Miami
by The Gun Club
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The Gun Club bestography
Miami is ranked 2nd best out of 13 albums by The Gun Club on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Gun Club is Fire Of Love which is ranked number 912 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,903.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Miami track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Miami rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  slatsheit | Top 47 Music Albums of 1982 | 38/47 | 1 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 85/100 | 16 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Most listened t2021 (2 B deleted) | 66/99 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of 1982 | 4/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  JMGL95 | Top 33 Music Albums of 1982 | 20/33 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 99 Music Albums of 1982 | 26/99 | 4 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1982 | 28/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Albums of the year 1982 by Ultimate Record Collector | 24/54 | - |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1982 | 2/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  O.T. | Top 33 Music Albums of 1982 | 10/33 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 128 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 644 | |||
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Miami ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/20/2026 19:37 |  RasmV | 2,596 | 73/100 |
| ! | 04/07/2026 00:28 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,610 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/11/2026 02:23 | Repo | 2,226 | 85/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.5/100, a mean average of 75.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.8.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/15/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5374): By Dankel Repo 03/11/2026 02:11 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
NoisyBeast 06/26/2025 06:34 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)Miami comments
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Brad1770 10/09/2021 06:49 | #274795 | TOP COMMENT
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‘Miami’ (1982) and ‘Fire of Love’ (1981) are two companion piece albums which capture most of J.L.P’s early material encapsulating the early Gun Club “Classic Sound” 1.0 characterised by their unique melding of blues / roots with college / indie rock
Note 1: the track “The Fire of Love” doesn’t appear on the album ‘Fire of Love’ and can be found on ‘Miami’
Note 2: the track “John Hardy” is a tradition folk song most famously recorded by Leadbelly and The Carter Family
Kalos 05/09/2014 06:12 | #111257 | TOP COMMENT
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"The Dark Side or FoL." Both albums remind me of the wild west, if FoL was the obscene song of the cowboys, Miami is the gloomy ritual of the Indians.
Probably contains some of the best songs Gun Club ever produced- Carry Home, Bad Indian, Sleeping in Blood City and Mother of Earth. A must have for every Gun Club fan.
lancashirearab 05/04/2012 05:51 | #41471 | TOP COMMENT
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My vinyl copy has a stained cover and the vinyl crackles, but I still prefer it to the CD version I bought. I once travelled down to London to see Nick Cave. My abiding memory of that night was seeing Jeffrey Lee Pierce heading away from the bar. I was such a small town boy amazed that someone I liked so much was at the same concert as me.
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