I am going to stick my neck out now and formally declare this the most-underrated rock song of all time, period. Who's with me on this? Come on you Oyster boys (and girls)!!!
whacha want ??? huh ...huh...best album of the 70's im a huge BOC fan but this album was groundbreaking in the early 70's and not even considering thier song writing skills are 2nd to none, noboy sounds like them since and never will, hail BOC!
What happened was is Joe was stayin in Manhattan came out of the apartment and saw the headlines..and i believe the crime happened in the same apartment buildi
No, it isn't. A perfunctory reading of the history of Jack the Ripper's crimes would demonstrate that your assertion is incorrect. Otherwise, let me know where BOC claimed that the song was about him. I mean, it's possible that they just wrote the song with no research or knowledge whatsoever, and then decided to claim it was about the Whitechapel slayings... then again, they could have easily claimed it was about the Kennedy assassination.
@hartley81848184 Thats the beauty about BOC , they are about msytery, who was more mysterious then Jack the Ripper... any dolt with half a mind can listen to the boy selling newspapers at the end of the song has a british accent... therefor the song was inspired by the Jack the Ripper,,, you do know they had pistols back in 18th century london - just because old Jack never used one doesnt mean he never carried one,,, next you'll be telling me the BOC insignia is the kronos symbol.
You say its about a murder in new york - I say its an obscure dark refence to jack the ripper - given BOC's (Especialy Bouchards) fascination with monsters and the occult - I will go on listening to the song my way, the way of an artists mind, you go listening to it with your bland perspective on the world.. LoL Fundie really, where did I make a religous reference? Dolt!.
Wow. You should sell this cotton candy at the carnival next year. "Artist's Mind" you say? Why can't you just admit you're wrong? That's why I called you a fundie. You think too rigidly and you can't let go of falsehoods even in the face of obvious facts to the contrary. I sell paintings for a living, and I spot BS a mile away.
The boy selling newspapers at the end of the song is British? So what? Jack the Ripper never killed a man in the subway. Jack the Ripper lived in the 19th century. Who said anything about guns? I didn't. You definitely are a dolt with half a mind. But not just any dolt. You're a hard-headed obstinate dolt. You must be some sort of fundie.
1. The boy selling newspapers at the end of the song is British? So what? Jack the Ripper never killed a man in the subway. 2. Jack the Ripper lived in the 19th century. 3. Who said anything about guns? I didn't. 4. You definitely are a dolt with half a mind. But not just any dolt. You're a hard-headed obstinate dolt. You must be some sort of fundie.
1. The boy selling newspapers at the end of the song is British? So what? Jack the Ripper never killed a man in the subway. 2. Jack the Ripper lived in the 19th century. 3. Who said anything about guns? I didn't. 4. You definitely are a dolt with half a mind. But not just any dolt. You're a hard-headed obstinate dolt. You must be some sort of fundie.
1. The boy selling newspapers at the end of the song is British? So what? Jack the Ripper never killed a man in the subway. 2. Jack the Ripper lived in the 19th century. 3. Who said anything about guns? I didn't. 4. You definitely are a dolt with half a mind. But not just any dolt. You're a hard-headed obstinate dolt. You must be some sort of fundie.
some of the best times of my life were at boc shows new yrs eve at the coliseum in richfield stoned off my ass with the most beautiful girl in h s .......went home and made love til the sun came up!
Saw BOC in El Paso Texas in 1977. I was too young to drive at the time, so my mother drove me down there to see the concert. She met this teenage hippie chick at the concert who ran away from home. She came home with us, stayed a week, until my mom talked her into going back home. Hope you made it home okay Elizabeth. Too bad you left; I wanted you to re-run away again with me and start a commune in Arizona. But, karma intervened. It's all mellow. Peace out.
No ti's not. It was about a murder on the NY subway that one of the band members witnessed. Jack the RIpper didn't work in the subways. Jack the Ripper was a stone cold killer on the cobblestone streets.
One of their best obscure song's ever ! Incredible lyrics. Was written and sung by Joe Bouchard ! Just one hell of an incredible band. Great instrumental work of art !
