Blue Oyster Cult

I know Ult likes them but I don't know if anyone else does. The Spectres album is my favorite!

I love them, one of my favorite bands.

Secret Treaties and Imaginos are two of my favorites.

Spectres is my favorite also. As I wrote last year, they actually came to the regional fair near here, so I got to see them again despite living in the wilderness. I bought a "More Cowbell" t-shirt.
For some reason (a few songs I guess, or maybe the Black & Blue tour) BOC got labeled as being a lot heavier than they actually are. I know a lot of people that find them lame. But they really never were primarily about rocking out. A deep band really. Spooky and in their own way, progressive.

They came to Albuquerque but it was in a casino so I couldn't get in.

Geez, that sucks. Did I mention when I saw them it was free? Not to rub it in or anything.

I saw them for free last summer also and it was awesome. I love BOC got the logo tattooed on my arm a long time ago I liked 'em so much. My fav. album is Fire of Unknown Origin. My fav. song by them is I Love The Night, great track.

Love BOC!

My favorite album is the "obscure" Imaginos. Also really love the more commercial leanings of Mirrors and Spectres. The only album I don't really like by BOC is Club Ninja but even that has "Dancing In The Ruins" on it.

Yup, big fan. Hard to pick a favorite or even put them in some sort of order. Always like Cultasaurus Erectus a lot. Fire of Unknown Original, Blue Öyster Cult, Tyranny and Mutation Secret Treaties...all great. Always loved their live EP "Some Enchanted Evening" a lot as well.

I really like this band, I've seen them several times but not for a long time now. They used to come through Albuquerque nearly every year in the early to mid ninety's. They always put on a good show. I've always seen them in night clubs never a big stadium. I remember back around 1980 they broadcast one of their shows on a TV program called Rock Concert or something like that. They had all the smoke machines, lights, a giant Godzilla head on the stage. It was a pretty big deal, I would have liked to have been able to see them like that at least once. Last photos and interviews I've seen these fellers are looking pretty old. Hope they keep on rockin' a while longer.

Huge huge fan as well here, saw them a month ago at the fair in North Dakota they were awesome. Before that was also at the fair grounds in 1976 at the height of their careers on the "On Your Feet Or On Your Knees" tour great laser show.

Also got "More Cowbells" shirt and I as well have a tattoo on my right forearm of their logo. This is one of my all time favorite bands ever, I consider their 70's material to be their pinnacle and untouchable!

Wargod48

Big fan of Blue Oyster Cult, and it is great to see " Imaginos'" getting some love, I bought the dvd they released a few years ago 'A Long Days Night" and it was excellent. Sure they look used car salesmen but they still have their chops, "Cultasaurus Erectus' is another great album but my favorite album by them is "Tyranny and Mutation" excellent album without a bum track in sight.
Last studio album "The Curse of the Hidden Mirror' got some mixed reviews but I liked it.

Love BOC alot...never saw them as metal..just odd rock...

"Joan Crawford" is my favorite BOC tune...so f***ing out there....

Shiney wrote:

Love BOC alot...never saw them as metal..just odd rock...

"Joan Crawford" is my favorite BOC tune...so f***ing out there....

Great song!!!!!!!!!!

Gotta give some BOC love... HOT RAILS TO HELL !!!!

The live version of E.T.I. on either 'Extraterestial Live' or 'Some Enchanted Evening'...

One of the greatest riffs EVER!!!!

Saw 'em once in a club in Oakland 1988. Flaming Telepaths.... cause the JOKES ON YOU....

I was only familiar with Godzilla, Burning For You, and Don't Fear The Reaper and I liked them. So I got a CD of them from the Super Hits series (the CDs you get for $5) and I am now ready to get some more-awesome music. These guys seem like a classic rock band I could listen to on a regular basis.

Agents Of Fortune
Spectres
Mirrors
Fire Of Unknown Origin
Revolution By Night
Imaginos


...those are my faves INPO.

"Joan Crawford has risn from the Grave!!!" What a Great song! I also like Psychic Wars, Godzilla (ET Live version), Dr. Music, Don't Fear the Reaper.

One odd song by BOC that I've always liked is "Shooting Shark". I like the groove of that song.

tohostudios wrote:

One odd song by BOC that I've always liked is "Shooting Shark". I like the groove of that song.

Absolutely! A couple of other great songs of theirs that have a good groove IMO are "Dancing in the Ruins" from Club Ninja and "Take Me Away" co-written by Aldo Nova(and you can tell, because it sounds an awful lot like his hit "Fantasy") from The Revolution By Night.

Dancing In The Ruins is the only reason I bought Club Ninja because I think that album is weak other than that song. And you're right about Take Me Away, you can definitely hear the Aldo Nova influence in the songwriting and you can hear his guitar playing as well.

I also really love the remake of Astronomy that's on the Imaginos disc. That chorus really grooves too.

I really like Spectres and Cultasaurus Erectus but I HATE Fire Of Unknown Origin.

Has anyone else ever noticed that a lot of BOC albums have a "muddy" or "muffled" sound to them. Especially the drums; they just don't have enough "oomph". The only ones that don't sound like that to me are Mirrors and the new stuff.

akeldama wrote:

but I HATE Fire Of Unknown Origin.

Why?

Schbopo wrote:

akeldama wrote:

but I HATE Fire Of Unknown Origin.

Why?

That is great album, if you said " Club Ninja" fine, but " Fire of Unknown Origin"