1981 - Fire of Love (Ruby Records) 1982 - Miami (Animal Records) 1983 - Death Party (Animal Records) 1984- The Las Vegas Story (Animal Records) - Golden age of the club -
Jeffrey Lee Pierce is one of the great lost figures in rock-n-roll history. His personal demons brought him low, but not before he left us with a deeply personal and moving body of work.
One can spot this phaenomenon in so many other great artists, the feeling is v similar in their music, the rawness & smoothness, like roky erickson , syd barrett to daniel johnston to fad gadget , to lanegan to to tt
People are too hard on their later albums. They are good. They don't match the fervor of their initial bursts upon the scene but what band hasn't done that. It's as good as the cramps and their output of later albums. He just went back to more roots style music and he probably had great things planned stifled by his untimely death which was kinda just sad and didn't help build a great myth. If you really study the albums the greatness gets slimmer but the special thing he had in his song writing still shines thru in at least a song or two on every release. Though there is more filler on the later albums overall still worth to be known. Everyone talks shit because it has become a type of consensus and just passed along as truth though it is lore. A case of the spiral of silence and people that just enjoy hearing themselves talk rather than ever having ever listening to the later albums, or if so only once and expecting Fire of Love all over again. That's my 2 cents tossed into the fountain.
Avant-garble Mixtapes Yes I agree ☝️ The later records never got the acclaim that they merited. 30 years later they not only hold up but continue to grow on me. I'm very grateful I got a chance to see them live a dozen times between 82 and 89. The thing is not to keep expecting FOL and Miamii and to appreciate the later music for what it was-some of the best most original music 🎶 of that era. It sure beats hell out of ANYTHING I hear 👂 today
agree on that, the idiot waltz was the first Gun Club song that grabbed my attention, i sort of started from the END and i suppose it took him (JLP) more than a decade to achieve that kind o concision with his songwriting
Scorched beauty. Think that's a proper description. Could listen to this on and on and on. And NEVER grow tired of it. The SOUL whithin this is mindblowing.
It's hard to express in words how happy I am to have found this band. Thank you Mark Lanegan for talking frequently about your admiration for JLP cause now I have it :)
If I could like this a million times I would! Thanks Keith and Off for getting me into Gun Club!! This band is genius for there time period! JLP is a great writer!
I was a punk from Calgary, Canada checking the scene in So Cal in 1981. I saw a punk across the street in Hollywood so I crossed the street (you did that back in the day, we were few and far between) to get the lowdown on who was good amongst the bands that were playing in OC that weekend. He told me, with authority , that I should go to the Cathy’s de Grande to see the Gun Club. I took that dudes advice and was treated to the a show I’ll never forget. Epic. So thank you, young California punk, if I I could find you today, I’d buy you a steak just as long as my arm.
@@darylcumming7119 The 80's was quite forgettable except for the Gun Club, the Lyres and the Long Ryders. All that bad keyboard cheese is as bad as anything sine Neil Sedaka.......
Después de escucharlo por varios años, solo puedo describirlo cómo algo tan sencillo, natural, directo y lleno de emociones que viviendo como Jeffrey podrías entender del todo, enamorado de la cotidianidad haciendo poesía. 💜 And one day you will find out what kind of monster you’ve come
´ And one day you will find out what kind of monster you’ve BEcome ` , was just listening to the song as reading your comment . Sorry, don´t want to patronize or anything ,you might even apreciate the correction, I know I would .
Fire of. ..& Miami are 2 out of my TOP 15 ? albums ever made IMO. I also believe that nobody has the right to blame them about the level of the rest. Any band made HUGE albums firstly split up or became like the Stones, if u know what i mean!
it's snowing lightly today, reminding me of a gun club gig i attended in winter of '83, the venue a big glitzy former disco out near coney island. jeffrey had something but unfortunately that something had too much to do w/ heroin.
