BOC studio albums from favorite to least favorite
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Topic: BOC studio albums from favorite to least favorite
Posted By: The Doctor
Subject: BOC studio albums from favorite to least favorite
Date Posted: April 07 2009 at 19:24
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How do they measure up in your opinion? Here's mine: 1. Imaginos 2. Secret Treaties 3. Fire of Unknown Origin 4. Cultosaurus Erectus 5. Spectres 6. BOC 7. Tyrrany and Mutation 8. Agents of Fortune 9. Mirrors 10. Curse of the Hidden Mirror 11. Revolution by Night 12. Heaven Forbid 13. Club Ninja ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 07 2009 at 19:29
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OK, here's mine: 1. Imaginos 2. Secret Treaties 3. Tyranny and Mutation 4. Fire of Unknown Origin 5. Cultosaurus Erectus 6. BOC 7. Spectres 8. Curse of the Hidden Mirror 9. Agents of Fortune 10. The Revolution by Night 11. Mirrors 12. Club Ninja Haven't heard Heaven Forbid yet, but I'm not particularly encouraged to do so  |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: April 07 2009 at 19:32
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Here we go! 1. Secret Treaties 2. Cultosaurous Erectus 3. Imaginos 4. Tyranny & Mutation 5. Revolution By Night 6. Agents Of Fortune 7. Spectres 8. Blue Oyster Cult 9. Fire Of Unknown Origin 10. Club Ninja 11. Curse Of The Hidden Mirror 12. Heaven Forbid 13. Mirrors |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: April 07 2009 at 20:31
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I don't own all their albums, but I don't see the "poorly ratedness" of Heaven Forbid. I like that album a good bit, especially "Harvest Moon." Dharma's voice is amazing there.
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: April 07 2009 at 20:35
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I am severely BOC deficient. With my recent purchase of Secret Treaties, I now have that, Mirrors, Agents of Fortune, and a couple of greatest hit compilations. ------------- 
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: April 07 2009 at 21:34
It's not 'bad' it's just nothing special. I got bored with it after 3 listens because it's just so generic. The rest of BOC's discography is a lot more deep and has more to offer. |
Epignosis wrote:Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: April 07 2009 at 22:48
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Never was a big BOC fan myself. The tunes I play most often by them are "Shadow of California" and "Shooting Sharks", and a few of the tracks from Imaginos gets regular spins too.
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Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: April 07 2009 at 22:54
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1- Secret Treaties
2- Tyranny & Mutation
3- debut
4- Spectres
5- Cultusaurus
6- Los Imaginos (haven't heard it in ages)
7- Agents of Fortune
8- Mirrors ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 08:13
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Lets see:
1. Agents of Fortune (one of my all time favorite albums)
2. Spectres
3. Fire of Unknown Origin
4. Cultosaurus Erectus
5. Blue Oyster Cult
6. Secret Treaties 7. Tyrrany and Mutation
8. Heaven Forbid
9. Imaginos
10. Mirrors
still need to hear Curse of the Hidden Mirror, Revolution by Night and Club Ninja. Overall BÖC is one of my favorite classic rock bands.
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 08:17
I think you shuld look it up its a pretty good album. you might be surprised. -------------
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 14:42
Yes Raff, you definitely should |
Posted By: AlbertMond
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 15:01
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Agreed. It's ridiculous how 'Heaven Forbid' gets rated badly, then 'Curse of the Hidden Mirror' comes out and gets very good ratings. 'Heaven Forbid' was BOC at their heaviest, and still preserved their unique style fairly well, while incorporating '90s elements. I think it's one of their best, especially considering it was long after their popular peak.
Anyway, I've heard all of their albums, I think (mainly through their Myspace page). Unfortunately, I've only purchased one so far, as I'm rather lazy.
