Blue Oyster Cult: Nosferatu

[Seophiee]

Not sure if Drizzlerman is a troll, or really that ignorant.

[Kynatics]

@chingonote Man...you chase girls in a van today, you get registered.

[Drizzlerman]

On many lonely nights I sit, or lay down and listen and think that Spectres may be their best album.

[Morik521]

@Drizzlerman I don't know... most of their albums are pretty heavy

[Drizzlerman]

@Morik521 but spectres was their most nocturnally artistic album and a lot of fun too.

[ghs4t3]

I saw BOC at the old capital Theater in Passaic n.j circa 1974 A no named band named KISS opened for them.

Second time I saw them Slade opened for them

My ears are still ringing LOL!!!

[Grendel62]

@ghs4t3 YES-Capital Theater..boy is that a blast from my past!!

[beefoneeto]

@ghs4t3

Dr Feelgood and Slade in '76.I was there too.I think Reaper was the second song in the set.

[Ancientmirrors1]

this song is just beyond description!

[karlmoles65]

Van Helsing voted 4 times.

[scrotius2012]

@karlmoles65 Renfield 150 times

[SUNGame85]

@chingonote i think in this day and age the term is "Rapist"...but anyway badass song by a badass band

[gretzinabluehat]

The only time I'm not posting the name Dharma I'm posting the name Bouchard. Come home boys!

[TheJax67]

Very good song for one of the best song of BOC

[hartley81848184]

I saw BOC in concert in El Paso Texas the year this album came out. My MOM took me to see them - but I swear I didn't hang out with her! hahahahaha. Those were the days man, I wish everybody could have been there.

[gorgorpain]

After hearing this song for several years I finally saw the original movie...had I not known better I would have sworn the movie was based on the song. I think this may be my favorite Cult song of them all.

[Freyja1133]

@gorgorpain Nosferatu is one of the worst movies ever made... the widow of the guy who wrote the book ( dracula ,I think) sued the producer for plagerism.... And demended that movie should not be released  the actor who played the Nosferatu looked like a human rat !

[Lordnosferatu3]

@Freyja1133 Have you actually seen the movie ? "one of the worst movies ever made" while it was a 1931 classic from Murnau, the first Dracula movie from the novel of Bram Stoker. Watch your words, as this movie is considered as an all time classic for the german cinema and the beginning of the impressionnism in Europe.

[Freyja1133]

@Lordnosferatu3 The 1922 film Nosferatu was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Stoker's widow sued the producers of Nosferatu, and had many of the film's copies destroyed (although some yet remain).

The worst movie ever made crack that I made is only my opinion of the film....And it was sarcasm

[curtbarile]

I see Classic in the comments section, NUFSAID!!!!

[vomitgorefromheaven]

4 people were turned to dust by the kiss of doom.

[Hyrinm]

Where i can find tab, chords for this song .-. ?

[diebydeath]

The other videos of the songs on this album all have comments bashing rap, and then comes this video, which I consider the best song of the album (tied with Godzilla), and not one person has bashed rap. Amazing.

[grgoldner]

My crew is dead....I fear tle plaque....

[mgwilliams1000]

The original vampire movie NOSFERATU is the best. Guess you have to love old silent creepy stuff like that. This music goes makes it even better.

[DB557]

Chills, every time...

[chriskehoe007]

I have always loved this song classic music that tou just do not hear anymore its a shame. i also feel that Blue Oyster Cult is one of the most underated bands of all time

[harvbanger]

Nosferatu embodies the essence of a haunting yet melodic song. None finer than this...as this is the pinnacle that any artist could achieve.

[carrienurse]

Ah Joe at his icy best & Alan's creeping ivorys......to the pleasure of the dreaded master...

[paut23]

i fucking love this song

why is music today not like this? :(

[ImJTHM]

This song was awesome before Twilight ruined vampires.

>:/

[V00Rozen]

@ImJTHM however, if *you* like vampires enough, there's still hope you can enjoy the subject now, isn't it :)?

[ImJTHM]

@V00Rozen Certainly a good point.

:D

[tomnez]

@ImJTHM haha,yeah

[Spadesandsinners]

Screw Twilight, go Nosferatu!

[halloweenchick2]

One of my favorites by them. :)

[cuttlefisch]

This song DEFINES the meaning of "classic rock", IMHO.

[cuttlefisch]

Surely the best chorus of all time..."Only a woman can break his spell, pure in heart who will offer herself to Nosferatu". Just sublime.

[Blkmage8]

Last entry read: Rats in the hold, my crew is dead. I fear the plague.

[hugopal]

Drizzle--wow, you just shut me the hell up with your insightful and vicious reply. You put me in my place, man, and I'm sure I am quaking in my boots that some jr. highshcool kid shut me the hell up. Brazos, Mr. Drizzle, Brazos. I bet those brazos drip right into your buster brown shoes, boy, and make you sort of slosh around when you are due for reading class at noon and all that.

