Motor City Is Burning ... - Various Artists - Audio CD (Arrives in 20 days)

• A four-hour, 3CD anthology of the vibrant, wildly eclectic Michigan music scene in the late 60s/early 70s. • Key Motor City tracks stretching from the Motown and Invictus labels to The Stooges, Alice Cooper, MC5 and many others. The most populous city in the state of Michigan, Detroit exuded a rock 'n' roll mentality like no other American town. Famously home to Tamla Motown, the Motor City also hosted a plethora of artless teen garage bands, blue-collar heartland rockers Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, proto- punks The Stooges and MC5, the P-Funk psychedelic soul crew and hard rock heavyweights like Alice Cooper, Grand Funk Railroad and Frijid Pink. Named after the John Lee Hooker/MC5 song that referenced the heavily-reported Detroit civil unrest of July 1967, ‘Motor City Is Burning’ is a four-hour, 3CD primer of the Michigan music scene during its late 60s/early 70s heyday. It features all of the aforementioned acts as well as such names as Tommy James & The Shondells, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Freda Payne, Chairmen Of The Board and Rodriguez. Hit singles (Question Mark & The Mysterians, The Supremes, The Temptations, R. Dean Taylor) are joined by key album cuts, cult 45s and a raft of private label or unissued-at- the-time tracks. A 48-page booklet with rare photos and the story behind each track chronicles Michigan's leading venues, principal recording studios, local labels and key backroom players as well as the bands themselves.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. 96 Tears
2. Jenny Take a Ride!
3. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
4. Next To Your Fire
5. Mystery Man (Demo Version)
6. Baby Won't You Let Me Tell You How I Lost My Mind
7. It's Too Late
8. Who Do You Love?
9. Mo Jo Hannah
10. I'm So Glad
11. I Need You
12. She Makes Me Happy
13. Where You Gonna Go?
14. Tell Me Why Your Light Shines
15. Action! (Speaks Louder Than Words)
16. Mystic Cloud
17. Things Are Different Now
18. Night Walkin'
19. Don't Put Me On
20. Till Tomorrow
21. A Winner Never Quits
22. Help Me Find Myself
23. Christianne
24. Come See About Me
25. Outside Woman Blues
26. Stranded In the Jungle
27. Somehow
28. I'm Alive

Disc 2

1. 1969
2. Teenage Lust
3. Up All Night
4. Road Runner
5. Ll Along the Watchtower
6. Halo of Flies
7. Life Everlasting
8. Inside Looking Out
9. Right Away
10. Pretty Girl Why
11. Dreams Selection
12. Wake Up People
13. Spider's Eyes
14. I Can See the Light
15. Brave New World
16. Pain In My Heart
17. I Got a Right

Disc 3

1. Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)
2. I Call My Baby Pussycat
3. Psycha-Soula-Funkadelic
4. Reflections
5. Flower Girl
6. Scorpio
7. Inner City Blues
8. The Motor City is Burning
9. Hey Black Man (Part One)
10. Hanging On To a Memory
11. Bring the Boys Home
12. Indiana Wants Me
13. Twenty Nine
14. Sidewalk Cafe
15. Walk Down the Path of Freedom (Single Version)
16. Can't Turn Around Now
17. Crumbs Off the Table
18. 1200 Miles
19. Everyday Fun
20. Thrills of Love
21. Gimme Shelter

Label: Grapefruit | Origin: Holland