Thanks, BlueOysterWizard, for posting the Agents of Fortune music!!....I have the album on vinyl and haven't played it in over 30 years. I think this was their best album as far as diversity, lyrics and sound engineering.
mystical occult scifi heavy rock gothic rock. I love this band. just found it. of course I have heard "don't fear the reaper" etc songs. but once I really got into deeeep into this, my brain just exploded. amazing stuff. trying to make a cover of some of these songs
@ZZombyWooff I think that is awesome. I grew up as a teenager in the 70s. Listened to EVERTTHING but came to love the heavy rock of the time. That said, this band alone rocked my world.
I saw BOC at Cleveland stadium in 1977 at the world series of rock. They rocked the stadium then and when I say them at newport in columbus in 1989 they rocked then. One of the best rock bands of all time. Period!!
Heavy Metal definitely came into being in the later 60s with Deep Purple, Steppenwolfe, and some of the heavier tracks by The Who and The Beatles
As for Modern Metal you're looking for 1971 Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality. Literally every generic metal riff that's shit out by the music industry today comes directly from that album
They were definatelt Hard Rock. Definately NOT metal. They have some influences of Metal but they were what I would consider Hard Rock, or thinking mans rock like Rush
Thinking mans rock....I like that Gaff...Story tellers....Gotta love them, Rush too.....Loved Hemispheres by Rush!!! And this entire BOC Album!!!! Great Stuff!!!
i wouldnt consider them anything... theyre a little of everything... i mean, Then Came The Last Days Of May was blues influenced, Lonely Teardrops had a main disco riff in it and Monsters was without a doubt a prog rock masterpiece... id say they dabble into a little of everything...
This is the kind of stuff that BOC put out that is still untouched today by any band I can think of, as far as steller music that pushes the envelope to places no one else even thought of going....
An obscure Cult gem. This is the kind of tune, along with Vera Gemini, Last Days, Astronomy, Golden Age of Leather (and so many others) that distinguished BOC from most metal bands. They really were on a different plane than the rest.
The great thing about the Cult is that some of the lesser-know album tracks - like this one, Tenderloin, Teen Archer, Monsters - are better thaqn other people's singles
"Ohh baby don't it feel so bad, dark clouds are over the street.
After what T read, I can hardly feel my heart... One more beat."
Powerful music, amazing song. It reminds me of "The Drawing of Three", when Roland takes control over Jack Mort. There's a shoot out in the subway, and Roland sets Mort on fire and jumps him in front of a train.
I am going to stick my neck out now and formally declare this the most-underrated rock song of all time, period. Who's with me on this? Come on you Oyster boys (and girls)!!!
cuttlefisch 3 weeks ago 4
Some think the production is too "slick" but it sounds so good - they don't record with ambient sound anymore like this album has
luridplanet 4 weeks ago
whacha want ??? huh ...huh...best album of the 70's im a huge BOC fan but this album was groundbreaking in the early 70's and not even considering thier song writing skills are 2nd to none, noboy sounds like them since and never will, hail BOC!
TheMagnito22 1 month ago
The 70's TRANSFORMED AMERICA.....
Are we on the same page ?
D3X72011 1 month ago
@D3X72011 I think we are on the same page. I know because I lived it.
hartley81848184 1 month ago
Beautifully crafted? BOC and Steely Dan shared the same encounter with the same Alien Space Ship....
Who has eyes to see ?
And ears to hear ?
D3X72011 1 month ago
Pretty sure most of BOC is from NYC and this song is about a crime in the big city.
rvhawkeye 1 month ago
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jaketequilla1 1 month ago
@jaketequilla1 you mad bro? LMAO...
SweetCash33 1 month ago
Sent from Heaven....Call them Aliens...Along the lines of Steely Dan....
Duck Dharma....All of them....Un-F'__ng Believable....
PS: Dark Clouds are OVER AMERICA....
Who has eyes to see and ears to hear ?
D3X72011 2 months ago
What happened was is Joe was stayin in Manhattan came out of the apartment and saw the headlines..and i believe the crime happened in the same apartment buildi
ng....creepy. but true!
