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dr wu23 
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Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20631 |
 Posted: April 19 2014 at 15:58 |
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BOC doing their occult thing............
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verslibre
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Posted: April 19 2014 at 13:58 |
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An overlooked/underrated BÖC album is 1978's Mirrors. (Okay, not really, not if you're a fan!) It boasts "The Great Sun Jester" and "The Vigil" (lyrics by M. Moorcock), Allen Lanier's "In Thee," and a truly wonderful album closer called "Lonely Teardrops."
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dr wu23
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Posted: April 19 2014 at 12:59 |
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Been a BOC fan since the first album came out and always loved their occult references and 'tongue in cheek' lyrics.
I've read about the Pearlman connection before years ago and while there certainly are some conceptual things going on I don't think one should over analyze a band that was making good rock music and having some fun with it.
btw....I'll have to ck my RAWilson books to see if he ever mentioned BOC.
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M27Barney
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Posted: April 17 2014 at 15:28 |
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Is that the album with the Messerschmitt 262 on the cover? I think I have that on vinyl! Not listened to any BOC for twenty years!!!
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: April 17 2014 at 14:12 |
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I only have their 'Secret Treaties' album, which I got on a whim, but I really dig it. Especially Harvester of Eyes and Astronomy. Haven't paid too much attention to the lyrics though, maybe outside of the ones on offer on Astronomy, but I guess that's down to the rather emotive and down key tempo of the piano accompanying them. Really makes them stand on their own.
Btw I moved this thread to the prog related forum.
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verslibre
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Posted: April 17 2014 at 14:05 |
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I love BÖC. They definitely have an edge in the lyrics dept. over a great many other bands. Pearlman's concept is an expansive one and I read up a lot on it years ago, but it's probably time for a refresher course!
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HolyMoly
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Posted: April 17 2014 at 12:38 |
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Wish I had time to read that right now - I'll bookmark for later. I've always wondered what this supposed concept of theirs was all about. I enjoy the albums, but never dug beneath the surface on any of the lyrics. I rarely pay attention to lyrics anyway. But I'm a big fan of those first three albums, so this may even enhance my enjoyments of them more.
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: April 17 2014 at 12:32 |
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One of my favourite things about Blue Öyster Cult is how the group's central "band concept" revolves around his insanely ambitious surrealist cosmic horror mythology that Sandy Pearlman cooked up with some help from Patti Smith and others, drawing upon a wide cultural frame of reference from mediaeval hermetic alchemy over the behind-the-scenes causes of both World Wars to the pulp literature in the H. P. Lovecraft tradition. Figuring out exactly what some of their songs mean, as a result, is a constantly ongoing process that requires learning new information and piecing together some grand terrifying cosmic puzzle.
Well, thanks to a mystically-minded Canadian I befriended on Facebook through a process I'm not yet completely cogisant of, I've come into this blog titled VISUP about the overlap between esoteric politics/religion and popular culture... and it turns out they have done quite a bit of legwork in exegesis regarding BÖC's "black-and-white" trilogy. (their first three studio LPs) Looks like the rabbit hole goes even deeper than I thought, down through Wicca, the JFK assassination, the Manson Family and the notoriously bizarre Gnostic religious movement known as the Process Church of the Final Judgement. Not terribly surprising to find out that there's a high likelihood Robert Anton Wilson might have been a BÖC fan! |
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