Secret Treaties (3CD)

Artist: Blue Öyster Cult
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 3

UPC: 074646480625
EAN: 0074646480625
ASIN: B000002ABV

Release Date: 1995-10-24

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Tracks:

Transmaniacon MC
I'm On The Lamb But I Ain't No Sheep
Then Came The Last Days Of May
Stairway To The Stars
Before The Kiss, A Redcap
Screams
She's As Beautiful As A Foot
Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll
Workshop Of The Telescopes
Redeemed

Tracks:

The Red & The Black
O.D.'d On Life Itself
Hot Rails To Hell
7 Screaming Diz-Busters
Baby Ice Dog
Wings Wetted Down
Teen Archer
Mistress Of The Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)

Tracks:

Career Of Evil
Subhuman
Dominance And Submission
ME 262
Cagey Cretins
Harvester Of Eyes
Flaming Telepaths
Astronomy

Customer Reviews:

Thee BO'C starter kit!.......2004-11-04

You can't go wrong with this set of the first three classic BOC albums!

The perfect place to start and hear what all the fans were raving about. No "Don't Fear The Reaper",no,no that was far into the future. This is the stuff that punk bands loved!

Yes,it's dated...but damn it great!

You need this!

Really good, but..........2002-02-01

This box set is a handy collection of Blue Oyster Cult's first three albums, collectively known as the "black-and-white period", when the band was a cult attraction nevertheless drawing increasing attention. These three records, which contain standards like 'Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll', 'The Red and the Black' and 'Career of Evil', form the core of the evidence for BOC's being the ultimate "thinking man's metal band". The only thing is that, since this box was released, all three of these albums have been remastered and re-released with bonus tracks and new liner notes, so this collection is a bit outdated. By all means, however, it is worth checking out these classic albums in practically any form.

I'm playing catch up.......2001-12-16

20 years ago, when I was turned on to BOC, I didn't like these albums. They sounded "different". Well, all I have to say to that is damn, did I miss out! These are really GREAT albums. About '98 are realized I was hungry for more BOC. I remembered I didn't care much for their "early" work but they are my favorite band, bar none. What a shock I got. Now I know why they are so highly rated among others even more so. This stuff is fantastic. I'd also like to get across the fact that these albums did not "grow" on me. The last time I heard these albums was back in '79/80. I just didn't get it then. As soon as I played these CDs I was blown away and amazed that I waited this long. DAMN! The plus is, this is like new music to me. Its all very fresh. You can say I returned to old gods. 5 stars be damned! 10+ stars! Excellent price too! Enjoy.

TYRANNY... OR ON YOUR KNEES ! ! !.......2001-11-07

Voici la plus grande trilogie du heavy-metal qui allait tout bouleverser dans l'ýsotýrisme mýtallique. Et quelles harmonies ! Il fallait s'appeler Fougeray pour ne pas percevoir la grandiositý de ces opus en Black Sabbath majeur. C'est toujours un bonheur que d'entendre "Cities on flame with r'n'r". Quant ý "The last days of May", si vous n'comprenez pas aprýs ýý qu'elle ne reviendra plus jamais, cette salope, allez vous faire pendre ailleurs ! (Fýches-Thumesnil, 25 Juillet 1998)

Mandatory - The BOC Curriculum Vitae.......2001-08-26

Sometimes you get so tunnel-visioned into scanning for obscure and hidden trees that you miss the Stalk-Forrest (one of this band's earlier tags). This commendably low-priced set represents the black-and-white-covers era when , true to their final choice for band name, these guys mainly WERE a cult item. At this early stage, BOC were short on marketing strategies but long on creativity and experimentation, thus the songs off these first three lps -while nominally "metal"- have a je nai sais quai (my apologies to outraged French grammarians) that sets these tracks apart from their later, slicker, post-AGENTS OF FORTUNE output. Odd touches and surreal moments abound, with just enough pedal-to-the-metal applied to remind you that these guys are primarily a hard rock band, albeit one with enough craft and smarts to not get bogged down in formula. The self-titled first features such rave-ups as "Transmaniacon MC", "Cities On Flame With Rock & Roll" and "Stairway to the Stars", but the album's real treasures are its unclassifiable cross-genre hybrids: "Before the Kiss, A Redcap" (wonderfully strange jazzy blues), "I'm on the Lamb But I Ain't No Sheep" (an early version of "The Red and the Black" best described as progressive bluegrass), and the haunting and otherworldly "Then Came The Last Days of May" (a classic of subtle, idyllic menace presaging "Don't Fear The Reaper" years later). Only the album's inferior mix annoys - thus this overall set only nabs four stars from me. TYRANNY & MUTATION fixes the sound problems and steps up the intensity besides - it was around this time that the band's ambient liner notes started to backfire on them (believe it or don't, there was some scuttlebutt at the time that BOC were neo-Nazis - despite the fact that most of the band's Jewish! Of course, in those days, there were a lot of such silly urban legends afoot regarding longhaired heavy-rockers) and highlights on the album include at least three stone-classics: "Hot Rails to Hell", "OD'd On Life Itself" and "7 Screaming Diz-Busters". The last album collected, SECRET TREATIES, is probably the apogee of this early, eclectic BOC style, a way-out blend of mysticism, pop-culture science fiction imagery and highly tasty melodic metal which resulted in one great song after another: "Career of Evil", "Subhuman", "Flaming Telepaths", "Harvester of Eyes", etc. After this slam-dunk of seductive strangeness, the influence of producers Pearlman & Krugman and creative consultant Richard Meltzer -which had been considerable- lessened somewhat (but paved the way for Michael Moorcock's later work with the band). If you're waiting for me to add "and they were never this good again", well, that's a bit harsh. They remained a quality band - just a lot less unpredictable and bizarre, though there's always a little more than meets the ear on all of their subsequent albums.

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