yeah Pocket was a real gem on Hidden Mirror
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 October 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
an interview with buck and eric about the new record:
https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/newsday-live-music-series-blue-oyster-cult/?utm_campaign=musicseries100820&utm_source=email&utm_medium=cta
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 10 October 2020 00:18 (three years ago) link
Killer album!
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 10 October 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
oh shit
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 10 October 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
buck sounds fuckin great
richie castellano's voice is way too... like... traditionally "good" to be on a böc record but whatever, i'm drunk and stoned and feeling it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 10 October 2020 02:24 (three years ago) link
agreed that the buck songs are largely superior but "stand and fight" is rad and "the alchemist" is *very* classic böc to me, i.e. just bloom announcing evil shit at you + boogie rock dual guitar solo interlude
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 10 October 2020 03:03 (three years ago) link
just bloom announcing evil shit at you
lol well put
live at least i'm not crazy about castellano's voice. it's fine as a joe stand-in for hot rails to hell.
i really wanna listen to this but won't have a real chance til tomorrow...
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 October 2020 04:08 (three years ago) link
"Box in My Head" is hilarious in the best way possible
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Saturday, 10 October 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
yeah it's such a weird/goofy chorus but it gets in my head
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 10 October 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
I like Florida Man way more than I should
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 10 October 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
A rock group pays homage to its most frightful character yet. His name is ‘Florida Man’
https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/article246334310.html
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 11 October 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
I think wringing a genuinely affecting and someone eerie at times song from a concept as hokey as a "Florida Man" song pretty much defines what's great about BOC
going back to the conquistadors and the seminoles cursing the land and all their offspring was an amazing way to start
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 October 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
The Alchemist is so fucking great
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 October 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
There's probably a classic-Cult-album-length great album in here.
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Monday, 12 October 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
and yes "Florida Man" actually works, miraculously
yeah there's a pretty big swing between the really good and the dross but ultimately there's a good handful of songs that have that weird one of a kind BOC *feel* to me and that's pretty great for 2020
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 October 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
fuck yeah
four tracks in, i actually liked richie's vampire track. an esteemed BOC tradition.
weird to say that i really hope I and they live long enough to see them tour this stuff
<3
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 11:58 (three years ago) link
So far I don't think it's as good as the Deep Purple album but there's still a lot good about it. I feel like it starts out really strong with the 3 tracks that were released in advance and picks up again with "Stand and Fight"/"Florida Man" but my attention flags in the middle. A lot of classic BOC lead guitar, though.
― I guess I'd be lonesome (Sund4r), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
This is (mostly) so great, lots of otm here. "Florida Man" is such a goofy concept and would have been so hacky in the hands of most other bands, but they pull it off - sort of in the tradition of "People Who Died" > "Pepper". And, yeah, "The Alchemist" is absolutely killer. I think "Secret Road" really gives me a great classic BOC sound, the back half of this record is so good.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
i'm in love with "Box in my Head", just classic Buck melodicism with such gonzo/goofy lyrics in the chorus, I lol at a love it at the same time
i find myself singing it to myself butchering the lyrics like "there's box in my head and my head is a box and my skull is a box and there's a box in my skull and there's box in the box and a head in my skull"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
....and there's rooooom foooor us booooth
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
big xhibit yo dogg we heard you like boxes so we put a box in a box in your skull energy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that was the advance track I came back to most. Early 80s AOR/new wave crossover feel.
― I guess I'd be lonesome (Sund4r), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
Did anyone here catch their Staten Island show on Halloween night last year and live to tell the tale? I really wanted to go but the veil was too thin, I was afraid I might get vanquished to a demon realm and wouldn't be able to catch the last ferry home.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 17 October 2020 03:15 (three years ago) link
i almost did but no. However, I did see them in Tarrytown a few months later - the last show I went to before the pandemic.
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 17 October 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
Haven't heard the new one. I have everything up to Spectres and nothing after, probably need to get Fire of Unknown Origin or something first.
