Kick Out the Jams

All five members are credited. Kramer said he and Tyner wrote it in the kitchen; the phrase came from the band telling opening acts to stop jamming. Davis called the song almost an afterthought, a short piece to break up longer material. It runs 2:52 on the album and 2:37 as a single. Elektra issued the single (EK-45648) in March 1969 with "Motor City Is Burning" on the B-side and a censored intro for radio, a change Tyner said was made without the group's agreement. It reached 82 on the Hot 100 and 51 in Canada. Q ranked it 39th on its list of 100 greatest guitar tracks.

Setlist.fm counts it 128 times, their most-played song. Blue Oyster Cult covered it in 1978, Bad Brains with Henry Rollins in 1990, Monster Magnet in 1998 and Rage Against the Machine on Renegades (2000); Kramer performed it with Rage at the 2008 Democratic convention. London's XFM played it first on its 1997 launch. We could not tell whether our upload is the album or single version.