Gear Blues
Gear Blues is an album by the band Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, released in 1998. It was released in the United States in 2000. Critical reception. "NME" wrote: "Armed with an arsenal of hooks, chiselled cheekbones and oodles of self belief, Thee Machine Gun Elephant are credible heirs to the garageland throne, and, if that wasn’t enough, a paragon of internationalism." "LA Weekly" thought that "vocalist Yusuke Chiba is a hoarsely authoritative presence, and bassist Koji Ueno and drummer Kazuyuki Kuhara have eliminated the Who-derived busyness of their early approach in favor of seamless, no-nonsense  propulsion." "Rolling Stone" concluded that "the attention to visceral detail is what distinguishes "Gear Blues" from mere Nuggets and Brit-punk slavishness." AllMusic wrote that "the album ends with a bittersweet, melancholy, space punk groove on 'Danny Go'." European Release. The European release does not contain 'Jenny' but has an extra bonus disk with 'Get Up Lucy' and 'Cisco'