Title: Blue Öyster Cult – 50th Anniversary (Live In NYC First Night 2022)
Release Date:2023
Genre: Hard Rock
Production/Label: Frontiers New Recordings
Duration: 01:53:42
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG2
Audio codec: PCM, Dolby Digital Audio
Video: MPEG-2 Video / 22738 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9
Audio 1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio 2: Dolby Digital Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps / DN -31dB
Size: 21. 84 GB
Blue Öyster Cult announces the release of the first installment from their 50th anniversary three-night extravaganza at Sony Hall in 2022. This first show featured the entire first album, “Blue Öyster Cult,” played in its entirety, plus a second set of deep cuts and hits. This release is available in three different configurations: 2-CD plus DVD; BluRay, and two versions of a 3-LP album pressed on Black or Gold Vinyl.
Read moreBlue Öyster Cult – 50th Anniversary Live – First Night (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:51:05 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frontiers Records s.r.l.
The legendary american Hard Rock band BLUE ÖYSTER CULT celebrated their 50th Anniversary with a very special set of 3 sold-out shows in a row in September 2022 at Sony Hall in NYC. For this historic career milestone, each show featured the band playing in its entirety one of their first three albums (BLUE OYSTER CULT, TYRANNY AND MUTATION, and SECRET TREATIES), followed by a set of deep cuts and classics from their other albums. Founding member Albert Bouchard was a special guest on all three nights, as well thus featuring a line-up including three original members (Buck Dharma, Eric Bloom, and Albert Bouchard) who were front and center tonight, ably supported by Danny Miranda, Richie Castellano, and Jules Radino. The band played for nearly 3 hours and delivered an amazing set performing the S/t debut album back to back and the second set also included some fans’ favorite and deep cuts along with some of their best-known songs.
Read moreBlue Öyster Cult – Secret Treaties (1974/2016)
Genre: Hard Rock, Classic Rock | SACD ISO (2.8/MCH) | 38:30 & 38:27 min | 1.83 GB | Artwork
Label: Columbia Records / Audio Fidelity (AFZ5 246) | Tracks: 08 | Rls.date: 1974/2016
Secret Treaties is the third studio album by the American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released in 1974 by Columbia Records. The album spent 14 weeks in the US album charts, peaking at No. 53. It was certified gold by the RIAA in 1992.
In 1975, a poll of critics of the British magazine Melody Maker voted Secret Treaties as the “Top Rock Album of All Time”. In 2010, Rhapsody called it one of the all-time best “proto-metal” albums.
Many songs from this album found their way into BOC playlists over the following years, including “Career of Evil”, “Subhuman”, “Astronomy” and “Harvester of Eyes”. It is the only Blue Öyster Cult album that does not feature any track with lead vocals by guitarist Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser.
Read moreBlue Öyster Cult – Agents Of Fortune (1976) [Reissue 2001]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD 2.0 & DST64 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 39:56 minutes | Covers included | 3,55 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 40:04 mins | Covers | 770 MB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound | Genre: Rock
If ever there were a manifesto for 1970s rock, one that prefigured both the decadence of the decade’s burgeoning heavy metal and prog rock excesses and the rage of punk rock, “This Ain’t the Summer of Love,” the opening track from Agents of Fortune, Blue Öyster Cult’s fourth album, was it. The irony was that while the cut itself came down firmly on the hard rock side of the fence, most of the rest of the album didn’t. Agents of Fortune was co-produced by longtime Cult record boss Sandy Pearlman, Murray Krugman, and newcomer David Lucas, and in addition, the band’s lyric writing was being done internally with help from poet-cum-rocker Patti Smith (who also sings on “The Revenge of Vera Gemini”). Pearlman, a major contributor to the band’s songwriting output, received a solitary credit while critic Richard Meltzer, whose words were prevalent on the Cult’s previous outings, was absent. The album yielded the band’s biggest single with “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” a multi-textured, deeply melodic soft rock song with psychedelic overtones, written by guitarist Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser. The rest of the album is ambitious in that it all but tosses aside the Cult’s proto-metal stance and instead recontextualizes their entire stance. It’s still dark, mysterious, and creepy, and perhaps even more so, it’s still rooted in rock posturing and excess, but gone is the nihilistic biker boogie in favor of a more tempered — indeed, nearly pop arena rock — sound that gave Allen Lanier’s keyboards parity with Dharma’s guitar roar, as evidenced by “E.T.I.,” “Debbie Denise,” and “True Confessions.” This is not to say that the Cult abandoned their adrenaline rock sound entirely. Cuts like “Tattoo Vampire” and “Sinful Love” have plenty of feral wail in them. Ultimately, Agents of Fortune is a solid record, albeit a startling one for fans of the band’s earlier sound. It also sounds like one of restless inspiration, which is, in fact, what it turned out to be given the recordings that came after. It turned out to be the Cult’s last consistent effort until they released Fire of Unknown Origin in 1981.
