Death Party is an EP by American rock band The Gun Club, released in 1983.[2] It is the only official release of the Jim Duckworth and Dee Pop line up of the band which existed for about eight months.

Death Party
EP by
ReleasedApril 13, 1983
RecordedJanuary–February 1983
StudioBlank Tapes Studios, New York
Length19:43
LabelAnimal Records (original release)
Sympathy for the Record Industry (2004 US reissue)
Cooking Vinyl (2009 European reissue)
ProducerChris Stein, Jeffrey Lee Pierce
The Gun Club chronology
Miami
(1982)
Death Party
(1983)
The Las Vegas Story
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

A scheduled recording session for Tex & the Horseheads, the band Jeffrey Lee Pierce had put together around his girlfriend Linda/Texacala Jones was going to go unused. So the Gun Club filled the booking and recorded the Death Party EP with a bassist called Jimmy Joe Uliana who was a friend of Dee Pop's. Patricia Morrison was the Gun Club's bassist at the time, but didn't play on the EP because of the recording session's spur of the moment nature.[3]

Death Party was produced by Chris Stein, although he came to the sessions after most of the recordings were completed.

Reception

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In a 1983 Trouser Press review, Jim Green speculates that "Pierce may be assessing new stylistic directions", but concludes "this ain't it." Green says that Death Party lacks the "singleminded intensity of Gun Club's [albums]." He also says that "[t]he songs...sound like leftovers" and that the "record treads water more than anything else."[4]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Jeffrey Lee Pierce

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."The House on Highland Avenue"3:10
2."The Lie"3:16
3."The Light of the World"3:07
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Death Party"5:53
2."Come Back Jim"3:50

Personnel

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The Gun Club

with:

  • "Texas" Linda Jones (Texacala Jones) - backing vocals and "screams"
  • Jimmy Joe Uliana - bass except on "The Lie"
Technical
  • Joe Arlotta - session engineer
  • Robin Young, Clayton Clark - cover artwork

References

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  1. ^ Jurek, Thom. "Death Party". Allmusic. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
  2. ^ Green, Jim; Sprague, David (2007). "Gun Club". Trouser Press. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
  3. ^ "The Gun Club story".
  4. ^ Green, Jim (September 1983). "Green Circles". Trouser Press. Vol. 10, no. 7. New York. p. 52. Retrieved March 25, 2023.
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