Fire of Love [Original recording reissued]

The Gun Club | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 16, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1981
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B00004YLBI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,441 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #48 in Music > Alternative Rock > American Alternative > Psychobilly

Track Listings

1. Sex Beat

2. Preaching the Blues

3. Promise Me

4. She's Like Heroin to Me

5. For the Love of Ivy

6. Fire Spirit

7. Ghost on the Highway

8. Jack on Fire

9. Black Train

10. Cool Drink of Water Blues

11. Goodbye Johnny

Editorial Reviews

The Gun Club, Fire of Love

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ESSENTIAL, May 27, 2004

By 

Chauncey Gardner (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fire of Love (Audio CD)

"Gonna buy me a graveyard of my own
kill everyone who ever done me wrong
gonna buy me a gun just as long as my arm
kill everyone who ever done me harm"

Quite possibly one of the most perfect albums ever. From start to finish every track reeks of originality. Even their interpretation of PREACHIN THE BLUES swaggers and stabs at your ear. Los Angeles owes a debt of gratitude to THE GUN CLUB, X and countless other bands from the late 70's and early 80's. They've allowed a city steeped in musical fad to retain an aura of credibility. This album, like countless albums from the GOLDEN AGE at SLASH remains timeless and influential.

In the new garage rawk era of WHITE STRIPES, YEAH YEAH YEAHS and other standard bearers, FIRE OF LOVE proves just how far ahead of the curve JEFFREY LEE PIERCE and company were. I've owned this album for three decades now, and I still come back to it several times in the course of the year. The songs on FIRE OF LOVE remain raw and fresh, holding up remarkably well. For any fans of THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, X, BEASTS OF BOURBON, THE SCIENTISTS, CRAMPS, etc. Your LA Underground education begins here. BUY THIS RECORD NOW!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Never too late to start now, August 25, 2003

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Greekfreak (Pusan Korea (South)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fire of Love (Audio CD)

I must admit having discovered Jeffrey Lee Pierce and the Gun Club far too late in life; hell, I was only six when this came out, but true "punk" should never be overlooked as this band has been.

"Sex Beat", "Cool Drink Of Water Blues", and "She's Like Heroin To Me" are on constant rotation where I'm concerned, but this is high art at full throttle going downhill into oncoming traffic. It hits as hard as any mainstream punk or metal album of the day, and as such, deserves to be heard by all who care.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Punk-Blues Pinnacle, February 6, 2003

By 

Maria H. R. Souza (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fire of Love (Audio CD)

Gun Club manages to melt punk rage, blues-drenched despair and schizophrenic psychobilly on their unforgettable, fantastic debut. Drived by Jeffrey Lee Pierce sneaky, eerie voodoo-howls, the wailing, bleak, storming up tempo guitar of Ward Dotson and the fierce manic beat of Rob Ritter-Terry Graham rhythm section, the band delivered their songs - haunting tales of sex, terror, damnation, violence & desperate love - with harsh, passionate abandon. Pierce's career was short and tragic, but he had the firepower to lead this fantastic combo through the recording of an album of timelessly roughshod and unruly psycho-punk-blues, perhaps the first - and easily the best - of its kind. "Fire of Love" is bona-fide rock'n'roll bliss, an album that defies time idyosincrasies and music ephemeral fashions.