Best Blue Öyster Cult Album

So awful

LOL same artist, same year:
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also i'm not a big font dork but that font was the worst thing in the 90s

<3 Cultosaurus Erectus. I'm at a point in my life where I feel like I really want to spend copious amounts of quality time with every BOC album between Secret Treatises and Club Ninja

I have never dared set my ear to Club Ninja, and I speak as someone who has listened to and enjoyed Imaginos and Revolution By Night.

Club Ninja is half pure awesomeness ("Dancing in the Ruins," "Perfect Water," "Spy in the House of Night," "Madness to the Method") and half really embarrassing attempts to become Survivor or something ("White Flags," "Rock Not War," "Beat 'em up"). The awesome half makes it worth listening to, though.

never been the biggest spectres, but "the night flyer" is slaying me atm

spectres fan, that is

i'm listening to revolution by night now, aside from shooting shark, a truly odd beautiful bit of 80s pop/prog (with randy jackson from american idol on slap bass according to allmusic!) it's a rough go...

i'm a bit of a club ninja apologist, but it's def better than revolution by night overall (dancing in the ruins is a classic sequel to burnin' for you)

i've always seen those two as being roughly equivalent, a bunch of half-baked crap supported by one truly magnificent track (shooting shark and dancing in the ruins, natch). it's been a while since i took club ninja out for a whirl though, so maybe i owe it another chance. mirrors finally clicked for me late last year.

mirrors hasn't clicked with me yet, i bought it at the same time i bought cultosaurus and i just liked the latter so much better

I love Mirrors' first side with a passion

well, it is so much better. they've got five great albums, imo (the first 3, cultosaurus and FOUO), plus some other stuff you might want to trawl for tracks.

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drugs, you love dr. music? man i can't hang w/that

listening to mirrors now with an open mind

ha! it reminds me of cheesy bikini comedies the same way that Black Blade reminds me of cheesy horror movies

retract that 2nd 'cheesy'; replace it with 'low-budget'

I mean, you guys are otm about Cultosaurus being better though for sure

hate to admit it, but i kind of love "dr. music".

strictly for the cheeze tho

^^^ I do too

I mean, I'm way more down with the next three songs; "In Thee" esp seems appealingly plaintive...

i love that BOC is a band that would make like a commercial FM rock record and have song titles like "In Thee"

On Your Feet Or On Your Knees is a pretty classic double live album, too, imo

fire of unknown origin rules so hard

On Your Feet Or On Your Knees is a pretty classic double live album, too, imo

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Then Came The Last Days of May on that record is mindblowing.

On Your Feet... is so essential, one of the great guitar records of awl time.

"in thee" is really pretty...but yeah mirrors doesn't totally do it for me, so far

it's not terrible, but it seems like a not-as-good cultosaurus erectus imo

Yeah that's probably fair: I probably overdid by saying I loved Side A w a great passion. But am still down w a mediocre album from these guys; call me a fan, I guess.

"the vigil" is on now, this is pretty interesting

Hot Rails to Hell. Am I right?

"The Great Sun Jester", "In Thee", and "Mirrors" off Side A is a sweet little run. I am among those who cannot consult Dr. Music tho.

Side B starts with two awesome tracks then peters out.

I'm always singing "Pret-ty girls can't look away!" in my head.

the leadoff line:

"A mirror is a negative space with a frame" is great

they snuck the weirdest lyrics into 80s pop rock songs

ok club ninja is not as good as i remember haha

but dancing in the ruins is still classic!

perfect water's end guitar solo is stunning

make rock not war might be the worst BOC song? gotta be close

the title alone is eliciting irl lols over here

Oh yeah I meant to say that the other keeper off Revolution By Night is "Veins".

yeah veins is great!

Jon lewis otm about the Sun Jester/In Thee/Mirrors run; makes Dr. Music more palatable imo.

I saw the Moorcock paperback that The Great Sun Jester is based on for sale from a sidewalk vendor but I didn't buy it :(

Is it called the Great Sun Jester? I might try to check iit out when I read thru the Jerry Cornelius quartet

It should be noted that the Jerry Cornelius stuff is pretty… different than the rest of Moorcock's oeuvre.

It's called The Fire Clown.

Side 2 of Mirrors is not without its merits...Allen Lanier's vampy "Lonely Teardrops" could have been a Doc Pomus cover, the Cars/Who power pop of "You're Not The One (I Was Looking For)" is marred only by a weak chorus (then again, in a power pop song a weak chorus is a double-technical), and the sheer [doom metal-to-free jazz-and back again] daftness of "The Vigil" certainly portends later stuff like "Monsters"...about the only track on Mirrors I could never really get behind in some way is "I Am The Storm"...

getting back to this after a quick couple listens...

so i guess "the great sun jester" applies to the jerry cornelius novels in the same way that "black blade" applies to elric? huh. dinna know. anyway, it's a decent tune, but the lyrics are atrocious. can't abide it:

they have killed the wild-eyed jester
they have killed the fire clown
he'll never sing his songs again
he'll never dance between the stars again
he'll never laugh again
no, he'll never ever laugh again

ffs. "dr. music" is much more endurably, cheerfully cheezy, imo:

so if you really wanna do it
you better do it ... hot

lol. now that's a fucking philosophy. plus the build-up and chorus remind me in good ways of both kiss and def leppard, and i can def hang w that. "in thee" is great too, lost in the 70s, passed out behind mirrorshades in 1st class, though i can't help r'ing my de at that trop-cult "thee". would sound so much better if it was just plain old "you".

strongly disagree w the idea that side 1 has any run of good songs. it's totally up and down. "sun jester" blows, "mirror" blows, "moon crazy" us beautiful and winds things up nicely. honestly, i like side two about equally well. "the vigil", dopey as it may be, has a tough riff and a sweetly aching chorus. plus that spooky "come to us" over the badass solo, in case you forgot who you're listening to. "you're not the one" starts off like t-rex, but moves into this weird, chilled-out new wave number. not great, but i dig the chorus. "lonely teardrops" rips off styx but i love it anyway. anticipates the downtempo but off-kilter vibe of "deadline".

Don't think The Great Sun Jester applies to Jerry Cornelius. I think George is just reading those books.

Yeah the book its based off of is The Fire Clown. Sorry for the confusion!

Also <3 sun jester and mirrors, tho the lyrics of SJ are def hard to take seriously. imo you need a sense of humor to fully appreciate this album.

well yeah, but that's a fire clown too far, imo

Listening to Heaven Forbid now.

not loving this...the production seems like a weird attempt to make them palatable to 90s metal audiences...pretty crunchy guitar tones

"Harvest Moon" is a nice little oddity! weird little tale of losing the family farm, sharing a title with a Neil Young album/song

lol this revive has made me listen to so much Blue Oyster Cult in the last couple of days