Day 6.
Blue
Oyster Cult: Fire of Unknown Origin
A
fire of unknown origin took me away. An album full of science fiction
apocalyptic sword fights was the perfect thing to find its way into my teenage
conciousness. Thank you Blue Oyster Cult, the one true cult that I would gladly
embrace.
My
friend Paul Armstrong had this cassette tape which we blasted often on his boom
box in those lost daze.
Not
a bad tune to be found on this collection. Production by Martin Birch, straight
up, top notch.
Burnin
For You is a nice rocking follow up song to the title track.
The
feedback driven guitars in Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver are so wonderfully
twisted along with the demented lyrics.
Joan
Crawford features a hysterically odd tape/sample/collage subbing for a solo.
What gruesome humor.
Vengeance
(The Pact) is a tight story driven song, of swords, and bird beasts. The time
change is deftly executed.
It
would be really cool if BOC performed this entire album live. I know they
played the complete first album live a few times a year or two ago so why not
this one?
It
also has an intricately tripped out symbol crawling cover that would entertain
a conspiracy theorist for hours.
This
album is just part of my feeble mind. It’s impossible for me to imagine it not
being in my collection.
Here’s
the punky vampire song, After Dark. Terror took control and told me what to
say…
Your faithful veteran of the
psychic wars,
Count Robot
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