I’m being generous here, but they managed to tap into the weepy world of the teenage break-up ballad and thread a modest level of sincerity into it. “Our Story Isn’t Over” is hokey to be sure but it’s catchy as hell and it’s the one that got under my skin. Of the 13 songs on the album, only one of them is moderately good. Other songs like “One Minute to Midnight” with its agonizing “tick tock” pre-chorus and the cliché ridden “Long Road Home” lead to more cringing than an Anthony Michael Hall house party. Songs like “Rebel Heartache” nail the odd, ambiguous lyrics of the time that pretended to say something but were utterly devoid of any traceable meaning. Also, songs that would imbed themselves in your skull and haunt your dreams. Egon Spengler and the kid from War Games pulled a Weird Science and programmed their Apple II+s to churn out the most generic songs possible. The songs, and especially the lyrics on Ace of Hearts, feel like they were written by an artificial intelligence program. It’s the Miami Connection of faux-retro albums and one could easily imagine a Bad Baron/ Dragon Sound double bill, ninjas and all. For better or worse, the speedboat blasting into the pastel horizon trailed by playing cards sets the tone for the delirious nonsense that follows. Like the twins in Jean Claude Van Damme’s comic masterpiece Double Impact, the weird duo doesn’t really make sense but no one will care anyway. Ace of Hearts is a sort of anti- Motörhead statement of some sort. The first thing that probably caught your eye is the nifty vaporwave Miami Vice cover and the album’s title. Miyagi said in The Karate Kid “To make honey, a bee needs a young flower not an old prune.” Time to wax off. What attracted Finnish masochists Bad Baron to the bottom of the barrel in one of music’s most terrible eras? Who knows? And why do I keep reviewing bands with dumb names? I also don’t know, but I’ve got a deadline to meet and gruel to earn. While artists like Peter Cetera, Phil Collins and Kenny Loggins found renewed popularity on the silver screen, countless unknown artists tested their metal on the soundtracks to the endless VHS atrocities that littered the local mini mart’s back corner. It was a strange and wonderous time for those of us who lived through it.
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