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THE GUN CLUB
Personally, in my top 5 favourite bands. Favourite album - Miami, followed closely by the Death Party ep. Favourite song, this is difficult, but I'm going to say "Mother of Earth" from Miami.
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I was just checking the Gun Club out!! I think Im overdue
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Personalities of members quite aside, they made some damn fine records.
I have gone on ad nauseum about the gun club on mono and on the previous mess and noise.
I'm sorta reluctant to do it again.
suffice to say, I loved em.
Good to see Death Party up there Lauren. Never seems to get rated.
ah, LOVE death party!
Too cool for Fire of Love hey Lauren? Brilliant album!
yeah its great, but doesn't compare to miami in my opinion
hmm. i don't think i've ever seen death party but all the songs are familiar and i see it came out in 1983 so they must have been the songs they were playing when they came out in 83 - when I saw them three times lauren.
i still love fire of love the best.
haha fair enough. Did you like the Mick Harvey cover of Mother of Earth on his last album?
It was the jim duckworth/dee pop lineup that is on the first live at the hacienda film
I haven't heard it Gorn! ooh, where oh where can I hear it? I heard mick harvey's latest album wasn't that great.
sister...sigh
I think Fire of Love is superior primarily because of Miami's somewhat weird production.
bwhahaha.
the first gig, half the band hadn't got there yet so the half of the Johnnys had to be both the support act and the Gun Club.
It was the best performance I ever saw from the johnnys.
what makes it weird?
The johnnys...?
It's on Mick's last album - One Man's Treasure. It's a fairly straight cover... not a bad tribute though!
cool, I'm gonna check it out
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Umm....Ron could I possibly borrow your copy of...
Since when were they back together? Weren't they split up for years because some members are umm .. dead?
my heart is broke so i'm going to hell!
Spencer doing amazing version of The House On Highland Avenue
Time to revisit, peoples. Go find 'em and listen.
Glitterhouse are putting out another covers album of JLP tunes on 30 March.
Tracklist
A heavy Australian contingent which is interesting. I'd like to see what Lanegan does with Breaking Hands - a great track.
That looks so crap if I'm being honest.
I've been listening to The Las Vegas Story a lot lately. It's as good if not better than Miami. I also found an original NZ pressing of Fire of Love for $12 in an antique shop.
Isn't this album recording's of unfinished JLP songs and demos that were never released?
The first three Gun Club album's can't be faulted.
+1 on Las Vegas Story. Bad America is about the best tune they had.
Mother of Earth is the one that does it for me. Slide guitars are the bomb.
What turns you off? Should be interesting at the very least.
The musicians! It's a really unattractive list of musicians.
I am surprised Frank Black isn't on there considering how much he rips of JLP's style on the first two Pixies albums.
Should be interesting but a bit bizarre that 'the breaking hands' appears twice on this album of 'unreleased tracks' considering it appeared on Mother Juno and was also released as a single. Las Vegas Story is a killer album but Miami pips it surely...
Don't hold it against them that they aren't as good looking as you. Not everyone was blessed with beauty such as yours. You never knw, they might be good musos. Gosh, superficial much?
know
Seriously though. I'd be interested to hear their interpretations if anything. Even if it isn't my thing, I'm always curious how people do renditions of another person's song, whether they do it justice or not, who knows. Call it morbid curiousity, I dunno...
I have a bootleg with Bonnie ''Prince'' Billy doing a cover of Carry Home that would knock your socks off. I imagine it is a million times better than anything that these ugly fools come up with
The reality is that JLP's last few album's were decidedly average, his best later work was his covers album. These songs were either written after or during Lucky Jim or they were done earlier and deemed not fit to record. Not sure why they're being dredged up now. Would rather hear Walking with the Beast and Promise Me being covered...
Cool interview with Ward Dotson below. He's a big fan of JLP.
http://www.eastvillageradio.com/content/content.php?id=2828
Pretty sure that covers album has been floating around for a while now. A mate of mine played it for me on vinyl the other night (and he's had it since Xmas). It's pretty much what you'd expect... some great stuff and some pretty underwhelming stuff too. All pretty true to the source material.