History Music / ClubNinja

''Club Ninja'' is the 10th studio album by American rock band the Music/BlueOysterCult. Interestingly, it was released in Great Britain at the end of 1985, several months ahead of its release in the USA in 1986. This may have been to capitalise on a British and European tour at this time.[[note]]For consistency with earlier entries, this entry will use the American release year of 1986[[/note]] Their previous release, ''Music/RevolutionByNight'' was considered a commercial dissapointment after the success of 1981's ''Music/FireOfUnknownOrigin'' and 1982's double live release ''Extraterrestrial Live'', and pressure was growing for the group to come up with an unambiguous success.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: the album was released at the turn of 1985 into 1986. But, taking a close look at the video for ''Dancin' In The Ruins'', the anthropologists covertly filming the youth skateboarding tribe in some sort of post-apocalyptic wilderness are labelling their video with the title ''Skate punk docu 2-18-89''

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: the album was released at the turn of 1985 into 1986. But, taking a close look at the video for ''Dancin' In The ruins'', the anthropologists covertly filming the youth skateboarding tribe in some sort of post-apocalyptic wilderness are labelling their video with the title ''Skate punk docu 2-18-89''

** While they appear peaceable enough and are happy to have the band play for them while they dance and skate, the youth tribe of "Dancin' In The Ruins" have ''just enough'' of an air of sinister menace about them.

* ThePeteBest: The album had a TroubledProduction which saw founder member Allen Lanier walk out during the recording, leaving the band because he felt it had run its course and had nothing new or original to offer. There is inferred proof as to how this threw things into dissaray at short notice, as while Lanier was replaced by stand-in keyboards player Tommy Zvoncheck, the video for ''Dancin' In The Ruins'' only shows ''four'' members of the band. Despite the song having a string keyboard line, when the band are seen playing in the video, the keyboards station is empty and pushed way into the background, with nobody apparently playing. There is ''one'' shot of a person playing keyboards, possibly Zvoncheck, but this is on screen for possibly a fraction of a second and is just a blurry passing impression. It's almost as if the band principals are undecided as to whether he counts and certainly don't want him to have an appearance fee: or possibly that on the days booked for making the video, the band still didn't have a keyboards player at all? [[note]]In that case, could the keyboards part on the song have been recorded by the now-gone Lanier while he was still part of the group?[[/note]]

* ThePeteBest: The album had a TroubledProduction which saw founder member Allen Lanier walk out during the recording, leaving the band because he felt it had run its course and had nothing new or original to offer. There is inferred proof as to how this threw things into dissaray at short notice, as while Lanier was replaced by stand-in keyboards player Tommy Zvoncheck, the video for "Dancin' In The ruins'' only shows ''four'' members of the band. Despite the song having a string keyboard line, when the band are seen playing in the video, the keyboards station is empty and pushed way into the background, with nobody apparently playing. There is ''one'' shot of a person playing keyboards, possibly Zvoncheck, but this is on screen for possibly a fraction of a second and is just a blurry passing impression. It's almost as if the band principals are undecided as to whether he counts and certainly don't want him to have an appearance fee: or possibly that on the days booked for making the video, the band still didn't have a keyboards player at all? [[note]]In that case, could the keyboards part on the song have been recorded by the now-gone Lanier while he was still part of the group?[[/note]]