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Las Vegas Story

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A true gem of an album when it was released in 1984, it's re-release on cd is overdue and is a must for anyone even mildly curious about The Gun Club. Jeffrey Lee Pierce's unique, emotional, and beautifully discordant vocal style is showcased perfectly by the mainly Pierce-penned lyrics and musicians in this line-up(Kid Congo Powers and Patricia Morrison being the best known).The cover of Gerschwin's "My Mans Gone", will fail to move you only if you are made of stone, but the rest is guitar-led with instantly memorable rhythms, perfectly complemented by Kid Congo's slide and lead. Championed at the time of release by Debbie Harry, the cd name-checks Chris
Stein for his help in this re-release.The only minor complaint is that there is no reproduction of the lyrics in the inner sleeve,present on the vinyl release.This is USA rock at it's purest and finest, not contaminated by commercialism nor airbrushed production.An underrated classic, and one of my favourite albums of all time

If you've ever had to walk down any dark and dangerous streets of America on a fullmoon night, filled with trash and burned out buildings, and you thought the moment deserved an eloquent tune -- this album will find a place in your heart.

Driving around E. St. Louis at night in the mid-80's looking for open liquor stores while looking at the decripted Gothic homes, I would crank this up...Walking with the Beast...the song's excellent rabid drums will forever live in my wasted, bitter youth -- reverberating a message that I've fallen from grace and maybe the devil was sitting in my car with me. Jeffery Lee Pierce and the Gun Club knew this world of small town madness and big city craziness. It's excellent Americana blues that will haunt you. Simply a classic. Yes, ghosts walk the abandoned homes of E.St. Louis and Alton, Illinois.

One of the best albums ever recorded. Great lyrics, great music. I'm so glad that this album is available again on CD by one of the best bands ever, and unfortunately one of the most underestimated as well.

Can't believe this only has 7 reviews... and almost none from America, the Gun Club's home territory. "Bad America!" lol

This deserves to be widely heralded as an 80's classic - it's dark, bluesy cowpunk at it's best. Jeffrey Lee Pierce's voice could be discordant..whether this was on purpose or not I don't know but after a couple of listens I found this didn't bother me at all and in a funny way actually works. Great songs, great band.

Give it time, it's sublime.

This is the Las Vegas Story.
A perfectly balanced album of blues/country alt rock, one of the best albums released by the Gun Club featuring the beautiful vocals of the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce, and Kid Congo Powers (The Cramps, Nick Cave & Bad Seeds).
This album rocks the whole way through, it's something that you can really let you're hair down too (even though I don't have any), the first song here is Walkin' With The Beast which is fuelled with guitars, it gives you the general feeling of the entire album, and finishes with the country flavours of Secret Fires which is a fitting finale and shows some roots to their music.
The album reaches it's pinnacle with The Master Plan & My Man's Gone which suits the title of this album to a tea, incredibly loungy something you would expect to hear at 5am, after a bender, walking through a casino lounge to go home.
But I suppose that was the intended effect.

One of my favourites all time this one from the Gun Club.
It's a mysterious and alternative bluespunkrock record. Hail the guitars and the punk-singing of JL Pierce which results in one the best bands ever from the 80's!

And now ladies and gentlemen: after long waiting there is a re-issue with bonus track. Enjoy.

Oh my God - no one's reviewed it and it's out of stock. This is arguably the best album of the 80s. Buy it, if you can find it...

Still a unique sounding album, Las Vegas Story encompasses the best of the GUN CLUB sound. It's like getting a flat tire in the wrong end of town and coming away with a happy story.

I love this lp though to me it sounds like the production could've been better by being a little less glossy. I find that the music has a great psychedelic glow and the guitar is the best that 2 people sans great chops could get to QMS/Television.
My Dreams is one of my favourite tracks ever. (...)I think there are extras due. Meanwhile I'd go for the Kalinda Danse Boom cd which is some of this material played live