Music Aug 1, 2012 at 4:00 am

Five Things About that Band that Wrote "(Don't Fear) the Reaper"

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On Your Feet Or On Your Knees Bitches!!
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Beatles in Berlin?...

I think you mean Hamburg...

Also, any thoughtful/thinking-man BOC fan would consider "Godzilla" a piece o' late period fluff n' stuff,... check the black and white albums, Blue Oyster Cult, Tyranny and Mutation & Secret Treaties! (preferably on mushrooms) & Have mercy!
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Beatles in Berlin?...

I think you mean Hamburg...

Also, any thoughtful/thinking-man-BOC fan would consider "Godzilla" a piece o' late period fluff n' stuff,... check the black and white albums, "Blue Oyster Cult", "Tyranny and Mutation" & Secret Treaties! (preferably on mushrooms & a bonfire of Mastodon CDs!) Heck!...with proper management these boys coulda been bigger than Scientology!
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Damnit! You are correct Mr. SLabb. I will request a correction.
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Patti Smith, no kidding?

She's as Beautiful as a Foot has got to be one of the best hair metal songs ever. I don't think Patti Smith had anything to do with that one though.
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They earned the umlauf.
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Also, cyber punk daddy John Shirley wrote lyrics for them as well. His rock science fiction novel "City Come A Walkin" is still an underground classic, and his horror fiction is sublime. This is especially noteworthy as he is a NW boy, an early punk who grew up in Salem, OR and founded Sado Nation in Portland (but left before they became neo-Nazi).
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I got one of their albums in '81 or so. Until 3 minutes ago, I had no idea they were considered heavy metal, or that heavy metal existed back then. And here I owned a heavy metal album for, like, two decades! More like the unawares man's heavy metal.
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BOC had the same producers as the Dictators.

I rescued a single from the discard bin at my college radio station: "Career of Evil" / "Dominance and Submission". One of those songs had lyrics by Patti Smith.
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hey, when I was a liquor store delivery driver in Great Neck, Long Island, circa 1975, I used to deliver to Eric Bloom, he had a nice apartment. Nothing special as far as a tipper, if my burned out memory is worth anything.

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