Club Ninja: Lamest BOC album.

[Andy Gilham]

In a message dated 06/05/96  19:27:59, you write:

>Does anyone know what the sales figures were vis a vis the other
>BOC albums?  I would think it didn't do too badly on sales.

Don't know actual figures, but according to Blue Pearl 7, it peaked at #63 in
the US charts, and didn't even make the 100 over here (UK).  Whereas _RbN_
made only #93/-, and ETL #29/#95.

Best US chart position for an album was _Feet/Knees_ (#22), and best UK _C.
erectus_ (#12).

In the longer term, only _Agents_ and _SEE_ made platinum, and _ST_,
_Feet/Knees_, _Spectres_, and _FoUO_ made gold.  (But _ST_ not until 1992!)

Personally, I felt that _Club Ninja_ was actually rather an improvement over
_RbN_.  I never cared for much off the latter except "Shooting Shark",
"Veins" (surely the lyric book is wrong here, it's "balling his wife"?), and
"Shadow of Ca", and several of the other tracks are pretty dreadful.

> I don't blame BOC for taking a shot at commercialism there.   It was
> toward the end of their carreer.

But surely it was only about half-way through their career? :)

- Andy