[Drizzlerman]

@hugopal I have no idea what you're on about

[stric128]

when i showed this song to my little cousin... she was scared as hell x)...

anyway.. this song rocks

[hugopal]

drizzle--I guess you have bottomed for most of them, so you are fit to judge. you're a moron--have you finished the final grade in high school yet? Have you studied the concept of "projection" yet? That P.E. teacher who catches your eye now and again--you want to bottom for him, but you don't dare? They are so yummy, drizzle--don't hold back, bottom for them with all your might, you will be rewarded. And then you won't have to compete for grades with...people with brains.

[Drizzlerman]

@hugopal you're so full of shit.

[nightw01fy]

Psilocybin breaks down into Dimethyltryptamine, also known as the Spirit Molecule, it is present in many living things and is released when birth, death and dreaming occurs. It is symbolized in everything from Santa to Jesus Christ and beyond. Our true Connection lies in plants.

[elektra1984]

@nightw01fy get a fucking life

[Drizzlerman]

1:32 I fear to play

[hugopal]

@Drizzlerman You're an idiot. Are you a negro or something? Your posts scream of "muh dik." Buy some skin bleaching creams and sign up for some human hormone therapy injections to raise your I.Q. level. This song is not about sex you monkey, it's about love. "He'd stayed too long in her room" does not refer to the time you spent in your 13 year old cousin's bedroom--go away, and let white people enjoy white music without trying to insert negro tribal bullscat into it. How long oh lord.

[Drizzlerman]

@hugopal your the biggest fag on the net, bud

[Drizzlerman]

2:19 sex

2:45 the pleasure

3:20 itsmybloooooooood

[Drizzlerman]

3:36 there was poking

3:44 porn

[Drizzlerman]

2:13 drained

2:20 sex

2:46 the pleasure

2:52 drops of light

3:07 niiiiiiiiiiiiiight

3:21 s'myblooooooooood

3:37 there was poking

3:45 porn

3:47 'despair and desire'

[bstensland]

@Drizzlerman where do you get your "version" of these "lyrics"? are you saing that at 2:20 they are saying "sex" instead of "sickness now, then horrible DEATH"? Here kid, here's the whole stanza...

"Mortal terror reigned

Sickness now then horrible death

Only lucy knew the truth

And at her window

Nosferatu"

Do you also think that since the word "breast" is in it, it's a song about tit-clubs too?

[Drizzlerman]

@bstensland subliminally in the spoken lyrics

[Drizzlerman]

0:59 off of herself

1:33 I fear to play

1:42 good smell

1:44 urine hot

2:14 drained

3:21 s'myblooooood

3:50 'meditation'

[ecnalubma696969]

SO CHASE SOME CUNT!

[Drizzlerman]

0:45 sounds like he says 'trying to bang you'. This whole album and song is beautifully, hypnotic, and haunting. 2:39 Sounds like 'so chase some cunt.' This song is lovely. 'Only a woman can break his spell, pure in heart who would offer herself to Nosferatu.' I don't know why, but this song is good for listening to while chewing red licorice.

[Drizzlerman]

Seriously one of their best songs, but if you analyze the lyrics this is a really dirty song. I've been listening to Spectres a lot at night recently and it truly is their most majestic album, and an a follow up from the shiny gloomy sounds on Agents of Fortune

[cbsavage099]

what is dirty about the song? its about a big ol' dumb vampire that stayed out to late and the sun came up, watch clips of the movie, or there is a video

[Drizzlerman]

is you understand the subliminals then you'll see it is using the vampire as a metaphorical device basically. He sucked her precious drops of life is about cunnilingus and when he vanishes into dust and leaves her all alon plus about the sun coming too soon is about ejaculation and then he leaves her. But it is a song about sexual tension and demise

[cuttlefisch]

Never thought about the song that way, mate. I took it as a straight song about vampirism. Either way it's great.

[Drizzlerman]

The vampire is a sexual motif or metaphor as in the relation to Eros and Thanatos because a vampire combines those two concepts into a mythological figure and allows the drives for sexual pleasure and demise to be intertwined in it's thirst for blood or life essence in this case that of a virginal female

[bstensland]

@Drizzlerman Cunnilingus? Have you ever heard of the legend of Nosferatu, or have you seen the movie of the same name? This song is basically a line for line remake of the movie. Cunnilingus, indeed:))

[SFNightauditor]

I play some guitar and am starting up a sort of goth band. If I could cover one BOC song, it would be this (followed by Wings Wetted Down).

[SPECTRE1961]

BEST OF THE BEST FROM B.O.C. !!

[AlxMiNeR]

made to be loved xD

[Blkmage8]

Any one know what the piano is playing at 0:12?

[DeathCail]

My favorite part was right there.