IMO Albert Bouchard was the best songwriter in BOC and at least the 2nd best singer. Much as I love Bloom and Buck it's not the same band.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 17 October 2020 05:11 (three years ago) link
Fire and Cultosaurus are both super key imo
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 17 October 2020 05:50 (three years ago) link
the absence of albert bouchard shouldn’t dissuade you from checking out the revölution by night either
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 17 October 2020 05:52 (three years ago) link
wellnot *just* a. bouchard but especially a. bouchard. been meaning to get those albums for years, of course. bloom and roser steal the show on their 70s albums so no doubt they can carry the band. when i get really into a boc tune and look at the credits to ser who wrote the music it's a. bouchard like 3 times out of 4 tho.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 17 October 2020 06:18 (three years ago) link
he's the gene clark of blue oyster cult
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
He’s releasing his own new version of Imaginos next month (Reimaginos)
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
hey i feel you deflatormouse, albert bouchard is also my favorite böc member, one of my favorite drummers of all time
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
wait for real???
fuck i love imaginos
yeah i saw a video from reimaginos
imaginos it's hard for me to get past that horrid production
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
there's also an albert bouchard demo tape of imaginos from back in the day, floating around the internet.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 17 October 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
ooh I'd like to hear that
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 17 October 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soOHIaSyqtU
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 17 October 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
Yeah I wish those demos sounded just a tad better, a lower generation source must exist I’m kind of split on imaginos, Albert did not quite have the voice to carry the whole thing but then the official release is such an awkward monster
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
I must say I weirdly enjoy the cock rock singer they bring in for “Siege & Investiture” though
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
Also while we are on the subject Albert’s album with the Brain Surgeons, “Denial of Death”, is kind of essential
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
i saw the brain surgeons circa that record, at a backyard in brooklyn. i spoke to albert for a few minutes. we were chatting about the kiss/teenage lust/iggy/BOC show i'd seen when i was, like, 15 at the old academy of music (later the palladium, now an nyu dorm). it was kiss' first appearance in a concert hall. albert remembered their roadie running in to the dressing room and saying "hey guys, the singer for the opening act just set his hair on fire!" albert was, like, "fuck, how are we gonna follow that?!?"
'Brooklyn Woodstock' breast cancer benefit on a Midwood porch, Sat 6/10
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 17 October 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
^LOL!!
I’m kind of split on imaginos, Albert did not quite have the voice to carry the whole thing but then the official release is such an awkward monster
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, October 17, 2020 6:47 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago)
tbf these are not his best vocal takes, maybe he's just getting ideas down but yeah listening to this I wanna hear Eric Bloom singing and Buck Dharma playing guitar. It's like a cupcake without the icing or something, it's still recognizably a cupcake. Idk that sounds dumb.
See, this is where Blue Oyster Cult starts to lose a little of its potency, when they brought in these damn portastudios and then Agents of Fortune is more like the White Album where everyone has their little corner and the band reconvenes to basically copy shit off the demo. BOC do not need portastudios, they just need a pile of Sandy Perlman lyrics and a dilapidated house in Long Island where they can convene in a moldy basement to put their stuff together collaboratively. Not that those later records are bad by any stretch, don't get me wrong I like that stuff a lot too.
I Ching this morning said 枯楊生稊,老夫得其女妻,无不利。(rougly: A withered willow tree sprouts new shoots, an elderly man takes a young bride, there is nothing that is not beneficial). I think the advice in this is to check out the new BOC record.
Full disclosure, Albert Bouchard is my friend's dad and I used to go to parties at his house in fuckin' Great Neck when I was younger. Fwiw I don't think I am biased because he was my favorite member of BOC for years before that.
― Deflatormouse, Sunday, 18 October 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link
I agree that it becomes a different band agents through mirrors (cultosaurus and fire kind of seeming to blend that vibe back with the original 3 album one somehow) that demands a different appreciation
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 18 October 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link
haha full disclosure: eric bloom is the uncle of my best friend when i was growing up, which is how i wound up at the academy of music when i was 15.
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 18 October 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
damn crazy BOC connectionsmy controversial opinion:Spectres is secretly better than Agents of Fortune but Reaper is so iconic it fools people
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 18 October 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
Only listened to this album once through but I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. It's kind of like the most recent Judas Priest album where it's like "here's one of basically everything you guys like about us" — and that's good, because *ducks* BÖC have no front-to-back great albums; they always go off the rails somehow (usually with a fake doo-wop song or some gooey ballad) so this "new songs that sound like a greatest hits comp" approach was absolutely the right move. I'm gonna listen to it a few more times for sure.
I haven't heard the new Deep Purple album because to me DP were even worse than BÖC at the whole "two or three great songs, everything else is mediocre or awful" approach to album-making. May I recommend that y'all check out the last few Uriah Heep albums, though? They've done about five in a row now since 2008 that have been ridiculously solid — not great, because they were never great, but B+ material for sure.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 18 October 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link
xp dpectres is better than agents of fortune! reaper is not even the best song on it imo, i would say their best album is secret treaties, followed by tyranny and mutation but i don't have all the later ones so am unqualified to say. i would probably like their early 80s albums a lot.
