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Fire of Love | 
 enlarge | Artist: Gun Club
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 34056
Format: Original Recording Reissued
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 79945
UPC: 081227994525
EAN: 0081227994525
ASIN: B00004YLBI
Release Date: January 16, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Sex Beat | | • | Preaching the Blues | | • | Promise Me | | • | She's Like Heroin to Me | | • | For the Love of Ivy | | • | Fire Spirit | | • | Ghost on the Highway | | • | Jack on Fire | | • | Black Train | | • | Cool Drink of Water Blues - Gun Club, Johnson, Tommy | | • | Goodbye Johnny |
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Originality that doesn't suck September 20, 2007
Dr. I.C.Brown (H.B., O.C., CA and the World)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jeffrey Lee Pierce is amazing. This album is the one to buy...some may prefer 'Miami', but I believe this is the Gun Club at their best.
Their sound is unique but can be compared to early Violent Femmes, but more heroin and blues. Yeah punk rock/heroin/blues that's what I would try to describe it as (not label it). In my humble or bad opinion, every song is a winner; "...I will fu** you til you die, bury you and kiss this town goodbye uh hey hey".... They just don't write them like that anymore!
Great songs, all of them, but I have been remembering and singing in my head(like a nut job)'Jack on Fire', 'She's Like Heroin To Me', For The Love of Ivy', 'Ghost on the Highway', and 'Fire Spirit'.
If you are interested in the Gun Club for what ever reason, then you are, in my opinion, on the right path. Buy Fire of Love it is a solid choice, your parents will love you more, and chicks/dudes will dig you.
Trivia- Vince Neil of Mutley Crud swiped his look from Jeffrey Lee Pierce.
One of the best albums of the '80's. July 29, 2007
Bop Cat
I owned the LP when it came out in '81, and I remember loving it. Somehow I lost my copy over time. After not hearing their music for years, I picked up the CD version recently and it's just as great as I remember it. You can call this music "punk", but that's overly simplistic. The Gun Club is, well, simply, The Gun Club. If you have to put a label on their music, I'd call it country-thrash-"punk", with a dash of blues. Kind of reminicsent of the Legendary Stardust Cowboy. I have to admit, I don't think I have heard their other albums, but I highly recommend this one. Anyone who likes the Cramps will probably like this.
Los Angeles Punk - Psychobilly Pioneers... March 29, 2007
Chris G. (IL USA)
Okay, I have been a long time fan of punk music. And I have a decent collection of Blues. But, I have never heard the two blended so perfectly until I bought this album. I didn't even know what psychobilly was until after listening to this. The Gun Club, J.L. Pierce and crew (including guitarist Kid Congo Powers) formed this band in 1980 originally named Creeping Ritual. What a lot of influences felt on this, their debut ranging from blues, a bit of country, rockabilly touched with a Raw Punk attitude! And The Gun Club makes it sound so simple and pure. These are Eleven of the finest songs I ever heard on a single album, and debut for that matter. It came out in 1981 (the year I was born) and is so ahead of it's time! Takes punk and blues far beyond other artists I've heard. My favorite songs are: Track 1 "Sex Beat" Track 4 "She's Like Heroin To Me" Track 5 "For the Love of Ivy" Track 6 "Fire Spirit" & Track 8 "Jack on Fire," but they all are a GREAT bunch of songs on one of my top favorites of all time. After listening one can see The White Stripes were possibly inspired by this. As well as other 21st century bluesy-rock bands. After release this garnered U.S and European attention and a strong cult following. For those who are interested, of all the Gun Club albums, this is the ONE to get!!...It may out-stretch your taste(s) in music. At least it did for me.
Elvis from HELL! February 25, 2007
Stu Nietzsche (Cana, VA USA)
The Gun Club has been described as 'voodoo Creedence Clearwater Revival',but that's only half the equation. Jeffery Lee Pierce's lyrics could have come straight from the disembodied spirit of Jim Morrison, who had similar charisma to JLP. 'Sex Beat' comes the closest to sounding like an actual punk song, but remember, punk was branching out into new directions, as evidenced on 'For The Love of Ivy'. 'She's Like Heroin To Me' comes the closest to thrash, 'Fire Spirit' has a hard rock/garage feel that'll please even the most cynical of music critics, and the rest of the album is just as good. It sounds like the cast of Hee-Haw finding eternal damnation in Kornfield Kounty. Listen for a cover of Robert Johnson's 'Preachin' The Blues'. Highly recommended.
a stunning debut by the greatest roots punk band ever January 29, 2007
Ludwig J. Pluralist (Beacon, NY USA)
I remember when the Gun Club emerged in the mid 80s out of L.A., as it was a truly exciting time for independent and alternative music. And the Gun Club were a key part of them. I had the good fortune to see them live, at a small, but rather well regarded club in Hoboken, NJ and they had some majestic moments, moments in which they kicked into a great, noisy groove and elevated everyone there. Thinking back, I realize how much I miss them (and various other bands from that golden era).
Here, on their stunning debut, the Gun Club, led by hellbound lead singer Jeffrey Lee Pierce, offer 11 fine tracks of bluesy, countrified music. It makes sense to classify it as "roots punk," that is, as a mix of the underlying elements of rock (i.e., blues, country, rockabilly, African/Carribean voodoo music, etc.) filtered through the rebelliousness of punk. It sounded great back then, and it still sounds great. Highly recommended for listening while driving down a highway, particularly around sunset.
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