What's all this about best kept secrets and little known? I went to see them at the Glasgow Apollo about '75. That was a 4000 seater and the tickets were going for 3 times face value . They had the best light show in the business and it was a huge production with early lasers being used. It still stands as one of the top 5 shows I've ever seen. The band became more technically sophisticated as they went on but they've always produced great songs with a liberal sprinkling of genuine epics.
@Lynion32 YAAA, and you might want to get some tampons while you're there at the Walmart gettin your prescription filled for Prozac you insipid clown!!!!
Classic BOC at a time when most people who know their music would say maybe they were past their best.The guitar soloing on this track is mindblowing and certainly does wash over you.Best played loud with your head in the speakers and F*ck the neighbours (probably watching X Factor). Music like this should be mandatory.Maybe some of the musical zombies out there would find a soul if we strapped them down with this playing loud through a pair of high quality headphones???
@abbeyofthelema666 FUKIN AAAAA! Maybe, just maybe the a-holes around us would get a clue about what music is supposed to do to your soul--- IGNITE the damn thing and rocket it into the universe and out into the cosmos!!! And maybe fire up their pathetic politically correct asses into a rock and roll frenzy of joy!!!
Really true. Those guys were not superfamous. Blue Oyster Cult got a very smart element intellectual into their rock philosophy. I think that many people into the record executives got scared that they could turn into a very sophisticated elegance into their ways of creating music. Remember, some people much more today into the record business are not really very smart. They have a mediocrity and biased musical paradigm. The 80s was a clear example of that.
I know that the symbol means. Jesus Christ is risen. Satan is a liar. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father but by him.
@MrEmeraldfusion Where is your reference material?the symbol is derived from a zodiac symbol for the roman god saturn(it is a sickle,representing god of the harvest)it has many meanings-illusory reality,the boundries of time+material existence,a simaler symbol is for the asteroid ceres.The exact symbol was on the heading of a chapter (the oyster) in a book by aleister crowley,probably where B.O.C picked it up,i appreciate your convictions but this symbol does not represent what you claim it does
As I listen to this song tonight it has a new, gut-wrenching meaning. My deep and warm gulfstream is facing a horrendous threat. Please send your prayers, loving thoughts, or whatever you have to offer to our beautiful and bountiful Gulf of Mexico and the oceans of the world that it flows into.
i think this tune was written by patti smith, who had "relations" with BOC guitarist and keyboardist alan lanier.......and i think the two of them came up with the arrangement and the melody with the late great jim carroll, who i think co-wrote several tunes on this album........and carroll was friends with smith and with BOC, and pretty much any artist from nyc-area from the mid-twentieth century.....any help with my potentially sketchy claims would be welcomed...
@aggelos papas :dont compare boc to other bands...they are just a whole chapter of the ''rock saga'' metallica and g'n'r are just mediocre bands top ten american bands: queensryche crimson glory heir apparent fates warning blue oyster cult watchtower slayer the doors helstar jag panzer
well, i didnt say whch is my favourite, i just said the top-3 INTELLECTUAL BANDS...my favourite one is Fates Warning, then Dream Theater, and BOC...Metallica and GnR are definitely not mediorities, you are undermining a whole scene...slayer is ouf course not a top band, and watchtower is rather a spastik band, like spastik ink...for me Fates and BOC are my best US Bands...then i love american power metal, like Medieval Steel, Riot, Omen etc
lol I agree with that whole metallica and GNR but no those are not the top ten american bands, no most deffinitly not. to start off you left out Yazz the base for all bands.
BOC are the one of the utmost intellectual bands of music history, that's for sure...Strange lyrics, mystical sounds, definitely one of the 3 top-best US bands, including Metallica and GnR
@Lordjebbs ARE YOU BRAIN DEAD? BOC was rockin the world long before runs in their hoses and metalliccrap were poopin in their diapers!!!! BOC was ROCKING THE WORLD!!! while these other posers were eating their turds with two hands!!! Get a reality check !!! YOU were NOT THERE in the 1970s and 1980s when BOC blasted the airwaves with hard rock LOOOOONG before the posers dared to show their talentless assssesss!!!
I've heard a story that BOC are planning to release some new material next year for download only though, as they no longer have a record deal. Apparently this comes straight from Buck Dharma himself.
