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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months ago) link
Subbing anything for the Marshall Plan would help
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 11 February 2024 01:08 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months ago) link
Great revive!
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 February 2024 23:50 (two months ago) link