Blue Oyster Cult are a lot like Babe Ruth – many home runs, and a lot of strike outs. When examining their musical output, you have to dig through a ton of dirt to get to the gold. However, when Blue Oyster Cult hit a home run, they hit it out of the park.
Their origins date all the way back to 1967 and they have been recording and performing ever since. In fact, I had the opportunity of seeing them live when they played the Colonial Theatre in Keene a few years back. Blue Oyster Cult were intelligent, highly proficient musically, and at times, rocked harder than almost any other band. For this weekend’s concert, I have included Youtube cuts of 5 of my favorite Blue Oyster Cult ragers, enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc9PPy0jzc8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t1NuAQj0vY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNn8JljyCSE
Halloween
I know that it is a bit of a joke, but BOC is one of the reasons I enjoy cowbell in funky music. They provided one of my early rock cowbell memories, alone with Honky Tonk Woman, and Oyo Como Va.
Godzilla
BOC is kinda like that goth cousin in the rock family. He’s nice and interesting, but you don’t have a lot in common.
They do a song with Patti Smith on the one album that I have of theirs that I like – can’t remember the name of it.
I was unable to listen to these, but it’s an issue my computer has with youtube – all the videos freeze up at about 14 seconds in and won’t play further.
I titled my post Godzilla, because I love that song, cheesy as it is. Also it fits what Spencer said about them – when they connect . . .
Hung up on reapers
How did I forget about Godzilla? That has one of my favorite song lines:
“Ohhhh, noooo! There goes Tokyo! Go go Godzilla!”