Was this song really done in 1977? It seems so ahead of its time, or maybe it's just timeless. Either way it always seems to leave me weak and dreaming of mystical dark nights on the Calypso.
This blows away just about everything...BOC had a way (when they got it right) of making epic compositions...they got it right more often than not....
BOC was my first "favorite band", mostly cause Buck Dharma is one of the greatest guitarists ever. When you listen to this song and the solo on "dominance and submission" you hear brilliance and unique talent. AFter this album , I gave up on them and found other music in the 80's , but this brings back memories on why I saw them a dozen or so times in the early 80's.
They weren't super famous because they weren't "macho" enough...their music was often serious, beautiful and sometimes intimate, sensual or private which many might associate with weakness and femininity or were uncomfortable with....It also was very imaginative and for many that dies with childhood to be replaced with themes of sex and partying...but BOC had the balls to sing about imagination...they're much like the rock never ending story and will last forever because of this
This is absolute brilliance.. Blue Oyster Cult were by far one of the coolest bands in the 70's, still it seems like not many people know about them.. I asked my dad who was a teenager during the 70's and he didn't have a clue.. God I wish I had the chance to live during the best decade ever in music creating history.. Take me baack. Imagine all the live concerts with Zeppelin, Aerosmith and so forth.. Geez.
Najwbie: It's funny about your dad. I was a teenager in the 70's in Europe, and I thought that a whole lot of youngsters had heard at least about "Don't fear the reaper". It was all over the place. The pb for BOC is that fewer people were digging deeper than a few "mainstreamed" big hits. So BOC have been one of the most amazingly best kept secrets all along. Viewing these posts, I am happy to see that younger people are tuning in and do them justice. This is very much deserved.
Their record company wasn't really backing them anymore, hence the ignorance of them even today. They put out 2 discs that are just great Heaven Forbid 98' and Curse of the Hidden Mirror in 01 I think. They stand up to Cultosurus Erectus and Fire of Unknown Origin.
First time I heard this song I was paralyzed. It's such a beautiful song and he sings it so wonderfully. Strange that not so many knows about these guys, at least not here where I live, I'm like the only person within a hundred miles at least who listens to BOC.
More cowbell! Just kidding, paralyzing is a good description of this song...but I will never hear BOC without thinking of Will Ferrell jumping around on SNL....
shonenshojo, BOC is known, but not that famous, even in the US. That you, in a far away land, at age 20, know and like them is an indication of your love for truly good music. Keep listening.
@floridafreedom100 They were actually more famous, but that was in the 70s : /, it's a shame, especially since they're better than 99% of the crap you hear today.
@floridafreedom100 because a lot of their stuff is incredibly satanic, very openly, and unlike all the negative crazy screaming shit that tries to sound "evil" these days, boc presented supposedly devilish concepts in a positive light, as being good things to be celebrated joyously, rather than being evil
that's pretty much why it doesn't get played on the radio often, they come across as being too similar to an actual cult
great song though, it waits for me like an orphaned daughter! :)
Ok you may have a point. But is it really satanic or is it diffusely mystical? I think they are just borrowing from a lot of mystical and occasionally extraterrestrial themes...not convinced on satanic. I do appreciate your reply though.
@floridafreedom100 When christians find ideas & behaviour they don't like, they call them the devil. Historically much of mysticism has been categorized by them as being the devil, along with many other concepts, beliefs and behaviours, and they spread this view to the point where an interest in such things is now commonly called satanism.
Doesn't mean that so-called satanists think the devil is real or anything.
Listen to songs like "sun jester" and "burning for you" anyway though. Funny.
@floridafreedom100 its kinda good that they arent tooo famous, because then they'd be blown out of the water, and idk. it seems better to me that not too many people dig it, because those who do, understand what good music. and i think all those mainstream lovin whores dont deserve the taste of precious music like this. kinda wierd to explain, but i hope you kinda get the jist of it.
@xXBlinDXx12 You are right on my friend! Too much success makes the band a slave to the morons who now run the idiot airwaves and BOC was out in their own orbit makin great rock for the rest of us who appreciate the unique sounds OUTSIDE the dull and deadening "pop" culture that drives the limp and twisted idiotic airwaves of today.
