Blue Öyster Cult - Club Ninja (LP)
- LP
- 1 piece(s)
- 1985
- 9 tracks
- 45 min
- classic rock
Club Ninja
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Just for "Perfect Water", this album is a must-have, it's an amazing track.
Club Ninja', I'd say, perfectly illustrates the dilemma that many stadium rock bands from the '70s encountered. How do you keep your edge in a time dominated by excessive use of electronic instruments and diluted AOR tunes? Throw in some song doctors to complicate things further, and you've got this late 1985 album that marked the end of BÖC's streak of exceptionally challenging yet often satisfying hard rock. 'Dancing in the Ruins' was the lead single, and while it did get some radio play and is a decent track - it's not what you'd call classic Blue Öyster Cult. It was the obvious choice for a single, with Buck Dharma on vocals, as he had become the band's commercial voice. He also lends his voice to two other notable tracks, 'Perfect Water' and the album's closer 'Madness to the Method' - the former a soft pop song with progressive elements, the latter a progressive song with a pop vocal. The original, legendary lineup of five had dwindled down to three, with Alan Lanier joining Albert Bouchard as former BÖC members, so the magic was gone too. Eric Bloom does deliver his usual strong performance in 'White Flags' and also 'Shadow Warrior', which borrows the riff from a rejected track from the Teachers Soundtrack (remember that flop of a movie? Yeah, me neither) but is much better. It wasn't a good sign that on four of the songs on 'Club Ninja', including two of the more prominent ones, there were either song doctors involved or, in the case of 'White Flags', a cover. I'd say 'Ninja' is good, but nothing more than that, definitely not the swan song of a great band going out on a high note. Ever heard of Jacques Cousteau?......
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