Best of "Blue Oyster Cult"
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Topic: Best of "Blue Oyster Cult"
Posted By: R o V e R
Subject: Best of "Blue Oyster Cult"
Date Posted: September 23 2006 at 01:51
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(Don't fear) the poller
corny right? vote 
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Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: September 23 2006 at 02:25
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I voted Black Blade, lots of great songs on that list!
Missing "Veteran of the psychic wars"
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Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: September 23 2006 at 02:27
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wow What a choice
Great |
Posted By: Richardw
Date Posted: September 23 2006 at 04:22
| Of those listed I voted for 'The Red And The Black'. Though my favourite BOC song is the fabulous live version of 'Then Came The Last Days Of May' from 'On Your Feet Or On Your Knees'. A wonderful song. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: September 23 2006 at 04:36
*GR genuflects* "Veteran ..." is one of my favourite songs of ALL TIME - the version on ET Live is just out of this world, with a blistering solo by the criminally underrated Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser. And the lyrics are great too... "And I've used up my weapons, and I'm helpless and bereaved...". I used to relate to this song quite a lot in difficult times of my life (not any longer, thank heavens!). Other firm favourites of mine are "7 Screamin' Dizbusters", "Quicklime Girl", "Divine Wind" (my current sig), and of course guitar tour-de-force "Last Days of May". Out of this list, though, I voted for "Black Blade". |
WaywardSon wrote:Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: September 23 2006 at 04:54
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Black Blade
i like the climax, crazy stuff |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 23 2006 at 05:05
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Astronomy and Black Blade ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: mr.burns
Date Posted: September 23 2006 at 05:37
veterans ------------- Father Ted: Sheep like all wool-bearing animals, instinctively travel north. Where it's colder, and they won't be so stuffy. |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 24 2006 at 02:45
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Oh God! What could I say? Astronomy and Flaming Telepaths since are both from my favourite album Secret Treaties.
Nevertheless, all the songs above mentioned are great. We fans of Blue Oyster Cult should have a special place in our heart for each one!
 What a pity for the absence of Veterans of the Psychic Wars....
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Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: September 25 2006 at 16:41
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(Don't Fear) The Reaper ------------- 
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 25 2006 at 17:46
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I've gone for Shooting Shark (used to LOVE that track).... with Astronomy a close 2nd...
I also used to like that track off Imaginos about Frankinstein with the long name...
The Seige & Investiture Of Baron Von Frankenstein's Castle in Bavaria... or something or other... quite cool, but not heard it in 15 years!! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 25 2006 at 17:49
The Red and the Black for Micky.. but so many great choices... always had a soft spot for Godzilla 
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: September 25 2006 at 18:13
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Many possible selections, but I vote for "The Red and the Black." Now if "Dominance and Submission" had been on the list ... ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 00:22
...Castle of Wesseiria
 good choices, btw!
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Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 00:31
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I also remember liking a song off Revolution by night (I think that is the name of the album) The first song.
BTW Happy Birthday Andrea!!
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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 17:22
Thanks Greg!
I also like very much the opener of the 1983 album Revolution by Night. It's titled Take Me Away and is really one of the best there along with Shadow of California and Dragon Lady and Light Years of Love and ...
Think it's evident I'm a great fan....
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Posted By: Zoot Allures
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 21:52
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Astronomy! ------------- The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. - Hunter S. Thompson |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 17:08
Monsters/Black Blade (I only saw Black Blade after I'd already voted for the Spinal Tap-esque Marshall Plan, which was the song that finally got me into BOC; "It's gonna sound like... it's gonna sound like...  ").
------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 18:13
Of those, Black Blade (yes, believe it or not) and Burnin' For You.
I'm a big Moorcock/Elric fan, so that makes the first extra cool, and I just find my second choice to be a very catchy R&R song. (It's worlds away from their old sound though.)
I used to LOVE BOC -- had lots on vinyl -- but I seem to have largely outgrown them.
 (And Rainbow, and Alice Cooper and Sabbath.... Not Zeppelin or Purple though -- to me, they had more depth, and have aged better in my collection.)
 ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 21:43
i like "Burnin for you" too
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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 28 2006 at 16:01
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hmmm, the most part of the songs from their first album is missing. OK, Cities on Flame is the most rapresentative, but how about the wonderful opener "Transmaniacon MC"???
Almost all the tracks there are BOC's classics.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: September 28 2006 at 16:11
| You're right, Andrea... "Last Days of May" should be there at the very least! And "Transmaniacon" is great, I agree about that! As well as some more tracks from "Cultosaurus Erectus" and "Fire of Unknown Origin". |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 28 2006 at 16:16
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Raffaella, what do you think of Spectres?
Which is the most "prog" there in your opinion? The Golden Age of Leather or Nosferatu?
Both are wonderful? I love that album more than the previous Agents of Fortune...(which is great, don't want to be misunderstood...
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: September 29 2006 at 11:06
| come on and Take me away... |
Posted By: Frasse
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 18:15
| Dominance & Submission from Secret Treaties, but that one wasn't a choice here so I voted for Burnin' For You. |
Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: October 01 2006 at 16:07
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Don't Fear the Reaper, because it's an awesome song to listen to and to play! ------------- 
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: October 01 2006 at 16:12
Ah, that's the Mod's theme song (another one is KC's "Discipline" )... I love the live version on "ET Live" too. |
Posted By: tdreamer
Date Posted: October 01 2006 at 18:06
| Shooting Shark . |
Posted By: John Gargo
Date Posted: October 02 2006 at 11:12
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HUGE BOC fanatic here... I have all their albums, and that includes that pre-BOC St. Cecilia Recordings reissue that was released a couple of years back. I'm seeing them live (for the first time believe it or not!) in January... I can't wait. Because I'm such a dork, I'm going to list my favorite BOC songs per-album...