Never heard this one before. Amazing guitars, percussion style is ahead of it's time. I guess the only reason the guitarist wasn't universally recognized is the fact that everyone in BOC was a virtuoso musician. Each of them gave clear space to each other. Thus their unique sound. This is just brilliant.
A very very underrated song in my book. How Godzilla was a bigger hit than this one Is something I still cant figure out. Dont fear the reaper is my all time favorite song but without a doubt in my book this is the their greatest guitar work. (and that is saying a lot being Buck Dharma and all.)
P.S Buck Dharma = worlds most underrated guitarist
I swear you must have some sort of telepathic connection with me or something. This song is just plain amazing. I'm surprised that a song this good is so underrated-- I mean, I've been a dedicated fan of the BOC for about a year now and I only just found this song. I completely agree about the guitar- Buck Dharma puts in a pretty stunning performance on this song, to rival anything else he has ever done. Poor guy, to go unnoticed despite being on par with so many greats.
I think your right about the connection. It is a sad day when rolling stones magazine rates Joan Jett #50 on the greatest guitarists of all time and he isnt even on it
How the hell is it possible for Madonna to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and not the Blue Oyster Cult? Something wrong there!!! Time to start a petition to have BOC inducted for 2009.
A stellar idea Brizzlerman--what for starters? In order from the beginning? "Then Came The Last Days Of May"--"Before The Kiss..."--"Teen Archer"--Hey, Buck didn't vocal lead on anything from Secret Treaties. "DFTR"--"Godzilla"--"Golden Age of Leather"--"I Love The Night"--I leave the rest in your capable hands.
This is a good idea, except it would have to be a double CD. I'd add The Vigil, Burnin', Born to Rock, That Summer Night, Cold Wind, Your Loving Heart, All Tied Up, Shooting Shark, Damaged, Live for Me, Harvest Moon, Real World, Stone of Love. I'm probably missing some.
Thanks for a "late 80s BOC" era post. Being a Cult fan for over 30 years, I always had found it a little "difficult" to appreciate this point in time in the Cult's career, but listening more to their "later" stuff like this I'm finding that easier. Buck's video performance of "Perfect Water" on their last DVD release was excellent indeed. Thanks. "White Flags" next perhaps???
What's all this about best kept secrets and little known? I went to see them at the Glasgow Apollo about '75. That was a 4000 seater and the tickets were going for 3 times face value . They had the best light show in the business and it was a huge production with early lasers being used. It still stands as one of the top 5 shows I've ever seen. The band became more technically sophisticated as they went on but they've always produced great songs with a liberal sprinkling of genuine epics.
bobocop2010 1 week ago
Damn Good Song !!!
dokkcrue71 2 weeks ago
This song is so good it did make me weep tears of joy.
Facehate666 1 month ago
boc just influenced me to purchase a brita water filter ( :
Lynion32 1 month ago
@Lynion32 YAAA, and you might want to get some tampons while you're there at the Walmart gettin your prescription filled for Prozac you insipid clown!!!!
Karnakdmagnificent 4 weeks ago
Ah Blue Oyster Cult, the cure for all the pop dribble that seems to be filling our ears today.
crimsondagger1 2 months ago
Classic BOC at a time when most people who know their music would say maybe they were past their best.The guitar soloing on this track is mindblowing and certainly does wash over you.Best played loud with your head in the speakers and F*ck the neighbours (probably watching X Factor). Music like this should be mandatory.Maybe some of the musical zombies out there would find a soul if we strapped them down with this playing loud through a pair of high quality headphones???
abbeyofthelema666 2 months ago
@abbeyofthelema666 FUKIN AAAAA! Maybe, just maybe the a-holes around us would get a clue about what music is supposed to do to your soul--- IGNITE the damn thing and rocket it into the universe and out into the cosmos!!! And maybe fire up their pathetic politically correct asses into a rock and roll frenzy of joy!!!
Karnakdmagnificent 1 month ago
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First BOC song I ever heard. Loved em ever since.
karlmoles65 3 months ago
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karlmoles65 3 months ago
This song is so good it makes me want to cry
adich0 3 months ago
@adich0 You and me both.
karlmoles65 3 months ago
What's that upside down question mark thing?
WastedDaysRocks 3 months ago
superb song! the lp was really great if underated!
