shirley's first novel, from '79, is called transmaniacon. never read it, but full circle lol. remember digging his short stories in mags like F&SF and IASFM during the early-mid 80s.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
While I'm thinking about it, all BOC addicts should check out DENIAL OF DEATH by Brain Surgeons (Albert Bouchard, his wife at the time, and the lead guitarist from the Dictators). Came out in 2007 or so. It scratches some of that early 80s subversive MOR BOC itch.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
cool will investigate?
jon do you know Buck's solo album from 82? allmusic review is pretty negative, but it's a pretty old review and not super informative
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
No I've never heard it. I'd like to. His BOC songs are pretty ace on Fire Of Unknown Origin.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
turns out the Buck album in on spotify...so far...eh...nothing amazing, very AOR/MOR Aldo Nova type style, Mirrors would be the closest equivalent in BOC terms, but yeah the first song is really corny, so far 2nd one is only marginally better
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
hey guys
i finished my BOC Spotify Playlist last night!
The Playlist of 1,000 Psychic Wars:
http://open.spotify.com/user/matthelgeson/playlist/46Ccxmnl1IErLlsdE0C3hM
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
just FYI, Imaginos isn't on Spotify so no tracks off that, but every other album
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
\Blue Oyster Cult – Hot Rails To HellBlue Oyster Cult – Burnin' For YouBlue Oyster Cult – Transmaniacon MCBlue Oyster Cult – ME 262Blue Oyster Cult – I Love The NightBlue Oyster Cult – (Then Came The) Last Of May - Live VersionBlue Oyster Cult – The Red & The BlackBlue Oyster Cult – Dominance And SubmissionBlue Oyster Cult – Joan CrawfordBlue Oyster Cult – Cities On Flame With Rock And RollBlue Oyster Cult – VeinsBlue Oyster Cult – She's As Beautiful As A FootBlue Oyster Cult – Morning FinalBlue Oyster Cult – 7 Screaming Diz-BustersBlue Oyster Cult – Godzilla - LiveBlue Oyster Cult – PocketBlue Oyster Cult – Wings Wetted DownBlue Oyster Cult – Flaming TelepathsBlue Oyster Cult – Buck's Boogie - Live VersionBlue Oyster Cult – Celestial The QueenBlue Oyster Cult – (Don't Fear) The ReaperBlue Oyster Cult – Career Of EvilBlue Oyster Cult – Kick Out The Jams - LiveBlue Oyster Cult – Unknown TongueBlue Oyster Cult – O.D.'d On Life ItselfBlue Oyster Cult – MonstersBlue Oyster Cult – In TheeBlue Oyster Cult – Dancin' In The RuinsBlue Oyster Cult – The Subhuman - Live VersionBlue Oyster Cult – Harvest MoonBlue Oyster Cult – Ginger Snaps - OriginalBlue Oyster Cult – This Ain't The Summer Of LoveBlue Oyster Cult – Death Valley NightsBlue Oyster Cult – Shooting SharkBlue Oyster Cult – Veteran Of The Psychic WarsBlue Oyster Cult – Live For MeBlue Oyster Cult – Teen ArcherBlue Oyster Cult – Perfect WaterBlue Oyster Cult – Golden Age Of LeatherBlue Oyster Cult – Black BladeBlue Oyster Cult – TenderloinBlue Oyster Cult – I Just Like To Be BadBlue Oyster Cult – Madness To The MethodBlue Oyster Cult – Lips In The HillsBlue Oyster Cult – E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)Blue Oyster Cult – DeadlineBlue Oyster Cult – Astronomy
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Very very nice work there!
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
Fkin righteous, M@tt! Now I have to figure out how to use Spotify...
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
should be easy i think you just download the app now and get up and running
not sure if anything from Imaginos would have made the list anyway but i was kinda sad it wasn't on...just you know, if you're going to listen to Revolution By Night and Mirrors and Some Enchanted Evening like 3 times through to make a dumb list you might as well listen to Imaginos
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
One thing I learned about doing this:
Blue Oyster Cult might not be the best band of all time. But...they are capable of doing pretty much anything a great band can do, so remarkably diverse and skilled and talented.
Also, they are the weirdest fucking band ever.
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
like their evolution from a proggy mash-up of the Doors and Steppenwolf to a gleaming, sinister AOR pop rock band is just odd on so many levels
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
more fire clown garbage.
funnier than "more cowbell" A+
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
Off Imaginos... maybe "Del Rio's Song". Or "Siege and Investiture..." for LOLs. But yeah no big loss.
I do want to advocate for a couple of the bonus tracks from the Columbia/Legacy remasters-- namely "Boorman The Chauffeur" off Secret Treaties and "Please Hold" off Spectres.
OTM x 100,000. They stay in the mind and are infinitely chewable because they cannot ever be fully digested.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
never got "boorman the chauffeur". it's just "boris the spider" with different lyrics, right? among the spectres bonus tracks, i do love "the night flyer". mentioned it a ways upthread.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, "Night Flyer" is sweet too. Goddammit if they never finish the remaster series. I want Cultosaurus and Unknown Origin outtakes!
