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Psychedelic Paul
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The winning album: "Secret Treaties" (1974)
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twseel
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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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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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Psychedelic Paul
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Two more classic albums:-
Agents of Fortune (1976) Mirrors (1979) |
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Braka1
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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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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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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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Psychedelic Paul
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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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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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Psychedelic Paul
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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.
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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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Cult Classics (1994) - Re-recordings of classic Blue Oyster Cult songs
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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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Psychedelic Paul
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Unfortunately, none of those three albums are available on YouTube at the moment, but this one is...... The Curse of the Hidden Mirror (2001) |
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wow man.. i need to fire one up after reading that
at times Paul.. I do wonder if you are Pedro's long lost son... perhaps you'll tell me which planet you all came here from... and don't pull a Pedro on me and tell me you don't heavily smoke you some mother nature man..
you do know that even if whole albums may not be.. the individual tracks are.. here..man.. ranked as my #6 blow thy speaker song ever recorded.. |
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Easily! It's also better than Revolution by Night and Club Ninja. So you must be the other guy who voted for it! Cool!
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A big ditto from me on all these points! "Take Me Away" should have been a humongous hit, and "Shadow of California" is superb.
Here I must disagree, as "The Marshall Plan," "Lips in the Hills" and "Unknown Tongue," all on Side B, are songs I like a lot. I love the whole album. |
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LMAO!!!
indeed darling.. ok.. we've well established this group ruled and had so SO many great songs. but let's flip this.. what.. in everyone's opinion.. is the WORST song BOC ever did. to me.. and her.. there is only one option.. but curious as to what others think.
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Braka1
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Yes, I'll go along with that. But it was Martin Birch, wasn't it? It's not like his production style was unexpected. It had a very clean style, which made the proggy-metal tracks like 'The Vigil' sound very BIG, but there were a couple of tracks (e.g. 'In thee') that just sounded MOR. Mind you, that song would have been MOR if it'd been recorded on a mono cassette deck in someone's garage.
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