Out of what I've heard though, I'd say it's something like this:
1. Tyranny and Mutation
2. Fire of Unknown Origin 3. Blue Oyster Cult 4. Agents of Fortune
5. Secret Treaties
6. Spectres 7. Cultosaurus Erectus
8. Imaginos
9. Heaven Forbid
10. The Revolution by Night
11. Club Ninja 12. Curse of the Hidden Mirror
13. Mirrors ------------- Promotion so blatant that it's sad: 
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 16:28
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I am missing some, but from the ones I've heard I will make a top 5 1. Revolution by night 2. Fire of unknown origin 3. Secret treaties 4. Heaven forbid 5. Cultosaurous Not crazy about the rest in my collection |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 16:30
| Is Imaginos that good btw? I might be missing sth great here... |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 16:41
Listening to it now... It is definitely their best album, and their proggiest. An underrated masterpiece !
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Posted By: wetton fan
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 17:09
| 1.Secret Treaties 2.Tyranny and Mutation 3.Blue Oyster Cult 4. Cultosaurus Erectus 5.Agent of Fortune 6.Fires of Unknown Origin 7. Mirrors 8. Revolution By Night 9. Spectres ....Imaginos and Club Ninja didn't do anything for me....Dominance and Submission,indeed! |
Posted By: AlbertMond
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 18:07
That's up for debate. Some can't get into it, but I think it's pretty good. The plot's pretty muddled, though, as the record company reorganized the songs or something. ------------- Promotion so blatant that it's sad:
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 22:17
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1. BOC 2. Agents of Fortune 3. Secret Treaties 4. Fire of Unknown Origins 5. Tyranny and Mutation 6. Spectres |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: April 10 2009 at 00:58
| Fire of Unknown Origin is my favourite with Secret Treaties a close second. Mirrors ends up last for me. |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: April 10 2009 at 07:08
It's definitely their proggiest as Raff said. I also consider it to be their heaviest and darkest album. While the story is a bit muddled, that shouldn't detract from the listening experience as I think it works well as both a concept album and as individual songs. And you can always google the album to get the story, I think there's a wikipedia entry telling the story of the album. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 10 2009 at 07:27
| Imaginos is a fantastic album musically, and even if the story is unclear (which it is), this should have no bearing on the pleasure derived from listening to it. You can treat it as a collection of great songs, just like you would with most albums that are not 'concepts'. |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: April 16 2009 at 10:39
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What about Extra Terrestrial Live? Nobody's mentioned that. It's an absolutely awesome album. The version of Veteran Of The Psychic Wars is my all-time favourite BOC track.
On Your Feet Or On Your Knees was pretty damn good too.
Oh, and once I saw BOC at Manchester Apollo in the mid-80s, and got one of Eric Bloom's plectrums with the BOC logo on it
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 16 2009 at 14:22
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The poll was actually about Studio albums, if you look at the thread title... Anyway, I agree with you on ET Live - I gave it 5 stars in my review, as I did to On Your Feet.... I am planning a glowing review of Imaginos to post in the next few days.
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: April 16 2009 at 15:07
God, the story is like something that someone would make up to make up a completely unfollowable storyline just to confuse people  . Not to menton it takes place over more than just that album, and the main character may be capable of time travel  |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: April 16 2009 at 15:57
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Well for me the first 3 are the greatest of all -------------  |
Posted By: moodyxadi
Date Posted: April 18 2009 at 23:00
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yeah, the three initial albums are the best, in that order: 1. Secret treaties 2. BOC 3. tyranny and mutation Then we have: 4. Agents of fortune 5. Fire of unknown origin 6. Spectres Don't like their late late seventies and eighties output (Except FoUO). really can't understand why Imaginos is rated sohigher by some, they simply killed Astronomy there. And for me the duo Flaming Telepaths/Astronomy in ST is unbeatable. but even in the eighties they are a wonderful live band. Wish they can do a gig around here. Is that tru that AllenLanier is out again? ------------- Bach, Ma, Bros, Déia, Dante. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 19 2009 at 07:17
| Yes, Lanier retired from performing live, and has been replaced by someone whose name I don't remember. Anyway, if you go to their website, you'll see they have an extensive tour planned for 2009, at least in the US... Unfortunately, we won't be able to catch them this time, but it seems they're adding dates all the time, so, who knows if you'll eventually manage to see them? |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: April 19 2009 at 07:43
