Jim Jones Revue Discography of CDs

Jim Jones Revue songs Track Listing of songs: 7 Times ...

Jim Jones Revue CD discography Though they hail from London, the Jim Jones Revue could convincingly just as well be from the Detroit of another era, owing no small debt to the region's down-and-dirty Stooges and MC5. The group actually thrives on numerous anachronisms, noisily throttling through manic rave-ups rooted in a positively wicked distortion of the very early days of rock & roll, and lending major credence to the tag "psychobilly" along the way. While it's difficult to ignore the pangs of Raw Power felt throughout, it's equally impossible to not think of Little Richard as one of the cornerstones here -- unlikely bedfellow though he may be -- particularly in the way the predominant and admirably interwoven strains of rollicking piano interact with the raspy shouts constituting the vocal track. The keys are so essential to their sound that the Revue used a picture of a lone, suitably battered upright on the cover of their debut, and though they have come much further into their own on Burning Your House Down, that striking photograph still hits a resounding chord. A top-notch testament to their powers in this regard is the mid-album cut "Shoot First," a rare moment where the instruments are given ample breathing room from one another and resultantly shine on their own merits. The guitars get their due, too, on the loping groove of the apocalyptic "Righteous Wrong," which takes its time in reaching the record's absolute peak. The Jim Jones Revue certainly are a formidable outfit, running amok at a breakneck pace with sound levels regularly in the red, and seemingly poised to live up to the threat of the title lest anyone dare label them "derivative." Indeed, doing so feels beside the point. Perhaps they represent the bastard child of what the Cramps and Stray Cats achieved with considerably more measure and restraint in their own rights a couple decades prior -- and what the absence of those two crucial elements entails on Burning Your House Down is a ...

Jim Jones Revue albums Track Listing of songs: 7 Times Around The Sun; Never Let You Go;

Jim Jones Revue music CDs 2008 eponymous debut album, described as sounding like a car crash between Little Richard and The MC5, The 'Revue play supercharged Rock 'N' Roll inspired by The Killer, The Georgia Peach and, of course, The Memphis Flash and the deranged sons of Detroit. The Jim Jones Revue strip Rock back to its essential elements and this album is a document of their ...

Jim Jones Revue discography Track Listing of songs: Cement Mixer; Good Golly Miss Molly;

Jim Jones Revue songs Track Listing of songs: Rock'n'roll Psychosis; Big Hunk O Love;

Jim Jones Revue CD discography Sour Jazz's new disc respects no demarcation lines of style, occupying its own turf where New Wave butts heads with '70s NY rock. It's witty and rocks in its own sometimes slinky, mostly rambunctious way. They wear their Iggy influence on their sleeves and pull no punches when it comes to rockin'.Vocalist Lou Paris still does "New Values" Iggy better than The ...