― Deflatormouse, Sunday, 18 October 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
heh, well, at least you ducked :)
― Deflatormouse, Sunday, 18 October 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
yeah that’s certainly blatantly wrong
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 18 October 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link
yeah reaper is such a singular work of arti hate that fucking stupid snl sketchbut nothing anyone ever did is like it
"I Love the Night" maybe comes close to the vibe, the weird romantic creepiness
Fire of Unknown Origin is so good
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
even more controversial opinion:side 2 of agents of fortune is better than side 1. morning final/tenderloin/debbie denise ftw.
it's true
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
also: mirrors is really fun and consistent
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
I wish Mirrors didn't have such brittle production
I'm pretty on board Side 2 of AoF being better but only ETI is making me pause
that anthemic chorus melody mixed with the bizarre lyrics
All praiseHe's found the awful truth, BalthazarHe's found the saucer news
is one of my fav BOC moments ever
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
I think I underrated Mirrors for a while because it kicks off with Dr. Music one of the corniest songs they ever wrote
In Thee is one of their prettiest songs
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
yesss "eti" is one of my absolute favorite böc songs
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
BTW was looking up lyrics on the new album and I really like the pre chorus (?) on It Was Me, but I'd been hearing it as "I'm the sad man that the ladies tease" and it's really "I'm the Saturn man that ladies tease"
classic wtf BOC word choice.
Do we know who wrote lyrics on this? My friend said one was a Richard Meltzer
You'll feel me in the urban breezeI'll be there when the moment's seizedI'm the Saturn man that the ladies teaseYeah, my darlin', that is me
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
According to wiki the lyrics for that one are from author John Shirley. Meltzer only wrote for "The Return of St. Cecilia" on this new one.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
hmmm interesteing. "St. Celicia" is a callback to the Stalk-Forrest Group song (which oddly Meltzer didn't write) so I wonder if it is something old of his they had sitting around?
I know that has happened before, he was pissed about Burning For You I think because they hadn't been in contact with him and just used it, not sure what their relationship is now
thought I suppose Meltzer has probably softened some and tbh could probably use money coming in the door
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
"Box in My Head" feels very They Might Be Giants to me ("Dead," "Birdhouse in Your Soul").
Something I like about early BÖC is that they're in this uncanny space between dangerous and goofy. The murky, distant sound of the first album captures this best for me, where you can't quite discern whether you're on genuinely evil territory or not. The band sounds sharper after that, but never as mysterious. It feels of a piece with the schizophrenic attitude toward sheer evil in Last House on the Left (released the same year), an end-of-the-sixties thing, even though album and film are totally different experiences.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, 19 October 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, October 19, 2020 10:23 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is my fav BOC moment ever.
It's the song I'd like playing as I line dance into the alien ship come to abduct me.
The rest of the album is incredible, too.
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Monday, 19 October 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1980, on the second side of cultösaurus erectus, at some point in the middle of “fallen angel.” it’s scientific fact
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 19 October 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
I thought that moment occurred during the jazz interlude of "Monsters."
― henry s, Monday, 19 October 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link
in other BOC new - Albert Bouchard's Re-Imaginos is up on streaming
pretty interesting take on the project....sounds *so* much better than the horrid production of Imaginos. Albert's vox can be a little rough at times but I dunno, it's growing on me...
sad Imaginos wasn't tackled around the time of Spectres as Pearlman wanted to
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
"the girl that love made blind" is gorgeous
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
omg hooray
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
i got so obsessed with the imaginos lore when i wrote an essay about heavy metal a few years ago. the one deleted sequence from the movie is kind of an imaginos story in itself
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
is that up?I think you'll really like thisonly bright spot of 2020 is an unexpected BOC revival
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
that essay's definitely still up but there's a nonzero chance i will find it mortifying, it was for bright wall/dark room though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miar5eKG4uY
this is the very rad deleted/unfinished heavy metal scene
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
That's better than most of the finished sequences.
― jmm, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
otm
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
i find myself singing it to myself butchering the lyrics like "there's box in my head and my head is a box and my skull is a box and there's a box in my skull and there's box in the box and a head in my skull"― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, October 14, 2020 11:43 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, October 14, 2020 11:43 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
ha, that's me now. sometimes replacing 'box' with 'cat.'
