Various - Sympathetic Sounds Of Detroit (2001) (@256)

It's the third time that I post something related to the recent credit crunch and its aftermath. The reason is the recent bankruptcy of General Motors, US's largest automaker. Another company failure which was largely caused by the CEOs wrong decisions over the years. Again, the executives will hold their jobs unlike some tens of thousands of Detroit's workers that will enter the unemployment status; "Motor City" the location of the headquarters of the "Big Three" automotive companies (Ford, GM, Chrysler) will see many of its families suffer under the consequences of the recession.
There were plenty of choices about a related Detroit upload. One of the birthplaces of US punk with MC5 (short for "Motor City Five") and Stooges, the city where George Clinton applied his P-funk, the city where Berry Gordy established Motown (again, an abbreviation for "Motor Town"), the birthplace of Detroit techno, to name the most important of them. It is this compilation though, with the impressive industrial complexes photos and the fumes that can be smelled throughout its hearing that comes to my mind whenever I try to get the picture of a city which I have never visited.
Finally, for track 20, I added the White Stripes' track "The Big Three Killed My Baby", where Jack White (in one of his few songs with political context) refers to his hometown's automotive companies as "killers of the common sence".

Tracklisting:
01-The Paybacks - Black Girl
02-The Paybacks - Payback Blues
03-The Dirtbombs - Dirtbomb Blues
04-The Dirtbombs - I'm Through With White Girls
05-The Henchmen - Accusatory
06-Ko & the Knockouts - Black and Blue
07-The Come Ons - Come On Blues
08-The Come Ons - Sunday Drive
09-The Soledad Brothers - Soledad Blues
10-The Soledad Brothers - Shaky Puddin'
11-Von Bondies - Sound Of Terror
12-The Buzzards - High Class
13-Detroit Cobras - Shout Bamalama
14-Bantam Rooster - Banty Rooster Blues
15-Bantam Rooster - Run Rabbit Run
16-The Clone Defects - Whiskey 'n' Women
17-Whirlwind Heat - Decal On My Sticker
18-White Stripes - Red Death at 6.14
19-Buzzards - Buzzard Blues
20-(bonus track - not on the original album) White Stripes - The Big Three Killed My Baby

album review link: here

download link: here