...For the Whole World to See is a collection of songs from a proposed studio album by the American band Death

Death (punk band)

Death was a garage rock and punk rock demo band formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1971 by the brothers Bobby , David , and Dannis Hackney. The African American trio started out as an R&B band but switched to rock after seeing an Alice Cooper show...

. In 1973 the band entered a studio to record a 12-song album. After refusing to change their group's name, Death was turned away by Clive Davis

Clive Davis

Clive Davis is an American record producer and music industry executive. He has won five Grammy Awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer. From 1967 to 1973 he was the President of Columbia Records. He was the founder and president of Arista Records from 1975...

 of Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

. Only seven songs were completed and the album was never released. The surviving songs were released as ...For the Whole World to See in 2009 by Drag City

Drag City (record label)

Drag City is a Chicago-based independent record label. It was established with a Royal Trux release in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.Drag City specializes in experimental indie rock acts...

.

The song "You're a Prisoner" was featured in the 2011 film Kill the Irishman.

Reception

Initial critical response to ...For the Whole World to See was positive. At Metacritic

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, which assigns a normalized

Standard score

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 rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average

Weighted mean

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 score of 76, based on 8 reviews.

Jack White

Jack White (musician)

Jack White , often credited as Jack White III, is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and occasional actor...

 of the White Stripes related his first reaction to the album in a New York Times article: "I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. When I was told the history of the band and what year they recorded this music, it just didn’t make sense. Ahead of punk, and ahead of their time.”

Track listing

1. "Keep on Knocking" (David Hackney, Bobby Hackney) – 2:50
2. "Rock-N-Roll Victim" (D. Hackney) – 2:41
3. "Let the World Turn" (D. Hackney, B. Hackney) – 5:56
4. "You're a Prisoner" (D. Hackney, B. Hackney) – 2:24
5. "Freakin Out" (B. Hackney) – 2:48
6. "Where Do We Go from Here???" (B. Hackney) – 3:50
7. "Politicians in My Eyes" (B. Hackney) – 5:50

Personnel

• Death
  Death (punk band)
  Death was a garage rock and punk rock demo band formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1971 by the brothers Bobby , David , and Dannis Hackney. The African American trio started out as an R&B band but switched to rock after seeing an Alice Cooper show...
  
   – producer
• Bobby Hackney – bass, vocals
• Dannis Hackney – drums
• David Hackney – guitar
• Tammy Hackney – photography
• Jim Vitti – engineer