BLUE OYSTER CULT Blue Öyster Cult LP COLUMBIA 1972 CAN re KC31063 SANDY PEARLMAN
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BLUE OYSTER CULT
Seminal '70s hard rockers whose best work was ambitious, intelligent, and rocking in a strangely sensual
kind of way.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.
"BLUE OYSTER CULT"<reissue, originally published in 1972>
LP COLUMBIA RECORDS KC 31063
MADE IN CANADA MID/LATE-70S REPRESSING
SINGLE SLEEVE
HEAVY CARDBOARD COVER
Barcode and Other IdentifiersBarcode: none
LABEL: COLUMBIA - RED LABEL w/YELLOW 'COLUMBIA' - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: KC 31063
Catalog on labels: KC 31063 (AL 31063) / KC 31063 (BL 31063)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): AL 31063-1A-2D. (Stamped): o4
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): BL 31063-1A-2D B. (Stamped): 0
On labels: rim text reads "Manufactured by CBS Records Canada Ltd......."
On spine:
Manufactured and Distributed by.......CBS Records Canada Ltd.......® "Columbia" Marcas Reg. Litho in Canada
On back cover: Produced by: Murray Krugman & Sandy Pearlman
Recorded at the Warehouse, October 1971
Cover by Gawlik
A Mainman Production
tracklisting
Side A: TRANSMANIACON MC - I'M ON THE LAMB BUT I AIN'T NO SHEEP
THEN CAME THE LAST DAYS OF MAY - STAIRWAY TO THE STARS - BEFORE THE KISS, A REDCAP
Side B: SCREAMS - SHE'S AS BEAUTIFUL AS A FOOT
CITIES ON FLAME WITH ROCK AND ROLL - WORKSHOP OF THE TELESCOPES - REDEEMED
grading
RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
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" Roeser and drummer Albert Bouchard in 1967, issued its dark, eponymously-titled heavy rock monolith. Managed and produced by the astronomically minded and conspiratorially haunted Sandy Pearlman, BÖC rode the hot, hellbound rails of blistering hard rock as pioneered by Steppenwolf, fierce mutated biker blues, and a kind of dark psychedelia that could have only come out New York. The band's debut relied heavily on the lyrics of Pearlman and rock critic Richard Meltzer, as well as Pearlman's pioneering production that layered guitars in staggered sheets of sound over a muddy mix that kept Eric Bloom's delivery in the middle of the mix and made it tough to decipher. This was on purpose -- to draw the listener into the songs cryptically and ambiguously. From the opener, "Transmaniacon MC," the listener knew something very different was afoot. This is dark, amphetamine-fueled occult music that relied on not one, but three guitars -- Bloom and keyboardist Allen Lanier added their own parts to Roeser's incessant riffing: a barely audible upright piano keeping the changes rooted in early rock and the blues, and a rhythm attack by Bouchard and his brother Joe on bass that was barely contained inside the tune's time signature...(AllMusic)price rating
