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Workshop Of The Telescopes (CD)

By: Blue Oyster Cult (Artist)

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Blue Oyster Cult Artist Snapshot:

Put together by rock critic/visionary Richard Meltzer (who wrote lyrics for a number of the band's songs) and producer Sandy Pearlman, Blue Oyster Cult adopted all sorts of emblematic gestures to conjure an outlaw image. The band's high-decibel, prog-tinged heavy-rock garnered them elevated status among teens in the 1970s longing for America's answer to Black Sabbath. The band's legacy has lived on well into the 2000s, thanks in part to Will Ferrell's now-legendary "more cowbell" skit on SNL.

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DISC 1 for Workshop Of The Telescopes (CD) Album By Blue Oyster Cult (Artist)
1   Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll
2   Transmaniacon MC
3   Before The Kiss, A Redcap
4   Stairway To The Stars
5   Buck's Boogie
6   Workshop Of The Telescopes - (previously unreleased)
7   Red And The Black, The - (previously unreleased)
8   7 Screaming Diz-Busters
9   Career Of Evil
10   Flaming Telepaths
11   Astronomy
12   Subhuman
13   Harvester Of Eyes
14   M.E. 262
15   Born To Be Wild - (studio version)
 
DISC 2 for Workshop Of The Telescopes (CD) Album By Blue Oyster Cult (Artist)
1   Don't Fear The Reaper
2   This Ain't The Summer Of Love
3   E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)
4   Godzilla
5   Goin' Through The Motions
6   Golden Age Of Leather
7   Kick Out The Jams
8   We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
9   In Thee
10   Marshall Plan, The
11   Veteran Of The Psychic Wars
12   Burnin' For You
13   Dominance And Submission - (live)
14   Take Me Away
15   Shooting Shark
16   Dancin' In The Ruins
17   Perfect Water
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (11/3/95, p.66) - "...any reissue with `Career Of Evil' and later-period, power-gliding hits like `Don't Fear The Reaper' and `Burnin' For You' still belongs in any pop-metalhead's collection."
- Rating: B+
Q (1/96, p.143) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Blue Oyster Cult were the first American heavy metal band and their curious blend of ditch-water dull pub rock (initially), lyrical curveballs (all the time) and musical sophistication (later) ensured them respectable American success..."

Title Note

Blue Oyster Cult: Eric Bloom (vocals, guitar); Donald "Buck Dharma" Roesser (guitar); Allen Lanier, Tommy Zvonchek (keyboards, guitar); Joe Bouchard (bass); Albert Bouchard, Rick Downey, Tommy Price (drums).

Producers: Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman, David Lucas, Blue Oyster Cult, Martin Birch .

Compilation producer: Bob Irwin.

Recorded between 1971 and 1985. Includes liner notes by Arthur Levy.

All the Blue Oyster Cult you'll ever need? Well, yeah, more or less; this two-CD chronologically arranged best-of gathers most of the band's best material from the period between 1972 and 1986. The Cult has always been something of an anomaly--brainier and quirkier than most metal bands, and unafraid to take chances, as witnessed on the potentially disastrous live version of the MC5's "Kick Out the Jams" included here. The second CD, which kicks off with "Don't Fear the Reaper," and moves on to the group's poppier material, is marginally less interesting than the first CD's mutant sci-fi metal, but no matter--taken as a whole this is a first-rate career retrospective.

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