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Blue Oyster Cult

  • 21-05-2007 12:01am
    #1
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,635 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone fans of them? A quick search on google for "blue oyster cult boards.ie" brought up this link, so afaik, nobody has talked about them here (apart from aforementioned link).

    I got my hands on their best of a few weeks ago, but before that I had only heard Dont Fear The Reaper, Metallica's cover of Astronomy and Godzilla (from guitar hero). I have listened to the whole lot almost every day ever since, and I will have to say that it is one of the best 'best of's that I have ever listened to. As soon as I earn some cash during the summer, I'm gonna have to get their back catalogue.

    Highly recommend this gem: Joan Crawford


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  • #2
    neGev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭neGev


    LordChessington wrote:
    Don't Fear The Reaper
    ...is all I've heard by them. How does the rest of their stuff compare to it?


  • #3
    8k2q1gfcz9s5d4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭8k2q1gfcz9s5d4


    i got the greatest hits at the end of feburary, its class. they are a grest 70's band. its a pitty they aren't doing a date in ireland, would definatly go asd see them if they were. wonder is there much of the original lineup left?


  • #4
    Ph3n0m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,655 ✭✭✭Ph3n0m


    well if the Saxon gig is anything to go by - I would say BOC gig would do very well over here - especially if they kept it small like Saxon did - Temple Bar Music centre would be cool


  • #5
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,635 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    neGev wrote:
    How does the rest of their stuff compare to it?
    Since I'm not gonna say "Don't Fear The Reaper is great but everything else is shíte" :D , but their stuff varies from being classic 70s rock to rock with a dose of 80's cheese, all depending on the era.

    If you know Don't Fear The Reaper and have followed the above link to Joan Crawford, try Take Me Away (80's) and Godzilla (also on Guitar Hero)


  • #6
    jellikit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭jellikit


    The X-Brothers, who feature Joe Bouchard of Blue Oyster Cult are doing a few dates around Ireland in July with Diamond Head and a few other bands. I've seen the X Brothers before and their set list is mainly BOC standards, unsurprisingly as Joe was their bass player up 'til about 1986. (he plays lead in the X Brothers). They are well worth checking out. Dates can be found here http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=61214104 Blue Oyster Cult were always at their best live, so a good place to start would be Some Enchanted Evening from 1978 and Extraterrestrial Live from 1982


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  • #7
    Alter-Ego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    More Cowbell!!

    :D

    A band i've been meaning to get into. I only know Don't fear the Reaper.


  • #8
    faceman
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    as much cowbell as you can get!
    its all here, enjoy:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBqPHJhmFHo


  • #9
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    BOC rocks! I've got a few albums including thier 'lost' masterpiece Imaginos (by it 'new' on amazon for 100 bucks!) which got deleted by CBS not long after its release.

    As a starter I'd reccomend workshop of the telescopes is a double CD covering all phases up to Club Ninja in 1986.

    The band limped on until all the ex-members returned for Imaginos which is a whacky concept album that George Lucas was briefly intersted in filming. (Supernatural origins of WW1 is the theme).

    There are two basic phases of BOC, the early pre-Don't Fear the Reaper material which is 'scuzzy' and dark and the more polished radio friendly stuff after 1977.

    Mike.


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