GUN CLUB Miami LP ANIMAL 1982 UK orig JEFFREY LEE PIERCE-CHRIS STEIN-CHRIS D
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THE GUN CLUB
WARD DOTSON, JEFFREY LEE PIERCE, ROB RITTER, TERRY GRAHAM
plus CHRIS STEIN, D.H. LAURENCE JR.
Los Angeles alternative rockers whose uncompromising style drew from Delta blues, Southern gothic,
and psychobilly. Tribal psychobilly blues is the best way to describe the Gun Club's energetic
death rock, but the band's career seemed doomed from the get-go due to leader Jeffrey Lee Pierce's
reputation as an unreliable wildman, and well-publicized bouts of drunkenness dogged him
throughout his career. Formed in Los Angeles in the early '80s, the band was vaguely aligned
with similarly roots-inspired groups like X and the Blasters, but later picked up and
relocated to the Lower East Side, resting more comfortably around the New York downtown
set and Pierce's mentors, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein.......
"MIAMI"
1982 LP ANIMAL RECORDS CHR 1398
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE SLEEVE
Barcode and Other Identifiers
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LABEL: ANIMAL - WHITE LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine) CHR 1398
Catalog on labels: CHR 1398-A / CHR 1398-B
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched & Stamped): CHR 1398 A//1 ?420 P 1 11 tONE (or XONE)
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): CHR 1398 B//1 ?420 P 1 1 2
On labels: rim text reads "All Rights.......Made in England"
? & © 1982 Chrysalis Records Inc.
First Published in U.K. by Chrysalis Records Ltd. 1982
Produced by Chris Stein
Published by Warner Brothers Music Ltd. except:
(on Side A): Run Through The Jungle* *Prestige Music Ltd.
(on Side B): The Fire Of Love* *Carlin Music Corp.
On Spine: Printed in U.K.
On Back Cover: Recorded at Blank Tape Studios, June 1982
Cover Photo/Design: Chris D.
Chris Stein appears courtesy of Chrysalis Records
Animal Records marketed by Chrysalis Records Limited
? 1982 Chrysalis Records Ltd. © 1982 Chrysalis Records Ltd.
First Published by Chrysalis Records Limited 1982...
tracklisting
Side A: CARRY HOME - LIKE CALLING UP THUNDER - BROTHER AND SISTER
RUN THROUGH THE JUNGLE - A DEVIL IN THE WOODS - TEXAS SERENADE
Side B: WATERMELON MAN - BAD INDIAN - JOHN HARDY
THE FIRE OF LOVE - SLEEPING IN BLOOD CITY - MOTHER OF EARTH
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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Going for a higher, more desolate sound, frontman and slide player Jeffrey Lee Pierce
and his band were literally on fire. The songs here, from "Carry Home," "Like Calling Up Thunder,"
"Devil in the Woods," "Watermelon Man," "Bad Indian," and "Texas Serenade," among others,
centered themselves on a mutant form of country music that met the post-punk ethos
in the desert, fought and bloodied each other, and decided to stay together.
This is hardcore snake-charming music (as in water moccasins not cobras), evil, smoky,
brash, and libidinally uttered. Their spooky version of an already creepy tune by
Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Run Through the Jungle" runs the gamut from sexual
nightmare to voodoo ritual gone awry. Finally, Pierce and company pull out all the roots
and reveal them for what they are: "John Hardy," is a squalling punk-blues,
with the heart of the country in cardiac arrest. ...(AllMusic)
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