| 词条 | Sinking the Eight Ball |
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| name = Sinking the Eight Ball | type = studio | artist = Ruby Joe | cover = Ruby Joe 8 Ball.jpg | alt = | released = 23 September 1997 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Psychobilly | length = | label = Sub•Lime Records | producer = Mike Knott Gene Eugene | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Hot Rod Deluxe | next_year = 1999 }}{{Album ratings | rev1 = Cross Rhythms[1] |rev2=[https://web.archive.org/web/19980424034217/ameth.org/coolfools/rubyjoe.html Cool Fools] |rev3=[https://web.archive.org/web/20000612200106/http://tlem.netcentral.net/reviews/98/4259.html The Lighthouse] |rev4=Youthworker[2] |rev5=CCM Magazine[3] |rev6=7ball[4] |rev7=CBA Marketplace[5]}}Sinking the Eight Ball is debut album by Ruby Joe. Due to its topical content, the album was pulled from some Christian book stores.[6] 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][6] 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."[1] The album also deals with the victims of the holocaust ("Death Train"),[4] and finally closes with "Let's Go", a "no holds barred celebration of salvation."[1] One reviewer found the album to be on various tracks "cliché-ridden but vaguely worshipful", "weakly inspiring", and "shallow & dumb."[5] The reviewer went on to state that the attempt "to bring 1950s wholesomeness into today's moral morass" fell flat.[5] Track listing
References1. ^1 2 {{cite journal |last=Rimmer |first=Mike |date=June 1998 |title=Ruby Joe – Sinking The Eight Ball |journal=Cross Rhythms |issue=45 |pages= }} 2. ^1 2 3 {{cite journal |last=Menke |first=Jimmy |date=May–June 1998 |title=Tools / Music |journal=YouthWorker Journal |volume=XVI |issue=5 |pages=69–70 }} 3. ^1 2 {{cite journal |last=Jeffrey |first=Anthony |date=March 1998 |title=Reviews / Sinking the Eight Ball |journal=CCM Magazine |volume=20 |issue=9 |pages=78 }} 4. ^1 {{cite journal |last=Koss |first="Boss" Vic |title=Reviews: Sinking the Eight Ball |pages=54 |date=November–December 1997 |issue=15 |journal=7ball |issn=1082-3980}} 5. ^1 2 {{cite journal |last=Hassig |first=Gary |title=Sinking the Eight Ball Review |pages=72–73 |journal=CBA Marketplace |date=February 1998 |volume=31 |issue=2 |issn=1092-7239 |oclc=36184061}} 6. ^1 {{cite journal |last=Thompson |first=John J. |authorlink=John J. Thompson |title=bankshots: Ruby Joe |pages=46 |date=September–October 1998 |issue=20 |journal=7ball |issn=1082-3980}} External links
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