BOC: Songs that Set the Hook

[Bolts of Ungodly Vision]

>songs, thought, "They're pretty good!", and have been a rabid BOC fan since.

Cuz  I havent been list present in a while, heres my stab at BOC hookery
and geegoshwow points of origin locating.  Though I gotta admit now, Im not
rabid.
Occasionally I;ll foam during a praticualr track at a particular volume in
the car or at home on a nice day or after writing a good piece of bs for
political theory classes , but I think that the overall power and magnatude
that once constituded the BOC for me has dissipated. Heaven Forbid was
duelling versions of Feel the thunder and Buck Dharma, with a strange
rehash of allan Lanier thrown in "live" for good measure at the end of the
disc.
Anyhoo.... this was what originally cast its spell on my ears:

ME 262 on ON Your Feet. It was raucous unclean in sound and apparanet that
the band was having some degree of fun when the song hurtled through the
guitars to the end refrains.  Ditto to 7 Screaming Diz busters but thats
almost more for the way in which guitar and drum manage to steer the band
along to places that only rock and roll can go and have rarely been to
since. Even Eric is in sarcastic tiptop shape with his lucifer rap.  Sides,
where else would you be told how to spell Lucifer?? :)


Studio wise... Flaming telephaths had a wild mix of well orchestrated (as
foar as rock orchestation goes) instrment placement and the feel that the
band was rocking out beneath the complexity of it all (god, theres like a
billion guitars playing all over the place duiring occurrences of the main
riff).
The texture of the entire tyrrany and Mutation is a great tension betwen
sparseness and  opaque lyrics, a feel which was recaptured on Agents of
Fortune, but with a finer ability to swril color wheel swatches together.
Spectres wants to be Secret treaties with even more feeling and and traces
of that arid aesthetic. After Some Enchanted evening.... i dont know. It
always blurs, for with the exception of everything on Mirrors, its a Martin
Birch production through and through but with members of Blue Oyster Cult
writing songs. A very bright, like "the gleam of the teeth of an evil
salesman" sorta sheen to everything in place of the  twilight lit desert
that marked earlier stuff. (maybe sunrise, I dont know)

But for now, my favorite blue oyster cult is the Stalk Forrest Group.
Personally, The material that the Brain Surgeons are producing and have
produced has much more fixedness than the ever touring BOC.

On the other hand, and the other foot in the mouth too? its very vey very
cool to see that Buck is playing on Helen Wheels tributes and with Les
Vegas' material and with albert an' Joe and Roter  (i think... its been a
while since i loked at the cellsum.com website to drool oer the Roter newie
prior to paychecks reasserting their presence in my bank account. )

Then again with any band you love, if you have to be willing to let em go
and reassert the quality that was so appelaing in the first place.  Which
is probably why i'm willing to go see BOC when they come to Albany in
november (is it?) f theres new stuff, NEW in content and form, then f*&^
I'm gonna rave poetic. Fer now. ... they be a standard(piece-of-nostalgia)
i question all other records with.

A Love Supreme,
Kasim

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