Title: "Too Much Ocean"
Review: Well, I had waited with great anticipation for this one. had some hardcore blues many nights thinking about jeffrey lee pierce after he died. but there's nothing there, man. The lyrics without the songs behind them carry so much less power. It's surprising to see how vague and imcomplete they feel when read. Most read like one offs, not the powerful statements you hear on the records. And yet, it's great to have them. The power, the book proves, is in the music of the Gun Club . . . the presentation, the fierce heart . . .but the heart, the book shows, was inarticulate in most ways outside the music. It's a one-day read, really slight. It rambles. It's juvenile, high schoolish. There is some insight into the punk chaos (you had to be there to know Pierce hits this chord right), but is that enough? Just not a lot of book here, I'm afraid. For the most faithful of the faithful. Everyone else, please, buy the records.
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