Blue Oyster Cult

[hrdude]

Any BOC fans out there. Ever since I heard Don't Fear the Reaper I've been a massive fan.

[LordSimen]

Blue Oyster Cult rock. :D

[hrdude]

Thank you, you have no idea how many people have never heard of them. Considering they are one of the godfathers of metal..............and then some.

[athf1980]

there pretty cool.. They always remind of that SNL skit of more cow bell

[Cronos]

Loved them ever since I heard Don't Fear The Reaper.

[slothlike]

those guys rule :cool:

[Superplasmatron]

if they are so great why is Don't Fear The Reaper the only song ever mentioned, eh?

[Superplasmatron]

Blue Öyster Cult's logos pretty cool though, the hooked cross of Kronos.

[outsyder]

Godzilla is an awesome song.

[LordSimen]

if they are so great why is Don't Fear The Reaper the only song ever mentioned, eh?

So apparently you've never heard Godzilla, Harvester of Eyes, Astronomy, Cities of Flame with Rock and Roll, E.T.I.? I Love the Night?

Don't Fear the Reaper is the song that's usually associated with them because it's the song that almost everybody uses. It's their most popular song. That's why it's mentioned more than the others, but that doesn't take away from the greatness of their other hit singles as well as their entire discography.

[therealjohng]

Godzilla is fucking EPIC.

[poopontheshoes7]

One of my favorite bands. I still think they don't get as much love as they should.

[Buck Turgidson]

Not to be too clichéd, but their earliest stuff is untouchable. I'm thinking specifically about Blue Oyster Cult, Secret Treaties and Tyranny and Mutation (the so-called "Black & White" albums) and that first live record On Your Feet Or On Your Knees. There was always a weird balance between serious, hard edged rock and goofy, near self-parodic songwriting with them that wasn't easy to maintain, and which often slips past some people, but that I always found really interesting.

Screams, Stairway to the Stars, The Red and the Black, Then Came the Last Days of May, Harvester of Eyes, 7 Screamin' Diz Busters, The Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl) and, most of all, the incomparable Astronomy, are all major signposts of my misspent youth.

[hrdude]

Screams, Stairway to the Stars, The Red and the Black, Then Came the Last Days of May, Harvester of Eyes, 7 Screamin' Diz Busters, The Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl) and, most of all, the incomparable Astronomy, are all major signposts of my misspent youth.

Some good calls in this. i would add in Hot Rails to Hell and Dominance and Submission.

[Jerk Shapiro]

Fucking criminally underrated band - and Buck Dharma is equally as underrated. Fantastic guitar player.

[Buck Turgidson]

"I'd like to thank my friends who gave me this li'l whip...I'll keep it and cherish it fo'-evvvvvvvvverrrrrr..."

[poopontheshoes7]

My top BOC albums go as followed

Secret Treaties
Fire Of Unknown Origin
Spectres
Tyranny and Mutation
Agents of Fortune


Cultosaurus Erectus is one hell of an underrated album, with one of the coolest covers of all time.

[hrdude]

This thread will not die:)

Secret Treaties takes it for me in front of Tyranny and Mutation

[hrdude]

Anyone interested in BOC's definitive live album check this out.

http://soundaboard.blogspot.com/2010/02/blue-oyster-cult-live-in-west-1975.html

[Frosty_86]

They are one of the most influential bands. It's amazing how a lot of people forget about them.

[MisoGenie]

I was just listening to this band the other day, and to claim that they are not influential-or just as important-as many other classic rock bands whose shirts are sold en masse at your local Wal Mart retailer (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd) is ignorance. Godzilla and Don't Fear The Reaper are both classics without falling prey to the overexposure many "classics" tend to.