![]() ![]() ![]() Out that way did they? Aside from the classic "Cities On Flame." and The founders of American metal didn't exactly start I'LL make this short,I like this album better than the second (Grant Edmonds) Love). Print them(he didn't print my KISS comments for some reason,another band I Them constantly,and plan on commenting on quite a few of them if Pringle will Rock genre which was to appear in the late of all I love this band ,and own their first 9 albums,play most of Along with Alice CooperĪnd Black Sabbath, this unquestioningly laid the foundations for the gothic Unfortunately not good, muffling the true power of this material, but theīand was rarely this consistently interesting again. Plain weird like no other mainstream record of the era. It's mean, dark, creepy, offbeat, and just Very strong debut by one of rock's greatest enigmas, rivalled only by Agents While making you shake your fist in the air as if unconcerned. "Don't Fear The Reaper," but it all aspires to giving you the slight willies The record ends with a surprisingly normalĬ/W-type pretty tune, but the rest of it sounds exactly like what a bandĬalled "Blue Oyster Cult" SHOULD have sounded like in 1972. No Sheep," "Before The Kiss, A Redcap" and the most fucked-up tune on here, Let me start this whole thing over, in hopes that you haven't read this beginning sectionĪnd will instead begin at the end of the review and read itīackwards, like our friends in the Chinese Kingdom.Īll I know is what I hear, and what I hear isĪ bunch of hellishly cool guitar lines (basic straight-up hard rock,īut darker!) and curiously bizarre song titles like "I'm On The Lamb But I Ain't The name of Eric Bloom put out this weird, wild record way back when I was Wankoff guitar lines with a touch of menace, a bass player and a fuzzy-haired D&D player by '70s hard rock band that had a hit with "(Don't Fear) The Reaper."Įchoey drums way off in the background, slithery but sleazy rock and roll Their name, you get "B.O.C.," which is actually the name of another popular Yet another interesting thing aboutīlue Oyster Cult is that when you take the first letters of each word in Also of note is the fact that all five band members wrote material and split lead vocal duties, and most of their lyrics were written by Helen Wheels, Patti Smith, Richard Meltzer, Sandy Pearlman and several other friends of the band. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings (by Stalk-Forrest Group)īlue Oyster Cult are a NYC-based rock band who began their stupid assholeĬareer doing wicked cool guitar tunes about dark topics, then started havingĪ bit of success and became poppier in hopes of earning even more record dough, before losing all their fans and having to return to dark topics again, even though they weren't any good anymore. special introductory paragraph! Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny And Mutation Secret Treaties On Your Feet Or On Your Knees Agents Of Fortune Spectres Some Enchanted Evening Mirrors Cultosaurus Erectus Fire Of Unknown Origin The Revolution By Night Club Ninja Imaginos Bad Channels Motion Picture Soundtrack Cult Classic Heaven Forbid Curse Of The Hidden Mirror St. ![]()
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