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Topic: Blue Oyster Cult Albums Posted: April 07 2013 at 10:51
Blue Oyster Cult are one of the best American rock bands who often strayed into the Prog Rock territory. Which of their first 7 albums do you find to be the best. I won't vote, but if I did it would be hard to choose between SPECTRES and
SECRET TREATIES. Thank you!
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Posted: April 07 2013 at 10:52
Forgot to mention that I did not include live albums such as the monster great release ON YOUR FEET OR ON YOUR KNEES, which has a great title and I love when the band is introduced at the start of the show!
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Posted: April 07 2013 at 10:57
I've always liked their wild and crazy occult rock and roll.......I went with Secret Treaties and then Agents Of Fortune, after that I really like Fire Of Unknown Origin, and there are some really cool tracks on the first one but the recording is really muddy on that one.
btw....Espers does a really cool version of Flaming Telepaths on their short cd.
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Posted: April 07 2013 at 11:01
I can't vote yet because I'm still revisiting these, but I have a very different take on this band. My favorite albums are the ones most people hate....Spectres and Mirrors. And I like Agents, very diverse and imaginative. The Agents-Mirrors period is the one that most interests me, some really different and cool moody stuff.
Many of the others don't do much for me. The early hard rock ones, and Fires, are very disappointing albums. Cultosaurus flat out sucks.
Just initial reactions though, I need more time to play them all again.
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Posted: April 07 2013 at 11:09
Finnforest wrote:
I can't vote yet because I'm still revisiting these, but I have a very different take on this band. My favorite albums are the ones most people hate....Spectres and Mirrors. And I like Agents, very diverse and imaginative. The Agents-Mirrors period is the one that most interests me, some really different and cool moody stuff.
Many of the others don't do much for me. The early hard rock ones, and Fires, are very disappointing albums. Cultosaurus flat out sucks.
Just initial reactions though, I need more time to play them all again.
I'm sorry, I can't talk to you anymore.
I do love Spectres, but Fire is one of my three favorite albums, up there with Secret Treaties and Imaginos. Give Cultosaurus some time, it's a grower.
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Posted: April 07 2013 at 11:36
I love Fire of Unknown Origin because I had it as a kid. Apart from that, I only ever listen to the first three albums, of which Secret Treaties is the best, I think. I'll abstain from voting because I have only heard half of these choices so far. I've listened to Agents of Fortune a couple of times and thought it was pretty weak except for "Summer of Love" and "ETI" (love that song). Never really cared for "Reaper" anyway. And the second half of the album just struck me as dull.
Edited by HolyMoly - April 07 2013 at 11:38
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Posted: April 07 2013 at 11:55
The Doctor wrote:
Finnforest wrote:
I can't vote yet because I'm still revisiting these, but I have a very different take on this band. My favorite albums are the ones most people hate....Spectres and Mirrors. And I like Agents, very diverse and imaginative. The Agents-Mirrors period is the one that most interests me, some really different and cool moody stuff.
Many of the others don't do much for me. The early hard rock ones, and Fires, are very disappointing albums. Cultosaurus flat out sucks.
Just initial reactions though, I need more time to play them all again.
I'm sorry, I can't talk to you anymore.
I do love Spectres, but Fire is one of my three favorite albums, up there with Secret Treaties and Imaginos. Give Cultosaurus some time, it's a grower.
No probs Doc
It's been really a fun reunion with this band. I look forward to reviewing them one day. If my views hold, I expect to be fully ostracized from the BOC community
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Posted: April 07 2013 at 14:35
What? I did a search for Blue Oyster Cult polls and came up empty!! But then I just tried again widened the search and did find one going back to 2010. I didn't see that the search went only back 6 months at first. Oh, well.
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Posted: April 07 2013 at 14:54
Man, I really like Cultasaurus, particularly the first few tracks, but my favorite has always been Tyranny & Mutation. It's cool and vicious and I dig the raw vibe.
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Posted: April 07 2013 at 15:12
has to be Secret Treaties, as "Fire" is not here... Cultosaurous not bad at all, for some reason 80's Cult clicked better for me, I find some of the 70's albums too "awkward"
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Posted: April 07 2013 at 18:43
I played "Secret Treaties" to death when I was 15 and still love it. Being somewhat of a WWII history buff, Me262 has always been my fave BoC song...in fact, I remember buying a model of an Me262 and painting the BoC logo on the wings . "Cultosaurus Erectus" is a close 2nd, 'Lips in the Hills' is one of the great rock songs. Since live albums weren't included in the poll, I have to give a special award to the versions of "Hot Rails to Hell" and "The Last Days of May" on the "On Your Feet or On Your Knees" live album.
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Finnforest wrote:
. "Cultosaurus Erectus" is a close 2nd, 'Lips in the Hills' is one of the great rock songs. Since live albums weren't included in the poll, I have to give a special award to the versions of "Hot Rails to Hell" and "The Last Days of May" on the "On Your Feet or On Your Knees" live album.
