Best Blue Öyster Cult Album

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i know, i know. it's a glaring blind spot. i blame my older brother. but thanks for the reccs, i will check out secret treaties! super cheap on amazon.

tylerw, Monday, 19 April 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link

fyi - tyranny and mutation has "the red & the black" that the minutemen cover

Ndamukong HOOS (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 19 April 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah i think Tyranny is the one album of theirs I've heard in full. Otherwise I just know the hits.

tylerw, Monday, 19 April 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link

That live album will show u their deadly side, how they 'played like they got knife fight in the alley afterward' to paraphrase patti smith.

I Smell Xasthur Williams (Jon Lewis), Monday, 19 April 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link

(but she said that abt Television live)

I Smell Xasthur Williams (Jon Lewis), Monday, 19 April 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link

i got agents of fortune cuz of dont fear the reaper but the entire thing rawks p fukken hard

Lamp, Monday, 19 April 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link

this is more once you get to be a super fan, but i really love the totes over the top arena antics of "extraterrestrial live"...

Ndamukong HOOS (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 19 April 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah ETL Live is nice. The two studio records from that era, Cultosaurus Erectus and Fire Of Unknown Origin, are both terrific (and underrated for some reason). Fire Of Unknown Origin in particular is wall-to-wall awesome-- I might actually like it a little more than Agents. Also both these records sound good even in their early CD incarnations (they haven't been remastered yet).

I Smell Xasthur Williams (Jon Lewis), Monday, 19 April 2010 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link

You want a good live introduction to the very early sound of the band? "For the Heavy Metal Kids and the Yardbirds[/i] which was originally done as a promotion, I think, but wound up bootlegged. I'm almost certain it was ripped to the net awhile back. Anyway, four tunes, including tear ass versions of "The Red & The Black," "Buck's Boogie" and "Cities On Flame." Invigorating stuff from 72. Used copy on Amazon asks for 37 bucks, way too dear.

Gorge, Monday, 19 April 2010 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link

googling!

tylerw, Monday, 19 April 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link

you should have to pay too much for their later 70s stuff on vinyl either, always see decent copies of a lot of those

Ndamukong HOOS (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 19 April 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link

Gorge I think those 4 tracks might have been included on the Workshop Of The Telescopes anthology? I feel like they have appeared in one of the Sony Legacy remasters anyway...

I Smell Xasthur Williams (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link

No, not all of them. The version of "Cities on Flame" isn't from that. I'm checking with the booklet. Hmm, yeah, you got "The Red & the Black" and "Workshop of the Telescopes" from it on that box. Not bad. And I think you're right, they were put in pieces on the early remasters.

Gorge, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link

DOMINANCE, submission....

Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link

Such little love for Fire of Unknown Origin?

Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Dude I just said I rate it above Agents of Fortune!

I Smell Xasthur Williams (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link

[puts on blue priest garb]

I Smell Xasthur Williams (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link

joan crawford video is still one of the most nuts things ever

Ndamukong HOOS (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:34 (thirteen years ago) link

Agents Of Fortune and Spectres are really of a piece, aren't they? They're right up there with Fly Like An Eagle/Book Of Dreams and Kid A/Amnesiac in my book. (I speak here are 2-album tandems that stand apart from the remainder of the artists' catalogue, in terms of both sound and quality, and were probably also recorded at the same time, even though issued separately).

henry s, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link

And fuck that whole "cowbell" thing...it's pretty much all BOC are remembered for these days!

henry s, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah, i mean that and Godzilla are what I think of ... but then Allen Lanier sort of pops up around the edges of the CBGB scene (as Jon alluded to above) so I'm curious to see what these records are like.

tylerw, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link

(By the by, the demo of "Fire of Unknown Origin" (which was originally to have appeared on Agents of Fortune, and appears as a bonus track on the AoF reissue) is awesome, as is the Allen Lanier track "Dance the Night Away", which reveals him to be a languid crooner in the same vein as Dennis Wilson and (much later) Epic Soundtracks.

henry s, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm tempted to get that Patti Smith book for the two paragraphs or so she writes about Lanier...

henry s, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link

Mirrors is another great BOC MOR album. (I like to think of BOC as the Fleetwood Mac of metal, at least from Agents to Fire.) Mirrors has Lanier's best track, "In Thee". (Probably written with Patti Smith in mind. "Maybe you've bought your ticket, going back to Detroit".)

