X, Los Angeles/Wild Gift - 1h 1m 21s

Tracks & Durations

1. Your Phone's Off The Hook, But You're Not	2:27
2. Johnny Hit And Run Paulene	2:53
3. Soul Kitchen	2:27
4. Nausea	3:42
5. Sugarlight	2:27
6. Los Angeles	2:26
7. Sex And Dying In High Society	2:17
8. The Unheard Music	4:51
9. The World's A Mess, It's In My Kiss	4:32
10. The Once Over Twice	2:32
11. We're Desperate	2:02
12. Adult Books	3:21
13. Universal Corner	4:35
14. I'm Coming Over	1:16
15. It's Who You Know	2:16
16. In This House That I Call Home	3:35
17. Some Other Time	2:19
18. White Girl	3:29
19. Beyond And Back	2:51
20. Back 2 The Base	1:35
21. When Our Love Passed Out On The Couch	1:59
22. Year 1	1:18

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Review

As much as any group, X established punk as a coast-to-coast movement, and these two albums staked out the sunny West Coast as territory for the slash-and-burn set. Originally released as separate records in 1980 (Los Angeles) and '81 (Wild Gift), the first albums by X were distinctive statements that perfectly captured a time, a place, and an outsider perspective. Singers and songwriters John Doe and Exene Cervenka (then a married couple), flash guitarist Billy Zoom, and drummer D.J. Bonebrake adapted the aggression and speed of Brit and East Coast punks to suit their own purposes. The likes of "Johnny Hit and Run Paulene," "The World's a Mess, It's in My Kiss" from the quartet's debut, and "White Girl" from the sophomore release captured the desperate ("get used to it!") mindset of pasty-white punks who inhabited the dark side of Hollywood. Literate, frenetic, and brutally honest, Los Angeles and Wild Gift stand as cornerstones in the history of punk, and, indeed, California rock & roll. --Steven Stolder

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Los Angeles/Wild Gift

Tracks: 22, Disk length: 60m 38s (-1m 17s)

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