Advantages: 1970's American rock at its finest Disadvantages: The "bonus" tracks are not much of a bonus
According to Homer Simpson, 1974 was the year that rock reached perfection. Personally I think they were out by a year, but the writers of that show must have been thinking of releases like this, the third album from New York City's famous hard rock band Blue Oyster Cult. Pigeon-holed as gonzo headbanging rockers to start with, BOC soon showed they were the thinking mans rock band. At a time when the majority of bands were singing about coke, sex ... ...as The Doors and Love left off, taking the West Coast vibe and marrying it to their own harder-edged Eastern seaboard rock sound. This is no mere cock-rock, the subject matter here include such as lesbianism ("Astronomy") incest ("Dominance And Submission") and even World War 2 ("ME262"). Leave behind any pre-conceptions of BOC as "that wierdo space-fantasy HM band", this is just good old straight up rock and roll with a twist in its tail. The twin ...
pinkmatchstick 02.07.2005
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