BOC: Cult Classic

[Stephen Swann]

John A Swartz writes:
>
> IMHO, what makes this album worth anything is the studio version of
> Buck's Boogie.  I like O.D.'d on Life Itself on this one as well.
> The rest I can take or leave.  The version of Cities on Flame in particular
> sounds like BOC trying to recreate the original studio recording, rather
> than the way they play it live today.
>

Oddly enough, I think my favorite item on the disc is the sans-vocal
Reaper.  You get to hear all kinds of subtleties in the guitar work
that you don't hear in the production mixes (what with it being
obscured under layers of vocal tracks), and it sounds quite eerie.

Steve
swann at panix.com