“In a 1983 Trouser Press review, Jim Green speculates that "Pierce may be assessing new stylistic directions", but concludes "this ain't it." Green says that Death Party lacks the "singleminded intensity of Gun Club's [albums]." He also says that "[t]he songs...sound like leftovers" and that the "record treads water more than anything else." Was this guy deaf? Yet more evidence that American music journalist didn’t know their ar$e from their elbow when it came to music! Rolling Stone magazine was the worst, but Trouser Press weren’t far behind!
House on Highland Ave. is one of their best songs.....I kinda dislike the more noisy/fast songs. The band moved to diff. musical areas with the Las Vegas story and LPs after that...not for the better imo.
@@johnflushing9328 I was fortunate to see them up close on at least 3 or 4 of their tours. They were always spellbinding; they enraptured you. Patricia usually was beaming from ear to ear. I loved watching her, but Jeffrey Lee was the Master. His guitar playing became more prominent and skillful with each tour. (Oh! Check this out; he's playing guitar. Oh! Holy shit. He's GOOD.)
1981 - Fire of Love (Ruby Records)
1982 - Miami (Animal Records)
1983 - Death Party (Animal Records)
1984- The Las Vegas Story (Animal Records)
- Golden age of the club -
Jeffrey Lee Pierce is one of the great lost figures in rock-n-roll history. His personal demons brought him low, but not before he left us with a deeply personal and moving body of work.
Very well said, I second that
One can spot this phaenomenon in so many other great artists, the feeling is v similar in their music, the rawness & smoothness, like roky erickson , syd barrett to daniel johnston to fad gadget , to lanegan to to tt
1. "The House on Highland Avenue" 0:01
2. “The Lie" 3:29
3. “The Light of the World" 6:45
4. “Death Party" 9:55
5. “Come Back Jim" 15:47
I just can’t get over how great a song is “The Lie”! It could quite easily be their best!
see the live version
and have fun
Rest in Powder
Jeffrey
☠️💣☠️
People are too hard on their later albums. They are good. They don't match the fervor of their initial bursts upon the scene but what band hasn't done that. It's as good as the cramps and their output of later albums. He just went back to more roots style music and he probably had great things planned stifled by his untimely death which was kinda just sad and didn't help build a great myth. If you really study the albums the greatness gets slimmer but the special thing he had in his song writing still shines thru in at least a song or two on every release. Though there is more filler on the later albums overall still worth to be known. Everyone talks shit because it has become a type of consensus and just passed along as truth though it is lore. A case of the spiral of silence and people that just enjoy hearing themselves talk rather than ever having ever listening to the later albums, or if so only once and expecting Fire of Love all over again. That's my 2 cents tossed into the fountain.
Avant-garble Mixtapes Yes I agree ☝️ The later records never got the acclaim that they merited. 30 years later they not only hold up but continue to grow on me. I'm very grateful I got a chance to see them live a dozen times between 82 and 89. The thing is not to keep expecting FOL and Miamii and to appreciate the later music for what it was-some of the best most original music 🎶 of that era. It sure beats hell out of ANYTHING I hear 👂 today
I figure the important thing, with a band made up of such marginal types, is that they continued to make their work.
well said.i feel your ;ove.x
agree on that, the idiot waltz was the first Gun Club song that grabbed my attention, i sort of started from the END and i suppose it took him (JLP) more than a decade to achieve that kind o concision with his songwriting
Scorched beauty. Think that's a proper description. Could listen to this on and on and on. And NEVER grow tired of it. The SOUL whithin this is mindblowing.
It's hard to express in words how happy I am to have found this band. Thank you Mark Lanegan for talking frequently about your admiration for JLP cause now I have it :)
If I could like this a million times I would! Thanks Keith and Off for getting me into Gun Club!! This band is genius for there time period! JLP is a great writer!
1. "The House on Highland Avenue"
2. "The Lie"
3. "The Light of the World"
4. "Death Party"
5. "Come Back Jim"
I was a punk from Calgary, Canada checking the scene in So Cal in 1981. I saw a punk across the street in Hollywood so I crossed the street (you did that back in the day, we were few and far between) to get the lowdown on who was good amongst the bands that were playing in OC that weekend. He told me, with authority , that I should go to the Cathy’s de Grande to see the Gun Club. I took that dudes advice and was treated to the a show I’ll never forget. Epic. So thank you, young California punk, if I I could find you today, I’d buy you a steak just as long as my arm.
