X - Wild Gift (1981)
Tracklist front / back album covers
Side 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
Side 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" – 1:18
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
X Band Members / Musicians
John Doe – bass, vocals
Exene – vocals
Billy Zoom – guitar
D.J. Bonebrake – drums
Wild Gift is the 2nd studio album by American rock band X, released in May 1981 by Slash Records. It was very well received critically, and was voted the year's second best album in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop poll. Wild Gift was later ranked at number 334 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".
