Wild Gift

Infobox Album
Name = Wild Gift
Type = Studio album
Artist = X


Released = May 1981
Recorded = March 1981, Clover Recorders, Los Angeles, Golden Sound Studios, Hollywood
Length = 33:02
Label = Slash
Producer = Ray Manzarek
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3x2tk6sx9krg link]
*Robert Christgau (A+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=x link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/x/albums/album/104902/rid/5945689/ link]
Last album = "Los Angeles" (1980)
This album = "Wild Gift"
(1981)
Next album = "Under the Big Black Sun" (1982)

"Wild Gift" is the second album by the American punk rock band X. RS500|334

In a review published in his "Consumer Guide" column, Robert Christgau gave "Wild Gift" a rare A+ rating, writing that "hippies couldn't understand jealousy because they believed in universal love; punks can't understand it because they believe sex is a doomed reflex of existentially discrete monads. As X-Catholics obsessed with a guilt they can't accept and committed to a subculture that gives them no peace, Exene and John Doe are prey to both misconceptions, and their struggle with them is thrilling and edifying...Who knows whether the insightful ministrations of their guitarist will prove as therapeutic for them as for you and me, but I say trust a bohemian bearing gifts. How often do we get a great love album and a great punk album in the same package?"

When "The Village Voice" held their Pazz & Jop Critics Poll for 1981, "Wild Gift" was ranked at #2, right behind "Sandinista!" by the Clash.

"Wild Gift" was remastered and reissued in 2001 by Rhino Records, with seven bonus tracks.

Track listing

All tracks written by John Doe and Exene Cervenka except as indicated.

ide one

# "The Once Over Twice" – 2:31
# "We're Desperate" – 2:00
# "Adult Books" – 3:19
# "Universal Corner" – 4:33
# "I'm Coming Over" – 1:14
# "It's Who You Know" – 2:17

ide two

# "In This House That I Call Home" – 3:34
# "Some Other Time" – 2:17
# "White Girl" – 3:27
# "Beyond and Back" – 2:49
# "Back 2 the Base" – 1:33
# "When Our Love Passed Out on the Couch" – 1:57
# "Year 1" – 1:31

Bonus tracks (2001 reissue)

# "Beyond and Back" (Live) – 2:48
# "Blue Spark" (Demo) – 2:04
# "We're Desperate" (Single version) – 2:01
# "Back 2 the Base" (Live) – 1:40
# "Heater" (Rehearsal) (Doe) – 2:32
# "White Girl" (Single mix) – 3:29
# "The Once Over Twice" (Unissued single mix) – 2:35

Personnel

*John Doe – bass, vocals
*Exene – vocals
*Billy Zoom – guitar
*D.J. Bonebrake – drums

Charts

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