Power Trip [Limited Edition]

MC5 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 30, 1994)
• Original Release Date: September 13, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Limited Edition
• Label: Alive Records
• ASIN: B000001QHD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,237 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Looking At You (Instrumental Version)

2. I'm Mad Like Eldridge Cleaver

3. Black To Comm

4. The Pledge Song

5. Head Sounds ( Part Two)

6. Powertrip

7. I Put A Spell

8. Born Under A Bad Sign

9. I Want You

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable...the best Mc5 album in my opinion..., April 17, 2005

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Hippie Smell "hippie_smell" (Brooklyn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Trip (Audio CD)

While in Michigan I went to a record store where an old rocker form the good old days of the stooges and the 5, recommended this album to me. It really is all that. Far better than all of their studio albums, and right up there with all of the stooges albums. It has the big sound, and is pure punk rock. Like when I listen to this album I'm totally convinced that punk rock was invented by the MC5. I'll also say this, I gave this album 5 stars because I think that all of the material here is mind blowing but I'll also admit that 'Mad Like Eldridge Cleaver' isn't for everyone. First it's very angry, and second it goes way out there. Picture a basic blues riff like John Lee Hooker, that mutates into the most intense Sun Ra song you have ever heard. Well that is what this song is about. The rest of the album sounds primitive, but is like a bomb exploding. Even by today's standards there is no one rocking this hard. Long live rock.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Motor City Carnage!, April 2, 2000

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Rupert (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Trip (Audio CD)

This album compiles some of the MC5s most emotive, crowd destroying music available on CD. All songs are savage and raw, much closer to the Kick out the Jams live album than the two subsequent studio affairs when Electra were obviously looking for a commercial hit album. The vocal intesity on I'm mad.., I put a spell and I want you are beyond anything else I've ever heard, even Iggy Stooge during his primal beginnings, If anyone who's heard this version of I want you, cranked way up, can suggest anything of equal comparison, I'd like to hear it. Yes the sound is not like a studio album, but this is what the MC5 were really like, this was the energy of the time. Other live stuff worth checking out includes the Sturgis Armoury '68 cd and the Teenage Lust '70 cd (same as the Black to Comm and Looking at You cds on Repertoire), and of course Kick Out the Jams!!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars several great tunes but..., August 25, 2005

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Kent J. Smythe (CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Power Trip (Audio CD)

The version of Black To Comm alone is worth every cent for this.This is one of my most played MC5 cds