Blue Oyster Cult
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Topic: Blue Oyster Cult
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Subject: Blue Oyster Cult
Date Posted: September 06 2005 at 10:38
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What do you think about Blue Oyster Cult?
I love their "black and white" period (1972-1974)!! |
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: September 06 2005 at 10:40
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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 06 2005 at 10:42
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Good answer!!!!! |
Snow Dog wrote:Posted By: goose
Date Posted: September 06 2005 at 11:17
| I got their best of, they have some nice songs for sure. |
Posted By: Heptade
Date Posted: September 06 2005 at 11:34
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How can anyone not like the BOC?
Their early 70s stuff was some of the best, most creative hard rock of the decade. ------------- The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning And all the rest is just bullsh*t -Steve Kilbey |
Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: September 06 2005 at 12:04
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MY father is a musician and a drummer he used to play wiht a lot, jules redeno, is touring wiht BOC right now ------------- I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t. -Stone Beard |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: September 06 2005 at 12:14
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I find them a bit hit and miss.The first 4 or 5 albums had some excellent tracks on them especially the first 2 but IMHO I don't think that they made a complete album.In other words they were inconsistant.
Favourite tracks inc:- (Then Came)The Last Days of May,Quicklime Girl,The Red and The Black,Seven Screaming Diz-Busters,Astronomy and Workshop of the Telescopes. ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: geezer
Date Posted: September 06 2005 at 13:26
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The only band outside of prog music that i have some interest to talk about. I think this band is (was) rather unique. Here's my take on BÖC up to Imaginos which is the last album i have heard by them: Favourite albums: Secret Treaties, Fire of Unknown Origin In my opinion their most coherent albums. The first two are coherent as well. Least liked albums: Cultosaurus Erectus, Club Ninja Cultosaurus Erectus is a good album but it has nothing special. Even Club Ninja has some good tunes. Five favourite tracks: The Last days of May, Flaming Telepaths, Astronomy, Nosferatu and Vengeance (The Pact) It's not a coincidence that these tracks are among their most progressive songs. My favourite track is perhaps the Joe Bouchard - Helen Wheels tune "Nosferatu". Most hated track: Godzilla  (how can this be one of their most known songs?)I have always thought their biggest hit "Don't Fear The Reaper" to be a little above average BÖC tune (though the live versions smoke). The other hit "Burnin' for You" is better. |
Posted By: gr8dane
Date Posted: September 06 2005 at 14:24
| Great band with lots of great music. |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: September 06 2005 at 14:46
Dont fear the reaper ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 06 2005 at 16:36
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My favourite songs are: Nosferatu, Golden Age Of Leather, The Red And The Black, Hot Rails To Hell, 7 Screamind Diz Busters, Astronomy, Dominance And Submission, Cities On Flame, ETI, The Great Sun Jester, Black Blade and many others...also Godzilla is very funny. It's well known that their best known tracks (Don't Fear The Reaper, Godzilla) are different a lot from their (normal) and beautiful works. Regards
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Posted By: DEzerov
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 11:54
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Secret Treaties is truly a timeless classic. Great art work!!!!  Great song titles too! Career Of Evil, Subhuman, Dominance And Submission, Cagey Cretins, ME 262, Flaming Telepaths, Astronomy Most importantly great songs!!!!!! Saw them live on the Agents of Fortune Tour......... ------------- The moon is made by some lame cooper and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all - Nikolay Gogol |
Posted By: geezer
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 12:51
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DEzerov, you missed "Harvester of Eyes", another great song title. |
Posted By: Drachen Theaker
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 14:25
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An excellent band. My favourite of theirs is Spectres, especially Nosferatu, Death Valley Nights, Fireworks, RU Ready 2 Rock and Searching for Celine. In fact there's hardly a duff track on the album. ------------- "It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt |
Posted By: Englar
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 16:05
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I like a couple of tunes by them. "Astronomy" being what I consider the closest they ever came to prog, and the greatest BOC song, IMO. ------------- 
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Posted By: italprogfan
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 12:38
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and a killer that was, as was the whole album.... 'don't fear the reaper' was their swansong, from that they have been rightfully redirected to being a bar band. sad how the mighty fell... (go,go, godzilla |
Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 10:54
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BÖC is fantastic. I love all their work from the first album to "Extraterrestrial Live" - one of the greatest live albums of all time, by the way. ------------- "He's a man of the past and one of the present" PETER HAMMILL |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 12:14
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I love BOC and like all of their albums, with the possible exception of Club Ninja. My favorite albums are: Imaginos (why this album is never mentioned as one of their best I'll never understand as I think it is their darkest, heaviest, and most progressive album), Secret Treaties, and Fire of Unknown Origin. My favorite songs in no particular order are: Blue Oyster Cult, Magna of Illusion, Veteran of the Psychic Wars, Dominance and Submission, Astronomy (the Secret Treaties version), Nosferatu, Joan Crawford, Black Blade, Shooting Shark and Unknown Tongue. There two post-Imaginos albums, Heaven Forbid and Curse of the Hidden Mirror aren't bad, but they do really suffer from the absence of the Bouchards. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 16:51
I hope it's possible we have here on progarchives this great band! Imaginos is good, great prog conception! Curse Of The Hidden Mirror is not at the level of the previous albums (although good). Read beneath: |
Posted By: Miaugion
Date Posted: September 13 2005 at 20:41
Exactly. IMO it's not only their best album but one of the best albums of all time. 
Favourites in no particular order: Don't fear the Reaper (Agents of Fortune) E.T.I. (Agents of Fortune) Black Blade (Cultösaurus Erectus) Flaming Telepaths (Cult Classic version) Astronomy (Cult Classic version) 7 Screaming Diz-Busters (Tyranny and Mutation) Les Invisibles (Imaginos) In the Presence of Another World (Imaginos) The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankensteins Castle at Weisseria (Imaginos) Take me Away (Revölution by Night) Shooting Shark (Revölution by Night) Astronomy (Imaginos version) Magna of Illusion (Imaginos) Harvest Moon (Heaven Forbid) I Love the Night (Spectres) Perfect Water (Club Ninja) Live for Me (Heaven Forbid) Blue Öyster Cult (Imaginos) and many more ... I can't stop ...  ------------- You house proud town mouse ha ha, charade you are |
Posted By: Angeldust
Date Posted: September 19 2005 at 18:30
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What an incredible band..Their latest releases such as The curse of the hidden mirror and Heaven forbid are higly recommended too..Too bad that they are so underrated ...They should be next to all these hard rock giants without excuses....
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