Fire of Love [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED]

The Gun Club

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 16, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1981
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B00004YLBI
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #78,024 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gonna buy me a graveyard..., July 20, 2006

By	G. Mitchell "greggmitch" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Simply put, this is one of the best albums ever, and save for THE CLASH's LONDON CALLING, I think THE GUN CLUB's FIRE OF LOVE just might be the best rock album ever, hands down, no contest. As a matter of fact, SEX BEAT just might be the best rock-n-roll song ever recorded, summing up the raw, ragged, sexy, unholy power of rock past, present, & future in under three minutes - but isn't that how the best of rock should be? I mistrust the current Jeffrey Lee Pierce idol worship circa 2006 - all I know is, I got this LP when it first came out on Slash in the early 80s as a teen and haven't stopped playing it since - it's almost three decades old and still puts most everything else in its path to shame. JLP and THE GUN CLUB never quite managed to scale these heights ever again (even if parts of MIAMI and LAS VEGAS are nice) - if you don't own this, you don't know good music, period.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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.

14 of 17 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 (REAL NAME)

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.