MAGNUM2F 4 months ago in playlist Blue Oyster Cult
once again...Buck Dharma shows how its done.....Quite possibly one of the best lead guitar solos ever...
spiralflow 4 months ago
This is perfect music.....playing just for you and me....
jimdunmire 4 months ago in playlist my picks
Probably Club Ninja is not by far their best record, but songs like this one are a proof that, musically speaking, any past time was better
shymanYT 4 months ago
Heh, all we can do is hope some tv show/videogame put some of BOC songs and share it so people can enjoy some truly good music
Dastsx 5 months ago
Again never heard on the radio.
800624 5 months ago
Pandora plays a pretty good live version of this song i remember the cover art is blue
tatonkaa 5 months ago
a nearly 'perfect' song...
MAGNUM2F 5 months ago
BOC roxx!!
AORBrazil 6 months ago
F**K YOU 1 Dislike!!!!! You Don't belong here!
SAT9 7 months ago 4
MY FAVORITE SONG
prosims666 9 months ago
No dislikes for this song! Finally, a BÖC song that isn't criticized by neo"musical" idiots!
funlad3 9 months ago
Donals Roeser is surely a pimp!!!!!!!!! He made his guitar totally slutty!!!!!!! :):):):) One of the greatest tunes ever...and brings to me good luck
aggelospapas 9 months ago
I posted b4 have to say just about anything by BOC is better than everything on the radio these days wtf happened to music??
And this song just fuggin rules!
dapoetmaster 11 months ago
Quite possibly a better submarine song than The Beatles had to offer.
arccollins 1 year ago 2
Everything about this song is perfect.
aocidicoa 1 year ago
What an amazing song! Up the Cult from Greece!
RulerL0rd 1 year ago
Jim Carroll wrote this song
zola731 1 year ago
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RulerL0rd 1 year ago
@RulerL0rd XD typo's
EMERALDanimations 1 year ago
yep i wonder why i missed this great band !!
kimrealturkiye 1 year ago
Really true. Those guys were not superfamous. Blue Oyster Cult got a very smart element intellectual into their rock philosophy. I think that many people into the record executives got scared that they could turn into a very sophisticated elegance into their ways of creating music. Remember, some people much more today into the record business are not really very smart. They have a mediocrity and biased musical paradigm. The 80s was a clear example of that.
juanunderground 1 year ago
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drums sounding so much better these days. finally. especially here, dance on stilts, the pact, and veteran...wars.
gobinday 1 year ago
the drums sounding so much better these days. finally. especially here and 'dance on stilts', 'the pact', and 'veteran...wars'.
gobinday 1 year ago 2
I know that the symbol means. Jesus Christ is risen. Satan is a liar. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father but by him.
MrEmeraldfusion 1 year ago
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fourtriangles2112 1 year ago
@MrEmeraldfusion Where is your reference material?the symbol is derived from a zodiac symbol for the roman god saturn(it is a sickle,representing god of the harvest)it has many meanings-illusory reality,the boundries of time+material existence,a simaler symbol is for the asteroid ceres.The exact symbol was on the heading of a chapter (the oyster) in a book by aleister crowley,probably where B.O.C picked it up,i appreciate your convictions but this symbol does not represent what you claim it does
fourtriangles2112 1 year ago
55-1:08, 1:58-2:05, 2:41-2:56, 4:09-5:17- some of the sweetest guitar sounds we'll ever hear. Just awe-inspiring.
RoeserFan2 1 year ago
BOC are so under rate they're my second favorite band
1000visionz 1 year ago
absolutely tremendous song.
MAGNUM2F 1 year ago 3
As I listen to this song tonight it has a new, gut-wrenching meaning. My deep and warm gulfstream is facing a horrendous threat. Please send your prayers, loving thoughts, or whatever you have to offer to our beautiful and bountiful Gulf of Mexico and the oceans of the world that it flows into.
floridafreedom100 1 year ago 3
i think this tune was written by patti smith, who had "relations" with BOC guitarist and keyboardist alan lanier.......and i think the two of them came up with the arrangement and the melody with the late great jim carroll, who i think co-wrote several tunes on this album........and carroll was friends with smith and with BOC, and pretty much any artist from nyc-area from the mid-twentieth century.....any help with my potentially sketchy claims would be welcomed...
bobfromtempe 1 year ago
Great memories... Great song
vandret 1 year ago
There is an induction process. Just google Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. Go to the main RnR HOF site. Click on Inductees, then Induction Process.
