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Blue Oyster Cult: Tyranny and Mutation
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, April 1973
YOU MIGHT remember my brief mention of Blue Oyster Cult's new album in the heavy metal piece. That was after only one listen, however, and I ...

Blue Oyster Cult: Some Enchanted Evening
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, September 1978
IT COULD be just my fevered imagination running away with me, but right now it seems that Sandy Pearlman (wily old fox and Cult behind-the-scenes mastermind) ...

Blue Oyster Cult: Night Of The Locusts
Interview by Max Bell, NME, September 1980
THE GOLDEN AGE of hotrod and dragster racing is over but the USA is still littered with its mythology. One such relic is Lebanon Valley Speedway. ...

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Jeff Beck/Blue Oyster Cult/Flash/Argent: Gaelic Park, New York NY
Live Review by Jon Tiven, Phonograph Record, October 1972
BLUE OYSTER CULT had a real bad time at the big park and oh boy did they know it...one of the guys backstage connected wit Da ...

Various: New York New Wave
Report by Dave Marsh, Melody Maker, October 1973
GREAT WHITE ROCK has not often come from New York City and its surrounding boroughs, even though – or perhaps because the American music business is ...

Blue Oyster Cult at Hollywood Palladium
Live Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, November 1973
FEW GROUPS in recent memory have had as successful a California debut performance as Blue Oyster Cult's here this September. Third-billed to Joe Walsh and Mott ...

Blue Oyster Cult: Cult Heroes
Profile and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, February 1974
NEW YORK: They say that heavy rock is on the decline and it's become fashionable to put down bands whose music is based on a series ...

Blue Oyster Cult/Black Oak Arkansas
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, March 1974
THIRD TIME down 52nd and 6th, and this guy from The Process is still trying to accost you with his pamphlets and spectre-of-doom rap. ...

Blue Oyster Cult: Tyranny And Mutation (Columbia Import)
Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, March 1974
WELL, HERE it is then: volume two of Sandy Perlman's boys' collective voyage in the S.S. "Cosmic Greaser Speed-freak" towards strange new worlds of murk and ...

Blue Oyster Cult: Secret Treaties (Columbia)
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, April 1974
BLUE OYSTER CULT was formed with a very definite idea in mind, and they haven't deviated from or enlarged that idea much in two years. For ...

Blue Oyster Cult: That's Right, Another Bunch Of Neo-Fascist Heavies
Profile and Interview by Max Bell, NME, February 1975
"We're pain, we're steel, we're a plot of knives...we're obsessed with the technology of matter...our symbol is a swastika substitute..." ...

Blue Oyster Cult: On Your Feet Or On Your Knees
Review by Max Bell, NME, March 1975
FIRST OF ALL let me tell you about the art work that John Berg has concocted for the Blue Oyster Cult's most extreme venture to ...

Blue Oyster Cult: On Your Feet Or On Your Knees
Review by Steven Rosen, Phonograph Record, April 1975
THOUGH THIS record does not rank with the Beach Boys In Concert for sheer recording quality or the Who's Live at Leeds for spontaneous instrumentation, it ...

Blue Oyster Cult: On Your Feet Or On Your Knees (Columbia)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, May 1975
THE BLUE OYSTER CULT have been heavy metal's premier studio musicians. Initially, they were an image manipulated, a persona directed by their producers, Murray Krugman and ...

Blue Oyster Cult: Agents Of Fortune
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, June 1976
NO MATTER HOW predictable rock seems to become, it can still surprise you, and I've got to admit to being surprised as hell by the Blue ...

Blue Oyster Cult: We Copped A Lot From Sabbath
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, July 1976
EVEN THE hardest of hearts must soften sometime, and so it is with Blue Oyster Cult, whose fifth album Agents of Fortune offers a degree of ...

True Confessions: Weird Tales From The Early Days Of the Blue Oyster Cult
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, July 1976
O.K. The B.O.C.’s have just come offstage at the San Francisco Day on the Green, and they’re tired. ...

Blue Oyster Cult
Report and Interview by Max Bell, NME, August 1976
Nectar of strychnine! Seminal psychedelic trip-wire rock'n'roll! Geometric chaos! Neo-nuclear Pearl Harbour precision! Flash-pod explosion! Blood-on-snow controlled fury! Boot-heeling ...

Blue Oyster Cult: Agents Of Fortune (Island)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, September 1976
It’s back-to-the-roots for the Oysters this time; the roots being the band’s late-’60s incarnation as the Stalk-Forrest Group. Which is to say, Agents Of Fortune — ...

Blue Oyster Cult: Spectres
Review by Paul Rambali, NME, November 1977
SINCE 1971 this band has been one of the few HM perpetrators worth listening to. Since 1974's Secret Treaties it has been only one. If heavy ...

Blue Oyster Cult: The Cult Occult And The Disco Nightmare
Interview by Max Bell, NME, March 1978
ALLEN LANIER sits down for a pleasant chat about bikers, Burt Bacharach and band ideology. ...

Blue Oyster Cult and Sandy Pearlman
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, May 1978
ERIC BLOOM is adamant about the current position and status of the band he sings and plays for, the am-aaa-zing Blue Oyster Cult; they are 'evolutionary', ...

Blue Oyster Cult/UFO: Live In Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, September 1978
THEY DON'T have a Trades Descriptions Act in the States. If they did, then the Cult might be in trouble. Their ads (and, what's more, press ...

Blue Oyster Cult at Pauley Pavilion
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, August 1979
THERE WERE enough guitar solos at Blue Oyster Cult's concert at UCLA'S Pauley Pavilion Friday to satiate even the most dedicated ax fanatic. But, judging from ...

Fantasy Castle: Monsters of Rock!
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, July 1981
BARNEY HOSKYNS straps on his breastplate, girds his loins and takes his sword to the HM Monsters Of Rock joust at Castle ...

Blue Oyster Cult: Country Club, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, January 1982
FIRST TIME I've seen Blue Oyster Cult in ages. Actually seen them. Last time HM's Santas-little-helpers played in the neighbourhood was one of those monstrous stadium ...

Why You Should Care About Blue Oyster Cult
Comment by Jim Green, Trouser Press, February 1982
Action conforms to preexistent imagery.
– Sandy Pearlman, The History of Los Angeles, 1965-1969 ...

Blue Oyster Cult: Club Ninja
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, December 1985
HEAVY METAL groups come and go but the Cult apparently to on forever. It kinda makes you feel warm inside — at least you can rely ...

Blue Oyster Cult: California Club Caprice, Redondo Beach, CA
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Mojo, March 1998
WHEN ONE plopped down the appropriate coinage for the self-titled debut of the Blue Oyster Cult in 1972, one prepared to enjoy the hard-edged glory of ...

Don't Fear the Blue Oyster Cult
Retrospective and Interview by Gillian G. Gaar, Goldmine, September 2007
IN THE SUMMER of 1977, Blue Oyster Cult found themselves in one of the trickiest situations for a rock band: recording the follow-up to a breakthrough ...