For The Love Of Ivy - The Gun Club

[DanceInTheAbyss]

I'm sorry, but fuck The White Stripes, I'm sick of coming on to my favorite songs and hearing about some bullshit band I have no interest in, we're on a Gun Club video so we really shouldn't be talking about much else besides this song.

[DGENERATE07]

@DanceInTheAbyss how are the white stripes a bull shit band? they were one of the best bands of the last 10 years

[DanceInTheAbyss]

@DGENERATE07 Everyone has different taste, I'm sure you wouldn't enjoy the Deathrock and Trad Goth that I listen to.

[DanceInTheAbyss]

@DGENERATE07 Also, best band of the last 10 years? Don't make assumptions, music is music, it's all opinion and taste, nothing less.

[DGENERATE07]

@DanceInTheAbyss i enjoy death metal. I don't have anything against you not enjoying a band, I just have something against calling a good band shit. It's true that we all have different opinions, but I think we still have the ability to respectfully judge music, even if we don't like it. And that links to me thinking The White Stripes are one of the best bands of the last 10 years, because I think their music quality was up there with the very finest of the 2000's.

[DanceInTheAbyss]

@DGENERATE07 Deathrock is not Death Metal, seriously, don't tell me what's up when you clearly don't know anything about anything. Kommunity Fk, The Gun Club, Christian Death, Alien Sex Fiend, Specimen, Sex Beat, The Naked & The Dead, The Southern Death Cult, Virgin Prunes, Bohemien, Skeletal Family, 13th Chime, Sex Gang Children, Phaidia,The Screaming Dead, and Twisted Nerve are all bands that could be listed on the deathrock genre and have certainly nothing to do with Death metal.

[DGENERATE07]

@DanceInTheAbyss 'Deathrock is not Death Metal' sheesh sorry 'don't tell me what's up when you clearly don't know anything about anything' i know where i stand sir. Somebody has musical OCD... labelling music is for people that don't want to accept that their's some things in life that you just can't put into a box. If you want to describe familiar sounding music with stylistic name then fine, but stop getting so touchy over genres.

[sammy6whammy]

i paid 50 dollars to buy this album cause they dont make many more copies of it. it was worth it.

[nancivenuk09]

great halloween costume ... an elvis from hell!!!

[nancivenuk09]

poisen ivy rocked on her own!!! ...she deserves this tribute!! thanku gun club!!! done well!!!

[thomasnolanearnshaw]

Six people have broken hearts and still don't wanna go to hell

[goducks20101]

Kid Congo played this last friday at The echoplex in L.A.; swingin'

[dancing0being]

mp3 or mp4 music buying is bad. Just buy the CD and make infinite copies of any format you like.

iTunes and all other mp3 music shops are so bad.

[jerrymc777]

Have this on vinyl and would like it on MP3, but it's too damn expensive! There just aren't any bands or venues that play such music like this anymore! Guess I'll buy a MP3 turntable to convert all of my cool LPs that are impossible to find..., Germs Live, UXA, 45 Grave, Suburban Lawns,...LOL

[AisWelMusic]

@jerrymc777 check out The Razor Ball on facebook...there really good similarish sound!

[BornAgainBabyJesus]

@jerrymc777 ill buy it on mp3 and we'll trade :P i was just looking on ebay to buy their music and it is quite expensive and kind of limited to the US :/

[BoomBoomSpaceRocket]

@jerrymc777 You can use a youtube to mp3 converter like video2mp3. Thats how I get all the songs that are too obscure to find. Almost every song that has ever appeared on an album ever can be found on youtube so its pretty easy.

[aupsychobilly]

I look just like an Elvis from hell!

[ramonthe3rd]

i never would have thought rhyming hell with hell would sound so cool!

[slashgrass]

this is amazing shit right here

[pennyroyaltea89]

holy shit people!!!! music is music if you don't like it fuck off.... there's lots of music that i don't enjoy listening to, i just avoid it... why waste your breath saying you hate something?.... oh yea and the gun club are still the fucking bees knees!!!!!!!

[MrV1C7OR]

I really love how the guitar volumen is about 50% upper than voice volume in most of the song. Epic, emotion, rage . . .

[ardentepatience]

perfect song

[MichellesPoontang]

as far as Jack White's Terrible cover...it has no suspense, no dynamics like the original...just an idiot trying to sound bluesy...and total sell out lack of balls to change "nigger" to Buddy Holly...of course JLP wasn't racist , he even did a rap song lol...complete crap cover

[Oomn]

@MichellesPoontang cut copy paste ftw. quit hatin on jack, youre just mad his wife is hotter than your... wait... no woman would talk to you, HAH!

