Best Blue Öyster Cult Album

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

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.

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

more fire clown garbage.

funnier than "more cowbell" A+

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.

Also, they are the weirdest fucking band ever.

OTM x 100,000. They stay in the mind and are infinitely chewable because they cannot ever be fully digested.

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.

Yeah, "Night Flyer" is sweet too. Goddammit if they never finish the remaster series. I want Cultosaurus and Unknown Origin outtakes!

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

also he talks about a new album forthcoming in 92!!! heaven forbid wasn't until 98...hmmm

oops

http://o.b5z.net/i/u/10023017/i/byrdsbluetc.jpg

Jesus!

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.

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

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."

That is so awesome

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.

^ 3 yeahs

= the Beatles.

namely "Boorman The Chauffeur" off Secret Treaties

^great tune

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.

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.

wau Pearlman was the founding VP of eMusic?

He was also Sabbath's manager for a short amount of time in the Dio era.

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

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

holy crap that's a lot of cultwork. impressive, though a bit overwhelming.

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.

Otm

I love that guy. His favorite BOC album is "Tyranny..." which is the right answer. Plus he looks like early '70s Joe Bouchard.

Yeah I'm sad he quit before doing the whole catalog :(

picked up a really nice copy of On Your Feet Or On Your Knees on saturday for $5! :)

i honestly don't have a desire to listen to any other music right now

On Your Feet would be a good candidate for those remastering jobs they were doing a few years back.

this vinyl pressing sounds pretty great, so much better than what i was listening to on computer

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".

yeah harvester of eyes is way better, as is last days of may and the subhuman jam is fucking unreal

between the horror of space
and the terror of time
my heart is crystal
down the line
...i'm screaming

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.

yeah especially because columbia apparently needs to release a new greatest hit comp about every 6 months

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...

yeah listening to the vinyl it's like a whole 'nother record

i like how they START with a mega-jam on The Subhuman that basically sounds like a "last song" jam, like "buckle up!"

well how about that!

via wikipedia:

[Rudy] Sarzo was born Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont,[1] in Havana, Cuba on November 18, 1950. He emigrated to the United States in 1961.

dang, now that's a name

How do you pick Rudy Sarzo as yr stage name when you could just easily be MAX GRANDE?

there's literally like 10 great stage names in that name

Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont would have looked great on the credits of a Whitesnake sleeve.

He looks like a MAX GRANDE

rapper Grande Pay
crooner Rodolfo Max Sarzo

and so on

Payret y Chaumont

^^that's a hella expensive champagne