Ninja Sex Party - Under the Covers (2016)

If I caught my girlfriend under the covers with NSP, I wouldn't even be mad, because I'd understand. Sure, I'd still tie her to a chair, douse her in gasoline and light her on fire once they were finished, but that's just me bein' goofy and stuff. Good times.

It's really no secret that Ninja Sex Party adores synthesizer-heavy 80s pop music, just a listen to pretty much any of their songs will make that immediately evident, and this covers album has a bunch of songs that fit them like a fuckin' glove on a hand that fits into the glove that was made for the fuckin' hand that's in the glove!! This time around, it's not just Brian 'Ninja Brian' Wecht and Daniel 'Danny Sexbang' Avidan, because they brought in the very-similarly-named band Tupperware Remix Party to help out on them REAL INSTRUMENTS and shit! Have you HEARD the bass-slaps in this album's cover of Oingo Boingo's "We Close Our Eyes"?! FUCK! These guys are what NSP has been missing all along, not a former-animator-turned-let's-player shout-rapping into a microphone about video game characters! Okay, I love that guy too, but I digress. Anyhow, this album's got tons of gucci shit in it that'll appeal to you if you grew up with a mom that blared 80s music every Sunday morning as you went to church, y'know, like mine did, except, very unfortunately, the band doesn't cover Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart".. Next time around?

Danny Sexbang's voice is just so good, y'know? And the instrumentalists this time around don't fuck around: Tears For Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is done arguably even more lovingly than the original here, in fact, the covers of "Your Love" by The Outfields, "Misunderstanding" by Genesis, and "Rock With You" by Michael Jackson are done so fucking superbly that even diehard fans of the original artists won't have a problem with their renditions here, because the band manages to totally bring the spirit that made these songs so great alive with their genuine love for the classics. That being said, the only song on here I'm not a fan of is the cover of Rush's "Madrigal" because while "Subdivision" is a good one, Rush is generally the soundtrack to being a fuckin' dork and never really did that much for me to begin with, outside of their instrumentals. Oh yeah, we're still talking about Ninja Sex Party! Anyhow, this album can easily serve as a volume 1 of some of the greatest hits of the 1980s. Just ask my mom when I played it for her in the car! Actually, don't ask my mom, that'd be fuckin' weird.

8/10
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