Blue Oyster Cult

Blue Oyster Cult | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000024Y2
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #375,963 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This CD is an out of print collectible! It is the original Columbia release. Catalog CK 31063. There is a drill hole through the UPC.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OPUS ONE, May 30, 2000

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Daniel S. "Daniel" (Geneva, Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Oyster Cult (Audio CD)

OK ! Shame on me ! I've passed through the 70's without having heard one LP of BOC. Now, some 25 years later, disgusted by the actual music production, I'm going back to this period and listen actually to a lot of bands that have marked these golden years.

So I ordered the first record of Blue Öyster Cult, and once received, after having sent my children to bed and my wife to the Post Office, I turned the volume on. And I played it, and played it again. And it was still great music. In short, BLUE ÖYSTER CULT is obviously a rock'n roll classic with 10 songs ranging from good (Workshop of the Telescopes, Screams) to excellent (Redeemed, Stairway to the Stars) or perfect (Transmaniacon MC, Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll).

Anyway, a band able to write a song called - She's as beautiful as a Foot - can't be but praised.

A CD for your library.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the great underappreciated classics..., March 3, 2000

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Ilker Yucel "Kryptych" (Annapolis, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Oyster Cult (Audio CD)

Blue Öyster Cult are truly one of the greatest rock n' roll bands of all time. Between brilliant lyrics with subjects that range from the occult to biker anthems to campy sci-fi/horror flicks and B-movies, excellent song-writing, and shining guitar solos a la Don "Buck Dharma" Roeser, BÖC are the epitome of what rock n' roll is. Right up there with bands like Steppenwolf and Led Zeppelin. And yet, when you ask the common layman of they've heard of BÖC, they will often reply, "Yeah, they did that song about 'The Reaper'"? Unfortunately underappreciated, but not forgotten by true fans of great rock music and fine musicianship like myself. While later albums would solidify their sound, this is the album that started it, and it yields some of what should be considered the great classics of rock. Some call it early heavy metal, and it certainly did inspire some of the metal bands of today, but this is so beyond that genre. "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" is a song for the ages, launching hellfire and brimstone through six-strings of evil. "Transmaniacon MC," "Before the Kiss, a Redcap," "Then Came the Last Days of May," and "Workshop of the Telescopes" are amazing paragons of rock, appealing to the Satanist minions or the leather-biker barfly, this album sets them ablaze and screaming for more! The one flaw on this album is the song "I'm on the Lamb, but I Ain't no Sheep," which was eventually given a major facelift on the next album as "The Red and the Black," which is an improvement. It was still a good song, but the reworked version on the next album is far superior. But that song aside, and while on the suject of superiority, this album is one of the mother superiors of great rock n' roll! Get this album, and embrace the evil...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BOC's First Passes the Test of Time, October 27, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Blue Oyster Cult (Audio CD)

Born in the forment of the late '60s, Blue Oyster Cult had several years of experience jamming, writing and recording before their self-titled debut was released. The experience shows, as this album ain't the work of no spring chickens. From the very first track, the band establishes itself as a powerful musical force that blends a taste of acid rock, blues and heavy metal into a unique combination. Unique, but all rock and roll, penetrating the deepest crevaces of the listener's mind with it's moving vision.

The album begins with Transmaniacon MC - a good hard rocking song about motorcycles and the like -next giving way to a number about the Canadian mounties. Just when you think the music is starting to move into cliche ridden territory, it takes a sudden turn, as in the haunting ballad Then Came the Last Days of May. All the elements that were to characterize future BOC albums are in place here: First rate musicianship, creative use of studio effects, well written lyrics and a mystical, dream like atmosphere, to name a few. The effect on Then Came the Last Days of May, for example, in which the singer's voice seems to scatter around the speakers like a group of mice, is heard again during I Love the Night on "Spectres". As the album progresses, the listener becomes more involved. She's as Beautiful as a Foot is a tripped out and climactic moment - but only one of many. Screams is another great number. And who could forget Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll, one of the great heavy classics, a song that ranks up there with Iron Man or Dazed and Confused in it's hard rock intensity. By the end of the album, you will find yourself completely entranced. Reedemed, the last track, will surprise you with it's bluegrass sound in the begginning, but ends with a final psycadelic freak-out. And what are they singing about? In some cases it's clear, others not, but in either case it gives you something to think about.

It's been almost 30 years since this album was released, and I think anyone who appreciates good rock and roll can feel safe picking up a copy now. That's what I would call an album that's passed the test of time.