[ucanbetouched]

@Blkmage8 I was wondering the same thing, I've heard it in a NaS song but am not sure which.

[bstensland]

@Blkmage8 Glissandro appregiations?

[AlxMiNeR]

this music sound soo nice... modern and ild say futurist

[RadioBazterd]

If I hadn't already bought this album on vinyl, cassette & CD then I'd go and buy it again.

[HenryWinehard]

I bought 2 Blue Oyster Cult discs ( Agents of Fortune/Spectres) at Borders, 2 for 1 remastered/expanded editions and with the 5 dollar off coupon my total was $7.58 ....I'm pretty sure someone lost money on the deal, lol - Just call me Frugal McDougal.....

[Blkmage8]

that keyboard is so eerie....

damn i love BOC

[azmarkus]

That shimmery orchestral/string sound - I believe - is a Freeman synthesizer, kind of a poor man's Mellotron if you will.

[sdo666ksk]

Use the Man ,Megadeth

[countevil]

Yes, Nosferatu is one of the earliest horror films. The first vampire portrayal on film. It's an illegitamate adaption of dracula.

[ibanezmon]

Some great piano work on this song.

[slant40]

One of the - if not THE - most incendiary guitar solos that Buck Dharma has ever committed to record. A masterpiece of mood and shadow, where all the band members shine brilliantly. This is Blue Öyster Cult at the pinnacle of its art.

[aggelospapas]

I think you are wrong...his guitar work on Perfect water is insurmountable...but you have a good taste in music though^^

[marcabra]

@slant40 Well put. Unfortunately, IMO, I don't think the band ever rose to this level again. Never seemed satisfied with their level of success. Subsequent forays into stripped down melodies was not, I think, very successful. I mostly blame Bloom & Roeser for this; thinking their own innate talents ought to escape Pearlman's original vision, a vision that was embraced by the Bouchards.

[tomnez]

@slant40 gudstuff,but i think their pinnacle was veteran....off the live album,bucks solo melted my senses

[hartley81848184]

@slant40

True, but I like the guitar work on E.T.I. better.

[whippetitgood]

This album is one of the most overlooked and forgotten albums of all time. It rocks from start to finish. I thought Agents of Fortune was unbelievable but Spectres is a master piece. They just flat out kick butt and Rock-N-Roll.

[cuttlefisch]

What an epic way to close a great album. This song has my favourite chorus line of all time: "Only a woman can break his spell, pure in heart who will offer herself". So good it's unreal.

[AlexxanderrII]

I love this song. I think this is one of the best songs made. It's so haunting.

[cuttlefisch]

Don't know about you, but I can't think of many rock songs that can equal or better this.

[Drizzlerman]

A lot of Pink Floyd material is great for dozing off to or lighting up a joint to.

[Drizzlerman]

I recommend listening to this song and I Love the Night in the darkness lying down in the moments where you are in between sleep and awake; if you can time it correctly. Try listening to this one first followed by I Love The Night, they form a interesting couplet.

[dapoetmaster]

OK someone explain to me why Buck Dharma is not appreciated by critics as one of the greatest guitarists in Rock history??

Why is this not obvious???

[groovyastrodude]

I know!! My understanding, though, is that Buck Dharma has recieved at least some of his deserved critical acclaim. The real problem is that almost nobody outside of the musically inclined community has even a vague familiarity with Buck Dharma.

[bloodlyeye]

this is simply great

[RoeserFan]

One of those unique, un-categorizable Cult tunes (like Reaper, Morning Final, Vera, Golden Age, The Vigil, Deadline, etc.), neither straight ahead hard rock nor full ballad, that put BOC in a special, stand-alone place.

[marcabra]

Yes, exactly! They owned their own special niche--something between metal and psychadelic rock, with a touch of the apocalypse for good measure. It is so very disappointing that they abandoned Pearlman's unifying vision for the band, then shitcanned Albert Bouchard. They have simply never been the same since then. As a long time fan, I consider this LP to be the pinnacle, a damn near perfectly executed, loosely constructed concept album.

[carrienurse]

"...To the pleasure of the dreaded Master..." Joe's finest moment.

[iatyma]

this song is really sick

[maneperkele]

Sick truly, but in the cool way only B.Ö.C can perform.

Congratulations JYP Jyväskylä, Finland Ice Hockey Champs 09 !!!!!!!

[guitarguy098]

oh.

[guitarguy098]

why only 915 views? all boc fans should check this out!

[ajittffcure]

I just watched the Nosferatu video clip featuring this song on You Tube. Now, I am watching this one... he he...

[CharlieKaufmanFan88]

Now we have 2,001 views.

[guitarguy098]

i love how he sings in this song

[StaticCling11]

Such an amazing film and a great song too.

[Oni64]

About a lonely vampire. This is a pretty dark and beautiful song.

[DickStainy]

Beautiful.

[carrienurse]

Alan's creeping keyboards.... Timeless.