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Workshop Of The Telescopes
''Workshop of the Telescopes'' is a two-disc compilation album by the American band Blue Öyster Cult, released by Sony Music/Columbia Entertainment in 1995. All of the material on this album was recorded prior to the ''Imaginos'' sessions; some of it was previously only available on promo discs (marked (*)), and a few others were previously unavailable on CD (marked (+)). The CD comes with an explanatory booklet outlining the development of Blue Öyster Cult and their rise to fame throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The album served as a basis of the double-disc reissue of '' The Essential Blue Öyster Cult'' in 2012, sharing 21 tracks, substituting some tracks with their live counterparts. Track listing Disc one #"Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" – 4:03 #"Transmaniacon MC" – 3:20 #"Before the Kiss, a Redcap" – 4:58 #"Stairway to the Stars" – 3:43 #"Buck's Boogie (Live)" – 5:17 #"Workshop of the Telescopes (Live)" (*) – 3:46 #"The Red and the Black (Live)" (*) ...
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Blue Öyster Cult
Blue Öyster Cult ( ; sometimes abbreviated BÖC or BOC) is an American Rock music, rock band formed on Long Island in Stony Brook, New York, in 1967, and best known for the singles "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", "Burnin' for You", and "Godzilla (Blue Öyster Cult song), Godzilla". The band has sold 25 million records worldwide, including 7 million in the United States alone. Blue Öyster Cult‘s music videos, especially "Burnin' for You", received heavy rotation on MTV when the music television network premiered in 1981, cementing the band's contribution to the development and success of the music video in modern popular culture. Blue Öyster Cult's longest-lasting and the most commercially successful lineup included Buck Dharma, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser (lead guitar, vocals), Eric Bloom (lead vocals, "rhythm guitar, stun guitar", keyboards, synthesizer), Allen Lanier (keyboards, rhythm guitar), Joe Bouchard (bass, vocals, keyboards), and Albert Bouchard (drums, percussion, vo ...
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Steppenwolf (band)
Steppenwolf was an American-Canadian rock band that was prominent from 1968 to 1972. The group was formed in late 1967 in Los Angeles by lead singer John Kay, keyboardist Goldy McJohn, and drummer Jerry Edmonton, all formerly of the Canadian band the Sparrows. Guitarist Michael Monarch and bass guitarist Rushton Moreve were recruited via notices placed in Los Angeles-area record and musical instrument stores. Steppenwolf sold over 25 million records worldwide, released seven gold albums and one platinum album, and had 13 ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles, of which seven were Top 40 hits, including three top 10 successes: "Born to Be Wild", " Magic Carpet Ride", and " Rock Me". Steppenwolf enjoyed worldwide success from 1968 to 1972, but clashing personalities led to the end of the core lineup. Today, John Kay is the only original member, having been the lead singer since 1967. The band was called John Kay & Steppenwolf from 1980 to 2018. In Canada, they had four top 10 songs, 12 ...
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Blue Öyster Cult Compilation Albums
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Shooting Shark
"Shooting Shark" is a song by American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, appearing on the band's ninth album ''The Revölution by Night''. Written by guitarist/vocalist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser with lyrics inspired by a Patti Smith poem, the song features a synthesizer-heavy pop sound mixed with rock elements. The song features Randy Jackson, of future ''American Idol'' fame, on bass. The song tells the story of a man in a bad relationship, who wants to be done with the woman. Each time he breaks up with her, everything he sees reminds him of her, and he eventually returns. This has happened three times, and at the end of the song he's returning for the fourth, which he says will be the last. "Shooting Shark" was a modest success, peaking at #83 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, as well as #16 on the ''Billboard'' Mainstream Rock chart. Reception AllMusic reviewer William Ruhlmann picked the song as an Allmusic reviewer's pick. Errol Somay of ''Rolling Stone'' noted the song's sa ...
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Take Me Away (Blue Öyster Cult Song)
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Burnin' For You
"Burnin' for You" is a song by American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult. It was released as the lead single from the band's eighth studio album, ''Fire of Unknown Origin'', released in June 1981, where it was the album's second track. The song was co-written by guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser and rock critic songwriter Richard Meltzer, who wrote lyrics for several of the band's songs. Roeser sang lead vocals on the song (as he also did on the band's biggest chart hit, 1976's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper") in lieu of Blue Öyster Cult's usual lead vocalist Eric Bloom. The song hit No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Mainstream Rock chart, and the single spent three weeks in the Top 40 (peaking at No. 40) on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. It was aided by a popular early MTV music video. Composition "Burnin' for You" was written by Blue Öyster Cult lead guitarist Buck Dharma and rock critic Richard Meltzer. Meltzer wrote numerous songs for the band, with many in conjunction with Ro ...