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 02:41 (three years ago) link
Good article detailing how a new album came to be
https://www.loudersound.com/features/cult-heroes-the-audacious-return-of-blue-oyster-cult
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
Cool! Thanks for the link.
Also, Real Gone Music has a pre-order up for the first official release of their Pasadena show from 1983. Apparently a pretty popular bootleg, finally in an authorized release.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
Relieved (and a bit surprised) that this album is basically quite good. I'd put off listening to it for a while because I had a feeling that after all this time it was bound to be a disaster but it's... not?
Am I the only one who likes Nightmare Epiphany? Don't think I've seen it mentioned. Otherwise the songs that stand out for me seem to be the same as the thread consensus: Box In My Head, Stand & Fight, Florida Man, Alchemist, Secret Road. Secret Road might be my fave at the moment.
In my head the album title keeps changing to The Symbol Remains The Same.
― Mr Andy M, Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
agreed Nightmare Epiphany is a definite highlight and has the vintage BOC feelI should make a play list where I cut the duds from this and fly in the highlights from Curse of the Hidden Mirror
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
Post it if you do
― more haim than good (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 19 December 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
So many BOC threads, not sure which to bump, but this has been the most recently active.
Real Gone just reissued Live '83, a performance from July 24, 1983 in Pasadena and it absolutely slays. I guess this was a radio broadcast and has been a bootleg favorite for some time, but I'm just now hearing it. Absolutely smokes and a great setlist.
1. Stairway to the Stars2. Harvester of Eyes3. Workshop of the Telescopes4. Before the Kiss, a Red Cap5. Born to Rock6. Hot Rails to Hell7. 7 Screaming Dizbusters8. Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll9. Burnin' for You10. Joan Crawford11. Born to Be Wild12. Don't Fear the Reaper13. Roadhouse Blues
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 28 January 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
"Box In My Head" tops the tracks poll tomorrow, I can feel it
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Thursday, 28 January 2021 23:48 (three years ago) link
OTM
― Inside there's a box and that box has another box within (Sund4r), Thursday, 28 January 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link
listening rn this really holds up nicely i'm even warming to the Ritchie songs and some of the more off the shelf hard rock numbers
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:34 (two years ago) link
What did you think of ReImaginos?
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
I really liked it! sound very "BOC" to me and was cool to hear some of that stuff without the horrendous Dokken production values of the original
only thing i wished is maybe he would have done it before when his voice was a little stronger but hey time moves on for everyone
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link
suprise album alert!
https://blabbermouth.net/news/legendary-rockers-blue-oyster-cult-bid-farewell-to-their-recording-career-with-ghost-stories
so basically it's reworked versions of old demos and songs from the vault it sounds like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbf6i23DeLs
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 20:41 (one month ago) link
sounds like a Joe Bouchard vocal?
all is explainedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzjxgU6OcPI
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:19 (one month ago) link
Weird So it’s kind of a restoration/completion of various unreleased outtakes?I’ll certainly take it. My observation today is that “lips in the hills” is the kind of track that makes you believe in hard rock all over again.
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 February 2024 03:18 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY4ZCT4nyXA
It's great to hear Joe again. Cool track, very Mirrors-y.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 9 February 2024 08:04 (one month ago) link
it like it - the verses are wonderful, i do wish the chorus wasn't so stock sounding but still really good stuff
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 February 2024 15:48 (one month ago) link
Lol buck proving his own point (from a January interview)Do you have a favorite Blue Oyster Cult guitar album?“I’m not an expert on our records. You listen to them so many times when you make them, and then they recede into memory. But working with Martin Birch was a highlight as a guitarist. The album I’d choose as far as guitars would be Cultosaurus Erectus. It was memorable and had Burnin’ for You, which was great.”
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 February 2024 21:50 (one month ago) link
haha subbing Burnin for You for the Mashall Plan would bump Cultosaurus up the list considerably
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 10 February 2024 23:26 (one month ago) link
Subbing anything for the Marshall Plan would help
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 11 February 2024 01:08 (one month ago) link
“The Marshall Plan” was the first BOC song I heard as a new song of theirs. It was so weird!
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 11 February 2024 11:12 (one month ago) link
I could probably deal with like a singles edit that didn’t include Marshall’s rap where he’s conceiving his Plan. As I’ve said before BOC were the masters of a unique brand of lame-cool e.g. RU READY 2 ROCK but on a few occasions it gets away from them unlistenably - Marshall, dr music, let go
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 11 February 2024 21:32 (one month ago) link
Great revive!
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 February 2024 23:50 (one month ago) link