BOC is more than qualified.
Johnhoulgate 1 year ago
Do you knew Jacques Costeau...
kimmoj9 2 years ago
One of the only good club ninja songs.
TheGojira84 2 years ago
also white flags
yangtai1992 1 year ago
One of their bests songs ever. this is from Club ninja
alekhine05 2 years ago
omg...i forgot savatage!
christoskoulis1 2 years ago
christoskoulis1 2 years ago
well, i didnt say whch is my favourite, i just said the top-3 INTELLECTUAL BANDS...my favourite one is Fates Warning, then Dream Theater, and BOC...Metallica and GnR are definitely not mediorities, you are undermining a whole scene...slayer is ouf course not a top band, and watchtower is rather a spastik band, like spastik ink...for me Fates and BOC are my best US Bands...then i love american power metal, like Medieval Steel, Riot, Omen etc
aggelospapas 2 years ago
@aggelospapas
my top intellectual bands are, of course, BOC, and Tool.
nate556 2 years ago
lol I agree with that whole metallica and GNR but no those are not the top ten american bands, no most deffinitly not. to start off you left out Yazz the base for all bands.
Azartusfar 2 years ago
I think this song was on the Red and the Black album. R and B was Dharmas little project in the 80s
matmesko 2 years ago
BOC are the one of the utmost intellectual bands of music history, that's for sure...Strange lyrics, mystical sounds, definitely one of the 3 top-best US bands, including Metallica and GnR
aggelospapas 2 years ago
You put BOC in with Metallica and GnR? HOW DARE YOU! I am appalled.
Lordjebbs 2 years ago 8
@Lordjebbs ARE YOU BRAIN DEAD? BOC was rockin the world long before runs in their hoses and metalliccrap were poopin in their diapers!!!! BOC was ROCKING THE WORLD!!! while these other posers were eating their turds with two hands!!! Get a reality check !!! YOU were NOT THERE in the 1970s and 1980s when BOC blasted the airwaves with hard rock LOOOOONG before the posers dared to show their talentless assssesss!!!
Karnakdmagnificent 4 weeks ago
I've heard a story that BOC are planning to release some new material next year for download only though, as they no longer have a record deal. Apparently this comes straight from Buck Dharma himself.
cuttlefisch 2 years ago
Was this song really done in 1977? It seems so ahead of its time, or maybe it's just timeless. Either way it always seems to leave me weak and dreaming of mystical dark nights on the Calypso.
floridafreedom100 2 years ago
>Was this song really done in 1977?
Its from the 1986 album "Club Ninja"
TommyElf 2 years ago
This blows away just about everything...BOC had a way (when they got it right) of making epic compositions...they got it right more often than not....
dapoetmaster 2 years ago 2
BOC was my first "favorite band", mostly cause Buck Dharma is one of the greatest guitarists ever. When you listen to this song and the solo on "dominance and submission" you hear brilliance and unique talent. AFter this album , I gave up on them and found other music in the 80's , but this brings back memories on why I saw them a dozen or so times in the early 80's.
drgoth1 2 years ago
They weren't super famous because they weren't "macho" enough...their music was often serious, beautiful and sometimes intimate, sensual or private which many might associate with weakness and femininity or were uncomfortable with....It also was very imaginative and for many that dies with childhood to be replaced with themes of sex and partying...but BOC had the balls to sing about imagination...they're much like the rock never ending story and will last forever because of this
1980MF1980 2 years ago 4
Wow, good analysis. This wonderful band does tap into something childlike...but I didn't realize that until I read your comment.
floridafreedom100 2 years ago
This is absolute brilliance.. Blue Oyster Cult were by far one of the coolest bands in the 70's, still it seems like not many people know about them.. I asked my dad who was a teenager during the 70's and he didn't have a clue.. God I wish I had the chance to live during the best decade ever in music creating history.. Take me baack. Imagine all the live concerts with Zeppelin, Aerosmith and so forth.. Geez.
