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Blue Öyster Cult went out with a bang as a major-label recording act on their 14th and last new Columbia album, Imaginos. The idea for this concept album came as early as Secret Treaties, on which some of its music appeared, and the recording took place over a six-year period. (As a result, album credits give the erroneous impression that the original band had reformed.) The story line, which is easier to appreciate in the liner notes than on the record, concerns a mysterious, protean 19th century figure who has a talent for turning up at key moments in history and influencing them for the worse. This is perhaps BÖC's most consistent album, certainly its most uncompromising (none of its usual nods to pop accessibility), and also the closest thing to a real heavy-metal statement from a band that never quite fit that description. Unfortunately, this ambitious work came out as BÖC was dropping out of the frontline of the music business, so the album that comes closest to defining Blue Öyster Cult turned into its creative swan song. ~ William Ruhlmann
All songs written by members of Blue Oyster Cult.
Recorded at Alpha & Omega Studios, San Francisco, California.
Blue Öyster Cult: Albert Bouchard (vocals, guitar, percussion); Donald Roeser (vocals, guitar); Joe Bouchard (vocals, keyboards); Eric Bloom (vocals); Tommy Zvonecheck (keyboards); Thommy Price (drums).
Personnel: Kenny Aaronson (bass instrument).
Blue Oyster Cult: Eric Bloom (vocals); Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser (guitar, vocals); Albert Bouchard (guitar, percussion, vocals); Joe Bouchard (keyboards, vocals); Allen Lanier (keyboards).
Additional personnel: Joey Cerisano, Jon Rogers (vocals); Joe Satriani, Robbie Krieger, Jack Rigg (guitar); Shocking U (background vocals).
Additional personnel: Jack Secret, Joey Cerisano, Jon Rogers (vocals); Joe Satriani, Robbie Krieger, Aldo Nova, Tommy Moringello, Jack Rigg, Marc Biedermann, Kevin Carlson (guitars); Kenny Aaronson (bass); Thommy Price (drums); Shocking U (background vocals).
Rolling Stone - 3 Stars - Good Imaginos Music | List Price | $12.97 (You save $2.52) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Hard Rock CDs, Rock | | Label | American | | Orig Year | 1988 | | All Time Sales Rank |  10855  | | CD Universe Part number | 7551516 | | Catalog number | 24682 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 08, 2008 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Sandy Pearlman | | Engineer | Paul Mandl | | Recording Time | 55 minutes | | Personnel | Allen Lanier - keyboards
Eric Bloom - vocals
Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser - guitar, vocals
Joe Bouchard - keyboards, vocals
Albert Bouchard - guitar, percussion, vocals
Also: Joe Satriani, Robbie Krieger, Aldo Nova, Kenny Aaronson, Tom Price, Jon Rogers, Kevin Carlson, Jack Rigg, Jack Secret, Joey Cerisano, Marc Biedermann, Shocking U, Tommy Moringello |
Purchase Imaginos CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Blue Oyster Cult Agents Of Fortune CD (1976) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
Imaginos
 $7.59   
This is a multi-channel Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players.
Feted by heavy metal fans, this was a much broader album that put them in touch with AOR radio, and consequently took them out of their heavy rock ghetto. The ace in their tarot pack was the entrancing and enchanting "Don't Fear The Reaper" - the greatest song that the original Byrds never wrote. Flowing and chiming it put the band in the pop charts with ...
| | Blue Oyster Cult Curse Of The Hidden Mirror CD (2001)
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Long Island's favorite metal-lite purveyors continued their comeback in 2001 with this unexpectedly accomplished set of new songs. Boasting the core of the original band with Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, Eric Bloom, and Alan Lanier, Curse of the Hidden Mirror stays rooted in the group's tough yet jangly approach but ups the ante with strong material that often matches, yet doesn't quite surpass, the band's best music. A return to the stylistic triumph of Agents of Fortune and the similarly titled Mirrors, the revived quintet coalesces around sharp riff-based rockers that show a band that has matured but hasn't lost its cosmic edge. Simplistic rockers like "Here Comes That Feeling" float on a fluently melodic bed, and when they slip into ballad mode, as in "Out of the Darkness," it's done without an ounce of pretension. Even the tougher rockers like "Good to Feel Hungry" and "Stone of Love" -- the latter co-penned by R. Meltzer (who worked with them in the '80s) and one of this album's highlights, a song as good as anything they've ever written -- never slip into either stiffness or, worse, self-parody. Roeser keeps his solos on low burn, never overstaying his welcome, and vocalist Bloom doesn't force his still-smooth voice, belying his age (early fifties) and veteran status. The opening tuneful ...
| | Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties CD (1974) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
Imaginos
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Also available in a 3-pack with BLUE OYSTER CULT and TYRANNY & MUTATION.
Recorded in 1974. Originally released on Columbia (32858). Includes liner notes by Lenny Kaye.
Digitally remastered by Vic Anesini (Sony Music, New York, New York).
While Blue Oyster Cult's third release, 1974's SECRET TREATIES, continued to expand the band's fervent following, it lacked the heavy metal intensity that made the band's sophomore release, TYRANNY AND MUTATION, so exceptional. While hard rock compositions abound on SECRET TREATIES, the vast space rock of the group's self-titled 1972 debut can be detected back in the mix, courtesy of mainstay BOC producers Murray Krugman and Sandy Pearlman. While the album didn't prove to be the Blue Oyster Cult's breakthrough success (AGENTS OF FORTUNE would do the trick two years later), SECRET TREATIES is held in high regard by longtime fans, and has subsequently reached gold certification.
The epic album closer, "Astronomy," would receive greater attention nearly 25 years after its initial release when Metallica covered it on the band's all-covers collection, GARAGE INC., in 1998, but other tracks are just as strong. "Career of Evil" was co-written by drummer ...
| | Blue Oyster Cult Spectres CD (1977) Bonus Tracks
Imaginos
$7.59
Released during the year that punk broke, Blue Oyster Cult's sixth album was the important follow-up to the hugely successful AGENTS OF FORTUNE. SPECTRES found the group continuing to craft material that mated a trademark guitar-driven sound with intelligent lyrics. Although many short-sighted critics labeled the band heavy metal, this Long Island quintet was far more creative than this classification would suggest.
Although guitarists Eric Bloom and Buck Dharma dominate many of these songs with high-flying solos, the pristine harmonies of songs such as "Golden Age of Leather" and "Fireworks" are an often forgotten facet of Blue Oyster Cult's sound. Allen Lanier's keyboard contributions to SPECTRES ...
| | Blue Oyster Cult Mirrors CD (1979)
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17 bonus tracks in digipak
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