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
HOLY SHIT
http://www.concertposterstore.com/inc/sdetail/224/259
the original Mahavishnu lineup + Clarence White Byrds + BOC
fucking A
found out about this in this interview with Bloom from the 90s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onwq8cVNiI4&feature=related
says Mahavishnu blew them off the stage every night
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
also he talks about a new album forthcoming in 92!!! heaven forbid wasn't until 98...hmmm
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
oops
http://o.b5z.net/i/u/10023017/i/byrdsbluetc.jpg
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
Jesus!
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 9 February 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
M@tt and contendo let's get one of those british dad rock mags like Uncut or w/e to commission a long BOC article from us so we can go KIW Eric, Buck and Allen for a few days.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 9 February 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
god that would be amazing
btw i've been googling and googling and i CANNOT find an interview with sandy pearlman re: BOC at all
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 February 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
I may have told this story here before (on a different thread), so I apologize for the repetition.
A few years ago, a guy came into my workplace and noticed my Clash t-shirt. He said, "Hey, you know their record Give 'Em Enough Rope? My partner produced that." I said, "You know Sandy Pearlman?" "Yep, we used to work together; we did a lot of the Blue Oyster Cult stuff." Realizing that I was talking to Murr4y Krugm4nn -- and thinking of a particular song he co-produced -- I said, "So...you worked on 'Don't Fear The Reaper'..." That was all I had to say. He looked down, sighed, and said, "Yeah...yeah. I think I'm the only person on earth who doesn't think that sketch is funny."
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
That is so awesome
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 February 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
lol, yeah, i've read that somewhere else, but it's great. and hell yeah, xps. :D
i CANNOT find an interview with sandy pearlman re: BOC at all
yeah, this is disappointing. appears to be some stuff archived @ rock's back pages, but i'm not a member.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 February 2012 10:10 (twelve years ago) link
^ 3 yeahs
= the Beatles.
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 February 2012 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
namely "Boorman The Chauffeur" off Secret Treaties
^great tune
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
Just went on Martin Popoff's site and was delighted to find he offers a bunch of his books, including Blue Oyster Cult: Secrets Revealed, as $9 ebooks. I've been putting off buying the book for a long time 'cause of its 30-40 dollar price tag. Also seems he expanded it in 2009.
It purportedly has at least a little bit of Pearlman interview, along with the other folks you'd expect.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Just found some inane Pealman interview on youtube, some eejit interviewer goes on and on about the SNL sketch, can't even face linking it but search his name and you'll find it.
― _~~_~~_~~_~~_~~_~~_~~_~~_~~ (Matt #2), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
wau Pearlman was the founding VP of eMusic?
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
He was also Sabbath's manager for a short amount of time in the Dio era.
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that stupid sketch makes it even harder to find good info on an already under reported band, watched that one matt 2 was talking abt
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
A steadfast young bro goes through the discography track by track. Many quotables. I like him, he's got heart:
http://www.hotrails.co.uk/blueskybag/features/jacobkoehler/index.htm
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
holy crap that's a lot of cultwork. impressive, though a bit overwhelming.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
Check out the intricate detail on the skull; it looks as if it is saying "Yes young man....come and follow me to worlds unknown...". I took the ride and have not regretted it one bit.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 9 February 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
Otm
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 February 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
I love that guy. His favorite BOC album is "Tyranny..." which is the right answer. Plus he looks like early '70s Joe Bouchard.
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Friday, 10 February 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I'm sad he quit before doing the whole catalog :(
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 February 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
picked up a really nice copy of On Your Feet Or On Your Knees on saturday for $5! :)
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
i honestly don't have a desire to listen to any other music right now
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
On Your Feet would be a good candidate for those remastering jobs they were doing a few years back.
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
this vinyl pressing sounds pretty great, so much better than what i was listening to on computer
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, OYFOOYK is great. one of the last cult albums i got around to, as i'd heard from someone that it wasn't all that great. lies! better than the album versions in some cases ("harvester of eyes" <3). always struck by the super-sharp division in sound between the tracks off the first and third albums and the T&M tracks. makes sense that studio albums might have a different vibe, but they almost sound like a different band on "hot rails to hell" and "the red & the black".
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah harvester of eyes is way better, as is last days of may and the subhuman jam is fucking unreal
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
between the horror of spaceand the terror of timemy heart is crystaldown the line...i'm screaming
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
It really does belong with Live 1969 and The Blow Up and Aghartha in that pantheon of double live benificent monoliths. One has to conclude at this point that the Legacy remasters won't include it, which is FUCKING DUMB.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah especially because columbia apparently needs to release a new greatest hit comp about every 6 months
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Some of which are live without saying so! Knees really could use the remaster too, the sound on the CD is meh. I wonder if anyone has a sweet vinyl rip in the blogosphere, like that great Raw Power one Tyler linked to a couple years ago...
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link