[JMJ405]

@MichellesPoontang Rapping doesn't have anything to do with race, and you're a racist cunt for thinking it does.

[mikepunchyourfucface]

@MichellesPoontang fuck you man

[pakistano12]

the Fire Of Love album is MAGNIFICIENT!!!

[ecnalubma696969]

Voodoo, plain and simple.

[dumdum5]

I am 47 I saw them couple of times whith kid congo and patricia morisson they where brilliant!!

[gregorymwishart]

i believe people who dislike this also dislike sleep food and sex

[GigaMegaUltra]

Jeffrey lee Pierce is a legend unfortunately they put idiots in hall of fame commercial sell outs, not music geniuses.I am 19 now and I cant understand how from this many cool bends music today turn out to be so shity and distasteful.

[VAThrasher]

I remember I got into the gun club, the cramps, and the birthday party at around the same time. My parents couldn't stand it, but goddamnit i loved it

[yingyingfromchina]

yes

[Queenodee]

aaahhhwww I FUCK'N LOVE THE GUN CLUB!!!!!!!!!!

[standupbassfiend]

I just started listening to Gun Club. This is the greatest music I've heard in a long time. It makes me wanna fuck on the front lawn,smash everything and swing dance!

[MRBLuD]

This is like the Pixies, but better and bluesier.

[LeshaAnn]

What kind of tone-deaf douchebaggery would've led FOUR different people to click "dislike?!"

[Palfium66]

@LeshaAnn Justin Bieber fans

[CavenEdwards]

The Gun CLub Is awesome. I'm really digging their stuff.

[gazz12345a]

The axe gang own the gun club.

[beautydaddy]

Fuck the white stripe metrosexuals...THIS IS THE GUN CLUB you Shitheels!

[xtcy201]

@beautydaddy jack white has gun club as an influence of his music and thinks this song should be taught in school. he's just trying to praise music he loves -_- and the white stripes is fucking great

[iamatwat]

i loved jlp and the gun club. i love black francis and the pixies but not until tonight listening to this did i realise how much BF owes JLP (RIP). no judgement there btw but my god....so little credit goes jlp and his Gun Club's way. sleep well jeffrey

[HenryLewisRadd]

@iamatwat great observation, I felt the same way, black's tone and phrasing are at times identical to jeff's. black obviously listened to those gun club records carefully!

[whitestripesaholic]

such a sweeeet song

[dukowski1965]

true story i lived in detroit i met jack white throu i friend before the strips since i was a good bit older he was you like gun club i was like the first one fucking great one first songs i learned to play was sex beat he played this song in band pre strips fucking cool too

[Person1036]

2 dislikes? Who are these cunts?

[whitestripesaholic]

Oh my god if you like this song the cover by the white stripes is off the freaking hook

[CaxAttack]

I need to buy an album!..............Like right at this moment!!!!!!!!(What do you guys recomend?)

[makeacircuit]

it's Chris Chan's theme song

[WildlyDisordered]

Does anyone know where I can get the Fire on love LP?

[Octane818]

It is straight up dedicated to Ivy of the Cramps. JLP said as much, as did Kid Congo. They ought to know since they wrote it.

[rift33]

i love this stinking song. kill everyone whose ever done me wrong. get drunkandstaggerdownthestreetsi­ngingoutloud great.

[bobchoda]

I meet JLP on 1st street right before they opened for the Lords of the New Chuch Mississippi Nights in 1982. He definitly was stones before the show,but still kiced ass.

[coopkabob]

i iove this! kicks ass! one of the coolest albumns i ever bought they dont make music like any more what a shame

[HeyyyGuyyy]

@coopkabob yes they do black angels.

[MrAlQ]

let's go get Ivy!!

[taurine13]

I'm happy to hear kids like this. I'm introducing it to my son today and was 15 when I bought it... Still love it!

[breakingthe4thwall]

@taurine13 I will too.

[sirdoug3]

GC Great Band!! - this song no doubt a tribute to Poison Ivy & the Cramps, she's a great guitarist, hope she makes more music - obviously, sadly won't be The Cramps though! - think G. Club's best are 'Fire Of Love' & 'Miami' -

[loudenblogger]

@sirdoug3 Actually, it is a tribute to heroin.

