Curse Of The Hidden Mirror
7/13/2005, AMG
Long Island's favorite metal-lite purveyors continued their comeback in 2001 with this unexpectedly accomplished set of new songs. Boasting the core of the original band...
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Blue Oyster Cult Super Hits
7/13/2005, AMG
Since the mid-'90s, Blue Öyster Cult have had their catalog pillaged for hits collections on almost a yearly basis, so the appearance of yet another such beast isn't the...
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Cult Classic
7/13/2005, AMG
Perhaps recognizing Columbia Records' failure to release a proper greatest hits album, Blue Öyster Cult re-recorded its best-known material on this collection, which was...
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Workshop Of The Telescopes
7/13/2005, AMG
Blue Öyster Cult was long in need of a thorough career retrospective, and this is it. Thirty-two tracks filling up two discs with a total running time of 154:46, Workshop of...
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Blue Oyster Cult/Tyranny & Mutation/Secret Treaties
7/13/2005, AMG
Sony repackaged and re-released Blue Oyster Cult's first three albums -- Blue Oyster Cult, Tyranny & Mutation and Secret Treaties -- as a slip-cased box set. It's not a bad...
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Live 1976
7/13/2005, AMG
Blue Oyster Cult was for the most part a touring band, and this European import, released 15 years after the concert it chronicled, shows them at their 1970s touring peak....
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Heaven Forbid
3/24/1998, LAUNCH, Bill Holdship
In a genre where almost no act ages gracefully, one might hope that Blue Oyster Cult could pull it off. Even though neither of the founding Bouchard brothers remain part of...
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Super Hits
7/13/2005, AMG
For a band that was a staple of the arena rock circuit, Blue Öyster Cult didn't have that many hits -- actually, only four of their singles made the charts. Still, they had...
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Agents Of Fortune
1/1/1976, LAUNCH, Richard C. Walls
The big breakthrough wasn't a sell-out, just a happy accident (for them) in the form of the indomitable hook of "Don't Fear The Reaper." The album's expansion into...
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Agents Of Fortune
7/13/2005, AMG
If ever there were a manifesto for 1970s rock, one that prefigured both the decadence of the decade's burgeoning heavy metal and prog rock excesses and the rage of punk...
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Agents Of Fortune/Spectres
7/13/2005, AMG
In 1987, Columbia released Agents of Fortune/Spectres, which contained two complete albums -- Agents of Fortune (1976) (which contains their biggest hit "Don't Fear the...
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Blue Oyster Cult
1/1/1972, LAUNCH, Richard C. Walls
In the beginning they sounded like happy amateurs, with Buck Dharma as the ringer--this guy's obviously going somewhere. A bit too dinky to be metal-a-la-Zep, but still...
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Blue Oyster Cult
7/13/2005, AMG
Two years before Kiss roared out of Long Island with its self-titled debut, Blue Öyster Cult, the latest incarnation of a band assembled by guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma"...
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Career Of Evil: Greatest Hits
7/13/2005, AMG
Contrary to what some may believe, Blue Öyster Cult was never strictly a heavy metal band. In fact, some of its greatest triumphs -- including "Don't Fear the Reaper" and...
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Extraterrestrial Live
7/13/2005, AMG
Of Blue Öyster Cult's three live albums, Extraterrestrial Live is the one to own. The two-record set, partially recorded on BÖC's home base of Long Island, contains the...
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Fire Of Unknown Origin
7/13/2005, AMG
Who would have thought that in 1981, after a pair of limp, unfocused studio offerings, and two mixed -- at best -- live outings, that the once mighty Blue Öyster Cult would...
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Imaginos
7/13/2005, AMG
Blue Öyster Cult went out with a bang as a major-label recording act on their 14th and last new Columbia album, Imaginos. The idea for this concept album came as early as...
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On Flame With Rock And Roll
7/13/2005, AMG
CBS (now Sony) Special Products' second discount-priced Blue Öyster Cult compilation improves upon its first, (Don't Fear) the Reaper, by including not only that album's...
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On Your Feet Or On Your Knees
7/13/2005, AMG
On Your Feet Or On Your Knees, Blue Öyster Cult's first live album (there would be two more), was also its first to peak inside the Top 40 best-sellers, which is more of an...
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Secret Treaties
7/13/2005, AMG
While the speed-freak adrenaline heaviness and shrouded occult mystery of Tyranny and Mutation is the watermark for Blue Öyster Cult's creative invention, it is Secret...
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Some Enchanted Evening
1/1/1978, LAUNCH, Richard C. Walls
Live and out of ideas. Covering the MC 5's "Kick Out The Jams" comes across as a heavy-handed bid for punk...
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Some Enchanted Evening
7/13/2005, AMG
Blue Öyster Cult marks time with a second live album on which they turn out good, if redundant, concert versions of recent favorites like "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" and...
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Spectres
1/1/1977, LAUNCH, Richard C. Walls
Their first post-Agent release finds them trying to stabilize the pop/ hard-rock formula with varying success....
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Spectres
7/13/2005, AMG
On the all-important follow-up to its commercial breakthrough with Agents of Fortune, Blue Öyster Cult introduced some enjoyable additions to its repertoire in "Godzilla"...
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Tyranny & Mutation
7/13/2005, AMG
On Tyranny and Mutation, Blue Öyster Cult achieved the seemingly impossible: they brightened their sound and deepened their mystique. The band picked up their tempos...
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Blue Oyster Cult (Platinum)
7/13/2005, AMG
Although the marketplace has been flooded for some time now by an overabundance of Blue Öyster Cult compilations (Workshop of the Telescopes, {The Essential Blue Oyster...
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A Long Day's Night
7/13/2005, AMG
Shortened by six songs from its accompanying video, Blue Öyster Cult's fifth live release is a rugged and often exciting trawl through their 30-year career. Featuring songs...
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Then & Now
7/13/2005, AMG
While most headbangers lost track of Blue Öyster Cult come the early '80s, the group continued to carry on -- issuing albums of varying quality and logging serious highway...
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Blue Oyster Cult
7/13/2005, AMG
In 1999, Mobile Fidelity reissued Blue Oyster Cult's first two albums, Blue Oyster Cult (1972) and Tyranny and Mutation (1973) on a single 24-karat gold CD that was aimed at...
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Secret Treaties
7/13/2005, AMG
While the speed-freak adrenaline heaviness and shrouded occult mystery of Tyranny and Mutation is the watermark for Blue Öyster Cult's creative invention, it is Secret...
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Agents Of Fortune
7/13/2005, AMG
If ever there were a manifesto for 1970s rock, one that prefigured both the decadence of the decade's burgeoning heavy metal and prog rock excesses and the rage of punk...
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