BOC: Songs that Set the Hook

[Joseph Brooks]

Hmm.. Perhaps its because of my age. We tend to look back fondly on what we
liked when we were young. To me, the first 3 BOC albums were *it*.
Personally, I think BOC hit their peak with Secret Treaties. Everything
after just pales for me. I tend to think of BOC as almost two bands, pre-ST
and post-ST.

OYFOOYK was great fun but I was mad because I remember on the last tour
before they came out with it, Eric had said something to the effect that
they were recording so, "make a lot of noise!" I was dissappointed to find
no cuts from my home town on it. Seriously, it was a little sloppier and
poorly recorded for my 10 bucks.

Most every album past Spectres had at least a song or two on it that I liked
but were hardly classics. I especially liked Mirrors and Cultosaurus. I
bought both Revolution by Night and Club Ninja as they came out and I could
count the number of times I've listened to those albums on one hand. Very
bland and boring to me.

I consider ST to be ground breaking and classic but BOC has never surpassed
it. Imaginos is another classic IMO but as I discovered (much to my
disappointment), you can call it a BOC album only in the broadest sense. I
remember hearing it the first time and being so blown away and thinking,
"wow! They're back!"

I'm afraid BOC has become a nostalgia act for me as well. It seems to me
that if you look at what they're doing live these days (er, its been about 3
years since I last caught them), thats about what they want to be.

JB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ANDREW GARIBALDI [mailto:andygee at DIAL.PIPEX.COM]
> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 4:39 PM
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
> Subject: Re: BOC: Songs that Set the Hook
>
>
> Neat set of thoughts.
>  For my pasrt I loved the first four albums ages back but in
> the light of
> the Y2K, they don't have the magic and necessry kick-ass
> ingredients that
> stand up as classics. In the light of this penchant by groups
> and record
> labels to remaster everything in sight from the '70's, I keep
> hoping that
> the first three studio albums will get the treatment. As to
> 'On Your Feet',
> I remember a certain Geoff Barton proclaiming it as one of
> the greatest live
> albumson the planet, yet like so many live albums, the post-production
> flattened it and the vibrancy was not there, again a classic
> case for a
> remaster, perhaps. As to later albums, well. 'Agents' earned
> them loads but
> screwed the machinery real bad that it took several albums for them to
> recover (in my humble opinion). The two subsequent live
> albums came close to
> wild abandon,but it was 'Imaginos' that really put them back
> on track and
> 'Revolution By Night' that put them back up there with the
> greats ( my fave
> album)
> I must admit that, apart from the album of re-recordings of
> old classics
> ('Champions Of Rock'), which strangely had mixed results (who
> was playing on
> this??), I've lost sight of the band for the last few years,
> so really can't
> comment on late '90's activity - here's hoping their light
> will shine again
> one day.
> Andy Garibaldi (with my last on the subject - Motorhead
> tomorrow - look
> forward to that one, folks)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bolts of Ungodly Vision" <js3619 at WIZVAX.NET>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 2:25 AM
> Subject: Re: BOC: Songs that Set the Hook
>
>
> > >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.............................
>