[Mortslake]

@loudenblogger where did you got that from? "you look just like an elvis from hell" isnt about Lux? And Ivy isnt about Poison Ivy? just wondering...

[ourladyoftheflowers1]

@loudenblogger

for the love of i.v.?

[loudenblogger]

@ourladyoftheflowers1 : The line in the song, let's go on Ivy (I.V.) He might have been referring to the Cramps, but the song is ultimately about heroin. I saw JLP in Philadelphia in 1985 in a small club and let's just say that I was able to confirm it then - - back when I was "on I.V."

[JerehmiaBoaz]

@loudenblogger the line goes let's go hunt Ivy.

[loudenblogger]

@JerehmiaBoaz: Did you get that from JLP himself prior to his death or metrolyrics? Whenever he sang live, he took a lot of liberties with his lyrics, like most performers. "IV" didn't help for clarity in any case.

[JerehmiaBoaz]

@loudenblogger I think the rabbit hole goes a bit deeper. There is a sixties race movie called for the love of ivy in which suggests ivy is african american and the jawbone lines are taken from an old lead belly song called cornbread rough which is packed with sexual innuendo etc., so do you know for sure the song is ultimately about shooting heroin?

[loudenblogger]

@JerehmiaBoaz Read my other comment. I saw him in 1986 and I was able to confirm it. He was a heroin addict. The song is for the love of Ivy. Get it? The song wasn't chosen for it's literal meaning. It suggests his love of IV.

[JerehmiaBoaz]

@loudenblogger Yes I get it, but I think there's more to the song than just his love of intravenous drug use. I speculate that if you would have asked JLP why he included the Lead Belly jawbone lyrics in his song, he probably would have told you quite another story.

[loudenblogger]

@JerehmiaBoaz : O.K I am not disputing what you say, However, it's not that deep, man. Nearly everyone of his songs is a creative cover of blues & rockabilly. Heroin addicts are not that deep, they only think they are. He was a phenomenal singer, but his greatest work, I feel, was what other's wrote. He was a junkie and that always came first; that always drove his choices. I am 47 yrs old. I remember those days well.

[JerehmiaBoaz]

@loudenblogger Well, I'm turning 46 in may and I worked as a sound engineer back in the eighties, so I guess you could say I've got a little experience with drugged up psychobilly/countrypunk/whatev­er musicians too ;) Sure a junkies life revolves around his addiction, but that doesn't mean junkies aren't capable of producing great art. Nobody seems to dispute that addicts can compose good music for instance, so why should they be handicapped when it comes to writing?

[katinasvenska]

@JerehmiaBoaz too true.Lou Reed for example.It is ok to be a drunk or gambling addict but no drugs

[Tigerbloodmilkshakes]

@katinasvenska

That's ridiculous. Those addictions can be just as detrimental as drug addictions. lol

[dancing0being]

@katinasvenska

Nice to be drunk or gambling junkie? Two of the most stupid and worthless acts a man can do. Total waste.

Too many fairy tales people believe they are true.

[loudenblogger]

@JerehmiaBoaz Never said he was handicappped. Hendrix was a genious to use an overly-used word. Nevertheless, My experience tells me that musicians who are heroin addictis ALWAYS write about it whether it is obvious or not. I don't call his music art, it is music. I don't read too much into the whys and hows of what makes music what it is. They are all overly self-absorbed egomaniacs, but I still love the music for it's sake. Americans intellectualize rock an roll way too much.

[dancing0being]

@loudenblogger

There is heavy metal and "it's only rock 'n' roll but i like it". You must choose your side.

This song and album is certainly art. 1974 Stones is just crap.

You don't know a thing about drugs.

[dancing0being]

@loudenblogger

You remember only what you lived or just one side of the many the music has. Many people remember other things.

I think J.L. Pierce never said he was Beethoven or better than him. It's only rock'n'roll but i like it ... (oooh, i hate this crap song).

[loudenblogger]

@dancing0being ???

[ourladyoftheflowers1]

@loudenblogger

for the love of i.v. ?

[SaveStef]

(((((( aWESOME )))))) ♪¨*♫:•.♥

[yuurei8]

Saw JLP live with Tex and the Horseheads. Amazing stuff. He was literally pulling out clumps of his hair on stage he was so emotional. RIP my brother!

[eddym78]

One of the greatest band ever... Incredible.

[loudenblogger]

When this came out, the first Gun Club album I heard was Miami. We called it cow punk. I grew up in the country and this shit spoke to me - I am 45 now and I still listen to it like it is brand new. God rest JLP's soul.

