Fire Of Love
by The Gun Club

Album
Fire Of Love by The Gun Club
Year: 1981
Release date: 1981-08-31
Overall rank: 930th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 322 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1981 (10th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (137th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (930th)

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Fire Of Love is ranked as the best album by The Gun Club.

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Fire Of Love rankings summary
Overall rank: 930th | 1980s rank: 137th | 1981 rank: 10th  Overall chart history
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From 04/02/2011 02:34 | #19858 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This album is breathtaking. It's a kind of merging of the Cramps 'voodoobilly', Robert Johnson's Delta blues, Louisiana's swamp rhythms, Jim Morrison's dark and sensual dialectics, and California's hardcore scene. The end result is an hypnotic amphetaminic demonic rock'n'roll that bridged a fine balance of suspense and despair on the one hand, and nihilist anger on the other...Brilliant.
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From 04/16/2012 22:21 | #40387 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
"Why are these songs not taught in schools?" - Jack White. I love that.
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From 08/19/2022 10:14 | #288682 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Some great songs on here but there are also some quite dull ones present. The influence this group had on the White Stripes is evident just by listening to the music. It is short and snappy with some catchy instrumentation that is quite heavy. This style works brilliantly on the songs Sex Beat, She's Like Heroin To Me, Fire Spirit and Ghost On The Highway. That combination of blues and punk just works so perfectly together on these tracks and it makes for a very enjoyable listen. However, the repetitive song structure and stylings do get a bit bland and boring by the end. This leads to the record feeling like it drags and quite a significant dip in quality on the songs that don't hook you. Overall, an interesting combination of genres that works very effectively in places but also struggles on the slower tracks that lack energy.
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From 01/29/2012 12:26 | #36140 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
what a great record ! It sounds like a 2000's post punk revival album, I think this is what king of leons are trying to sound like.
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From 07/02/2012 03:34 | #45763 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I discovered this album much later that I should have. This is the greatest rock album of the 80s and does not get nearly enough recognition.
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Best Albums of  1981
1. Moving Pictures by Rush
2. Computerwelt by Kraftwerk
3. Discipline by King Crimson
4. Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
5. My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Brian Eno & David Byrne
6. Time by Electric Light Orchestra
7. Faith by The Cure
8. Damaged by Black Flag
9. Dare by The Human League
10. Fire Of Love by The Gun Club