Blue Oyster Cult: Career of Evil

[Bloodwrath9650]

I have to admit i love BOC...but this is a kinda bad song. It has a good a good tune and beat, but the lyrics and kind of retarded. Its nothing like the rest of their songs.

Veterans and Vengance kick ass though!

[fligemon]

@Bloodwrath9650 Say What???? No bad songs on Secret Treaties! May an ME 262 emerge from the fog and strafe you to the heavens.........

[add2718]

@fligemon Agreed. Every song on this album is ridiculously good. Second side especially. Definitely one of the greatest albums of the decade.

[hezarrc]

Very good!

[karlmoles65]

I'd peel that mask your wearing, then rob you of your sleep.

[AngryPostmanSthlm2]

must be one of the cockiest songs ever, and i still cant keep up with those drums 0.50 - 0.53 :)))

[zevex747]

I LOVE THIS SONG.

[spahnranch69]

I love the cover art for this album. That's an Me-262 Nazi jet fighter they're posing in front of. The back cover art is also well done.

[ChrisYonts]

If only women were as sexually aggressive as these lyrics!

[ChrisYonts]

I'm 46 and I have several copies of each "Black and White" album.

[CherBake]

Blue Oyster Cat That's killer.... and it's " and still, I'd keep your 'sheep'"

[puckering1]

a BOC classic, thx

[halBaby55]

Still I'd keep your shit...

[ArmchairMessiah]

_ ! _

...¿

[fweekstir]

Its all so tongue in cheek. Little head games that I still love.

Gimmick rock yet who knew? Boc is the shit.

[chrishutt66yt]

bnfox,march 2: well, hung swoop my bungo pony! someone gets it!

[Lokiboy8]

I was 15 -- they took me heart and soul. I sent off for their lyrics. I scared girls with my memorization of said same....

ME262 just blew me away........and still does.

I will never forget the first time I saw them -- Buck Dharma in a blinding white suit playing a white, triple pickup, whammy equiped Gibson SG.....

Wow. You can't hide quality and the fact that all these years later, it still holds up better than 90% of their peers at that time.

Thanks so much for this!

Marc

[TadRapidly]

@Lokiboy8 these lyrics are MEANT to invigorate 15-year-olds. ;-)

I loved the BOC too but this sounds like fukin spinal tap to my ears now!

[fweekstir]

@Lokiboy8 and hold up it does.

[HTMAINT1]

arnoldkevin1; all that non with standing, we are a bunch of jokes becuse we like the music ????? please you moron! OF COURSE THEY DID IT FOR THE MONEY BUT ITS STILL GOOD!!! God help me I could care less about there motivation as long as the music is good!! ...ok stepping off the soap box

[mokeyzappa]

all there are fantastic,they rank as the as one of the best rock of the 70's and 80's and still making music today

[GP1138]

Just listened to the entire album for the first time last week, on vinyl. One of the best A-sides in rock!!

[ronsonmicklover]

AH YES - THE POOR DAUGHTER ON THE DIRT ROAD !

[arnoldkevin1]

lol at u jokes i know the band and it was never about anything more than something so simple ........money they dont even own their own name ..its why they still have to tour to this day, bad record deals by don kirshner

[gingermol76]

@arnoldkevin1 Seriously, I figured they were all very well off. They don't even own their own name?

[HTMAINT1]

the interesting thing about this early BOC is how well it has stood the test of time ! how many metal groups out there owe riffs to these guys? and not even know it well......at least WE DO..More Blue Oyster Culture if you please....enjoy

[CherBake]

If I could marry an album, it just might be this one...

[CherBake]

One of my fave BOC tunes.. among many!! One of my all time fave bands from way back, underrated would be an understatement. Intelligent story telling and thought provoking lyrics combined with awesome musicality. Sadly, the majority has only heard three of their songs that play in rotation on the radios. Seeing them this weekend again...can't wait!!

[jlr41877]

ever seen the movie The Stoned Age??

[OneXTDG]

@jlr41877 I'm probably the only other person in the world that has, yes. Why bring that movie up?

[yourunclehank1]

I have twisted visions of Eddie Munster as some kind

of wolfman-Robin Hood without the give to the poor

with the exception of the poor daughter on the dirt road.

Have I listened to this too many times in 30 yrs?

Nah. That happens to Cult members.

[planetjanet2]

is it sick that i love this song?

[greenelectra]

@planetjanet2 Nope , you're just cool thats all.

[phllpbrkr]

I have a 19 twink Warloch i jam this during BGs.

[MrHeavyMetalx]

@phllpbrkr thats so lame.

[dimebagdave77]

the day i discovered this song i was sitting on the floor listening and i noticed the dead dogs on the back and wondered what that was all about.minutes later my daughter burst in my door to tell me a neighbor had kicked my dog and abused him badly....i confronted him and set things right.but i can't help but wonder if there's a crazy connection.

[DangerSheep]

@dimebagdave77 dude that's scary!

[kissthesettingsun]

Dude, that's it. I'm getting every one this bands songs. It's now set in stone.