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Veteran Of The Psychic Wars
"Veteran of the Psychic Wars" is a song by the American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult. It was written by Eric Bloom and British author Michael Moorcock (creator of Elric of Melniboné). The song first appeared on the 1981 album ''Fire of Unknown Origin''. An extended live version appears on the 1982 album ''Extraterrestrial Live''. It also appears on the soundtrack of the 1981 animated film '' Heavy Metal''. The phrase "...veteran of a Thousand Psychic Wars" is from the Hawkwind song "Standing at the Edge," from the album ''Warrior on the Edge of Time'' (1975), which also dealt with the myth of the Eternal Champion and contained lyrics written by Moorcock. Prior to that, the term "psychic war" appears in the poem "Far Arden" by Jim Morrison of The Doors. The song has been covered by King Django meets the Scrucialists (2003), Arjen Anthony Lucassen (2012) and Ape Machine (2022), as well as in live performances by the Finnish metal band Tarot in 2004, as a bonus track in their ...
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The Animals
The Animals (also billed as Eric Burdon and the Animals) are an English rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s. The band moved to London upon finding fame in 1964. The Animals were known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature song and transatlantic number-one hit single "The House of the Rising Sun" as well as by hits such as "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", " It's My Life", "Don't Bring Me Down", "I'm Crying", "See See Rider" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." The band balanced tough, rock-edged pop singles against rhythm-and-blues-oriented album material and were part of the British Invasion of the US. The Animals underwent numerous personnel changes in the mid-1960s, and suffered from poor business management, leading the original incarnation to split up in 1966. Burdon assembled a mostly new lineup of musicians under the name Eric Burdon and the Animals; the much-changed act moved to Ca ...
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We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
"We Gotta Get Out of This Place", occasionally written "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place", is a rock song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and recorded as a 1965 hit single by the Animals. It has become an iconic song of its type and was immensely popular with United States Armed Forces G.I.s during the Vietnam War. In 2004 it was ranked number 233 on ''Rolling Stone'''s The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list; it is also in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list. History Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil were husband and wife (and future Hall of Fame) songwriters associated with the 1960s Brill Building scene in New York City. Mann and Weil wrote and recorded "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" as a demo, with Mann singing and playing piano. It was intended for The Righteous Brothers, for whom they had written the number one hit "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" Demo audio stream at end of article. but then Mann gained a recording contract for ...
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"Kick Out the Jams" is a song by MC5, released as a single in March 1969 by Elektra Records. The album of the same name caused some controversy due to Sinclair's inflammatory liner notes and the track's rallying cry of "Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!" According to Kramer, the band recorded this as "Kick out the jams, brothers and sisters!" for the single released for radio play; band member Rob Tyner claimed this was done without group consensus. The edited version also appeared in some LP copies, which also withdrew Sinclair's excitable comments. The album was released in January 1969; reviews were mixed, but the album was relatively successful, quickly selling over 100,000 copies and peaking at #30 on the ''Billboard'' album chart in May 1969 during a 23-week stay. When Hudson's, a Detroit-based department store chain, refused to stock the ''Kick Out the Jams'' album due to the obscenity, MC5 responded with a full page advertisement in the local underground magazine '' Fift ...
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Godzilla (Blue Öyster Cult Song)
"Godzilla" is a single by U.S. hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, the first track on the band's fifth studio album '' Spectres''. The lyrics are a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the popular movie monster of the same name. The single release had a picture sleeve featuring a promotional still from the movie ''Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster''. Despite failing to chart, the song received significant airplay on rock radio stations and became a sleeper hit. The song, along with "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" and "Burnin' for You," is one of the band's best-known songs and has become a staple of its live performances. It has been covered by bands such as moe., Racer X, Fu Manchu, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sebastian Bach, Double Experience and Fighting Gravity. ''Cash Box'' called it "a clever rocker tale of Godzilla...with a strong, catchy hook, excellent guitar and special effects." In 2019, a cover of the song, sung by Serj Tankian, was featured in '' Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', marking the ...
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