RE: (TV) Blue Oyster Cult (was 'Rock'sBack pages')

["Rene Alvir" <r_alvir2@hotmail.com>]

> the second he writes anything remotely derogatory about anyone, he should 
> be
> shouted down with lyrics from "Cultosaurus Erectus."   Is it just me?  
> Should
> I re-evaluate my opinion of BOC?  The memory of the "cow-bell" sketch on 
> SNL
> is not helping.

I always thought BOC was funny, their lyrics obtuse and obscure, mocking the 
heavy lyrical bent of their contemporaries.  Granted, they did move more to 
the middle of the road of AOR after "Agents of Fortune" but their were gems 
scattered among the BOC's later period tracks.

Also, I wouldn't consider them heavy metal (at least the earlier records).  
I'd consider them a heavy psychedelic blues oriented band.  And I can hear 
parallels between BOC's music and Television's, in the kinds of scalar modes 
Donald Roeser used to lace the music with.  The Dictators are also related 
to BOC in that they shared the production team of Pearlman and that other 
guy.

I guess you need a sense of humour to appreciate them.
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