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― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Gorge, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
this band was so fundamentally weird it's crazy.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 23:39 (sixteen years ago) link
it's true. smarter than they seemed and fucking odd.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 10 April 2008 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Odd but fucking kick-ass. I love BOC. Sad that they are only known for the two or three classic rock radio hits-they don't do them justice.
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 10 April 2008 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
...not that those couple-three hits aren't deservedly famous, of course.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 10 April 2008 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I totally agree, that wasn't clear from my post.
If Gorge is reading this, it would be great if he could post that Creem Metal article he discussed a year ago.
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 10 April 2008 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
and not just weird lyrically but they were such and odd mix musically, like you can hear (esp. on the early stuff) the vestiges of San Fran psych and Steppenwolf proto-hard rock boogie but there's something more menacing and angular about how they do it...also a metal element that's almost more there as an abstract feeling than *actual* metal music....then later stuff like "Joan Crawford" is what? AOR Goth?
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 10 April 2008 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's an excerpt from "Fear the Cheaper" which ran in the Voice back in 2001. It was a review of For the Heavy Metal Kids and the Yardbirds -- a Euro boot of Columbia's promo boot of BOC live ca. 72. Originally, it went to radio but there was enough fan and critical interest to ensure that it was issued commercially in a small run. It's also been in and out of reissue semi-regularly. The rendition of "Buck's Boogie" from it might have been the one that wound up on The Guitars That Destroyed the World anthology from around the same time. I can't remember, too long ago. ========= ...But the real reason for this tear is the re-arrival of For the Heavy Metal Kids and the Yardbirds, a live EP/CD of BÖC performing at a pizza parlor in Rochester in '72 that, I am informed, floats in and out of limited bootleg circulation every few years. The provenance is that it's a CD of a famous Columbia promo issued to radio shortly after the appearance of the first Blue Öyster Cult album. For the Heavy Metal Kids has fairly obviously been mastered from original plastic. Listen close and you detect the light surface noise and rumble of turntable machinery, perfect in this case because it is precisely what BÖC sounded like back in someone's smelling-of-caked-joy-rag bedroom circa 1972. The tone is hot, airless as if heard in a stereo-equipped pine box, the band pressing stiflingly close upon the audience through a paralyzing smog of brutish, antique amplification. Eric Bloom laughs maniacally and asks, "Wazzup, man?" as japing bullyboys chant, "You'd kill, you'd maim." This is eclipsed by the best performance of "Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll" on record. The number stalks the room in a transfixing exhibition of vulgar power, the signature riff pitting the guitar against the kick bass and floor tom in a bare-knuckles gang fight with the singer as referee. The packaging is a gatefold decorated with the half-menacing faux-Hunter S. Thompson gibber of "Transmaniacon MC." The disc even takes a stab at furthering the mythos of Gawlik. In other words, the beating heart of For the Heavy Metal Kids brings everything BÖC's history merits to the table-its early mysterious harshness, the strong whiff of an impression that those who partook of it were members in a dream-world club of intellectual men of action and heavy-handed motorcycle thugs-everything the expected age-of-information product does not or will not provide. And it's on a weird label named Munster. =========
― Gorge, Thursday, 10 April 2008 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
"Menacing" is an accurate way to describe the first three records. Even the strange way they (esp. the first two) were recorded gives you the willies. They were much freakier than their neighbors in Kiss, who came across as a cartoon.
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Thanks Gorge
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 10 April 2008 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Alright, I don't get this. I'm crazy about this song "I Love The Night" but I tried to play the album that has Don't Fear The Reaper on it and the style just doesn't work for me. Do they have anything else like "I Love The Night"?
― Bimble, Thursday, 24 April 2008 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's about right. Liking "I Love the Night" at the expense of the other stuff cited doesn't get BOC. Run along now.
― Gorge, Thursday, 24 April 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Bimble, I would check out Cultosaurus Erectus. "Deadline" is pretty close tonally.
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 24 April 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^That's my fave BoC album!
― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Going to see 'em tonight! Or at least, Buck Dharma, Eric Bloom and some other dudes. Still... pretty psyched!
Has anyone seen them in the last few years? Perhaps on this tour? Or even at any point at all??
― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
will be worth it just to see Eric Bloom do that mock "what's that noise?" bit right before they kick into "Godzilla"...
― henry s, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Was playing video games with my 10 year-old tonight and he asked me to put on a record while we played. “Something rock,” was his request. Cultosaurus Erectus was on the nearby rack, so on it went.
“Black Blade” starts to play and about two minutes in he goes, “yessssss this is what I needed to hear tonight”.