CageyRocker 2 months ago
@CageyRocker
The song is about the mystery surrounding Jack the Ripper,,, nothing more.
SweetCash33 2 months ago
@SweetCash33
No. It isn't about Jack the Ripper.
hartley81848184 1 month ago
@hartley81848184 Yeah it is.
SweetCash33 1 month ago
@SweetCash33
No, it isn't. A perfunctory reading of the history of Jack the Ripper's crimes would demonstrate that your assertion is incorrect. Otherwise, let me know where BOC claimed that the song was about him. I mean, it's possible that they just wrote the song with no research or knowledge whatsoever, and then decided to claim it was about the Whitechapel slayings... then again, they could have easily claimed it was about the Kennedy assassination.
hartley81848184 1 month ago
@hartley81848184 Thats the beauty about BOC , they are about msytery, who was more mysterious then Jack the Ripper... any dolt with half a mind can listen to the boy selling newspapers at the end of the song has a british accent... therefor the song was inspired by the Jack the Ripper,,, you do know they had pistols back in 18th century london - just because old Jack never used one doesnt mean he never carried one,,, next you'll be telling me the BOC insignia is the kronos symbol.
SweetCash33 1 month ago
@SweetCash33
1. The boy selling newspapers at the end of the song is British? So what? Jack the Ripper never killed a man in the subway.
2. Jack the Ripper lived in the 19th century.
3. Who said anything about guns? I didn't.
4. You definitely are a dolt with half a mind. But not just any dolt. You're a hard-headed obstinate dolt. You must be some sort of fundie.
hartley81848184 1 month ago
@hartley81848184
You say its about a murder in new york - I say its an obscure dark refence to jack the ripper - given BOC's (Especialy Bouchards) fascination with monsters and the occult - I will go on listening to the song my way, the way of an artists mind, you go listening to it with your bland perspective on the world.. LoL Fundie really, where did I make a religous reference? Dolt!.
SweetCash33 1 month ago
@SweetCash33
Wow. You should sell this cotton candy at the carnival next year. "Artist's Mind" you say? Why can't you just admit you're wrong? That's why I called you a fundie. You think too rigidly and you can't let go of falsehoods even in the face of obvious facts to the contrary. I sell paintings for a living, and I spot BS a mile away.
hartley81848184 1 month ago
@hartley81848184 LoL your like this x girlfriend I had,,, always had to get the last word in,,, sepecially around her period,,, you on your period?
SweetCash33 1 month ago
@SweetCash33
She probably broke up with you because you couldn't admit when you're wrong. You'd just get pissed and blame everything on her or her period.
hartley81848184 1 month ago
@hartley81848184 Yup your definitly on your period dude....
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1. The boy selling newspapers at the end of the song is British? So what? Jack the Ripper never killed a man in the subway.
2. Jack the Ripper lived in the 19th century.
3. Who said anything about guns? I didn't.
4. You definitely are a dolt with half a mind. But not just any dolt. You're a hard-headed obstinate dolt. You must be some sort of fundie.
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1. The boy selling newspapers at the end of the song is British? So what? Jack the Ripper never killed a man in the subway.
2. Jack the Ripper lived in the 19th century.
3. Who said anything about guns? I didn't.
4. You definitely are a dolt with half a mind. But not just any dolt. You're a hard-headed obstinate dolt. You must be some sort of fundie.
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1. The boy selling newspapers at the end of the song is British? So what? Jack the Ripper never killed a man in the subway. 2. Jack the Ripper lived in the 19th century. 3. Who said anything about guns? I didn't. 4. You definitely are a dolt with half a mind. But not just any dolt. You're a hard-headed obstinate dolt. You must be some sort of fundie.