Read moreBlue Öyster Cult – The Symbol Remains (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:20 minutes | 754 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frontiers Records s.r.l.
Blue Öyster Cult return with a mammoth new studio album “The Symbol Remains“ this October. Coming nearly two decades after the release of their last studio album “Curse of the Hidden Mirror,” the album showcases a band who hasn’t been slowed by the time passed, but simpy unphased by it. “The Symbol Remains” is one of the band’s most spirited, diverse, and inspired releases to date.
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Blue Oyster Cult – The Essential Blue Öyster Cult (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:37:21 minutes | 1,78 GB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Since the mid-’90s, Blue Öyster Cult have had their catalog pillaged for hits collections on almost a yearly basis, so the appearance of yet another such beast isn’t the welcome return of an old friend that it should be. True, there was a time when a greatest-hits collection was sorely needed, but the double-CD set Workshop of the Telescopes took care of that in 1995, and if that was too massive a retrospective, there was 2000’s single-disc Don’t Fear the Reaper: The Best of Blue Öyster Cult. Add to those a number of re-recordings and misleadingly packaged live collections and it’s hard to justify The Essential Blue Oyster Cult. However, if you look at the collection saga of Blue Öyster Cult as a perfecting of the formula a thinning of the herd then Essential starts to prove its worth as a lean machine all killer, no filler. No BOC collection can stand without their biggest acknowledged hits, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” and “Burnin’ for You,” and both of those are here. So is the over-the-top madness of “Godzilla” and the cult hit yes, cult, BOC is a band whose fan base is so disparate there are mainstream and underground fans “E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence),” which somehow slipped by the previous single-disc collection. Others, like “Veterans of Psychic Wars” and “Harvester of Eyes,” carry equal heft and help Essential live up to its name.
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Blue Öyster Cult – Live at Rock of Ages Festival 2016 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:33 minutes | 769 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frontiers Records s.r.l.
BÖC played, as they always do, an inspired set on the second day of the Rock of Ages Festival 2016 in Seebronn, Germany. One of the band’s few appearances on German soil in the past few years, the set is now available for fans to enjoy, both with their ears and eyes, in the comfort of their own home.
The band ripped through an extremely solid and memorable performance that kicks off with “This Ain’t The Summer Of Love” and closes with their evergreen hit, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”. In between, the band delivers with hot takes on gems like “Burnin’ For You,” “Golden Age Of Leather,” “Then Came The Last Days Of May,” and “Godzilla”.
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Blue Oyster Cult – iHeart Radio Theater N.Y.C. 2012 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]
Blue Oyster Cult – iHeart Radio Theater N.Y.C. 2012 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:26 minutes | 775 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frontiers Records s.r.l.
BLUE ÖYSTER CULT’s performance at iHeartRadio Theater in New York City took place on December 17, 2012 in an intimate setting for a lucky audience of 200 fans. This special show was arranged in celebration of the band’s 40th anniversary and the release of a then new boxset, “The Columbia Albums Collection”.
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