What sort of subhuman would dislike this?
A lot unfortunately. True good music will be forgotten one day
Too young too remember the eighties?
Fuck everybody in the name of JLP
@@darylcumming7119 The 80's was quite forgettable except for the Gun Club, the Lyres and the Long Ryders. All that bad keyboard cheese is as bad as anything sine Neil Sedaka.......
@@seancurran6727 ?
there is no fire in your glass eye
You know, 4 a serial killer is about
Después de escucharlo por varios años, solo puedo describirlo cómo algo tan sencillo, natural, directo y lleno de emociones que viviendo como Jeffrey podrías entender del todo, enamorado de la cotidianidad haciendo poesía.
💜
And one day you will find out what kind of monster you’ve come
´ And one day you will find out what kind of monster you’ve BEcome
` , was just listening to the song as reading your comment . Sorry, don´t want to patronize or anything ,you might even apreciate the correction, I know I would .
Fire of. ..& Miami are 2 out of my TOP 15 ? albums ever made IMO.
I also believe that nobody has the right to blame them about the level of the rest.
Any band made HUGE albums firstly split up or became like the Stones, if u know what i mean!
JLP RIDES AGAIN!
One of my favorites
it's snowing lightly today, reminding me of a gun club gig i attended in winter of '83, the venue a big glitzy former disco out near coney island. jeffrey had something but unfortunately that something had too much to do w/ heroin.
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Not only horseshit, but also a non-sequitur.
@@filament6 ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine
Jeff and I were big fans
How ironic your presence here listening to this ...
thanks for uploading this amazing ep !!!!!
Beautiful
Jim duckwoth
Come back Jeff
talent rare
Amo essa banda mais Q TUDO!!!!!! "Light of the world" mas uma batida sex do " THE GUN CLUB"
I still fucking love this!
Fire Of Love
Miami
Death Party
The Las Vegas Story
Mother Juno
Come Back Jim is a great stomper! Who drums on this?
Dee Pop.
Who was playing lead here,Kid or Jeff?Some brutal stuff 🎸🎸🎸⚡️⚡️💊💊💊💊
Jim Duckworth
Jim Duckworth!
ruclips.net/video/wcNAYIdgkKo/видео.html
Awesome
Awesome!!! Can you specify the tracklist? Great job :)
Edder Moran en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Party
I migliori
Hèlièf.
“In a 1983 Trouser Press review, Jim Green speculates that "Pierce may be assessing new stylistic directions", but concludes "this ain't it." Green says that Death Party lacks the "singleminded intensity of Gun Club's [albums]." He also says that "[t]he songs...sound like leftovers" and that the "record treads water more than anything else."
Was this guy deaf?
Yet more evidence that American music journalist didn’t know their ar$e from their elbow when it came to music!
Rolling Stone magazine was the worst, but Trouser Press weren’t far behind!
🙂
House on Highland Ave. is one of their best songs.....I kinda dislike the more noisy/fast songs.
The band moved to diff. musical areas with the Las Vegas story and LPs after that...not for the better imo.
Las Vegas Story is the first album of theirs I heard. It made me a fan right off the bat. Some of their top stuff I think.
@@ratlungworm7035 their BEST A side and almost the very BEST side ever.
Miami's pretty tough too...
This is the greatest E.P. for sure. I wish I saw them around this time!
@@johnflushing9328 I was fortunate to see them up close on at least 3 or 4 of their tours. They were always spellbinding; they enraptured you. Patricia usually was beaming from ear to ear. I loved watching her, but Jeffrey Lee was the Master. His guitar playing became more prominent and skillful with each tour. (Oh! Check this out; he's playing guitar. Oh! Holy shit. He's GOOD.)
The only thing Jeffrey wasn't so hot at was drunk gangsta rap from what I've heard!
wie war der gut.. der jeffry lee.....