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1. The boy selling newspapers at the end of the song is British? So what? Jack the Ripper never killed a man in the subway. 2. Jack the Ripper lived in the 19th century. 3. Who said anything about guns? I didn't. 4. You definitely are a dolt with half a mind. But not just any dolt. You're a hard-headed obstinate dolt. You must be some sort of fundie.
hartley81848184 1 month ago
This whole album is amazingly produced. One of the top ten best rock albums ever.
mswaking 2 months ago 3
@mswaking I concur with your assessment wholeheartedly. It is in my top ten also.
hartley81848184 1 month ago
To me, the first time I heard this song, it sounded kind of uplifting, and then I listened to the lyrics!
One of my favs though! :D
gerardwfreak 2 months ago
some of the best times of my life were at boc shows new yrs eve at the coliseum in richfield stoned off my ass with the most beautiful girl in h s .......went home and made love til the sun came up!
earthmuzic1 3 months ago
this is a timeless feel-good classic ditty , why no air play ,would probably ruin it....
bocno1fan 4 months ago
These guys should be in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame!!! No questions asked
whippetitgood 4 months ago
BF3!!!!
ChocolateAndJelly123 4 months ago
Saw BOC in El Paso Texas in 1977. I was too young to drive at the time, so my mother drove me down there to see the concert. She met this teenage hippie chick at the concert who ran away from home. She came home with us, stayed a week, until my mom talked her into going back home. Hope you made it home okay Elizabeth. Too bad you left; I wanted you to re-run away again with me and start a commune in Arizona. But, karma intervened. It's all mellow. Peace out.
hartley81848184 5 months ago
This can't be about Ripper.He would choke out his victims in the shadows, then gut them with a surgical knife.
ladygaiajehan 5 months ago
this song is kinda...sexual! O__o
urguelfa 5 months ago
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aocidicoa 6 months ago
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jaketequilla1 7 months ago
@jaketequilla1
Who told you that load of crap, the song is attributed to the legend of JAck the Ripper, not some subway accident.modern day NY
TheRepublicanZombie 6 months ago
@TheRepublicanZombie How did you know that it was Jack who told me ? Good one But Jack the Ripper never puncuated his walk with a gun !
jaketequilla1 6 months ago
@TheRepublicanZombie
No ti's not. It was about a murder on the NY subway that one of the band members witnessed. Jack the RIpper didn't work in the subways. Jack the Ripper was a stone cold killer on the cobblestone streets.
hartley81848184 5 months ago
One of their best obscure song's ever ! Incredible lyrics. Was written and sung by Joe Bouchard ! Just one hell of an incredible band. Great instrumental work of art !
jrushmen 7 months ago
LOVE THIS FUCKING SONG! wooo!
JismCasanovaDurden 7 months ago
It's amazing how Buck just makes the guitar solos sound so fluid!
May BOC live forever!!!
akrocuba 7 months ago
BOC pure class America's greatest
adamo560 1 year ago
weynt to see BOC before my O-levels in 1978...used the phrase "punctuated his walk with a gun" in my English exam...passed the test...so did they!
Stairway2Evans 1 year ago
weynt to see BOC before my O-levels in 1978...used the phrase "ounctuated his walk with a gun" in my English exam...passed the test...so did they!
Stairway2Evans 1 year ago
A wonderful song written by Joe Bouchard! Many people don't know that Joe wrote the piano opener for Joan Crawford!
cattaraugus41 1 year ago
Thanks, BlueOysterWizard, for posting the Agents of Fortune music!!....I have the album on vinyl and haven't played it in over 30 years. I think this was their best album as far as diversity, lyrics and sound engineering.
derfzus 1 year ago
It's an uncanny way to party!
Ypipable 1 year ago
" Motiveless murder , the papers scream, the cops all said the crowd was iced by the sight "................ Great verse !!!
hurryfae 1 year ago
Good song, but I think Eric and Buck should have been the only members handling vocals...don't care who wrote the song.
bigblockelectra 1 year ago
@bigblockelectra Sometimes a shaky vocal can be accepted as heart.
