Gun Club / Fire Of Love
Artist Gun Club
Album Title: Fire Of Love
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: General Punk
Format CD
Released 00/00/1981
Reissue Date 00/00/1986
Label New Rose
Catalog No ROSE 8 C.D
Bar Code No none
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Sex Beat (2:47)
2. Preaching The Blues (3:59)
3. Promise Me (2:36)
4. She's Like Heroin To Me (2:35)
5. For The Love Of Ivy (5:34)
6. Fire Spirit (2:49)
7. Ghost On The Highway (2:45)
8. Jack On Fire (4:43)
9. Black Train (2:11)
10. Cool Drink Of Water (6:16)
11. Goodbye Johnny (3:43)
Date Acquired 10/10/1984
Personal Rating
Acquired from Down In The Valley
Purchase Price 14.00

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Notes

Tracks 1, 2, 6 to 8 engineered at Quad Teck.
Tracks 3 to 5, 9 to 11 engineered at Studio America, remix at Quad Teck.
Distribution New Rose/Musidisc.
Manufactured by M.P.O. France.

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Analyzed: The Gun Club / Fire of Love
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR13       0.00 dB   -14.13 dB      2:47 01-Sex Beat
DR11       0.00 dB   -14.27 dB      3:59 02-Preaching the Blues
DR14      -1.56 dB   -18.16 dB      2:36 03-Promise Me
DR10       0.00 dB   -11.85 dB      2:35 04-She's Like Heroin To Me
DR11       0.00 dB   -14.88 dB      5:35 05-For the Love of Ivy
DR12      -0.80 dB   -14.84 dB      2:49 06-Fire Spirit
DR11      -0.80 dB   -13.40 dB      2:46 07-Ghost On the Highway
DR12      -1.20 dB   -15.04 dB      4:43 08-Jack On Fire
DR12      -2.74 dB   -16.91 dB      2:12 09-Black Train
DR13      -2.52 dB   -21.16 dB      6:17 10-Cool Drink of Water
DR13      -2.17 dB   -19.33 dB      3:44 11-Goodbye Johnny
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Number of tracks:  11
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           907 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Thom Jurek
The Gun Club's debut is the watermark for all post-punk roots music. This features the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce's swamped-out brand of roiling rock, swaggerific hell-bound blues, and gothic country. With Pierce's wailing high lonesome slide guitar twinned with Ward Dotson's spine-shaking riffs and the solid yet off-the-rails rhythm section of bassist Rob Ritter and drummer Terry Graham, The Gun Club burst out of L.A. in the early '80s with a bone to pick and a mountain to move -- and they accomplished both on their debut album. With awesome, stripped to the frame production by the Flesh Eaters' Chris D., Fire of Love blew away all expectations -- and with good reason. Nobody has heard music like this before or since. Pierce's songs were rooted in his land of Texas. On "Sex Beat," a razor-sharp country one-two shuffle becomes a howling wind as Pierce's wasted, half-sung half-howled vocals relate a tale of voodoo, sex, dope, and death. The song choogles like a freight train coming undone in a twister. Here Black Flag, the Sex Pistols, Son House, and the coughing, hacking rambling ghost of Hank Williams all converge in a reckless mass of seething energy and nearly evil intent. As if the opener weren't enough of a jolt, The Gun Club follow this with a careening version of House's "Preachin the Blues," full of staccato phrasing and blazing slide. But it isn't until the anthemic, opiate-addled country of "She's Like Heroin to Me" and the truly frightening punk-blues of "Ghost on the Highway" that the listener comes to grip with the awesome terror that is The Gun Club. The songs become rock & roll ciphers, erasing themselves as soon as they speak, heading off into the whirlwind of a storm that is so big, so black, and so awful one cannot meditate on anything but its power. Fire of Love may be just what the doctor ordered, but to cure or kill is anybody's guess.
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