Blue Öyster Cult

Blue Öyster Cult – On Your Feet Or On Your Knees (Live) (1975/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:23 minutes | 1,65 GB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © SMCMG

On Your Feet or on Your Knees, Blue Öyster Cult’s first live album (there would be two more), was also their first to peak inside the Top 40 best-sellers, which is more of an indication of the audience the group was building up through extensive touring than of its quality. Songs that had a tight, concentrated impact on studio albums got elongated here, and that impact was dissipated. And the song selection left a great deal to be desired if this was to be a fitting summation of the band’s career so far. Perhaps by their 1974 tour, BÖC had dropped such classics from their first album as “Transmaniacon MC,” and “Stairway to the Stars,” but the less impressive material from the third album was no substitute. The album did mark the first commercial release of a version of “Buck’s Boogie” as well as covers of the Yardbirds’ “I Ain’t Got You” and Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild”.
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Blue Öyster Cult – Secret Treaties (1974/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:24 minutes | 883 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Secret Treaties is the third studio album by the American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released in 1974 by Columbia Records. Secret Treaties is regarded by many fans and critics alike as Blue Öyster Cult’s best album. The album spent 14 weeks in the US album charts, peaking at No. 53.It was declared gold by the RIAA in 1992.
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Blue Öyster Cult – Tyranny And Mutation (1973/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:04 minutes | 889 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Tyranny and Mutation (known on the album cover as THE BLVE ÖYSTER CVLT: TYRANNY AND MVTATION) is the second studio album by the American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on February 11, 1973 by Columbia Records.
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Blue Öyster Cult – Blue Öyster Cult (1972/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:42 minutes | 823 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Blue Öyster Cult is the eponymous debut studio album by the American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on January 16, 1972 by Columbia Records. The album featured songs such as “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll”, “Stairway to the Stars”, and “Then Came the Last Days of May”, all of which the band still plays regularly during its concerts. Despite positive reviews, the album failed to chart for some time before finally cracking the Billboard 200 on May 20, 1972, peaking at No. 172.Blue Öyster Cult toured with artists such as The Byrds, Alice Cooper and the Mahavishnu Orchestra to support the album.
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Blue Oyster Cult – 45th Anniversary – Live in London (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:45 minutes | 887 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frontiers Records s.r.l.

Blue Öyster Cult turned 45 during a marathon tour in 2017. Their celebrations peaked with a London concert on the 17 of June during which the band, already in their seventies, replayed the entirety of their first album. While this eponymous record released in January 1972 stands on a crossroads between blues, pop and psychedelic music, it’s as a pioneer for the hard rock genre that we remember it most. This performance reminds us and proves that the Americans still have it in them. The energy given off by Eric Bloom and Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser (the two surviving members of the original lineup of BÖC) and their band is potent: the riffs are sharp (Stairway to the Stars) and the guitar solos are significantly longer and wild than in 1969 (Then Came the Last Days of May). An enormous performance which echos the golden age of metal more than the summer of love.
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Blue Öyster Cult – 40th Anniversary – Agents Of Fortune – Live 2016 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:03 minutes | 448 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frontiers Records s.r.l.

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of their widely celebrated album ‘Agents of Fortune’, Blue Öyster Cult performed the seminal album in its glorious entirety at an exclusive concert for the Audience Music Network on Monday April 18, 2016 at Red Studios in Hollywood, CA in front a lucky little audience of invited guests. The performance was recorded by an army of cameramen for a DirectTV special, that is now being released on CD/DVD, Blu-Ray, and Vinyl. The intense creative vision of BÖC’s original core duo of vocalist and lead guitarist Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser, and vocalist and rhythm guitarist Eric Bloom are complemented by Richie Castellano on guitar and keyboards, and the longtime rhythm section comprised of bass guitarist Kasim Sulton, and drummer Jules Radino. As a special guest, founding member Albert Bouchard appears on guitar and vocals on selected tracks, which was a real treat for longtime fans of the band.
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