BLUE OYSTER CULT - Transmaniacon MC - Cool, lo-fi rocker with almost-whispered vocals, an eerie vibe (as was par-for-the-course of their early material) and check out the neat guitar line during the chorus! TYRANNY AND MUTATION - Wings Wetted Down - Most people favor the hard-rockign first side of this LP but I'm in love with the moody pieces on the second side, particularly this gem!
SECRET TREATIES - Flaming Telepaths - Wacked-out sci-fi rocker (the first of many) that I put as the climax of this album before Astronomy lulls you back into a relaxed state... the synth solo is amazing!
AGENTS OF FORTUNE - Revenge of Vera Gemini - You have to be a total BOC dork not to rate Reaper as your favorite cut on this classic... I always liked this dark track, featuring guest-vocals by Patti Smith.
SPECTRES - Nosferatu - Could have easily gone to I Love the Night as Well, but I find the piano runs through this song to be very creepy, and I'm a sucker for horror movies anyway.
MIRRORS - The Vigil - Hard rocking song from a soft-rocking LP, featuring an amazing classical guitar segment in the middle... definitely their most underrated epic, it's ripe for a re-appraisal.
CULTOSAURUS ERECTUS - Unknown Tongue - Zany psycho-sexual S&M-laced track with a funny ending, this has catchy vocal melodies, some great riffs, and an overal unique sound that I've yet to hear duplicated.
FIRE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN - Joan Crawford - C'mon, it's got to be this track... who doesn't love a song with a chorus that proclaims that the title character has risen from the grave? My eyes have gone the color of frozen meat...
THE REVOLUTION BY NIGHT - Eyes on Fire - Neat little piano ballad. It's catchy. I like it.
CLUB NINJA - Spy in the House of the Night - A lot of close-calls on this much maligned BOC album... I had to go with this track, but it could have easily went to a couple of others as well.
IMAGINOS - Blue Oyster Cult - Slick remake of Subhuman, as it were... this is BOC's best album, so I love all the songs, but something about this being the eponymous track for the band just makes it seem like a right choice.
HEAVEN FORBID - Harvest Moon - OK, an obvious choice for once, but it's a great tune. BOC's comeback album has some pretty good tracks... I almost picked X-Ray Eyes, as it's a return to their sci-fi schlock-rock that I love!
CURSE OF THE HIDDEN MIRROR - The Old Gods Return - A hard rocking tune on this, their latest album. I'm not as familiar with this as others, but I recall the second side being slightly better than the first.
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: October 02 2006 at 15:56
It needs MORE COWBELL, though!
  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: October 12 2006 at 20:45
| I like See you in black . and POWER UNDERNEATH DISPAIR. |
Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: October 13 2006 at 11:25
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Been a BOC fan for years. Secret Treaties and Spectres are definitely my favourite albums. Astronomy is a great track, as is "I Love the Night" and "Nosferatu".
Used to give the neighbours serious grief with Extra-Terrestrial Live in the 80's.
------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |
Posted By: wingless bird
Date Posted: January 24 2008 at 17:22
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I Love the night
last days of may,deadline,veterans and subhuman missing ------------- confusion will be my epitaph |
Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: January 24 2008 at 18:34
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"Clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst, out at you from their hiding place..." I like Astronomy from that list
Last Days of May would be right up there too, and Transmaniacon MC...yea I'm partial to the first 3 albums 'cuz those are the only ones I know well. ------------- Signature Writers Guild on strike |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: January 24 2008 at 20:14
| (Don't Fear) The Reaper. Read Norman Mailer's The Executioners Song if you wonder why this was my choice. |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: January 24 2008 at 20:39
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I am of the firm opinion that Secret Treaties is the pinnacle of BOC-dom.
"Astronomy" FTW.
 ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: January 24 2008 at 22:06
| Flaming Telepaths... or Astronomy, I voted for FT though |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: January 25 2008 at 01:00
All of em!  Well i voted for This Ain't The Summer Of Love so short and so good a great opening song from my favorite BÖC album. But i culd have voted for anyone of em.------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 25 2008 at 01:26
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ooohhh missed this one ... Astronomy  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: January 25 2008 at 15:22
| Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl) and Me 262. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 25 2008 at 15:33
I LOVE that song!  |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: January 26 2008 at 09:37
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I voted for This Ain't the Summer of Love but my favourite is Before the Kiss, a Redcap.
------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: January 26 2008 at 19:08
Impossible not to! |
Posted By: moodyxadi
Date Posted: January 30 2008 at 18:23
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The pair Flaming telepaths/Astronomy is a killer one!
Vote for the first though. ------------- Bach, Ma, Bros, Déia, Dante. |
Posted By: cookieacquired
Date Posted: January 30 2008 at 18:42
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Sorry to veer the topic off course for a sec, but seeing as how this whole poll'll probably be seen by BOC fans, I has a question:
which would be a good album to start with (or their best, whichever)
I've heard a bunch of songs of theirs, but only have one (3 chances to guess it and the first two don't count)
Thanks for the help! ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 30 2008 at 19:25
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Secret Treaties.... I think the reviews say enough... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: February 01 2008 at 13:11
------------- Signature Writers Guild on strike |