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The Cult's 1979 response to the punk rock explosion is a bit of a puzzle. Recorded without Sandy Perlman, the band's long-time conceptual guru and producer, MIRRORS is essentially metal-lite pop--simultaneously more accessible and more generic than the Cult's usual self-consciously sinister fare; in fact, there are moments here when you could be excused for thinking you're actually listening to Boston or Billy Joel. Still, what the music lacks in menace it makes up for in melodic hooks and four-part harmonies; standout tracks in that regard include "The Great Sun Jester," a sweet piece of psychedelic pop that verges on the Beatle-esque; "You're Not the One," a nice new wave-style put-down that recalls the group's roots as a Long Island bar band; and "In Thee," which mates soaring vocals to the familiar chords from "Sweet Jane."
Blue Oyster Cult: Allen Lanier, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, Eric Bloom, Joe Bouchard, Albert Bouchard.
Purchase Mirrors CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties CD (1974) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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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 ...
| | Blue Oyster Cult Spectres CD (1977) Bonus Tracks
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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 are occasionally overlooked despite the fact that the album contains ...
| | Blue Oyster Cult Imaginos CD (1988)
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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 ...
| | Blue Oyster Cult Cultosaurus Erectus CD (1980)
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| | Blue Oyster Cult Revolution By Night CD (1983)
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| | Blue Oyster Cult Fire Of Unknown Origin CD (1981)
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Drawing from a well of gothic imagery and dark overtones, this legendary ...
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| | Santana Zebop! CD (1981)
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Longtime friend and promoter Bill Graham joins Devadip Carlos in the production of 1981's zestily-titled opus, ZEBOP. The material makes an even navigation between radio pop and Santana's signature brand of edgy Latin rock. While Carlos' playing reaches a keen clarity throughout, nothing lets the fire loose quite like the album's instrumental numbers. Found on the previous albums MARATHON and THE SWING OF DELIGHT, sessionman Alex Ligertwood is again the vocalist of the hour, turning in a strong and soulful performance.
Santana is always associated with drawing inspiration from many corners, and ZEBOP is surely no exception to that tradition. The band turns Cat Stevens' "Changes" into a salubrious piece of ...
| | Iggy Pop Party CD (1981) Remastered
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Digitally remastered by Elliott Federman (SAJE Sound, New York, New York).
With New Values and Soldier, not to mention plenty of touring, Iggy Pop proved that if he wasn't the most stable man in rock & roll, he wasn't the burned-out waste case who hit the skids after the collapse of the Stooges, either. In 1981, both Iggy and his record company wanted him to deliver a hit, and Party was a typically eccentric attempt on his part to do just that. On Party, Iggy and songwriting partner Ivan Kral came up with a set of stripped-down but tuneful pop/rockers, and Iggy tried to steer away from darker lyrical themes in favor of relatively upbeat songs like "Rock and Roll Party," "Houston Is Hot Tonight," and "Pumpin' for Jill" (he works at a gas station, get it?). But "Pleasure" proved the old Iggy still lurked beneath the surface, "Eggs on a Plate" found him lashing out at the symbols of success he was trying so hard to gain, and "Happy Man" was so aggressively silly it verged on self-parody. Iggy also tried to enlist a name producer to give the project some commercial punch; what he got was one-time Monkees songwriter Tommy Boyce, who oversaw the uninspired ...
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