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The Jim Jones Revue
Burning Your House Down



Deranged rock with lots of roll, produced by Bad Seed and Grinderman's Jim Sclavunos.

The Jim Jones Revue

Their 2008 self-titled first was recorded live in 48 hours in Camden with Jim Jones and his Revue yelping their way through distorted in-the-red songs indebted to Little Richard, The Sonics and Bunker Hill. Their second, which took just a little longer to record, is stoked heavily with Stooges wildfire, but is, thank the heavens, really just more of the adrenalin-fuelled same. A different version of the explosive title track may have turned up first on Here To Save Your Soul, their stop gap A and B sides collection from last year, but its psychopathic raging - "I'm burning your house down, to let you know I'm still around," Jones hollers as the band clatter around him - epitomises the ear-shattering cacophony on offer here.

Lois Wilson

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 03/02/2011

Further Listening

The Jim Jones Revue - The Jim Jones Revue (Punk Rock Blues Records, 2008)

MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (Elektra, 1969)

Little Richard - Little Richard (Specialty, 1958)


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  • Like Little Richard or Jerry Lee Lewis jamming with the Devil!
    It's that good! Buy this album now!!!!!

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