Blue Oyster Cult: Subhuman

[peterm3964]

This shit improves every time I hear it . faaaarrrk !!!!!

[hezarrc]

Very good!

[crhymethinc]

It needs more cowbell.

[tittyscott]

I am becalmed and lost to nothing,except tp the chit that youtube is screwing us with lately.Meet me anywhere corperate bungholes you surely deserve to be left to die.Just one swing is all I'll need.

[TIMOTHYSAARINEN]

So fucking sinister.

[mswaking]

I like the live version better

[CuzzinVinny100]

I still remember the ad tagline for this album when it was released; "Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed."

[LiteracyLabyrinth2]

This is such a cool song

[porcupineinteruptus]

Incredible musicians,and the wildest,most bizarre,captivating lyrics of ANY rock band.I remember writing to their fan address from the Secret Treaties album and requesting all their lyrics,which came in a super-long computer generated paper! Once I had every word of their songs in my young hands,it increased my love/fascination with them. And we didnt even know what they even really LOOKED like,for years,what with no internet and all back then,all you had was the album covers.More mysterious!

[MikeCLasVegas]

@porcupineinteruptus YES ! The lyrics came on green bar paper! I remember-I saved them for years. I was fortunate to catch them at the old Acadmey of Music in NYC. They opened for SLADE. (OR) Did Slade open for them?

[TheRottenTeethKid]

Thank you for supplying me with some memories of my early teen years that I long for always!!

[Zepplica911]

When one plays a Blue Oyster Cult's track on RealPlayer , a review pops up saying the following and I'm quoting :

"Intellectual , smart-ass Metal made by critics . For proof that Blue Oyster Cult rules , listen to "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" . "Godzilla" , the Kronos logo , "Secret Treaties" , laser lights - what more does a wizard want from a band ?

[chrishutt66yt]

We understand..and so do I! (do you?)

[Bojoe777NaBl]

give anything to hear this on the radio just ONCE

but man... what else can/should I say

[gwxk]

If you eat a lot of sub sandwiches you become subhuman.  My evil twin made me type that.

[jwmellott]

I wanted to hear this song, but couldn't remember the title. So i entered the keywords "Blue Cult Ladies Fish Gentlemen". Worked like a charm.

[drex23100]

Boc was definitely a thinking mans metal band.Both profound and perverse.

[yourunclehank1]

So ladies,fish and gentlemen

Real music from the days when music was

made to entertain, inform and enlighten

Not just background soundtrack to your life

like so much of the un-imaginative music now

The average musician is more technically advanced

in so many ways yet lost in mediocrity now

[metalchango]

for some strange reason the opening riff reminds me of carls jr

[redfoxbennaton]

I feel like a subhuman.

[The1Black5Wolf3]

Personally, I fucking adore the Imaginos version of this (Entitled Blue Oyster Cult) to death.

[Melotiriunpompelmo]

Best hard-rock album.

[wqq355]

if i had to pick one- best band of all time: blue oyster cult

[harrimuidre]

i would say, "I Love The Night" and "Astronomy" ?!?

[667madshaw]

does this band have any songs as good as dontfear the reaper? i love that song but the rest of what i have found doesnt measure up, and its getting late

[Drizzlerman]

Yeah, listen to transmanicon mc, flaming telepaths, red and the black, seven screaming diz busters, I love the Night, Nosferatu, veteran of the psychic wars, joan crawford, all amazing songs

[clubmidnightsun]

@667madshaw Harvester Of Eyes

and you should hear the live album called "On Your Feet Or On Your Knees"

[Ilumiknight]

@667madshaw Perhaps try Burning For You, Flaming Telepaths and Perfect Water?

[clubmidnightsun]

that wasn't popularity that fucked rock up.

It was down right greed and formulas. It was factory corporate rock. Perfect example is Journey. They had some kick ass muscians for their 70s  debut. Steve Perry came along and brought them to pop. They made money. Good for them Now now one wants to hear that candy shit. Neil Schon should have lead that band in a dif direction.

[BATTLEDROID678]

i love BOC because of the quirky and mysterious aura of there songs, and shame on anyone out there who only knows BOC for dont fear the reaper!

[mlkuhnpdx]

'The Reaper' is one of my least favorite BOC songs. Give me 'Harvester of Eyes' or 'Astronomy' or 'ME 262' or 'Red and Black' - anything with Bloom's sinister vocals - any day.

[BATTLEDROID678]

couldn't agree more, Eric bloom is god when it comes to singing like a biker, well i cant really explain his sound but its startling, brooding and powerful!

[carrienurse]

mlkuhnpdx---You got that right! Eric's vocals....don't you just love his stuttering madness at the end of Harvester. Doesn't get much better than that.

[mlkuhnpdx]

I had to listen to the stuttering you're talking about and you're right - it's unique to Bloom. Just like the fake Japanese he throws around in "Godzilla". (At least I think it's fake... LOL)

[carrienurse]

mlkuhnpdx---No fake Japanese there. You can find the translation on the Web, but here it is for you from a most rabid fan,  "Attention, emergency news! Attention, emergency news! Godzilla is going toward the Ginza area! Immediately escape, catch up, find shelter please! Immediately escape, catch up, find shelter please!"

[mlkuhnpdx]

Well, I'll be snockered - had no clue it was real Japanese. Leave it to BOC to be so authentic on such a tongue-in-cheek song! I'll have to listen to that closer next time. Thanks for enlightening us, carrienurse!

