Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim Artist: Gun Club
Label: Triple X Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 021075116328
EAN: 0021075116328
ASIN: B000005ZMZ


Release Date: 1993-09-10

Lucky Jim


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Tracks:

  1. Lucky Jim
  2. A House Is Not A Home
  3. Cry To Me
  4. Kamata Hollywood City
  5. Ride
  6. Idiot Waltz
  7. Up Above The World
  8. Day Turn To Night
  9. Blue Monsoons
  10. Desire
  11. Anger Blues

Similar Items:

  1. Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee
  2. Pastoral Hide and Seek/Divinity
  3. In Exile

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars telling stories in pictures.......2006-06-12

I agree with several other reviewers that this isn't the best Gun Club album by long shot, but is still worth owning if you are a fan. Jeffrey Lee's guitar playing sort of dominates the album, and at times it feels like he's trying too hard to be a blues guitar hero. On the other hand, he had a very soft touch as a songwriter, and this album showcases a more mature outlook than the fire/water/earth motifs of earlier albums. "Kamata Hollywood City" might be my single favorite Gun Club song (putting it on the short list for my favorite song period), and "Idiot Waltz" and "Lucky Jim" are likewise among their best material. They have that wonderful effect of telling a story in pictures, by describing scenes and events, rather than by describing outright the feelings and emotions that those events are meant to evoke. I suppose there is a more distinctly maudlin self-pity running through the mood of this album than in previous works, but it doesn't really weigh things down the way you might expect. Also, there's a departure from the heavily Television influenced funk of Pastoral Hide & Seek/Divinity that may (or may not) be attributable to the absence of Kid Congo Powers.

If you are already a Gun Club fan, meaning you enjoy their music beyond merely "Fire of Love", then this album is worth getting too. At the moment, I'd rank the Jeffrey Lee albums that I own thusly:

1) Wildweed
2) Mother Juno
3) Fire of Love
4) Miami
5) Pastoral Hide & Seek/Divinity
6) Las Vegas Story
7) Death Party EP
8) Lucky Jim

But bear in mind that this order changes frequently.

5 out of 5 stars "9 Lives of J.L. Pierce/Gun Club".......2006-04-08

Although, not my favorite Gun Club album, I consider each and every one of their "official" recordings essential for one's life. I just hope that everyone that is a fan is picking up the re-releases of Gun Club/Jeffrey Lee Pierce through the "9 Lives of J.L. Pierce/Gun Club" series that's being issued by Flow Records out of the Netherlands. It's well worth it to check out their website at http://www.flowrecords.nl/englishversion/index.html Their release of "Lucky Jim" is a 2-disc set, as are over half of the nine releases they have planned to reissue. Here's the schedule...

November 2005
1. Wildweed
2. Lucky Jim (2CD)

February 2006 (Unfortunately, these two still haven't been released according to schedule, but are now slated for late April)
3. Mother Juno (2CD)
4. Danse Kalinda Boom (2CD)

June 2006
5. Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee Pierce
6. Divinity (2CD)

September/October 2006
7. Pastoral Hide and Seek (2CD)
8. Ahmed's Wild Dream

February 2007
9. Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee and Cypress Grove - Spanish Flang Dang (Live)

5 out of 5 stars Long Live Lucky Jim !!!.......2006-02-12

This is the Gun Club album I reach for most often. It transports me to another world. A beautiful yet shadowy world left in ruin by colonel kilgore and company. Jeffrey Lee Pierce actually lived in Viet Nam for awhile. Must've been some experience. Try to get Lucky Jim for yourself. Most of the best stuff comes from "beyond the pale," anyway.

4 out of 5 stars saw one of their last shows live in support of this..........2000-07-15

I have never heard a song more beautiful than the title track. Live in SF.... to the song Lucky Jim...I have never seen an audience in such a trance. Lucky Jim is not for the "new" Gun Cluber, but has great moments. A dark sounding CD with a lean to a more blusier side of the band.

3 out of 5 stars

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