Miami (studio album) by The Gun Club

Miami by The Gun Club
Year: 1982
Overall rank: 2,442nd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 119 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1982 (44th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (371st)
Award Best albums of all time (2,442nd)
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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 1013 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,732.

The Gun Club album bestography « Higher ranked (1,013th) This album (2,442nd) Lower ranked (6,701st) »
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Miami track list

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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 119 votes)
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06/23/2025 16:43 jnmayles  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 2,00073/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 7% 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 12.9.

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75/100
From 10/09/2021 06:49
‘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
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80/100
From 05/09/2014 06:12
"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.
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90/100
From 11/07/2012 15:06
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.
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85/100
From 05/04/2012 05:51
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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Best Albums of 1982
1. Thriller by Michael Jackson
2. The Dreaming by Kate Bush
3. The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden
4. Pornography by The Cure
5. Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
6. 1999 by Prince
7. Avalon by Roxy Music
8. Rio by Duran Duran
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11. New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) by Simple Minds
12. Combat Rock by The Clash
13. Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello And The Attractions
14. Peter Gabriel (1982) by Peter Gabriel
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18. Hex Enduction Hour by The Fall
19. Bad Brains by Bad Brains
20. The Lexicon Of Love by ABC
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