VA – Motor City Is Burning: A Michigan Anthology 1965-1972 [[2025)

[jack020]

• 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.

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/blog/motor-city-is-burning--a-michigan-anthology-1965-1972-3cd-coming-soon

Tracklist
Disc: 1
1 96 Tears - ? [[Question Mark) & the Mysterians
2 Jenny Take a Ride! - Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
3 [[I Can't Get No) Satisfaction -Terry Knight & the Pack
4 Next to Your Fire - the Pack
5 Mystery Man [[Demo Version) - Dick Wagner & the Frost
6 Baby Won't You Let Me Tell You How I Lost My Mind - the Spike Drivers
7 It's Too Late - the Pedestrians
8 Who Do You Love? - the Woolies
9 Mo Jo Hannah - the Underdogs
10 I'm So Glad - the Scot Richard Case
11 I Need You - the Rationals
12 She Makes Me Happy - the Shaggs
13 Where You Gonna Go? - the Unrelated Segments
14 Tell Me Why Your Light
15 Shines - the Lykes of Us
16 Action! [[Speaks Louder
17 Than Words) - Tidal Waves
18 Mystic Cloud - the Pagens
19 Things Are Different Now -The Innsmen
20 Night Walkin' - the Unknown
21 Don't Put Me on - the King's Court
22 Till Tomorrow - House of Commons
23 A Winner Never Quits - the Solitary Confinement
24 Help Me Find Myself - the Troyes
25 Christianne - the Hearsemen
26 Come See About Me -Dearborn City Limits
27 Outside Woman Blues - Felix
28 Stranded in the Jungle -The Apostles
29 Somehow - the Thyme
30 I'm Alive - Tommy James & the Shondells
Disc: 2
1 1969 - the Stooges
2 Teenage Lust - MC5
3 Up All Night - SRC
4 Road Runner - Brownsville Station
5 All Along the Watchtower -Savage Grace
6 Halo of Flies - Alice Cooper
7 Life Everlasting - Earthen Vessel
8 Inside Looking Out - Grand Funk Railroad
9 Right Away - Head Over Heels
10 Pretty Girl Why - Resolution
11 Dreams Selection - Sunshine
12 Wake Up People - Kopperfield
13 Spider's Eyes - Bump
14 I Can See the Light - the Glass Sun
15 Brave New World - Boa
16 Pain in My Heart - Frijid Pink
17 I Got a Right - Iggy & the Stooges
Disc: 3
1 Ball of Confusion [[That's What the World Is Today) -Thetemptations
2 I Call My Baby Pussycat -Parliament
3 Psycha-Soula-Funkadelic -The Politicians
4 Reflections - Diana Ross & the Supremes
5 Flower Girl - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
6 Scorpio - Dennis Coffey & the Detroit Guitar Band
7 Inner City Blues - Rodriguez
8 The Motor City Is Burning -John Lee Hooker
9 Hey Black Man [[Part One) - Ed Robinson
10 Hanging on to a Memory - Chairmen of the Board
11 Bring the Boys Home - Freda Payne
12 Indiana Wants Me - R. Dean Taylor
13 Twenty Nine - Marshall & Newell
14 Sidewalk Cafe - Rare Earth
15 Walk Down the Path of
16 Freedom [[Single Version) - Sunday Funnies
17 Can't Turn Around Now -Fork in the Road
18 Crumbs Off the Table - Theglass House
19 1200 Miles - the Flaming Ember
20 Everyday Fun - T.N.T
21 Thrills of Love - Warlock
22 Gimme Shelter - Ruth Copeland

[daviddesper]

Certainly sounds like an interesting concept.......

[Starguard4]

Certainly sounds like an interesting concept.......

Really?? It's not for me. There's too much on it, of little or no interest.

[Boogiedown]

don't understand the benefit of using the uninviting cover art or the downer reference