Blue Oyster Cult thread
 

Another band that's great, the ORIGINAL BOC (not that new BOC Broads of Canada, or whateverr..)
Album Highlights: Secret Treaties, Tyrrany & Mutation, 1st, Agents of Fortune

Highly Underrated: Revolution by Night, Fires of Unknown Origin

dont fear the reaper dude "we need more cowbell" i have some obscure best of album

they played at the bike rally here not too long ago, i was disapointed that i missed it, but wasnt to keen on hanging out at a biker bar, in a biker town, during a bike rally, without a bike.

Pretty good band. I have one of their compilation cd's and it's all good right he way through. Don't Fear the Reaper is a neat song.

Pretty underrated band by the look of things.

Anyone who dosen't have Secret Treaties, go buy it or download it... It kicks ass.

right on!

Did you check out Workshop Of The Telescopes?

You know I was going to ask you guys, what the hell is BOC considered? Are they a fine line between prog and glam? Do they have blues based stuff, I've only heard a handfull of things but they seem to be devoid of vocal passion...and any sort of music tenacity as well...

Who are these guys?

p.s. The Astronomy cover by metallica blew my ****ing mind.

I wouldn't consider them prog though they did have some proggy material, i certainly wouldn't consider them glam though i can hear a little Bowie influence in some of their work... I'd say overall they were just a rock n roll band, plain and simple.... Some however would go as far as to call them metal or proto metal, and i see that as a possibility.... Their influence on a lot of metal bands is pretty overlooked.

A lot of people label them AOR or Album Oriented Rock... Which is also what Journey, Foreigner and REO Speedwagon are considered to be... Which is a big insult to BoC.

I don't consider them AOR though, AOR bands aren't badass enough to have Patti Smith write songs for them.

I don't care for albums, but whats wrong with an AOB?