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Blue Öyster Cult – Secret Treaties (Speakers Corner)

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  • Whoever wanted to be heard in the decade of hardened rock wedged in by big names like the Doors, Black Sabbath and the Stones had to have much more to offer than theatrical pathos, biker boogie, an accomplished lead guitarist and sharp-tongued singer. The band Blue Öyster Cult, founded on Long Island in 1971, brought all of this and much more to the stage from the very beginning, telling short scripts that made sharp cinema images run in consciousness-expanded brains. "It's as if Hitchcock and Kubrick were telling each other stories about their sexual pleasure dreams," euphorized Rolling Stone, acknowledging the band's "superb balance between aesthetics and ass-kicking."

    In their third studio album "Secret Treaties", BÖC climbs probably the highest level of their musical evolution with portfolio-worthy songs like "Career Of Evil", "Subhuman" and "Astronomy". Song lyrics with a literary level and nothing for delicate natures are reflected in straightforward, deliberately dryly articulated vocal phrases. The music is as little squeamish as the wording: Unadorned, steeled guitar sound, occasionally padded with a bobbing Hammond groove and repeatedly topped by hearty, roughened string solos speaks the language of a hard, wiry and highly concentrated rock style.

    Recording: 1974 by Tim Geelan and Jerry Smith
    Production: Murray Krugman and Sandy Pearlman

    Reviews

    "Beginning with laid-back seventies rock ('Career Of Evil'), BÖC forge gritty US hard rock with 'Dominance And Submission', followed by powerful midtempo rock and the fragile band classic 'Astronomy'." (Good Times, October / November 2014)
  • Artist: Blue Öyster Cult
    Format: LP
    Units: 1
    Country: Germany
    Genre: Pop & Rock
  • A1 Career Of Evil
    A2 Subhuman
    A3 Dominance And Submission
    A4 Me 262
    B1 Cagey Cretins
    B2 Harvester Of Eyes
    B3 Flaming Telepaths
    B4 Astronomy