Sinking the Eight Ball
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Sinking the Eight Ball is the debut album by Ruby Joe. Due to its topical content, the album was pulled from some Christian book stores.[1]
The album drew upon the production talents of Mike Knott and Gene Eugene. On this release the band has a rockabilly sound, somewhere between the Stray Cats and The Reverend Horton Heat,[2] or "like a rockabilly version of Mike Knott..."[3] Lyrically the album addressed hard issues such as racism ("Skin"), the underground church in China ("People Underground"), materialism and temptation ("Fat Cat"), New Age spiritualism ("Rock 'n' Roll & My Baby"), and internal spiritual battles with our sinful nature.[2][3][1]
In "Spiritual Heroin" Russinger deals with his own former speed addiction,[2] describing how Christ can fill the need created by addictions, which one reviewer described as a "slightly disturbing metaphor."[4] The album also deals with the victims of the Holocaust ("Death Train"),[5] and finally closes with "Let's Go", a "no holds barred celebration of salvation."[4]
One reviewer found the album to be on various tracks "cliché-ridden but vaguely worshipful", "weakly inspiring", and "shallow & dumb."[6] The reviewer went on to state that the attempt "to bring 1950s wholesomeness into today's moral morass" fell flat.[6]
Track listing
- "Skin"
- "Within"
- "Childhood Love Song"
- "Death Train"
- "Fat Cat"
- "Rock 'N' Roll and My Baby"
- "Spiritual Heroin"
- "Rocket Ship"
- "Studio, No. 5"
- "People Underground"
- "Tongue Is Numb"
- "Let's Go"
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