Folks, gonna consider that a parenting win for the month.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 12 August 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link
\m/
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 August 2022 03:52 (one year ago) link
so Buck released a multi-CD home archives thing I'd never heard about, here's the demo for "I Love The Night", really interesting as 1) there's more/different lyrics, bit longer and 2) WOW Buck's demos are really polished and fully formed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2334KJL0UgM
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
Apart from "(Don't Fear) the Reaper," an aggressively middling band with fun ideas.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
so wrong!!!!!!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
I have a special place in my heart for that one song where they turned into Martha and the Muffins with better lead guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arc_I54oYrg
― a blunt toothcomb (Matt #2), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
Oh man I LOVE that track
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
yes.
at this point, youtube has trained itself to play me live bootlegs from the black and white era after absolutely anything i watch, no matter what it is. i don't know why it's doing that- probably because it's the one thing i won't switch off after 5 seconds- but this is the first time any kind of algorithm has actually felt useful to me.
― "H to the Izzo" means "I love you" (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 24 November 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
Being chased around!By the neighbor's cat!It's so lonely in the state of Maine!
― peace, man, Monday, 9 October 2023 13:55 (eight months ago) link
dumb clouds
― henry s, Monday, 9 October 2023 14:16 (eight months ago) link
Stairway to the Stars is such a monster. Just such an evil sounding song.
Top 10 Most Evil BoC songs?
Stairway to the StarsDon't Fear the ReaperETI???
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 21 December 2023 23:01 (five months ago) link
Not supernatural evil per se, but I would put “Then Came The Last Days of May” in such a list.
It is definitely a classic of a drug deal gone bad.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Thursday, 21 December 2023 23:28 (five months ago) link
Er, I don't think BOC was more ev-yul than on, well, "Career of Evil." They'd like to do it with our daughter on a dirt road? Then keep the ransom money?! But continue to rob us of our sleep?!! And fail to apologize?!!
This will not stand!
― henry s, Thursday, 21 December 2023 23:53 (five months ago) link
well, I mean, I'm biased, but "Joan Crawford" has a very evil vibe. "Searchin' for Celine" is kinda ominous. But if yr in the right mood p. much any BoC song is ominous as hell
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 22 December 2023 00:19 (five months ago) link
My 12 yr old loves BOC, not as much as he loves Steely Dan but they're the hard rock legends he prefers above all others I've played for him. I think the fact they're both vv smooth and rock the hell out is a rare and potent combo.
― omar little, Friday, 22 December 2023 01:14 (five months ago) link
omar raising the next generation right
My evil selections above I think lean into the lurid, seductive chaos type of evil. Like beckoning the listener, making them complicit.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 22 December 2023 01:36 (five months ago) link
"Veins" off The Revolution by Night
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 December 2023 02:09 (five months ago) link
It's funny how their explicit Nazi song is actually one of their least ominously evil sounding.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 December 2023 02:21 (five months ago) link
Transmaniacon MC is pretty menacing.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 December 2023 02:39 (five months ago) link
Omar 🫡
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 December 2023 02:52 (five months ago) link
They'd like to do it with our daughter on a dirt road? Then keep the ransom money?! But continue to rob us of our sleep?!!
more to the point, they're coming for your blue-eyed horseshoe
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 22 December 2023 03:05 (five months ago) link
I Love the Night sucks you into the vampire lifestyle with gorgeous soft-rock harmonies and Buck's mellifluous guitar tones, and then "the lovely lady in white was by my side" and it's all over.
Dominance and Submission is just plain fucking contaminated by evil.
― you have already voted in this dolt and cannot vote again (Matt #2), Friday, 22 December 2023 04:08 (five months ago) link
Career of Evil, definitely.
Transmaniacon MC is about the tension at Altamont, really sinister vibe.
Mistress of the Salmon Salt is crazy, a woman serial killer lures men, kills them, and uses them as fertilizer.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 22 December 2023 04:37 (five months ago) link
Killer 1979 club set from when BOC were touring semi-incognito under their old "Soft White Underbelly" namehttps://ijwthstd.blogspot.com/2024/03/blue-oyster-cult-san-francisco-ca-1979.html
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 24 March 2024 03:55 (two months ago) link
Never heard these guys before but oh man, this is brilliant. I came late to the Rolling Stones and never fully got into even the classic LPs, probably because, from all I'd read and heard about them, I was expecting the Stones to sound like THIS.
― TheNuNuNu, Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:52 (two months ago) link
Xpost I was listening to that show a couple of weeks ago downloaded from a different source - was really liking its “Astronomy” when there was a big cut in the middle. Does this source have that?
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:33 (two months ago) link