henry s, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link

I missed the original poll, and would have contributed another vote for Fire of Unknown Origin. I readily admit it was my first BOC album, and that tour was my first BOC concert, which was also my first rock concert, period. But it's still a fine, fine album.

glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link

http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/41hPlFST%2B4L._SS400_.jpg

this can be found for around $15

abanana, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link

where? about $25 from a third party seller on amazon ... still a good deal, I guess.

tylerw, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link

Those don't have the bonus tracks, though, do they? They're worth the couple extra bucks you'd pay for the individual albums.

drinkin a carton of peace juice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link

especially the 'Secret Treaties' ones -- totally essential!!

weird that that set skips past 'Spectres', too. That's the BOC album I've been playing the most over the last year or so

Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link

i think those original album classics things do have bonus tracks. at least the Sonny Rollins one I have does ... no liner notes, but a bunch of extra tracks.

tylerw, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link

all but mirrors have bonus tracks. maybe the price went up in the last few months (i bought it in january on amazon.ca marketplace for yes $15).

abanana, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link

Dude I just said I rate it above Agents of Fortune!

That's nice, but it still got no votes.

Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link

DOMINANCE...submission.

Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link

"so I'm curious to see what these records are like."

Do it, you wont be disappointed.

I voted Tyranny in this poll, but could have voted Spectres, which is awesome, but Buck's guitar on Death Valley Nights is a particular hight point.

Bill Magill, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link

i'm doing it! BOC!

tylerw, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link

Seems like there's only really 3 good BOC albums then?

Is that your Ayrshire bacon? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link

Fire of Unknown Origin got robbed.

are we human or are we dancer (m coleman), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link

tyler you need to become a BOC superfan ASAP so you can start tracking down sweet soft white underbelly and stalk-forest group live boots for me! :)

Ndamukong HOOS (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link

this ain't the summer of loooooove

am0n, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link

haha, well, i've already started digging around for bootlegs: http://soundaboard.blogspot.com/2010/02/blue-oyster-cult-rochester-new-york.html

tylerw, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link

Seems like there's only really 3 good BOC albums then?

― Is that your Ayrshire bacon? (Tom D.), Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:56 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No, there's the run of the first 5 that's unimpeachable, then a few scattered through the 80s (Fire, Cultosaurus) that are getting big play here. Not including live stuff, and weird shit like Imaginos.

Bill Magill, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link

first album is gettin slept on. great debut and precursor of what's to come while retaining those burnt psychedelic vibes.
has the essential 'Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll' and the sublime dealers' blues of 'Then Came the Last Days of May'.

solid yet bouncy (herb albert), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link

^agree

Ndamukong HOOS (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link

I hope the remaster program can crawl along one more notch to Mirrors, which really needs it. Cultosaurus and Fire Of Unknown already sound great, so I won't cry if the major-label-reissue industry perishes before they get to those (though I'd love some liner notes about that period).

I Smell Xasthur Williams (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link

On Your Feet... could use it too.

and the sublime dealers' blues of 'Then Came the Last Days of May'.

^ what a fucking great song

Bill Magill, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link

stairway to the stars is dope

Ndamukong HOOS (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link

^this!

Yeah Secret Treaties is head and shoulders above the rest of the catalog but I was definitely raised on Some Enchanted Evening. I remember trying to draw that grim reaper when I was a kid...

Nate Carson, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link

I wish the Flaming Lips would have covered the 1st BOC record, rather than (ugh) 'Dark Side...' e.g., "She's as Beautiful as a Foot" seems tailor-made for Coyne & Co.

Chooglin'alCarbon, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link

Haha OTM.

I Smell Xasthur Williams (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link

Basically, what we're trying to say is that every BOC album from the debut through Fire of Unknown Origin is freaking great and worth getting. Second on the love for the demo version of "Fire of Unknown Origin!"

X-Wing fighter in hand, "Godzilla" cranked on the stereo (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link

lol I'm probably the closest thing ILX has to a SUPER-HARDCORE KANSAS FAN.

anyways, m@tt, that whole concert sounded like lots and lots of fun. Sucks they only played 5 songs, but meeting them sounds amazing. I totally should see if they are playing Michigan in the next few months.

thillrer (loves laboured breathing), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

!!!!

Raptain Chillips (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link

Huge

Marcus / Xgau - Whose Century? (broom air), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link


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