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The Big Bang!: Best of the MC5

{{Infobox album

| name = The Big Bang!: Best of the MC5

| type = greatest

| artist = MC5

| cover = The Big Bang, Best of the MC5 (2000 MC5 album).gif

| alt =

| released = February 15, 2000

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Protopunk

| length = 78:42

| label = Rhino Entertainment

| producer = MC5, John Sinclair, Jac Holzman, Bruce Botnick, Jon Landau, Geoffrey Haslam

| prev_title = Teen Age Lust

| prev_year = 1996

| next_title = Heavy Lifting

| next_year = 2024

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-big-bang-the-best-of-the-mc5-mw0000053395|title=The Big Bang: The Best of the MC5 - MC5 | Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|access-date=16 November 2021}}

| rev2 = The Austin Chronicle

| rev2score = {{Rating|4|4}}

| rev3 = Kerrang!

| rev3score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{Cite magazine |last=Chainsaw |first=Billy |date=March 25, 2000 |title=Albums |magazine=Kerrang! |publisher=EMAP |issue=794 |page=44}}

| rev4 = NME

| rev4score = 9/10{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-nme-1964-343199|title=The Big Bang! Best Of The MC5|website=Nme.com|date=12 September 2005|access-date=16 November 2021}}

}}

The Big Bang!: Best of the MC5 is a greatest hits album by MC5, released in 2000.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9JVFDwAAQBAJ&q=The+Big+Bang%21%3A+Best+of+the+MC5+2000&pg=PA346 |title=Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll - David A. Carson - Google Books |date= 24 March 2011|isbn=9780472026654 |access-date=2020-04-05|last1=Carson |first1=David A. }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-mar-25-ca-12405-story.html|title=A Look Back at Bad-Boy Pioneers MC5, Stooges|date=25 March 2000|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=16 November 2021}} Rhino remastered and released the anthology, which draws from three of their four albums.{{cite web|author=Jeff Mccord|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2000-05-19/77267/ |title=Review: MC5 The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino) - Music |newspaper=The Austin Chronicle |date=2020-02-21 |access-date=2020-04-05}} It also adds several of their early singles, which pre-date Kick Out the Jams, and concludes with a live 1972 number, "Thunder Express." {{cite web|last1=Unterberger|first1=Richie|title=The Big Bang: The Best of the MC5: Review|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-big-bang-the-best-of-the-mc5-mw0000053395|website=AllMusic|access-date=December 11, 2015}}

Track listing

  1. "I Can Only Give You Everything" - 2:59
  2. "Looking at You" (Original "A-Square" Single Version) - 2:48
  3. "I Just Don't Know" - 2:40
  4. "Ramblin' Rose" - 4:25
  5. "Kick Out the Jams" (Uncensored Version) - 2:46
  6. "Come Together" - 4:34
  7. "Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)" - 5:44
  8. "Tonight" - 2:33
  9. "Teenage Lust" - 2:33
  10. "High School" - 2:40
  11. "Call Me Animal" - 2:04
  12. "The American Ruse" - 2:30
  13. "Shakin' Street" - 2:19
  14. "The Human Being Lawnmower" - 2:22
  15. "Back in the USA" - 2:26
  16. "Sister Anne" - 7:22
  17. "Baby Won't Ya" - 5:32
  18. "Miss X" - 5:09
  19. "Over and Over" - 5:13
  20. "Skunk (Sonicly Speaking)" - 5:31
  21. "Thunder Express" - 4:22

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Category:2000 greatest hits albums

Category:MC5 albums

Category:Rhino Entertainment compilation albums

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