Hope2009pc 1 year ago
one of the best concerts I saw was B.O.C with my buddy Gino in 06 Epic
orgasmatron1977m 1 year ago
This song moves the shit out of me.
aocidicoa 1 year ago 2
mystical occult scifi heavy rock gothic rock. I love this band. just found it. of course I have heard "don't fear the reaper" etc songs. but once I really got into deeeep into this, my brain just exploded. amazing stuff. trying to make a cover of some of these songs
ZZombyWooff 1 year ago 2
@ZZombyWooff I think that is awesome. I grew up as a teenager in the 70s. Listened to EVERTTHING but came to love the heavy rock of the time. That said, this band alone rocked my world.
mgwilliams1000 1 year ago
One of their best. Eerie and haunting and yet the music lifts you to where you are viewing the the whole drama.
mgwilliams1000 1 year ago
What an album, what a tour! they did these tunes with a vengeance, but i think the lasers made me grow tits on my back.
wilhoitsux 1 year ago
Another beautifully crafted, perfect little song from BÖC. These songs never get the big awards but they make you feel good all day long.
LerxstDirkandPratt 1 year ago 10
Joe Bouchard's finest moment-even more than Hot Rails.
NYVoice 1 year ago
I have seen them 7 times...
zensurfmaster 1 year ago
Amazing. Love the solos. Love the spooky vibe.
sweetttina666 1 year ago
my favorites are on this one
lindavanvranken 1 year ago
this song makes me wanna smoke a bowl. lol
elidude55 1 year ago
@elidude55 Hell. Yes.
Bojoe777NaBl 1 year ago
I saw BOC at Cleveland stadium in 1977 at the world series of rock. They rocked the stadium then and when I say them at newport in columbus in 1989 they rocked then. One of the best rock bands of all time. Period!!
whippetitgood 1 year ago
@whippetitgood Dude, I was there too. It was actually 1975.
marcabra 1 year ago
it was fun going to there concerts in the 70ds with friends
runingblackbear 1 year ago
Man no doubt!
cattboy123 1 year ago
Great song for a gray Autumn day.
Drizzlerman 1 year ago
Thank you BlueOysterWizard for posting all these BOC songs!!
unclegladys 1 year ago 2
Makes me think of the subway scene in the vampire film 'Underworld'
Drizzlerman 2 years ago
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bassmanjoe 2 years ago
al bouchard has a great voice
wwildwilli 2 years ago
Joe sings this one, and wrote it as well. This is my favorite tune he wrote with them.
bassmanjoe 2 years ago
My favorite Joe song as well. Another subway saga from Big Joe.
NYVoice 1 year ago
Love the Guitar solo!!! Everything about it is fantastic!!
bassmanjoe 2 years ago
@bassmanjoe Absolutely agree on this solo. The notes at 2:04 and 2:13 just pierce you.
RoeserFan2 1 year ago
their best song
nick1137 2 years ago
eerilly post 2001 dark clouds r over the street
richhermosillo 2 years ago
It's some of their so called more obscure songs like this one that are some of my favorite BOC songs.
This ranks up there with thier very best imo
Rusfi16 2 years ago 2
I agree Rusfi16, my favorite B.O.C. album hands-down!!!!
redhead5150 2 years ago
Damn, I love this tune. Haunting intro.
rubicon1983 2 years ago
seen BOC 2 times ,1st in 77 2nd in 89, great shows, both,,,weird on pcp,,lol
jimmym1964 2 years ago
I wonder where in NYC they recorded the subway train at the end. Kind of sounds like the Flushing Line (R-36) equipment that was there in 1976.
slant40 2 years ago
it would be a pleasure to rock to this.
1whokncallthethunder 2 years ago
Paper mister??
stickylish 2 years ago
classy band, and this LP shows how diverse they could be. hard to put into words. many cool shades of color....
route37c 2 years ago 3
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route37c 2 years ago
metal wasn't around until the 80's, BOC is just rock and they have some excellent tunes..ROCK ON!!!!!!!
Blondie6578 2 years ago
who was the first metal band then? I would vote for motorhead or sabbath myself.
blackdogleg 2 years ago
Sabbath. No doubt.