Najwbie 2 years ago 4
Najwbie: It's funny about your dad. I was a teenager in the 70's in Europe, and I thought that a whole lot of youngsters had heard at least about "Don't fear the reaper". It was all over the place. The pb for BOC is that fewer people were digging deeper than a few "mainstreamed" big hits. So BOC have been one of the most amazingly best kept secrets all along. Viewing these posts, I am happy to see that younger people are tuning in and do them justice. This is very much deserved.
gilcarj 2 years ago 3
Their record company wasn't really backing them anymore, hence the ignorance of them even today. They put out 2 discs that are just great Heaven Forbid 98' and Curse of the Hidden Mirror in 01 I think. They stand up to Cultosurus Erectus and Fire of Unknown Origin.
kealsta 2 years ago
First time I heard this song I was paralyzed. It's such a beautiful song and he sings it so wonderfully. Strange that not so many knows about these guys, at least not here where I live, I'm like the only person within a hundred miles at least who listens to BOC.
shonenshojo 2 years ago 9
More cowbell! Just kidding, paralyzing is a good description of this song...but I will never hear BOC without thinking of Will Ferrell jumping around on SNL....
floridafreedom100 2 years ago
shonenshojo, BOC is known, but not that famous, even in the US. That you, in a far away land, at age 20, know and like them is an indication of your love for truly good music. Keep listening.
RoeserFan 2 years ago 3
I too am baffled why they aren't worshipped like gods.
floridafreedom100 2 years ago 12
NOW is the time the Old Gods return!
nate556 2 years ago 4
Why aren't these guys really super famous? This song takes my breath away.
floridafreedom100 2 years ago 42
They are! were,anyhow,yrs. ago,...
pkrwd 2 years ago 5
good music is often underrated and in a way that is a good thing becuz then it wont be killed by the media or overplayed on radio
iatyma 2 years ago 3
@floridafreedom100 They were actually more famous, but that was in the 70s : /, it's a shame, especially since they're better than 99% of the crap you hear today.
bushwhacker2k 1 year ago
@floridafreedom100 because a lot of their stuff is incredibly satanic, very openly, and unlike all the negative crazy screaming shit that tries to sound "evil" these days, boc presented supposedly devilish concepts in a positive light, as being good things to be celebrated joyously, rather than being evil
that's pretty much why it doesn't get played on the radio often, they come across as being too similar to an actual cult
great song though, it waits for me like an orphaned daughter! :)
goddecon 1 year ago
@goddecon : "irony"... get it... or don't.
bonzeblayk 1 year ago
@goddecon
Ok you may have a point. But is it really satanic or is it diffusely mystical? I think they are just borrowing from a lot of mystical and occasionally extraterrestrial themes...not convinced on satanic. I do appreciate your reply though.
floridafreedom100 1 year ago
@floridafreedom100 When christians find ideas & behaviour they don't like, they call them the devil. Historically much of mysticism has been categorized by them as being the devil, along with many other concepts, beliefs and behaviours, and they spread this view to the point where an interest in such things is now commonly called satanism.
Doesn't mean that so-called satanists think the devil is real or anything.
Listen to songs like "sun jester" and "burning for you" anyway though. Funny.
genericity 1 year ago
@genericity So true!
floridafreedom100 1 year ago
@floridafreedom100 its kinda good that they arent tooo famous, because then they'd be blown out of the water, and idk. it seems better to me that not too many people dig it, because those who do, understand what good music. and i think all those mainstream lovin whores dont deserve the taste of precious music like this. kinda wierd to explain, but i hope you kinda get the jist of it.
xXBlinDXx12 9 months ago 12
@xXBlinDXx12 You are right on my friend! Too much success makes the band a slave to the morons who now run the idiot airwaves and BOC was out in their own orbit makin great rock for the rest of us who appreciate the unique sounds OUTSIDE the dull and deadening "pop" culture that drives the limp and twisted idiotic airwaves of today.
Karnakdmagnificent 4 weeks ago
Having moved on from BOC in 1983, I missed this. My loss. This song is pure brilliance.
RoeserFan 2 years ago 5
Another gem from our buddy Buck.
Jorsalfar 2 years ago
what's the deal with the t shirt?that thing has been sold on ebay for years.
