BOC: Imaginos

[Steven Tice]

In a message dated 2/3/00 12:22:36 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jswartz at MITRE.ORG writes:

<< I absolutely disagree.  Whether or not it ever should have been a BOC
 record, the fact of the matter is that Imaginos was released under the
 BOC banner - and most BOC fans would agree that Imaginos is a decent
 album (perhaps even one of their best) - and if you can put Club Ninja
 tunes on a BOC compilation, then you can put Imaginos tunes on one as
 well.  Besides, Workshop was mostly a packaging of singles, and there
 were 2 (Astronomy, In the Presence...) singles from Imaginos. >>

Not to mention that Imaginos is central to the very identity of the Blue
Oyster Cult...  Also, Sandy Pearlman and Albert Bouchard have been extremely
important to BOC, having accounted for most of BOC's earliest songs (it's a
rare song from the first three albums that doesn't list one or the other in
the song credits).  AND most of the songs on Imaginos were written for BOC,
but were rejected because the rest of the guys didn't want to do a concept
album at the time they were written.  AND two of the songs on Imaginos are
new versions of established BOC songs.

I tend to look at Imaginos as "what if BOC collaborated with a bunch of great
musicians to create the ultimate BOC album."

Steven Tice