| Death Party | ||||
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| Released | April 13, 1983 | |||
| Recorded | January–February 1983 | |||
| Studio | Blank Tapes Studios, New York | |||
| Length | 19:43 | |||
| Label | Animal Records(original release) Sympathy for the Record Industry(2004 US reissue) Cooking Vinyl(2009 European reissue) | |||
| Producer | Chris Stein,Jeffrey Lee Pierce | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
Death Party is anEP by American rock bandThe 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.
A scheduled recording session forTex & 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 theDeath 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 byChris Stein, although he came to the sessions after most of the recordings were completed.
In a 1983Trouser Press review, Jim Green speculates that "Pierce may be assessing new stylistic directions", but concludes "this ain't it." Green says thatDeath 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]
All tracks are written byJeffrey Lee Pierce
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The House on Highland Avenue" | 3:10 |
| 2. | "The Lie" | 3:16 |
| 3. | "The Light of the World" | 3:07 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Death Party" | 5:53 |
| 2. | "Come Back Jim" | 3:50 |
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