[greenelectra]

@kissthesettingsun Buy the remastered issues of the first three records to begin with . They are really worth the money as they sound wayyyyy better [if thats possible]. and theres extra tracks and cool stuff. Long live The B.O.C.

[BATTLEDROID678]

@kissthesettingsun you wont be dissapointed, though start with the first three, which in my mind are there best!

[Drizzlerman]

I ,like how it sounds like he's singing 'I'm making it clear of people' when he sings 'I'm making a career of evil'. Genocidal misanthropy by the elitists

[Drizzlerman]

@Drizzlerman You can imagine death sweeping over the land with this as the soundtrack. Much like the ME 262 pictured on the cover piloted by Grim himself flying around dusting off any living creature on the ground unlucky enough to be caught in his sights.

[667madshaw]

blue oyster cult have a great song, this is not it

[AlwaysIndependent]

My parents CDs. "Don't fear the reaper" is like my lullaby and songs like this I sing without hesitation. XD

[MrAjax246]

I got hooked into BOC b/c I stole my older brother's 'On Your Feet or On Your Knees' live two disc record. He'd be out banging is girlfriend and me (I was a kid) would be rocking to BOC! lol

[WOLFCHILD100]

LOVE THESE GUYS TOO!! My buddy from MI. turned me on too them THANX STEVE!

[Drizzlerman]

I like the stealthy sound of the music and the mischievous lyrics and how they relate to the runners of the global conspiracy and how they see their career of evil as a petty game

[FreakinSweet86]

In my top 5 of BOC albums, my fave being Fire of Unknown Origin.

1.Fire of Unknown Origin

2. Secret Treaties

3. Agents of Fortune

4. Blue Oyster Cult

5. Tyranny and Mutation

[SickestGreenEyez]

i like this song very much...it speaks to the mind

[double91trouble]

I will not.... Apologise.... You're mine for the taking!

[htmaint]

well doom good analization but remeber how many things were being bounced across the atlantic at this time and put down that thing that black sabatth was the only heavy meatal of the late 60ts or early 70ts ....think about paralell development darhma is as least as good as Ioami, and BOC were much more molodic than sabath

[DoomMetalSludge]

Blue Oyster Cult would have never gotten anywhere if Columbia Records wasn't looking for a Black Sabbath of there own to compete with Warner Bros... That being said however, BOC's sound is very versitile, and although some songs do sound sabbathesque (Cities on Flame with Rock n Roll borrows the main riff from Sabbath's The Wizard pretty much), they have alot more to offer, and that is why they are one of the best bands in my opinion.

[bnfox]

DOOMMS - BOC and Black Sabbath have zero musical affinity - sound nothing alike or even close. Columbia signed them as a result of psych demos done for Elektra, not because they were looking for another Black Sab....Just sayin'...

[DoomMetalSludge]

Your kidding right? Listen to songs such as Cities on Flame (obviously The Wizard) and Godzilla. Sandy Pearlman wanted them to be a american response to Black Sabbath,.

[bnfox]

DoomMetal -" Sandy Pearlman wanted them to be a american response to Black Sabbath,." - I agree with that and know that that is a direct quote but your previous quotes I felt were inaccurate and assume that YOU must be kidding.BOC is no doom riff sludge group like sabbath - much more cryptic, psych, punkish - any slight similarities are purely conjectural.

[DoomMetalSludge]

So whats the point of the argument then? We both agree that BOC was intended to be an american Black Sabbath. What else is there to say?

[bnfox]

Doom - say what you want - they were not intended to be the american Sabbath even though that may have been Pearlman's vision. And your view that they sound alike is misguided at best. That's the point. That's like saying Cream and the Experience sound the same and that everyone wanted Hendrix to be the american Cream. Empty argument.

[DoomMetalSludge]

Even so, songs such as Godzilla or Cities on Flame do sounds sabbathesque.

[bnfox]

Doom - I can agree with that (though both songs are atypical of BOC) - we're squabbling over details about types of music that overall we both love. Hope you enjoyed some of the odd rare hard rock things sent.

[bnfox]

I suppose my perception of this comes from the fact that I was buying Sabbath records by 1970 and when BOC came out in 1972, they were completely different to my ears. (I remember reading your Pearlman quote back then,though.) Now the US band BANG - THEY sounded like an american Sabbath to me and my friends.

[dimebagdave77]

@bnfox columbia signed B.O.C. because they wanted a version of warner brothers, mighty SABBATH.

[BATTLEDROID678]

@DoomMetalSludge cities on flame borrows the same riff as the sabbath song "the wizard" so your not far off!

[justplainscott]

@bnfox well said

[bnfox]

@DoomMetalSludge - not exactly true - Elektra had already signed them in 1969 as the Stalk-Forrest group/Soft White Underbelly and although the album remained unreleased until recently, they did release the 45 " Arthur Comics." they were also considered as a backup band for both Patti Smith and Jackson Browne.

[LedHotZeppelinPepper]

my dads, cousins dad broke all of his old BOC records b/c the were seen as the "devils music" I find that both hilarious and sad at the same time. It would be great to still have those records!

[killswitch789]

im only 19, but im a huge boc fan, and i have my dad to thank for that....... love you dad.

