MarketClub Ninja
Company Profile

Club Ninja

Club Ninja is the tenth studio album by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on December 10, 1985, in the United Kingdom and on February 11, 1986, in the United States. The album was intended as a comeback for the band, whose previous album The Revölution by Night failed to attain Gold status following the success of 1981's Fire of Unknown Origin and 1982's Extraterrestrial Live. Club Ninja sold more than 175,000 copies, falling well short of gold status again, and because of its high cost, Columbia Records executives deemed it a commercial failure. The album was re-issued on compact disc on March 10, 2009, by Sony-owned reissue label American Beat Records, which had also reissued the band's 1988 album, Imaginos.

Reception
Edwin Pouncey, reviewing the album for Sounds, gave it a five-star rating, describing it as "a seemingly leaden slab of AOR which suddenly turns into gold in your hands", praising Sandy Pearlman's production. Modern reviews are quite negative, with AllMusic calling Club Ninja a testimony of "Blue Öyster Cult's gradual disintegration" and "decline into musical anonymity". Canadian journalist Martin Popoff judged the album the "least attached to the BÖC body of work, painfully constructed and baffling in its bad taste", showing a band struggling to update their sound to more "commercial avenues" without achieving the expected radio-friendly results. ==Track listing==
Personnel
;Band members • Eric Bloom – lead vocals, "stun" (rhythm) guitar • Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser – lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards • Joe Bouchard – bass, backing & lead vocals, guitar • Tommy Zvoncheck – keyboards, organ, piano • Jimmy Wilcox – backing vocals, percussion ;Additional musicians • Thommy Price – drums • Phil Grande – additional guitar • Kenny Aaronson – additional bass • David Lucas, Joni Peltz, Dave Immer, Joe Caro – background vocals • Howard Stern – "When the War Comes" spoken word ;Production • Sandy Pearlman – producer, management • Paul Mandl – engineer, overdubs editor, programming • John Devlin, Toby Scott – engineers • David Lucas – additional production • Brian McGee – mixing ==Charts==
tickerdossier.comtickerdossier.substack.com