Re-Imaginos from Bouchard is out. Not sure what to make of it yet but in my search for info, I happened across this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soOHIaSyqtU

It's strange to hear "The Siege..." without those beautiful ivorys kicking in and Joe Satriani's guitar offering:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eyHa2maCY8

A song from their new album 'The Symbol Remains'...


I don't see myself buying a copy of the album but it's good to hear the old B.O.C. humor still intact and flourishing.

Well, this one slipped under my radar. I haven't listened to Curse of the Hidden Mirror yet, but Heaven Forbid gets a lot of play from me. Real World and a few others off of that one are pure BOC goodness. I'll be giving this one a spin. Thanks for the heads up!

Florida Man sounds like some golden-era Ween. Really like it.

I was never really fond of that tune, even more so when we played it in a band I was in. The crowds loved it though and the rest of the band always seemed to have a lot of fun with it. Our other guitar player had the Japanese part down pretty good:

Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Gojira ga Ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu!
Daishikyu hinan shite kudasai!
Daishikyu hinan shite kudasai!

Translated to English:

Attention, emergency news!
Attention, emergency news!
Godzilla is going toward the Ginza area!
Immediately escape, catch up, find shelter please!
Immediately escape, catch up, find shelter please!

\m/

Blue Öyster Cult was my top favourite band back in my late teenage years - when I was suffering from a bad case of schizophrenia. I was a psycho. And the music of BÖC struck a chord with me because it was so darned *weird*.

I seriously believe that the music of BÖC helped me to recover from my psychosis. Because that weird music gave me something which motivated me to focus on something *outside* of my own consciousness. Listening to the first two LPs released by BÖC was like therapy for me. For I was for the first time in quite a while focusing on something out there in reality.

So BÖC will always have a special place in my heart. It was the first rock band (besides the Beatles) which I fell in love with.