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Psychedelic Paul
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I've been a fan of the New York Hard Rock band Blue Öyster Cult ever since their beginnings in the early 1970's, and I just discovered to my delight today that they're included on ProgArchives, so I'm wondering, which is your favourite Blue Öyster Cult album? My vote goes to "Imaginos", featuring my favourite BOC song, "Frankenstein"
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Secret Treaties for me.... great album
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debut today
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Don't have too many of theirs, but went with Imaginos, an underrated classic! Secret Treaties and Agents Of Fortunes are both pretty close...
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^^ It's great to see another vote for "Imaginos". I had a feeling I'd be the only one to vote for that album.
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Well, at least that's something we have in common. Guess who added them? It wasn't pretty at the time, but thankfully things have mellowed out. Anyway, hard to choose for me - I love all of their albums, even those that are considered "minor". If somebody pointed a gun to my head, though, I'd probably go with Tyranny and Mutation. Incidentally, I also think Imaginos is one of their best albums, and I love the references to H.P. Lovecraft's stories.
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All down to a review in Kerrang! at the time. I had never heard of them at the time. I was mostly into hard rock and metal back then (late teen years) so anything that got a 5 star rating I was interested in. I think the review started with "Ask your big brother about Blue Oyster Cult"..... I didn't have one, and my big sister was into Soft Cell, Depeche Mode and Duran Duran (and the like) so I just bought Imaginos and loved it
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Their debut.
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Yes, I can imagine (or Imaginos) there'd be a big dispute over whether or not Blue Oyster Cult should be added to ProgArchives, although it probably wasn't as big a dispute as the time when Miles Davis was added to the hallowed halls of prog.
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Secret Treaties for me, first album I bought by them back then.
Not as familiar with some of their later stuff, although I do have Club Ninja which I found at a CD/Record show a year or two ago. I did not care for this one much. I am curious about Imaginos now as I have not heard that one.
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Quite difficult to get hold of I think....
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Imaginos is much MUCH better than Club Ninja.
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I never really got into this band much, but I have a soft spot for Cultösaurus Erectus.
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I'm not sure whether you intended the pun, but it's funny all the same.
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Hey, a BÖC poll! I do love Imaginos and the underrated Mirrors, but I have to vote for C.E.
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Not at all. The last remaster appeared in 2013. I see many copies available via the usual outlets.
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If I must chose a studio album, I'd have gone for Treaties with Spectres second, but since live albums are allowed, then I went for Enchanted Evening the expanded edition with the Live DVD performance. Even keeping SEE as a single disc, I like it better than Kness & Feet , but it would be a tie with ET Live.
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Secret Treaties with the debut not far behind, Treaties is great all the way through but the debut has "Then Came the Last Days of May" which is by far and away my farvorite BOC song.
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I'd have to give it Secret Treaties.
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man that is hard... one of my alttime top favorite bands with great songs and great albums all the way across their career arc.
but I would have to pick from one of the first 3 .. not because they may have been more.. (god I hate that f**kign word) proggy.. but I simply enjoyed the sound and the energy of those. Lanier became more prominent on later albums which wasn't a bad thing.. but it did correspond perhaps intentionally in the way Bouchards drumming became less prominent after the first three. Perhaps it was the adjustment drummers often make as they have to tone down their playing in large arena/stadium settings which BOC was hitting with their 4 album but as great as many of the later albums were.. and they were.. and the great thing of the band.. even the less than great albums still had lots of great songs you'll never hear on the radio or some damn compilation album but alas they simply didn't flat out sonic assault you the way the first 3 albums did.. the way my favorite especially did.. Tyranny and Mutation.
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