Label / Distributor: Epic / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Pieces in Set: 1
Studio / Live: Studio
Stereo: Stereo
Format: Performer
EAN: 5099749879126
Catalogue Number: 4987912
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Album Notes: This is part of Legacy's Super Hits series. Though Blue Oyster Cult has always been classified as a heavy metal outfit, the complexity and sophistication of the band's music have always set the group apart from purveyors of more straight-ahead metal. This excellent compilation gathers together material from 1972-1981, considered by many to be the band's most fertile period. Among the highlights of this collection are such early gems as "O.D.'d on Life Itself," "7 Screaming Diz Busters," and "The Red & the Black" (later covered by Mike Watt in the Minutemen and fIREHOSE) from 1973's TYRANNY & MUTATION. Blue Oyster Cult's two Top 40 hits are included ("Don't Fear the Reaper" and "Burnin' For You") in addition to one of hard rock's greatest anthems, "Godzilla," in which the big green guy gets a theme song worthy of his fierce reputation.
Advantages: Great rock music Disadvantages: The cover might frighten the kids!
...BOC, BlueOysterCult, are a US rock group, most famous over here for their still classic "Don't Fear The Reaper" , released this album in summer 1980. Many of you will never even have heard of it, let alone listened to it, so hopefully this will persuade you to give it a try. It's packed full of great riffing heavy rock, but underpinned with wry, subtle lyrics throughout.
BOC still had their classic line-up for this album, being Eric Bloom (vocals/guitar), Donald Roeser AKA Buck Dharma (guitars/bass/keyboards/vocals), Allen Lanier (guitar/keyboards), Joe Bouchard (bass) and brother Albert (drums). They toured the States with the revitalised Dio-fronted Black Sabbath later that year. Now there's a gig you'd want to have been around to see. Unfortunately for me I was a 13 year old pre pubescent boy...
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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 BlueOysterCult.
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 and their libidos, BOC carried on from where bands such 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...
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5. What is your favourite album?
The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion by The Black Crowes. A great band making music that will stand the test of time.
6. When you were younger which musician/bands did you have as posters on your wall?
Didn't have posters as such, the hip thing to do for us as teenagers was put your LP sleeves on the wall instead. Without the LP inside, I must add. Though I did also have a nice big gruesome Alice Cooper one up for a long time, I remember.
7. At the moment what is your favourite music to listen to?
American rock music between 1971-1975. The old joke goes that Homer Simpson said 1974 was the year rock music attained perfection. I'd go along with that.
8. What was the last CD you bought?
BlueOysterCult's 1974 "Secret Treaties" album, from Amazon, brought on impulse to...
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