Imaginos is an incredible album, and I don't think they killed Astronomy on that album, although I do like the version on ST better. On the other hand I much prefer Blue Oyster Cult to its original form Subhuman. That song and Magna of Illusion alone would make the album worthy of high praise. Throw in I Am the One You Warned Me Of, Frankenstein, Les Invisibles, and so on and you have a masterpiece. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Anaon
Date Posted: April 23 2009 at 12:44
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At the moment, I'm trying to get into BOC. I searched for new epic hard rock and some people recommend me BOC. I bought Blue Öyster Cult, Tyranny and Mutation and Fire of Unknown Origin. Are they supposed to be good albums? I like them but I don't find them "amazing" yet http:// - ------------- My music: http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/ My blog: http://groovesandmemories.com/" rel="nofollow - http://groovesandmemories.com/ |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 23 2009 at 14:33
You know, we all have our individual tastes... I happen to find those albums amazing, or at the very least very good, but you don't have to agree with me. If you don't like them, that's fine... If you look at the ratings, they are probably 'supposed' to be good, but that does not mean everyone will love them. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: April 23 2009 at 16:12
Just got into them myself, and I started with the live album, Extraterrestrial Live, it really rawked! Not sure of the albums you got, but if you find this album, ETL, and you're a big fan of powerful live perfomances, yet clever riffs, lyrics, etc, then hopefully you'll enjoy it. |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: May 02 2009 at 06:20
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If your new to BÖC the album to start with is Agents of fortune, thiere best album in most people opinion including mine and one of my favorite albums of all time, its thiere answer to Zeppelins IV and Sabbaths Paranoid a landmark hard rock album simply put. -------------
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Posted By: Anaon
Date Posted: May 03 2009 at 05:45
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Hi! Thanks for your recommandations! Anyway, I'll continue to listen to the albums I own, of course everyone has different tastes, I find them good at least and I enjoy listening to them I'll try Agents Of Fortune if I find a used copy soon  ------------- My music: http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/ My blog: http://groovesandmemories.com/" rel="nofollow - http://groovesandmemories.com/ |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: May 03 2009 at 07:16
^ yes the album you got so far are some of thiere best so you shuldent be dissapointed.  -------------
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 03 2009 at 14:59
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I'll do a top 5, Secret Treaties Fire of Unknown Origin Tyranny and Mutation Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: AlanOB
Date Posted: May 06 2009 at 20:02
| Never a band that clicked with me. I have Secret Treaties, the debut and Agents of Fortune, and despite a reasonable amount of play when I got them they never got under my skin in any meaningful way. |
Posted By: Anaon
Date Posted: May 07 2009 at 05:37
I guess it's the same for me, I own now three of their best albums, I listened again to the first album yesterday, but nothing really happens with me... I have the same feeling with The Who, I try I try... It's not that I don't like it but it's just that I feel nothing in particular. But I won't give up ------------- My music: http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/ My blog: http://groovesandmemories.com/" rel="nofollow - http://groovesandmemories.com/ |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: May 07 2009 at 06:00
You know, you don't HAVE to like a band, even if a lot of people do. I could say the same for many other bands, and this simple fact does not worry me in the least. Thankfully we are all different individuals, with different tastes.... It is hard to explain why a particular band clicks with us, while another doesn't - it is just the way things are, and not only as regards music. BTW; I would hesitate to call Agents of Fortune one of the best BOC albums. In my opinion, its follow-up Spectres is much stronger - but then, as I said before, it's just a matter of my own personal taste. |
Posted By: Anaon
Date Posted: May 07 2009 at 06:19
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Sure! It's the just that as I bought three albums, I would like to appreciate their music! And it's more about the fact that Blue Oyster Cult is a huge band and some of their albums are considered as classic hard rock albums and I'm always interested in classic albums :)
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Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: May 07 2009 at 09:54
I like more any of the first three albums than the laters ------------- |