Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties

180g Vinyl Reissue Features "Career Of Evil," "Subhuman" and "Astronomy!"
Back in the days of hard rock and surrounded by fierce competitors with such great names as the Doors, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones, a band had to attract attention with far more than histrionic pathos, biker boogie, an adept lead guitarist and a sharp-tongued singer. The band Blue Öyster Cult, founded on Long Island in 1971, possessed all this and much more, relating short scenarios in their lyrics, which conjured up people’s imagination. Rolling Stone magazine enthused that it was "like listenin to Hitchcock and Kubrick swap stories about their wet dreams", and that the group "mix aesthetics and ass-kicking rock to such good advantage".
In their third studio album "Secret Treaties", BÖC reached the pinnacle of their musical evolution with such memorable songs as "Career Of Evil", "Subhuman" and "Astronomy". The lyrics have literary value but are certainly not intended for sensitive souls the phrases are direct and intentionally drily articulated. The music is as blatant and extroverted as the lyrics: the guitar sound is steely and straightforward, occasionally padded out with a see-sawing Hammond groove, and topped again and again by wonderfully rough string solos that speak the language of hard, merciless and full-bodied rock.

Features:

• 180g Virgin Vinyl
• High Quality Pressing
• Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering

Musicians:

• Donald (Buck Dharma) Roeser, lead guitar, vocals
• Eric Bloom, lead vocals, keyboards, stun guitar
• Albert Bouchard, drums, vocals
• Joe Bouchard, bass, vocals
• Alan Lanier, keyboards, rhythm guitar, all synthesizers

Selections:

Side A
1. Career of Evil
2. Subhuman
3. Dominance and Submission
4. ME 262
Side B
1. Cagey Cretins
2. Harvester of Eyes
3. Flaming Telepaths
4. Astronomy

Recording: 1974 by Tim Geelan and Jerry Smith
Production: Murray Krugman and Sandy Pearlman