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Blue Öyster Cult - Spectres (1977) [Remastered with Bonus tracks 2007]

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Blue Öyster Cult - Spectres (1977) [Remastered with Bonus tracks 2007]

Blue Öyster Cult - Spectres (1977) [Remastered with Bonus tracks 2007]
EAC-FLAC(tracks) with CUE & LOG - 339 MB | Covers | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 123 MB
Hard Rock / Classic Rock | TT - 53:38 minutes | Label: Legacy / Columbia Records # 696408-2

Spectres is the fifth studio album by hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, originally released in November 1977. The album was certified gold in January 1978 and contained the album rock hits "Godzilla", "Death Valley Nights", "R.U. Ready 2 Rock" and "I Love the Night". The single, "Going Through The Motions" charted in the American Top 40. A remaster of this album was released on CD on February 13, 2007, which included four previously unreleased outtakes from Spectres sessions as bonus tracks.

allmusic.com says: Blue Öyster Cult scored big with Agents of Fortune and its now-classic rock hit, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper." It took the album into the stratosphere and the band's profile with it; it put them in the visible pop space they'd tried for years to get to. But upon arrival, they found that kind of success difficult to respond to. Not only did the Cult want to respond, they wanted to cement their place. Spectres is not the masterpiece that Agents of Fortune is, but it didn't need to be. However, upon hearing Spectres again, the album offers proof that the commercial and creative bent of Agents of Fortune was still in place at certain moments, and the band laid out a major single in the opening cut, "Godzilla," a tune – however silly it may be – that is every bit as memorable as "(Don't Fear) The Reaper." It's not the only big number here either: "Goin' Through the Motions" and the truly spooky "I Love the Night" by Buck Dharma also scored. The former track is a wonderful blend of Tommy James & the Shondells, Boston, and Mott the Hoople's roots rock glam attack. Written by Eric Bloom and Ian Hunter, it's a stunning single. It sounds less like the Cult than anything they'd recorded, but as a classic rock & roll single it succeeds in spades. And "I Love the Night" (with its guitar part resembling "Reaper" for a moment) is one of rock & roll's truly strange and seductive love songs. There is more spook and darkness here, of course, in the album's closer, "Nosferatu." As a closer, "I Love the Night" may have been a better choice, but this track has all those layered harmonies, a reverbed piano, Dharma's power chords, and lyric fills that never lose their sense of menace and once more, a story. BOC were the only band in their league, walking the line between AOR rock and metal, and offering such detailed narratives. Spectres also contains tunes that were ready-made for touring, which is what the Cult did immediately after, resulting in the wildly successful live album Some Enchanted Evening. In sum, the only reason Spectres is not regarded as a classic is because it followed Agents of Fortune. Other than the false funk of "Searchin' for Celine," it's flawless as a finely tuned tome that begins with sci-fi humor and ends with gothic horror – all of which can be hummed to.
Tracks:

01. Godzilla
02. Golden Age Of Leather
03. Death Valley Nights
04. Searchin' For Celine
05. Fireworks
06. R. U. Ready 2 Rock
07. Celestial The Queen
08. Goin' Through The Motions
09. I Love The Night
10. Nosferatu
11. Night Flyer
12. Dial M For Murder
13. Please Hold
14. Be My Baby

Original Recordings Produced by Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman, David Lucas, and Blue Öyster Cult.
Re-issue Produced by Bruce Dickinson. Mastered by Vic Anesini at Sony Music Studios, New York.

- Eric Bloom: guitar, lead vocals on tracks 2, 4, 6, 8, background vocals
- Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser: lead and rhythm guitars, lead vocals on tracks 1, 2, 9, background vocals
- Joe Bouchard: bass guitar, guitar, lead vocals on tracks 7, 10, background vocals
- Albert Bouchard: drums, harmonica, lead vocals on tracks 3, 5, background vocals
- Allen Lanier: keyboards, guitar

Thanks to the Original ripper!

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