This year is the 50th anniversary of the recording of the band's incendiary debut, Kick Out The Jams, which was recorded live over two nights at Detroit's Grande Ballroom in October 1968. To celebrate, MC5 release Total Assault: 50th Anniversary Collection, a limited-edition boxed set that features all three of the band's albums pressed on coloured vinyl. It includes Kick Out The Jams (red vinyl), Back In The USA (white vinyl) and High Time (blue vinyl). The albums come in sleeves that faithfully re-create the original releases, including gatefolds for Kick Out The Jams and High Times. All three are housed in a hard slipcase with new art and previously unseen photographs by world renowned photographer Raeanne Rubenstein. The music on Total Assault shows why the MC5 is held is such high regard today with indelible tracks like Kick Out The Jams, Human Being Lawnmower and Sister Anne.
- 3LP - Limited Triple Album on Red, White and Blue Vinyl.
- Kick Out The Jams -
1 Ramblin' Rose
2 Kick Out The Jams
3 Come Together
4 Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)
Side B
1 Borderline
2 Motor City Is Burning
3 I Want You Right Now
4 Starship
- Back In The USA -
1 Tutti-Frutti 1:27
2 Tonight
3 Teenage Lust
4 Let Me Try
5 Looking At You
Side D
1 High School
2 Call Me Animal
3 The American Ruse
4 Shakin' Street
5 The Human Being Lawnmower
6 Back In The USA
- High Time -
1 Sister Anne
2 Baby Won't Ya
3 Miss X
4 Gotta Keep Movin'
Side F
1 Future/Now
2 Poison
3 Over And Over
4 Skunk (Sonically Speaking)