BOC & Challengers of the Unknown -Club Ninja Debate is good./ EW Advance Copy

[BREVARD Adrian R.]

Steve Tice>"In the recent DC comic book, Challengers of the Unknown #3,
the Challengers are confronted by a human being who has become a gateway
to another dimension.  Because of this development, he now spouts lyrics
and titles to BOC songs (go figure!)."

Geez everybody's making a comeback in comics these days.  Would this
character be Access?  He was created when DC and Marvel teamed up to rip
us off with the merging of the two universes.  I do recall the
Challengers though..."We're living on borrowed time..."  In any event
looks like I'll have to find this one.

On CN - Love it or hate it most of us have it or want it.  Historically
CN will be looked upon a bit more favorably I believe.  In the overall
scheme of things its not better or worse than any other BOC album.  Hey
the old debate even got Torgo to post.  I would disagree with his
assertion that T&M is better than ST, but I'd disagree with anybody who
said that, personal preference.  Maybe a real focused poll to determine
the numero uno choice of BOC fans here, just name your one fave album
period.  SECRET TREATIES!

Finally from some strange rock music discussion list that a bud
forwarded to moi.:

 "The new BLUE OYSTER CULT album, "Ezekiel's Wheel," will be delayed
until June '97 in order for the band to hook up a US distribution deal.
The
 "Club Ninja" album listed in the new releases last week was a reissue.
 Sorry about that."

"And slightly off topic -  QUEENSRYCHE's "Here in the Now Frontier" is
also due in March.  Speaking  of the Queensryche album, here's a clip
from Tim Wadzinski's "Detritus"  column from this week's issue of "SFK":
 "Potential bad news about  Queensryche... A guy on the Dream Theater
"ytsejam" mailing list claims to  have an advance copy of the new 'ryche
opus, "Here in the Now Frontier,"  and he says it's even worse than
"Promised Land." (I am not a fan of that  album.) The quote: "All the
songs sound the same and there isn't even a  touch of metal throughout
the whole thing." Let's hope this is wrong!"   I also hope this is wrong
because "Promised Land" was a bad album.  Queensryche can do much
better."

 {Note:  I have heard differently through the grapevine.  New one
supposedly sounds more like Rage for Order and Operation Mindcrime.}

I bring this up becuase I've seen stuff like this before.  A guy on the
King's X list got a hold of an advance copy of Ear Candy and said it
stunk.  Course when the album debuted it turned out to be great.
Hopefully if anyone gets an advance copy of EW they will be kind enough
to hold opinions until the rest of us have a chance to get a copy and
form our own.

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In the player

Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche
Imaginos - BOC
Gretchen Goes to Nebraska - King's X
Tale of Mystery and Imagination - Alan Parsons Project
Awake - Dream Theater