[duskdevils]

this is one of the greatest records ever made!!!!!!!!! every cut is amazing!!!!!!!!!

[ClashCityRockers0]

This is real good stuff! Man I wish I was alive back then...

[malalajka789]

hey you know gun club!! in discovered them a month ago and im totaly obsesed 

really good stuff

[ClashCityRockers0]

Not much- they mentioned Gun Club at the Richard Hell forum. I heard this song is about Poison Ivy Rorschach.

Poor Ivy <3

[raindogred]

yeah it was good seeing these guys live back in the early 80s but shit now I'm 44 years old and that sure sucks:}

[ClashCityRockers0]

Haha! But one day I'll be 44- just I won't have been 16 in the days of the Cramps and Gun Club! Shame...

[arizeal]

the white stripes got me into this stuff

thank you to jack white

[DocktorHelena311]

I wholeheartedly agree with the whole "I missed out on all the great music" theory. The Cramps and The Gun Club are my two favorite bands, and I'm 15 years-old. Gosh, I was born right as music went downhill!

[ClashCityRockers0]

I agree with myself too!! The Gun Club are great, but honestly I don't know much of their work yet. I discovered the Cramps on the black 4th of February, before I heard the tragic news. I'm obsessed with them, and I *ahem* eagerly suck their music into my blood...

[DocktorHelena311]

Wow, talk about irony. :| That was an undeniably bad day for music, and something I'll never forget.

The Gun Club are absolutely amazing, pretty much right up there with The Cramps in my book. Although, I do like their earlier work a tad bit better than their later stuff, but it's really all great.

[ClashCityRockers0]

I know. It was tragic. I even dream about him...

I'm sure they are, but I think Lux is a greater frontman than Jeffrey Lee Pierce. The Gun Club have a great sound too though.

[brianlowdown]

who gives a fuck its the new people that never heard these great bands then they say dont say the n word fucking say what you mean we are not in first grade he said the f word she said the s word fuck pc

[Gammarklar]

this might be my favorite gun club song, ever. when i first heard it i was floored that music like this was being made in 1981. absolutely timeless, with some furious sliding goin on.

[pataphysician66]

The use of the "n" word in this song is from a a character in the song- it is not the views of the musicians. They were anything but bigoted. If you can, add some footage to this- you can find all sorts of cool vintage stuff on the Internet archive.

[Octane818]

Who really cares?

[pataphysician66]

A LOT of people do- you'd be surprised.

[Octane818]

That's a real shame. It used to be that the GC and Christian Death could say nigger, D.I. could say fag, and people would get the joke.

Kids today are so fucking gay... LOL

[pataphysician66]

Yeah they don't get it...real idiots. If you like The Gun Club check out some of my mashups- Blackhearted Man (Goodbye Johnny), The Joy of Living With a Brain that Wouldn't Die (She's Like Heroin To Me),  Promise Me, Preach the Blues and Coffin Joe Meets the Gun Club (Jack on Fire). Okay so I'm pimping my vids

[83king]

christian deat,di tell me the joke are those bands ?

[brianlowdown]

i hate how people say the n word say the fuckn word are we in preschool this pc shit is gay

[pataphysician66]

THEN CALL ME GAY! I don't give a shit.

[kreeningsons]

"However, you must understand that its use is only a reference to a certain american culture, that could be named Southern Gothic, and which is present throughout the Gun Club lyrics.

Noone in is right mind would find it offensive to read that word in a Faulkner's book. It's the same thing here.

[kreeningsons]

"Jeffery Lee Pierce had a more than thorough knowledge of american culture, especially its "underbelly". He was also one of the less racist person I can think of. Jeffrey travelled throughout the world, lived in Japan, England, Belgium, South America and Jamaica (to name a few), and showed a relentless and profound interest in other cultures. His music, thoughout the years, showed influences from all sorts of blues, rock'n'roll, jazz, free jazz, raegge, rap music."

[pazisad]

Well, jawbone eat and jawbone talk

jawbone eat you with a knife and fork

I was hunting for niggers down in the dark

when suddenly I got a better thought

niggers=black people?

[iluvjackwhitemost]

i give it 3/5

[08operationivy]

Love this song!!!

[maduserid]

Yeh! so do I, Its all about gardening apparantly

[0kappa02]

I thought it was about Ivy from the cramps..

[maduserid]

DUH!