Blue Oyster Cult - "In Thee"
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Blue Öyster Cult was the thinking man's heavy metal group. Put together on a college campus by a couple of rock critics, it maintained a close relationship with a series of literary figures (often in the fields of science fiction and horror), including Eric Von Lustbader, Patti Smith, Michael Moorcock, and Stephen King, while turning out some of the more listenable metal music of the early and mid-'70s. The band that became Blue Öyster Cult was organized in 1967 at Stony Brook College on Long Island by students (and later rock critics) Sandy Pearlman and Richard Meltzer as Soft White Underbelly and consisted of Andy Winters (bass), Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser (guitar), John Wiesenthal — quickly replaced by Allen Lanier — (keyboards), and Albert Bouchard (drums), with Pearlman managing and Pearlman and Meltzer writing songs. Initially without a lead singer, they added Les Bronstein on vocals. This quintet signed to Elektra Records and recorded an album that was never released. They then dropped Bronstein and replaced him with their road manager, Eric Bloom, as the band's name was changed to Oaxaca. A second Elektra album also went unreleased, though a single was issued under the name the Stalk-Forrest Group. Cut loose by Elektra, they changed their name again, to Blue Öyster Cult, and signed to Columbia Records in late 1971, by which time Winters had been replaced by Albert Bouchard's brother Joe. Blue Öyster Cult, their debut album, was released in January 1972 and made the lower reaches of the charts. Columbia sent a promotional EP, Live Bootleg, to radio stations in October, and followed with BÖC's second album, Tyranny & Mutation, in February 1973. Their third album, Secret Treaties, was released in April 1974 and became their first to break into the Top 100 bestsellers. (It eventually went gold.) BÖC released a live double album, On Your Feet or on Your Knees, in February 1975. In May 1976, came their fourth studio album, Agents of Fortune, including the Top 40 (Top Ten on some charts) hit single "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (featured in the classic John Carpenter horror film Halloween), which became their first gold and then platinum album. (On Your Feet went gold shortly after.) BÖC's sixth overall album, Spectres, was released in October 1977 and went gold in January 1978. In September 1978 came a second live album, Some Enchanted Evening, which eventually would become BÖC's second million-seller, followed by the studio album Mirrors in June 1979. A year later, BÖC released its ninth album, Cultosaurus Erectus, with the gold Fire of Unknown Origin, containing the Top 40 hit "Burnin' for You," following in June 1981. In the summer of 1981, drummer Albert Bouchard was replaced by the band's tour manager and lighting designer, Rick Downey. BÖC's third live album, Extraterrestrial Live, was released in April 1982, followed by the studio album The Revolution by Night in October 1983. Downey left in 1984 and was replaced in 1985 by Jimmy Wilcox. The same year, Lanier left and was replaced by Tommy Zvonchek. BÖC released its 13th album, Club Ninja, in January 1986. Bassist Joe Bouchard left in 1986 and was replaced by Jon Rogers. In 1987, Lanier returned to the group, and Ron Riddle replaced Wilcox on drums. BÖC's 14th album, the concept recording Imaginos, became their final new album on Columbia Records in July 1988. BÖC scored the movie Bad Channels in 1992, by which time Chuck Burgi had replaced Ron Riddle on drums. In 1994, Blue Öyster Cult released Cult Classic, an album of re-recorded favorites, in connection with the use of their music in the TV miniseries of horror novelist Stephen King's The Stand. Numerous lineup changes ensued throughout the '90s (as the band kept on touring the world), and in 1995, were the subject of a double disc anthology, Workshop of the Telescopes. By the late '90s, BÖC had signed with the CMC label, resulting in their first album of all-new studio material in ten years, 1998's Heaven Forbid, and three years later The Curse of the Hidden Mirror. The group's music reached a whole new generation of hard rock fans when Metallica covered the BÖC classic "Astronomy" for their best-selling Garage Inc. album in 1998, as a few other best-of collections surfaced around the same time — Super Hits and Don't Fear the Reaper: The Best Of. In 2001, Columbia/Legacy reissued BÖC's first four releases with a newly remastered sound and added bonus tracks.
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EL MEJOR GRUPO DEL MUNDO
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I can not wait to see them live one more time in November. It is over a decade since I seen them last.
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blue oyster cult was a special band for me growing up in the seventies. i had many air guitar jam sessions with my buds rocking to b.o.c. there appeal was they always had this science fiction feel to there music which was cool for me cus i loved science fiction as a kid a now even so. me being the rock music nut that i am I still listen to b.o.c once aweek.
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Pretty much a perfect little song.
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:) QC
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BOC AWSOME
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Great song,great band.
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Really nice song.
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This band keeps me in touch with my youth...Something I miss dearly...One of the main reasons I picked up a guitar.
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adoro as baladas do BOC. Muito loko
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I listen to lots of different music and honestly, I can't pick my favorite artist because that would be a painful process. But if I could have anyone's talent, it would have to be Buck Dharma's. There is something about his voice and guitar playing that intrigues me.
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I'm surprised this hasn't been covered by indie bands yet.
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This song was ahead of it's time in the summer of '79 (even as a 9 year old boy, I could feel something deeper than usual was going on when this more-Beatleesque-than-The-Beatles track unfolded on the airwaves during my first ever time at overnight camp.. And, even my intensely critical father remarked at the beauty of this arrangement during a drive up to Maine that summer... Almost makes me cry to look back on my life that far.
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Actually this is my favorite BOC record
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My best friend hates Blue Oyster Cult its confirmed he's going to hell
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If I could only listen to one band for the rest of my life, I can't think of anyone more diverse and just plain "great" than the amazing Blue. Oyster. Cult.
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The theme to Buffalo Bill's life.
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From what I understand. "Mirrors" didn't do so well.. Mostly because it went into a more "pop" direction than anything before or after. Well.. I rather have a good pop-tune than a bad rock song. Am I alone about that? I do agree it's kinda of "poppy". But I love the production. Buck does some killer stuff on the guitar and it's light feeling is perfect for a good day on the beach. While it's not the band's most important work it's very enjoyable and have stood the test of time rather well I'd say.
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One of the worst songs from Blue Oyster Cult in my opinion... Sounds like something that the band bread would have put out in 1972.. Whiny
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Thank you for including all of this information. BOC has always been one of my favorite bands, and I think they are still very underrated. But maybe that's a good thing. ;) They have a damn good song for any feeling, any situation, any day.
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