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Poll Question: Which is your favourite album?
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Tyranny and Mutation is my favourite studio album and Some Enchanted Evening my fave live album. Also very fond of Cultisaurus Erectus. 

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Cult Classics (1994) - Re-recordings of classic Blue Oyster Cult songs
 
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None of BOC's albums is even remotely bad. Even when they took a more AOR turn, they managed to sound vastly different from other bands lumped under the same umbrella. For one thing, they did not have the stereotypical, soaring-tenor vocals (think Steve Perry or Lou Gramm), and their lyrical matter was always edgy and intriguing. Club Ninja's final three songs are excellent, and The Revolution by Night also has quite a few gems, such as "Shadow of California". As for Cultosaurus Erectus, the first three songs are simply killer, though the rest of the album is not quite on a par with them.
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"Imaginos"  is by far my favourite Blue Oyster Cult album, which is surprising, considering it's a late-1980's album released long after their classic early era. Thumbs Up
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

^^ I love the "Mirrors" album. It's Blue Oyster Cult's "Club Ninja" album which I thought was most disappointing of all.
Here's the next available full album in the sequence.....
Fire of Unknown Origin (1981)
 
 

disappointed.. what did one expect of it..   Secret Treaties???  It was much like the vast majority of their post FOUO albums...  none bad. again. BOC DID NOT MAKE BAD ALBUMS.. they were that good a band

 perhaps none were truly great.. but all contained really good songs..even great pnes. When the War Comes for example..  classic BOC.. a f'ing great song... and Dancing in the Ruins has always been a favorite of mine.
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^^ I love the "Mirrors" album. It's Blue Oyster Cult's "Club Ninja" album which I thought was most disappointing of all.
Here's the next available full album in the sequence.....
Fire of Unknown Origin (1981)
 
 
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Originally posted by Braka1 Braka1 wrote:

I remember an interview with BOC in 1980 when Cultosaurus was released, and the band said they hated 'Mirrors' so much they were using copies of it as frisbees.  It wasn't that bad.

no it wasn't bad..honestly... BOC simply did not make bad albums... but the production of it they did detest. it was the first album they did without Sandy producing it and they didn't like the overly polished sound of it so they went more to their classic sound with Cultosaurus.
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Originally posted by Braka1 Braka1 wrote:

I remember an interview with BOC in 1980 when Cultosaurus was released, and the band said they hated 'Mirrors' so much they were using copies of it as frisbees.  It wasn't that bad.

I gave it an attentive listen yesterday and it's definitely their most mellow work.
Some of them are good but some...well, others have done it much better
I'm not a big metal or hard rock fan so am a bit biased but I think they did their best work in the confluence of those styles with a more melodic rock slant, and that is basically most of Fire of Unknown Origin
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I remember an interview with BOC in 1980 when Cultosaurus was released, and the band said they hated 'Mirrors' so much they were using copies of it as frisbees.  It wasn't that bad.

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Two more classic albums:-
 
Agents of Fortune (1976)
 
 
Mirrors (1979)
 
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

^ yeah the shear awesomeness of Golden Age of Leather and Nosferatu raise the level of Spectres to greatness.  The rest of songs are good enough to keep it there.. ie no junk to bring it down.  though Goin' Through the Motions walked a fine line of doing that. Not bad.. just not the very good you expect and they delivered on pretty much everything to that point (their first 4 albums. .with no a single damn weak spot)


I got into BOC when 'Some Enchanted Evening'* was released. On subsequently hearing 'Spectres' I found it disappointing by comparison. The versions of Godzilla and (especially) RU Ready 2 Rock on 'Some Enchanted Evening' smoke the studio versions. I don't think it's just because I heard them first.  Similarly I thought the album before 'Fire' - 'Cultasaurus Erectus' was their best 77-86 studio album, but it never gets any love for some reason.

* In the late 70's era of ubiquitous double live albums, 'Some Enchanted Evening' is one release that really should have been a double!



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'Secret Treaties' seems like the obvious winner though 'On Your Feet or on Your Knees' also has some scorching rockers, I like this one especially:
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The winning album: "Secret Treaties" (1974)
 


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^ yeah the shear awesomeness of Golden Age of Leather and Nosferatu raise the level of Spectres to greatness.  The rest of songs are good enough to keep it there.. ie no junk to bring it down.  though Goin' Through the Motions walked a fine line of doing that. Not bad.. just not the very good you expect and they delivered on pretty much everything to that point (their first 4 albums. .with no a single damn weak spot)
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"Fire of Unknown Origin" for me.  I'm familiarizing myself with the others and thus far none compare.  The second best might be "Spectres"
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I went to see Blue Oyster Cult in the early 1980's at the Birmingham Hippodrome during their "Mirrors" tour. I remember they had mirrors on the back of their guitars which they used to reflect the lights back at the audience. Smile
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Originally posted by Braka1 Braka1 wrote:

BTW Albert Bouchard is my favourite drummer of all time. 

got to meet them after a 1996 show and pump them for info. Bouchard quit the band and went back to teaching High School in New York. Lanier said kids would yell from their seats with hands raised "Mr. Bouchaaaad Mr. Bouchaaaad! Izzit true you was in Blue Oyster Cult?" 
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Secret Treaties. I still have the lyrics they sent via mail if you wrote them and requested them. Printed by computer on that 70's green and white striped paper that predated dot matrix printers....


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Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

I don't normally vote for live albums but On Your Feet Or On Your Knees is so good!!!
That particular Live album was my introduction to Blue Oyster Cult, so I just HAD to include it in the poll, along with their other two Live albums.  Smile
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I don't normally vote for live albums but On Your Feet Or On Your Knees is so good!!!
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