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The Las Vegas Story | 
 enlarge | Artist: Gun Club
Label: Sympathy 4 the R.I.
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 144953
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 742
UPC: 790276074224
EAN: 0790276074224
ASIN: B0002VETAO
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Walkin' With the Beast | | • | Eternally Is Here | | • | The Stranger in Our Town | | • | My Dreams | | • | The Master Plan - Gun Club, Thomas, Leon | | • | My Man's Gone Now - Gun Club, Gershwin, George | | • | Bad America | | • | Moonlight Motel | | • | Give Up the Sum | | • | Secret Fires |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Gather your Guns January 16, 2006
Jodie (Melbourne, Australia)
This is the Las Vegas Story.
A perfectly balanced album of blues/country alt rock, one of the best albums released by the Gun Club featuring the beautiful vocals of the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce, and Kid Congo Powers (The Cramps, Nick Cave & Bad Seeds).
This album rocks the whole way through, it's something that you can really let you're hair down too (even though I don't have any), the first song here is Walkin' With The Beast which is fuelled with guitars, it gives you the general feeling of the entire album, and finishes with the country flavours of Secret Fires which is a fitting finale and shows some roots to their music.
The album reaches it's pinnacle with The Master Plan & My Man's Gone which suits the title of this album to a tea, incredibly loungy something you would expect to hear at 5am, after a bender, walking through a casino lounge to go home.
But I suppose that was the intended effect.
 The best late night driving music.... November 26, 2004
Eschatology Today (Florida)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you've ever had to walk down any dark and dangerous streets of America on a fullmoon night, filled with trash and burned out buildings, and you thought the moment deserved an eloquent tune -- this album will find a place in your heart.
Driving around E. St. Louis at night in the mid-80's looking for open liquor stores while looking at the decripted Gothic homes, I would crank this up...Walking with the Beast...the song's excellent rabid drums will forever live in my wasted, bitter youth -- reverberating a message that I've fallen from grace and maybe the devil was sitting in my car with me. Jeffery Lee Pierce and the Gun Club knew this world of small town madness and big city craziness. It's excellent Americana blues that will haunt you. Simply a classic. Yes, ghosts walk the abandoned homes of E.St. Louis and Alton, Illinois.
Their masterpiece October 22, 2004
N. D. Turner (York, England)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
A true gem of an album when it was released in 1984, it's re-release on cd is overdue and is a must for anyone even mildly curious about The Gun Club. Jeffrey Lee Pierce's unique, emotional, and beautifully discordant vocal style is showcased perfectly by the mainly Pierce-penned lyrics and musicians in this line-up(Kid Congo Powers and Patricia Morrison being the best known).The cover of Gerschwin's "My Mans Gone", will fail to move you only if you are made of stone, but the rest is guitar-led with instantly memorable rhythms, perfectly complemented by Kid Congo's slide and lead. Championed at the time of release by Debbie Harry, the cd name-checks Chris
Stein for his help in this re-release.The only minor complaint is that there is no reproduction of the lyrics in the inner sleeve,present on the vinyl release.This is USA rock at it's purest and finest, not contaminated by commercialism nor airbrushed production.An underrated classic, and one of my favourite albums of all time
Classic October 12, 2004
L. P. M. Benneker (Bunnik, The Netherlands)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
One of the best albums ever recorded. Great lyrics, great music. I'm so glad that this album is available again on CD by one of the best bands ever, and unfortunately one of the most underestimated as well.
The Stranger Returns July 3, 2004
Stevo (Galway, Ireland)
I love this lp though to me it sounds like the production could've been better by being a little less glossy. I find that the music has a great psychedelic glow and the guitar is the best that 2 people sans great chops could get to QMS/Television.
My Dreams is one of my favourite tracks ever. (...)I think there are extras due. Meanwhile I'd go for the Kalinda Danse Boom cd which is some of this material played live
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