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Blue Öyster Cult

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2024 - Ghost Stories
2020 - The Symbol Remains
2003 - The Essential Blue Öyster Cult
2002 - A Long Day's Night
2001 - Curse of the Hidden Mirror
1999 - Blue Öyster Cult / Tyranny & Mutation
1998 - Heaven Forbid
1998 - Super Hits
1995 - Workshop of the Telescopes
1994 - Cult Classic
1991 - Live 1976
1990 - On Flame With Rock and Roll
1990 - Career of Evil: The Metal Years
1988 - Imaginos
1985 - Club Ninja
1983 - The Revölution by Night
1983 - Don't Fear the Reaper: The Best of Blue Öyster Cult
1982 - Extraterrestrial Live
1981 - Fire of Unknown Origin
1980 - Cultösaurus Erectus
1979 - Mirrors
1978 - Some Enchanted Evening
1977 - Spectres
1976 - Agents of Fortune
1975 - On Your Feet or on Your Knees
1974 - Secret Treaties
1973 - Tyranny and Mutation
1972 - Blue Öyster Cult
0 - Blue Oyster Cult - The Singles Collection

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5 Male

Origin
Long Island, New York, USA

Genre
Rock

Style
Rock/Pop

Mood
High

Born

1967

Active
1967 to Present...

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Blue Oyster Cult

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Spanning three decades, Blue Öyster Cult has a long and interesting history. The band got its start in the late '60s on Long Island, New York, as the Soft White Underbelly, before ending up in the "right place at the right time" to create the beginnings of Blue Öyster Cult.
Long Island native Donald Roeser and Albert Bouchard (of Watertown, New York) met at Clarkson College, in Potsdam, NY. The two were introduced by a mutual friend, Bruce Abbott (who later co-authored "Golden Age of Leather" with Donald). With Abbott and two other friends, they formed "The Disciples" and played college parties and local beer halls. The next year, the band reformed and played the same circuits as "Travesty" (named after the Blues Project album). Through all this, their studies fell by the wayside, and both Albert and Donald decided to quit college to concentrate on playing music full-time.
Eventually "Travesty" broke up and Donald and Albert paths separated for a while. Donald met Sandy Pearlman, a pioneering voice of rock criticism, who with his friend, Richard Meltzer, were contributors to the seminal magazine "Crawdaddy!," the first magazine dedicated to the analysis of rock music and its culture.
Allen Lanier then came into the fold by way of guitarist John Wiesenthal. An old house near Stony Brook College became ground zero for the formative band, and casual jams with whomever happened to be hanging around began to turn into rehearsals with a core band, which included Wiesenthal, Donald, Albert, Allen and Andrew Winters, a school friend of Donald. It was 1967.
In 1970, the band's name was changed to the Blue Oyster Cult, a name suggested by Richard Meltzer to Sandy Pearlman. The name comes from the famous Long Island "Blue Point Oysters." The umlaut was added later which started the trend for using the "heavy metal umlaut" in band names.
At a time when the heavy metal was starting to seem tired, Blue Öyster Cult released records that combined powerful music and intelligent and funny lyrics. A steady flow of albums with great songs, like "Burnin' for You", "Godzilla", "The Red And The Black", "This Ain't The Summer of Love", "Astronomy", "Black Blade", "Flaming Telepaths", and "(Don't Fear) The Reaper".
In 1998, the BÖC released Heaven Forbid, to fine reviews, particularly of the track, "Harvest Moon". Curse of the Hidden Mirror followed in 2001.
Their motto "On Tour Forever" still holds, as the band plays over 100 dates per year.


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