Blue Oyster Cult. Where Did You Come in?

Mine too-every song is great, and one of the rare albums that sounds great in any shuffled order (Rush' Grace Under Pressure being another).

 

Also about 1976... Older friends introduced me to their music..

 

Nice to know the album's got another fan!

Never tried shuffling, but I reckon you're right. The songs are too good for the order to matter. Good shout on Grace Under Pressure too. Excellent record.

 

That's great news.

 

I bought the first album the first time I saw it based on the cover alone. I was not disappointed.

 

Am very curious to know whether Cope figured out that all that dead baby iconography was Coop's disgust with the prevalence of abortion.

 

I believe Cope's interest in Cooper ends with the "School's Out" single, and is mostly concerned with the Straight Records era Alice.

 

Thanks. One day someone's going to break this story. And it will probably be me. Here.

 

That is fantastic news!

 

I was a student at SUNY Stony Brook when I first saw Blue Oyster Cult in early '72 at our gym.
I was there with my buddy Paul and we were offered some acid to help us "get into" the Mahavishnu
Orchestra, who were also on the bill with the headliner, the Byrds.

Blue Oyster's first album just came out and in our minds, were clearly the best band on stage that night. No acid needed!
I distinctly remember "Cities on Flame" and "Stairway to the Stars" as being potential hits.

Since they started the band as the Stalk Forrest Group "in the neighborhood", they felt like the home team. They were very comfortable and were goofing around on stage. They said that tonight they were going by the name of Soft White Underbelly, one of their band names before settling on BOC.

 

In the beggininng...early 1970s

 

Sometime in the early 80s when I was 13 or 14. I liked "Burnin' For You" and "The Cowbell Song"......but what really did it was either WNEW-FM or WPLJ played a (pre-recorded) live concert.....don't remember where it was from but had Fire Of Unknown Origin songs. I taped it, played the cassette to death, and started buying the albums. I saw them two straight summers at the Asbury Park Convention Hall. Soon after, I started listening to them less as I got into the Grateful Dead and 60s music combined with not liking Revolution By Night. My 3rd live BOC show was the 40th anniversary show in 2012 the week after Hurricane Sandy.

I play them fairly regularly now.
............and I like Mirrors, including that Cars sounding song, which I took as a joke right away with the blatant backwards message after the 1st verse.

 

Don’t Fear the Reaper was my introduction. I adored the song. But Fire of Unknown Origin sealed the deal. It’s still my favorite, despite all the great ones that came before. The perfect marriage of melodies, hooks, singing, lyrics and cmon.,.Joan Crawford! And it still rocks albeit with a softer edge.

 

The FM station I grew up with (KKEG, Fayetteville, AR) was fairly freeform back in the '70s and used to play "Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll." That was the first BOC song I ever heard.

 

The Revolution by Night is literally the only BOC record that would have three songs in my top 10:

Take Me Away
Shooting Shark
Feel the Thunder

 

Must have been sometime in very late 72 through the middle of 73. Not sure if I heard the debut or Tyranny first, but I heard both very close in time to each other. Both an uncle and my drum teacher at the time played them for me at about the same time. Pretty sure they both discovered BOC via a supporting slot, though I'm not sure for what headliner(s). (Would have been a gig in Cleveland for my uncle, and South Florida for my drum teacher --probably Miami, in 72 or earlier 73.) I dubbed the first two albums on reel when I borrowed them from my drum teacher. Secret Treaties is the first one I bought when it was new.

 

Outside of “The Vigil” which is one of BÖC’s greatest songs, Mirrors is terrible.

 

Imaginos, still my favourite. Then went back and got the rest.

 

Interestingly, on their live DVD recorded in 2002, "Stairway to the Stars" is the opening song.

 

It was around the time they released that farming song... Don't Fear the Combine... or something like that.

 

When I was 6 or 7, I heard the first three albums. Loved them all, but I obsessed over Secret Treaties, and frankly still do.

Then when I was in high school, I obsessed over Fire of Unknown Origin.

 

Harvest Moon?

 

Love BOC I saw them 4 times in the 70's laser show and all. Great band love Agents and Spectres.

 

OK, this is funny. My dad stepped in at Agents, and he dragged me along to a concert, and I was floored, so my 1st was Spectres.

The interesting thing is, I glommed on to On Your Feet or on Your Knees real bad, and it took me a long time to be able to listen to the 1st 3 studio albums, because I thought that live record with all the improvisation and great sound was so awesome. Now ... Secret Treaties is one of my all time favorite records.

 

I was reading a bulletin board in the early 70s at Nassau Community College on Long Island. There was a want ad looking for a guitar player for a "folk-rock band" The stipulation was "Blue Oyster Cult fans not welcome !" Or words to that effect. I knew then I was going to like them. Not their biggest fan, but I do love a few of their songs.