Some Enchanted Evening

Blue Oyster Cult | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000025E6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #196,915 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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BLUE OYSTER CULT Some Enchanted Evening (US 7-track CD issue of the 1978 album picture sleeve CK35563)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ­ÆSTHETICS of a strong live album, but not a strong reissue, August 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Some Enchanted Evening (Audio CD)

Nevertheless, I give it 4 stars for the significant content.

Frank Doris (from TAS*), talking of Buck Dharma, wrote "...a titanic, hurricane force musician". He is a great guitar player, and this album is a raw evidence. The live tunes are okay ('Dont Fear The Reaper' is, to my ears, better on this live version(harder and faster) than the studio's. But, it is for the remarkable version of 'Astronomy' the majority of us will be after this record

I had the vinyle record years ago, and I must say it sounded better than the re-issue; cd's fault? [ my cd copy is a CBS pressed in Austria if that means something ]. In fact, some tunes have a good sound, others are less obvious. Musically, this is p o w e r f u l stuff : hardrock - - if not heavy metal - - at a 1 0 0 % technical peak ! * *The Abso!ute Sound­, vol 20, issue 104

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sonic!, May 29, 2000

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Russell G Dean - See all my reviews

This review is from: Some Enchanted Evening (Audio CD)

This is one of the best live albums to come out of the 70's. It gives a sense of what a concert sounds like and the band plays amazing through-out. Two problems though: An inferior version from a different show than the vinyl of We Got To Get Out Of This Place was accidently used and at 38 minutes the cd is just too short. In the hopes that some Sony executive reads these reviews it is time to re-master this with more songs from the same shows (they do exsist) like Golden Age of Leather and This Ain't the Summer of Love which aren't on any other live albums. Still I recommend this cd if you don't have it and then I recommend buying another copy if it ever comes out re-issued expanded.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SOME ENCHANTED EVENING is a superb live record., November 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Some Enchanted Evening (Audio CD)

The only problems I can think of offhand are the fact that I don't like "Kick Out the Jams," (so what, the rest of the album more than makes up for it) and the fact that "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" is just a little lacking. Other than that, there is no way I can think of that it could be better. The band plays an amazing cover of the Animals' "We Gotta get Out of This Place," a good all-around song to play on Mondays, as well as a cool rendition of the eternally catchy "R.U. Ready to Rock." Also of note are the versions of "Godzilla" and "E.T.I.," both of which are just fantastic. The real star of the show, however, is "Astronomy," always a personal favorite of mine, but this version takes the cake. The soft but dense background keyboards and the crushingly hard guitar work from Buck Dharma (in relation to other versions of the song I've heard), and most especially the four-minute guitar solo that closes the song (primarily uninterrupted, except for "Astronomy...a star") all make this the best version I've heard yet (although I haven't heard IMAGINOS [yet...]). Also, as a final plus, the sound quality is still excellent, even after twenty years. Get this album if you want to hear one of the world's best live bands in close to top form (although I am not a huge fan of "Reaper" or "Jams," the playing is still excellent).