LanciaTurbo 2 years ago
it's definitely not motorhead
Heavy Metal definitely came into being in the later 60s with Deep Purple, Steppenwolfe, and some of the heavier tracks by The Who and The Beatles
As for Modern Metal you're looking for 1971 Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality. Literally every generic metal riff that's shit out by the music industry today comes directly from that album
xxxxgayboixxxx 2 years ago 6
is BOC really ´metal´? Maybe in the 70´s this was metal, but this is so far from metal..
This is music! Played by real musicians!
What metal...
Smithfieldis 2 years ago 5
BOC has never been metal. now go blast Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, now that's pure 70's metal!
LanciaTurbo 2 years ago
They were definatelt Hard Rock. Definately NOT metal. They have some influences of Metal but they were what I would consider Hard Rock, or thinking mans rock like Rush
Gaffhart77 2 years ago 2
absolutely!
LanciaTurbo 2 years ago
Thinking mans rock....I like that Gaff...Story tellers....Gotta love them, Rush too.....Loved Hemispheres by Rush!!! And this entire BOC Album!!!! Great Stuff!!!
LedHed65 2 years ago
i wouldnt consider them anything... theyre a little of everything... i mean, Then Came The Last Days Of May was blues influenced, Lonely Teardrops had a main disco riff in it and Monsters was without a doubt a prog rock masterpiece... id say they dabble into a little of everything...
Irish0400 2 years ago
My whole life I mistook Blue Oyster Cult for a one-hit-wonder. How wrong I was. One of the greatest rock bands ever
airbagabe 2 years ago 5
This is the kind of stuff that BOC put out that is still untouched today by any band I can think of, as far as steller music that pushes the envelope to places no one else even thought of going....
dapoetmaster 2 years ago 3
You name me any other songs that were really much better than this. I'm damned if I can think of any, that's for sure.
cuttlefisch 2 years ago 4
An obscure Cult gem. This is the kind of tune, along with Vera Gemini, Last Days, Astronomy, Golden Age of Leather (and so many others) that distinguished BOC from most metal bands. They really were on a different plane than the rest.
RoeserFan 3 years ago 20
you nailed it. right on!
stickylish 2 years ago
@RoeserFan ARE on a different plane
yourunclehank1 1 year ago
@yourunclehank1 you got me there!
RoeserFan2 1 year ago
@RoeserFan2 Rumor has it they're working
on a new albumn now
yourunclehank1 1 year ago
@yourunclehank1 sweet
RoeserFan2 1 year ago
@RoeserFan Not to mention Nosferatu, Your right, way ahead of everyone else.
mgwilliams1000 1 year ago
BOC was my first concert, and Agents Of Fortune is by far my favorite album...Thank you for posting.
LadyOfTheWeed424 3 years ago 5
I think I listen to this album every other day.
PleiadesSeven 3 years ago 7
An authentic, all-time classic rock song.
cuttlefisch 3 years ago 3
The great thing about the Cult is that some of the lesser-know album tracks - like this one, Tenderloin, Teen Archer, Monsters - are better thaqn other people's singles
TomFab1967 3 years ago 19
@TomFab1967 i hear ya, wings wetted down, harvester of eyes, dominance, death valley nights... they have so many classics,....
milesneedham 7 months ago
@milesneedham
WIngs wetted down my favorite of this album. Overall by far my favorite BOC record.
OnTheRunSinceBirth 6 months ago
@OnTheRunSinceBirth, "Wings Wetted Down" was on the 1973 album "Tyranny and Mutation", not "Agents of Fortune".
TIMOTHYSAARINEN 2 months ago
"Ohh baby don't it feel so bad, dark clouds are over the street.
After what T read, I can hardly feel my heart... One more beat."
Powerful music, amazing song. It reminds me of "The Drawing of Three", when Roland takes control over Jack Mort. There's a shoot out in the subway, and Roland sets Mort on fire and jumps him in front of a train.
He deserved it.
nate556 3 years ago
Yep, it's hard not to associate BOC with the King.
PleiadesSeven 3 years ago
I haven't heard this song in 30 years... Thanks for the memories.
MyhoganyRush 3 years ago 2
Agreed, I haven't heard it since retiring my record player. This album may be one of my alltime favorites. Not a weak cut on it.
jwmellott 3 years ago 4