[carrienurse]

And the stuttering, "My-my-my-my-my My-my-my-my-my My-my-my-my-my-my I'm the harvester of eyes I'm just walkin' down the street I see a garbage can, I pick it up I look through all the garbage To see if there are any eyes inside I'll put 'em in my pink leather bag And take all their eye balls And I bleed with 'em As I plead with their eyes all night So if you see me walkin' down the street You'd better get out of the way And put on your eye glasses 'cause I'm gonna take your eyes home with me."

[WhatFuckingUsernameI]

@carrienurse: How about the end of "Unknown Tongue," where he sounds like Johnny Rotten?

[Rolandzebub]

Ridiculous. I love BOC too, but Maiden is very musical, lyrically, technically, and melodically. If you listened to any of their better albums you would know that. Don't let some ignorant fan fool you. It's just a question of taste.

[SmittyBaGitty]

Great stuff.

[mlkuhnpdx]

I wouldn't want BOC to be heavy handed like Metallica. I like them the way they are...

[carrienurse]

Heavy-handed mlkuhnpdx? After listening to Buck's closing solo on Dominance & Submission back in 1974, I was sure the hammer of God had fallen...

[WOLFCHILD100]

screw Maiden. they shoulda been history teachers or theatre actors. their music isnt that musical. they've got some good hooks but nothing like BOC.

[weenak123]

DO NOT agree on the Maiden part, but l agree that BOC is underrated and a great band!

[robmar9936]

cool..flash bak

[Drizzlerman]

This song reminds me of being under water or in a submarine

[GWayneWade]

This is probably my favorite B.O.C. song I have heard so far.

[therover3]

i wrote this song

[NijnaNeo]

Get to see them tonight in Dayton, Ohio

[jdupnrth]

so good!

[raiderrrsss]

boc-what can i say

[JokeriPokeri17]

I l-o-v-e this!

[the13thmoon]

There are no bad tracks on this album-They transcend the rock genre,they are wonderfully melodic and yet rock out heavy metalically-And the lyrical themes are literate and acute...Should be much famouser plus the singer is brilliant and distinctive like all the players...Einfach Wunderbar

[spyrosgirl]

hahaha this guy have read a lot of lovecraft Xd

[Durandal1717]

Haha, seriously, fuck Derleth, Sandy Pearlman is Lovecraft's greatest disciple. The very first impression Imaginos gave me was of a grand tribute to The Dunwich Horror, only told from the antagonist's viewpoint and set in the southwest instead of New England.

Not that they couldn't continue without him, but his lyrics and vision were an intractable part of the unique atmosphere this band could produce. They really were 'thinking man's metal'.

[ellenlvx]

Interesting choice of words. Wasn't The Disciples a precursor to The Blue Oyster Cult? Partially, anyway

[ellenlvx]

Oh, and what about "The Yellow Sign?"

[grgoldner]

The "On Your Feet Or On Your Knees" version is by far the best.

[Sangdude]

Main riff is really good, but overall I think the Imaginos version is better.

[GWayneWade]

No, this version is better. The other one is almost unrecognizable.

[Sangdude]

Well yeah that's kindof the point isn't it, if you going to make the exact same song then why bother?

[GWayneWade]

Yes, I suppose that makes sense. I just prefer this version.

[rachel112263]

Thank you so much for posting this song.  I just can't get enough BOC!!!

[BlueOysterWizard]

no prob

[cuttlefisch]

Neither can I!! BOC rock! The most underrated band in music history.

[shonenshojo]

Agree. They're definately the most underrated band EVER!!! They're only, like what, the best band in the world and not many people have heard about them. Makes me feel somewhat sad.

[oakeysmokey]

@shonenshojo

some guy just flamed me on my page and told me BOC sucks and nothing compared to Iron Maiden

*shakes head*

[shonenshojo]

NO ONE TALKS ABOUT BOC LIKE THAT!!!!!!! NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like Iron Maiden too, but nothing compares to BOC (in my opinion will say). Besides... Iron Maiden is much more heavier than BOC, I'd say BOC is not really a heavy/metal band (if you know what I mean), so you can't really compare them to Iron Maiden.

[BATTLEDROID678]

dude i feel the same way, totally underrated band! if anything they changed what rock would be!

[AhabDownUnder]

i soooo agree

[mlkuhnpdx]

I'm glad they're so underrated. If they were more popular, they'd have more pop-sounding songs and then we wouldn't like them so much...

[desdanova3]

@mlkuhnpdx

Probably, but also you must consider that bad management from the label, as other issues, made them underrated, and yes, if becoming more popular, probably they were in top charts with bad music...

[coldgot2b]

Agreed. Sandy Pearlman wanted them to be one band; Richard Meltzer another band; and The Cult themselves wanted to play their own style. There were too many cooks in the kitchen per se. The bad and the good of it was that they sounded different from song to song.

[deldine70]

I agree, B.O.C. seem to transcend beyond a "normal" listening experience. There's something about their music that "gets" me in a way no other band can.

[Drizzlerman]

@deldine70 EXACTLY!

[SPAZZOBOXER]

"Secret Treaties" as an album is a complete, cohesive entity that rewards the listener with repeated doses. "Subhuman" as a single song stands up as a stellar achievment, but listening to it in chronological order following the utterly eerie opener "Career of Evil" enhances the sonic & contextual impact. Based on the Fantasy/Sci-Fi poem that gave the Band their name, "Subhuman" simultaneously: transfixs/disturbs/entertains/­expands any imagination that is open & receptive to its' unique stimuli.

[peterm3964]

@SPAZZOBOXER It also kicks ass and rocks hard