Wild Gift

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Wild Gift is the second studio album by American rock band X, released in March 1981 by Slash Records. It was very well received critically, and was voted No. 2 for the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. The album was ranked No. 333 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 1988, Slash issued Los Angeles and Wild Gift jointly on a single compact disc. Wild Gift was remastered and reissued in 2001 by Rhino Records, with seven bonus tracks. The track "White Girl" was sampled by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their 1989 album Mother's Milk, in the song "Good Time Boys". The Chili Peppers song's lyrics mentioned X's John Doe specifically, "whose voice is made of gold". 


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1981

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