[TheSwampfreaks]

check out SWAMPFREAKS old school out now

[powerkor]

this song is about making a career of evil

[DelbertMcJustice]

i just read through Google that Patty Smith collaberated with BOC on this song. I new I loved her all these years for a reason!

[bucubiotchs]

Great fuckin album. And Agents of fortune aint bad either. And yes that is a messerschmidt 262. WW2 holy terror. (i think)

[lawtonaaj]

this is my favorite ablum yeah

[bucubiotchs]

I guess we've all got excellant taste.

In fact, I'm sure of it.

[Enigma758]

The ME-262 was actually a flop. It came late in the war, was too fast to engage in a dogfight, and Hitler wanted to use them as bombers which didn't make any sense. It was ahead of its time though.

[bucubiotchs]

Thanks for that. I knew they were pretty darn fast. 8-900 mph.

[Enigma758]

I think the top speed was somewhere over 500mph. They were not capable of breaking the sound barrier (768mph). I don't think there's many of them left although I did see once at the Dayton air museum.

[cuttlefisch]

I think the top speed of the fighter version of the ME 262 was 540mph. This compared with the top speed of the fastest Allied fighter of the era, the P-51D Mustang, which could reach around 440 mph.

[cuttlefisch]

This has to be one of the nastiest lyrics ever put down on record!!! It still sounds EVIL now!! Absolutely fantastic!!

[lealdragon]

I will not....apologize! this is in the top 10 best albums of all time!

[WonderBOnTheOne]

My daughter is with me right now and she's 10! She just loves Career Of Evil... We're in 2009 and I've played this record since it first came out. Just great to see great music reach the ears of the young ones. Good music never dies...

[ellinlvx]

My thirteen year old named her pet "Blue Oyster Cat!"

[bocfanforever]

too funny

[AngryPostmanSthlm2]

@ellinlvx :) hihi that was funny.. *cuddles*

[porcupineinteruptus]

Yes,the jet is an ME-262,which is exactly what the song ME262 is about! Seen BOC about 20 times most recently 3 yrs ago,and it was my 14(at the time) sons first concert.....he likes them now also.

[SteveGunn2]

I remember when I was about 9 years old my dad would drive me to my soccer games every Sunday. The trip took about 30 minutes or so and we would listen to Secret Treaties the whole way. Incredibly nostalgic. Great Album.

[Enigma758]

ISteveGunn2 - If anything, my dad would have liked to have smashed the record when I used to listen to it in my bedroom during the 70s.

[wombleface12]

Its a Messerschmidt 262 I think, the first ever jet fighter. But that doesn't matter, this is a fucking awesome album. Bands today really dont compare.

[SamFreedom]

I remember first getting this on vinyl and I played the **** out of it!!!! BOC was one of the few groups of which I loved every song -- I just wanted to sit through each one, get my "me" out of the way and just let my brain/mind explore each, figuring out, and appreciating how and why they did it, and who and what they did it with! I WILL NOT... APOLOGIZE!

[1lemurian]

Messerschmidt 109 on the cover

[Gravida12]

Me-262, as per one of the songs on the album

[iluvflagunlaws]

Kudos for just throwing ME-109's out there, but the ME-109 was no 262!

[Flunder]

SPAZZ? bless you buddy! well said! Lee.

[Flunder]

I want you wife to be mine! YEAH! BOC! thanks! Lee.

[NinjaModder]

I NEED this album!

I have pretty much every major album by BOC besides Secret Treates, Self Titled album, and Tyranny and Mutation.

I need them!!!

[RaisedByTheSword666]

This is like their best album.

[cathode1]

A real chart-toppin' hit.

YEP!!!

[lothy59]

i got this album... i think its there best...on ur feet is great live recording.. great band.. thanks for posting

[rachel112263]

Excellent audio on this one. It sounds great on my puny speakers!!!!

[SPAZZOBOXER]

An unsettling,stomach twisting,dubious,lump in the throat, schizophrenic journey of a song. The Nursery Rhyme nature of the casually played organ melody underscores, obscures, yet intensifies the implied dread of the duplicitous lyrics. Eric Bloom's first person perspective vocals give us a disturbing tale of kidnapping/revenge/sadism from a sociopathic, self satisfying point of view, that is probably closer to the authentic criminally disturbed mindset. Patti Smith's greatest BOC contribution.

[Gravida12]

Great post Spazzoboxer. Concise and very insightful--esp on the organ. Comments like yours are the reason I read the Comments section.

[actron]

Great insight into the sound and lyrics.

[actron]

AND- great to see kudos given to Patti Smith for her contribution.

[genericity]

@SPAZZOBOXER jesus christ man these are youtube comments, you're not getting paid for this

[BATTLEDROID678]

@genericity hey hes just putting it in an eloquent manor that describes the mind set of the song which in my mind is a perfect description of it. long live The red and the black!!!

[wilhoitsux]

@SPAZZOBOXER You sick freak, your prose identifies you as a new yorker.

thanks for the glarb.

[sleepypenguin]

i fuckin love this song böc rules!!!