The Las Vegas Story

1. Las Vegas Story

2. Walkin' With the Beast

3. Eternally Is Here

4. Stranger in Our Town

5. My Dreams

6. Master Plan

7. My Man's Gone Now

8. Bad America

9. Moonlight Motel

10. Give Up the Sum

11. Secret Fires

The Las Vegas Story,Gun Club,Sympathy 4 the R.I.,Alternative Pop/Rock,American Underground,College Rock,Hard Rock,Indie Rock,Pop,Psychobilly,Rock,Rock/Pop,Roots Rock

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The Las Vegas Story

Average customer rating: Gather your Guns The best late night driving music.... Their masterpiece Classic

The Las Vegas Story Gun Club Manufacturer: Sympathy 4 the R.I. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Psychobilly | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Roots Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Miami Fire of Love Death Party Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee Wildweed ASIN: B0002VETAO Release Date: 2004-10-12

Tracks:

1. Las Vegas Story
2. Walkin' With the Beast
3. Eternally Is Here
4. Stranger in Our Town
5. My Dreams
6. Master Plan
7. My Man's Gone Now
8. Bad America
9. Moonlight Motel
10. Give Up the Sum
11. Secret Fires

Customer Reviews:

Gather your Guns.......2006-01-16

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.

The best late night driving music...........2004-11-26

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.

Their masterpiece.......2004-10-23

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

Classic.......2004-10-13

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.

Average customer rating: Essential for any Lounge Lizard Fab Baby, Fab! A staple for any get-together.

Jackpot! the Las Vegas Story Various Artists Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Lounge | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music 1950s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music 1960s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music Easy Listening | Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music 1960-1969 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 1950-1959 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Widescreen Edition) The Departed (Two-Disc Special Edition) ASIN: B0000033W9 Release Date: 1996-11-19

Tracks:

1. Something's Coming - Vic Demone
2. Danke Schoen - Wayne Newton
3. That Old Black Magic - Louis Prima/Keely Smith
4. The Lady Is A Tramp - Buddy Greco
5. I've Gotta Be Me - Sammy Davis, Jr.
6. That's Amore - Dean Martin
7. Wives And Lovers - Jack Jones
8. Lazy River - Bobby Darin
9. C'est Si Bon (It's So Good) - Eartha Kitt
10. Release Me (And Let Me Love Again) - Engelbert Humperdinck
11. Delilah - Tom Jones
12. Spanish Eyes - Al Martino
13. It's Delovely - Mel Torme
14. Al Di La - Jerry Vale
15. Begin The Beguine - Miss Ann-Margret
16. What Kind Of Fool Am I? - Robert Goulet
17. Parks & Recreation: Cherry Hill Park/MacArthur Park/Echo Park - Liberace
18. My Way (Live Version) - Paul Anka

Amazon.com

Remember the sequence in Casino in which De Niro's character becomes the star of a nightly talk show/pro-Mob harangue in order to keep hanging around the joint after he gets in Dutch with Nevada state authorities? Not much of that freewheeling spirit is captured on this gorgeously garish package. (It comes complete with a tiny pair of dice slipped inside the jewel box.) With main-room kings Sinatra and Presley absent from the proceedings here, the tic-ridden 1960 rendition of "The Lady Is a Tramp" offered by Buddy Greco is the kind of thing that too often passes for vocal sty-li-za-tion here. That insult to Frank--and Paul Anka's nonmythic rendition of "My Way"--aside, the Rat Pack does get props with the inclusion of the Dino and Sammy signatures "That's Amore" and "I've Gotta Be Me." In fact, the former's ur-Italian mischief keys into one of Jackpot!'s essential subtexts: the celebration of all things Mediterranean that was once a major part of the Vegas experience--Mel Tormé, Vic Damone, "Al Di La," even the bloodthirsty angst of Tom Jones's "Delilah," the best thing here and a murder ballad that Nick Cave shouldn't have missed. To think that this stuff was preferred by many parents as superior to rock & roll: "She saw the knife in my hand and she laughed no more," indeed. Too bad that so much of what surrounds Jones on this disc sounds foolish, even for those on a happy kitsch trip. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

Essential for any Lounge Lizard.......2002-05-17

Or a lover of the sounds that we associate with Vegas. Perfect background for that cocktail party or when you just want to pretend you're leading the show at the casino. The album is a sampler of the greats who made Vegas the town it is today. Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Tom Jones, and Mr. Vegas himself Wayne Newton. Pop in the disc and take a walk down memory lane.

Fab Baby, Fab!.......1998-11-23

This has got to be pure shwank! You can't help but make a martini and lounge on the couch in your finest clothes. Try it, and you'll never be able to take it out of your cd player. Enjoy baby, enjoy!

A staple for any get-together........1998-07-12

My friends request this CD when they come over because it brings back memories of every party we've had. It's a great way to relate to our parents' generation and appreciate the quality of the music that has become timeless.

Average customer rating: The Stranger Returns bluespunkrock at the best Most underrated band ever

The Las Vegas Story Gun Club Manufacturer: Capitol ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Psychobilly | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Roots Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000008GA9 Release Date: 1991-02-01

Tracks:

1. Las Vegas Story
2. Walkin' With the Beast
3. Eternally Is Here
4. Stranger in Our Town
5. My Dreams
6. Master Plan
7. My Man's Gone Now
8. Bad America
9. Moonlight Motel
10. Give Up the Sum
11. Secret Fires

Customer Reviews:

The Stranger Returns.......2004-07-03

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

bluespunkrock at the best.......2004-05-27

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.

Most underrated band ever.......2003-05-01

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...

Average customer rating:

It Is What It Is Jr Tre Manufacturer: Jr Tre ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music West Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA8UT6 Release Date: 2005-09-06

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1. Eight 0 Eight
2. Eye Phukin U
3. Lyrical Fiend
4. Co-Sign
5. Want Whatcha Cant Have
6. Da Party
7. Pimpin
8. Twankiez
9. Tanks on Empty
10. Lifes a Sin
11. Snatch Her
12. Why

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