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AllMusic
Christgau's Record Guide	A−
Entertainment Weekly	A
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Spin Alternative Record Guide	9/10
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Los Angeles is the debut album of the American punk rock band X, released on April 26, 1980. Produced by ex-Doors keyboard player Ray Manzarek, it includes a cover of the 1967 Doors song "Soul Kitchen" featuring Manzarek on keyboards. It placed at number 16 for the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. In 2003, the album was ranked number 286 on the Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

In 1988, Slash re-released Los Angeles and Wild Gift jointly on a single CD. It was re-released by Rhino Records in 2001 with five bonus tracks.

Los Angeles was reviewed very positively from its first release. Ken Tucker wrote in Rolling Stone that it "is a powerful, upsetting work that concludes with a confrontation of the band's own rampaging bitterness and confusion."Robert Christgau writes that their outlook and songs "make a smart argument for a desperately stupid scene." Finally, AllMusic's review concludes that the album "is considered by many to be one of punk's all-time finest recordings, and with good reason."

For the year of its release, it was placed at number 16 on the Christgau organized Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. Subsequently, in 1989, it was ranked number 24 on Rolling Stone's list of 100 best albums of the 80s and Pitchfork ranked it 91st on their top 100 albums of the 1980s. The former also ranked it number 286 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in 2003. The title track is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2012, Slant Magazine placed the album at number 98 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s".

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