High Time (MC5 album)

High Time
Studio album by MC5
Released	July 6, 1971
Recorded	September–October 1970 at Artie Fields Studios, Detroit, United States; Lansdowne Studios and Pye Studios, London, England
Genre	Protopunk, hard rock
Length	41:56
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Geoffrey Haslam, MC5
MC5 chronology
Back in the USA (1970) High Time (1971) Teen Age Lust (1996)

High Time is the second studio album by American rock band MC5, released in 1971 by record label Atlantic.

Production

High Time was co-produced by the band and Atlantic staff engineer Geoffrey Haslam.

Release

High Time was released on July 6, 1971 by record label Atlantic. After losing money on this and the group's previous album, Atlantic dropped the group, which broke up not long afterwards.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	B+[2]
Rolling Stone	mixed[3]

High Time has been generally well-received by critics.

Lenny Kaye, writing for Rolling Stone, called the album "the first record that comes close to telling the tale of their legendary reputation and attendant charisma".^[3] In his retrospective review, Mark Deming of AllMusic called it "[MC5's] most accessible album, but still highly idiosyncratic and full of well-written, solidly played tunes. [...] while less stridently political than their other work, musically it's as uncompromising as anything they ever put to wax and would have given them much greater opportunities to subvert America's youth if the kids had ever had the chance to hear it."^[1]

Track listing

Personnel

MC5

• Michael Davis – bass, vocals, ka (track 7), production
• Wayne Kramer – guitar, vocals, piano (tracks 2 and 3), production
• Fred "Sonic" Smith – guitar, vocals, harmonica (track 1), organ (track 1), sandpaper (track 2), production
• Dennis Thompson – drums, vocals (track 1), tambourine (track 1, 2 and 7), reen (tracks 2, 5), tamboes (track 4), acme scraper (track 5), percussion (track 8), production
• Rob Tyner – vocals, harmonica (track 1), maracas (track 1), rockas (track 2), castanets (track 6), conga (track 8), production

Additional personnel

• Pete Kelly – piano on "Sister Anne"
• Dan Bullock – trombone on "Skunk"
• Ellis Dee – percussion on "Skunk"
• Bobby Wayne Derminer – wizzer on "Future/Now"
• Marlene Driscoll – vocals on "Sister Anne"
• Rick Ferretti – trumpet on "Skunk"
• Dave Heller – percussion on "Skunk"
• Leon Henderson – tenor saxophone on "Skunk"
• Joanne Hill – vocals on "Sister Anne"
• Larry Horton – trombone on "Sister Anne"
• Skip Knapp – organ on "Miss X"
• Brenda Knight – vocals on "Sister Anne"
• Kinki Lepew – percussion on "Gotta Keep Movin"
• Charles Moore – flugelhorn & vocals on "Sister Anne"
• Dr. Dave Morgan – percussion on "Skunk"
• Scott Morgan – percussion on "Skunk"
• Butch O'Brien – bass drum on "Sister Anne"
• David Oversteak – tuba on "Sister Anne"
• Bob Seger – percussion on "Skunk"

Technical

• Geoffrey Haslam – production

References

External links

• High Time at Discogs (list of releases)