AGTW31 2 years ago
fucking best song
jimmyjoepaddy 2 years ago 3
fuckin' amazing
KyleJS30 3 years ago
Never heard this one before. Amazing guitars, percussion style is ahead of it's time. I guess the only reason the guitarist wasn't universally recognized is the fact that everyone in BOC was a virtuoso musician. Each of them gave clear space to each other. Thus their unique sound. This is just brilliant.
mofrakker 3 years ago 3
Roll them dice on the ocean floor! Excellent cut from BOC
MetallicBill 3 years ago 2
Buck at his best,great track.Would love for someone to post "A Spy in the House of the Night" from the album that this was on.(Club Ninja)
gothsdontcry 3 years ago
A very very underrated song in my book. How Godzilla was a bigger hit than this one Is something I still cant figure out. Dont fear the reaper is my all time favorite song but without a doubt in my book this is the their greatest guitar work. (and that is saying a lot being Buck Dharma and all.)
P.S Buck Dharma = worlds most underrated guitarist
Leftygolfer14 3 years ago 8
I swear you must have some sort of telepathic connection with me or something. This song is just plain amazing. I'm surprised that a song this good is so underrated-- I mean, I've been a dedicated fan of the BOC for about a year now and I only just found this song. I completely agree about the guitar- Buck Dharma puts in a pretty stunning performance on this song, to rival anything else he has ever done. Poor guy, to go unnoticed despite being on par with so many greats.
groovyastrodude 3 years ago 3
I think your right about the connection. It is a sad day when rolling stones magazine rates Joan Jett #50 on the greatest guitarists of all time and he isnt even on it
Leftygolfer14 3 years ago 7
How the hell is it possible for Madonna to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and not the Blue Oyster Cult? Something wrong there!!! Time to start a petition to have BOC inducted for 2009.
MiddletownDreamz 3 years ago 48
HERE HERE! IS their NO DAMN justice in the music world?!?!?!?!
MetallicBill 3 years ago 2
@MiddletownDreamz .......they are too good for the R&R HOF, lol i dunno?!?!
Bojoe777NaBl 1 year ago
@MiddletownDreamz Madona is in the rock n roll hall of fame??? wtf???you're kidding me????
6378962ROCK 1 year ago
@MiddletownDreamz who cares that hall of fame thing is just a record company business scam.
MeSoHorrrny 1 year ago
@MeSoHorrrny true words man I'd be ashamed if they were in the hall of fame, they don't need it they're better than that
1000visionz 1 year ago
@MiddletownDreamz HOW DID YOUR PETITION GO? ARE THEY IN THE HALL OF FAME? LOL.
ZZombyWooff 1 year ago
@ZZombyWooff I never started one to begin with LOL
MiddletownDreamz 1 year ago
@MiddletownDreamz LOL
ZZombyWooff 1 year ago
@MiddletownDreamz because this is far superior to rock and roll
zeroxcrusher 1 year ago
Donald Roeser is well know through out the music industry for his guitar skills,this months Guitar World[April] has a little article on him
inagod 3 years ago 2
This is just a beautiful song in general.
GoblinXXX 3 years ago 2
Divine guitar work on this. I've always loved this track.
byan85 3 years ago 6
Excellent word choice.
KyleJS30 3 years ago
bldy great track. 80s cult very under-rated
devoxtc 3 years ago 5
Someone should make a Best of Buck Dharma compilation Cd if so this would definitely be put on it.
Brizzlerman 3 years ago
A stellar idea Brizzlerman--what for starters? In order from the beginning? "Then Came The Last Days Of May"--"Before The Kiss..."--"Teen Archer"--Hey, Buck didn't vocal lead on anything from Secret Treaties. "DFTR"--"Godzilla"--"Golden Age of Leather"--"I Love The Night"--I leave the rest in your capable hands.
carrienurse 3 years ago
This is a good idea, except it would have to be a double CD. I'd add The Vigil, Burnin', Born to Rock, That Summer Night, Cold Wind, Your Loving Heart, All Tied Up, Shooting Shark, Damaged, Live for Me, Harvest Moon, Real World, Stone of Love. I'm probably missing some.
RoeserFan 2 years ago
Thanks for a "late 80s BOC" era post. Being a Cult fan for over 30 years, I always had found it a little "difficult" to appreciate this point in time in the Cult's career, but listening more to their "later" stuff like this I'm finding that easier. Buck's video performance of "Perfect Water" on their last DVD release was excellent indeed. Thanks. "White Flags" next perhaps???
carrienurse 3 years ago