Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin Vinyl LP Columbia FC37389 Burnin For You

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Blue Öyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin Vinyl LP - Columbia FC 37389 VG+ First Pressing (1981) Burnin' For You, Veteran of the Psychic Wars, Joan Crawford
Condition: Very Good + Vinyl and Very Good + Cover.  Vinyl was play-tested on both sides and plays very well throughout with good fidelity. There is a mark on side 1, but it is inaudible. Original cover is solid with great color, a corner crease, and no splits or writing. 
Fire of Unknown Origin is the eighth studio album by Blue Öyster Cult, released in 1981. The album, which included the hit "Burnin' for You" (#1 on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart), represented a resurgence of the group's commercial standing. It became the band's highest-charting studio album on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 24. Fire of Unknown Origin would be the final studio LP featuring the band's original lineup.
Fire of Unknown Origin AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek Who would have thought that in 1981, that the once mighty Blue Öyster Cult would come back with such a fierce, creative, and uncompromising effort as Fire of Unknown Origin. Here was their finest moment since Agents of Fortune five years earlier, and one of their finest ever. Bringing back into the fold the faithful team who helped articulate their earlier vision, producer Sandy Pearlman, Richard Meltzer, and Patti Smith all helped in the lyric department, as did science-fiction and dark-fantasy writer Michael Moorcock. 
The band's sound was augmented by a plethora of keyboards courtesy of Allen Lanier, but nonetheless retained a modicum of its heaviness, and the sheer songwriting craft that had helped separate the band form its peers early on was everywhere evident here -- especially the gloriously noir-ish Top 40 single "Burning for You," written by Meltzer and guitarist Buck Dharma. 
Other standouts on the set include the plodding, über-riff pyrotechnics of "Heavy Metal: The Black and the Silver," and the Mott the Hoople- and Queen-influenced glammed up roots rock of "Joan Crawford." The terrifying images of desecration and apocalyptic war in "Veteran of Psychic Wars," with words by Moorcock, feature huge synth lines, dual leads by Dharma and Eric Bloom -- as well as a tom-tom orgy from Albert Bouchard -- offered a new pathway through the eternal night of the Cult's best work. Fire of Unknown Origin has aged well, and deserves to be remastered in the 21st century.
Track listing
A1 Fire Of Unknown Origin A2 Burnin' For You A3 Veteran Of The Psychic Wars A4 Sole Survivor A5 Heavy Metal: The Black And Silver
B1 Vengeance (The Pact) B2 After Dark B3 Joan Crawford B4 Don't Turn Your Back
Band members Eric Bloom – vocals, bass on track 5 Donald 'Buck Dharma' Roeser – lead guitar, vocals, percussion on track 3, bass and sound effects on track 8 Allen Lanier – keyboards Joe Bouchard – bass, vocals Albert Bouchard – drums, synthesizer, vocals, mixing _____________________________________________
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MINT (M) - Absolutely perfect in every way. Most often this is a still sealed record, records that have been opened are rarely if ever marked as Mint.

NEAR MINT (NM) - A good description is that it looks like it just came from a retail store and it was opened for the first time. In other words, it?s nearly perfect, with no visible defects. 

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