smashing shit?

@Starship Ghetto Byrd nope - dance or die

Bands like Black Crowes and Jet should thank their lucky stars for this band and the influence they had on rock and roll

undertow52 black crowes weren’t a patch on these Trail Blazers

Lemmy said there would not be a Motorhead without the MC5. Respect.

im a musician 1 thing i will say is hear the music as it was originally meant 2 b heard on analogue vinyl,ever heard the exspression i cant get nxt 2 u,thats coz the midrange only that cds offer is sonically inferior 2 the topend midrange n bottomend that analogue captures,in truth analogue is sonically superior,with totally separate sound levels thruout nothing is rawer or captures more deph,its a way of life 4 me,thats far 2 gd 2 walk away from,hear the original mastertape n feel what i say

The vinyl reissues are coming out Sept. 2018

True. One example for me is listening to Led Zeppelin 1 'How many more times' ...at the very end of the song plant utters ..why don't you please come....and you can hear how Jimmy overdubbed the guitar where it sounds fuzzy through the one channel........maybe didn't explain that right, but through good speakers and vinyl it sounds EPIC !

CD looses that effect.....just sounds too flat and compressed

Wow!!!!

:DD cool brotha

my niggah so am i!!

Smoking some skunk weed while listening to this :D .

i just put this same song to play on three different medias at the same time an it got AWSOM!

Fernando Yanmar fucking insanity right on

the man!

wayne motherfucking kramer.

big props to the drummer too

@honkynel I'm pretty sure the Babes in Arms version is earlier, at least.

Bob Seger and some members of the Rationals helped provide some of the percussion on this song. I LOVE this album!

Still awesome but there's none of the patter at the start and i've heard far better mixes.
is this how it was originally released?!..........massive fade out too :-(

Chooooooon!.....there's a hint of 'Moby Dick' in that solo

SONIC, indeed. Fred's amazing !!!!!!!!

that drummer is insane, is a beast, is an asshole, this reeks skunk, it's awesome, awesome band, awesome sound great year