Blue Oyster Cults songs are just as good, if not leagues better than bands like Zeppelin, Guns&Roses, or Most other classic rock bands. Yet those bands are still popular and relevant today while the Cult lies seemingly forgotten?
Can you explain this Yea Forums?
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they have a gay name
It's literally the best band name of all time, and you can't argue with that
Iťs my favourite dad rock band
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what else did they write anywhere near the level of don't fear the reaper?
A lot
swing n a miss fella
It's just as popular and a better song. That was a homerun mothafucka
not nearly as popular and a total snoozefest
Wow you sound like you're real fun at parties.... gay parties LMAO
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Touché
>grouping zeppelin, blue oyster cult, and GNR together
I hear don't fear the reaper at least twice a day on my local classic rock station. It is still widely popular
There aren't any gay people in my D&D party.
Their entire catalogue is just as good if not better than "Don't Fear" Besides that if you're talking about hits "Godzilla" and "Burning for you" were massive hits in their day and many of their songs have well over a million views on youtube and other websites. "Astronomy" "Veteran of the Physic Wars" or "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll"
Sure "Don't Fear" is still famous, but no one talks about them in the same way other classic rock bands are. People only know BOC for "Don't Fear" while people still talk about albums and songs of other bands in more detail.
Singles band, at least after the black and white trilogy
sounds like you oughta reroll
Their concept is too esoteric for mainstream
I disagree. I still hear some of their other songs played too. If they're on a mainstream rock station with more than one song, the masses still like them.
Jethro Tull and The Moody Blues are much better prog rock bands that rarely get played/talked about.
I love their music, it has sort of mystical, cryptic/mysterious vibe but it's really not that heavy or dark. One of a kind.
tull gets circlejerked all the time on this board.
plus boc aren't a prog band.
I wasn't talking about this board.
>not prog rock
Really? They used a fucking cowbell. You're going to tell me that was standard for 70's rock
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Hate to use wikipedia but they made it onto progarchives too.
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Shouldn't even have to explain this, but you're the same retard who grouped them in with GNR.
>Really? They used a fucking cowbell. You're going to tell me that was standard for 70's rock
are you joking
>Hate to use wikipedia but they made it onto progarchives too.
progarchives is almost as bad as metal archives
>but you're the same retard who grouped them in with GNR.
no i'm not
How on earth is BOC a singles band? The band floundered out of relevance because they weren't a singles band.
>after the black and white trilogy
between their debut and fire of unknown origin they released only one bad album.
BOC had made very Prog rock songs, 'Monsters', 'The Vigil' and 'The Golden Age of Leather" just to name a few.
Find a better source to prove me wrong. And post some links to all of the popular 70's rock songs with a cowbell in it.
Which one?
The track 'Monsters had several jazz instrument interjections, they've made several Prog tracks
Every album after Secret Treaties was the exact same. A few fantastic tracks, but a lot of filler
That's what i'm saying. They're prog rock. Other poster and OP seem to disagree.
I'm asking why BOC is so rarely discuss in the public sphere compared to bands which were just as popular in their day. BOC was huge back in the late 70's to early 80's, yet, unlike other bands, they've been forgotten. Only really known as the band that made 'Don't Fear'
I am OP and though BOC made prog songs, they made much more hard rock or even metal or pop than it. BOC even made a punk song if you've heard 'Tattoo Vampire'
>Find a better source to prove me wrong.
my ears
>And post some links to all of the popular 70's rock songs with a cowbell in it.
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it's all subjective but i still don't think of most of those as 'prog' except maybe monsters
i don't think mirrors is very good
agents of fortune sounds very distinct from specters, which sounds very distinct from fire of unknown origin.
How so? Every track on Fire of Unknown Origin was single material, and the majority of the tracks on Mirrors or Cultasaurus Erectus were single quality.
Yes you fucking dimwit I know what you are asking. And I explained that they are talked about in the public sphere more than bands like Jethro Tull and Moody Blues. Which are better prog rock bands anyways.
You realize majority of regular people define their music tastes off of whatever mainstream radio station/xm station/pandora station plays for them right? They don't spend hours on end examining boc's discography.
Mirrors had several killer tracks like 'Moon Crazy' 'In Thee' and 'The vigil' among others, but it did have some songs that are incredibly boring even for a BOC fanatic, like me. It also was very pop focused, so I can understand why you don't like it.
The reason why I called "Golden Age", and "The Vigil" as simular to prog is because of their very diverse structure, not having a chourus/structure and instead going into various different melodies. Which is a prog trademark. And their lyrics all tell a more esoteric story which is also a bit a prog thing to do. Though I agree that they're more hard rock than anything else.
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Jethro Tull is a fucking no name that was hardly popular to begin with. BOC was a platinum-single-selling band with massive popularity why are you comparing the two?
I AIN'T ONE TO TELL YOU WHAT'S WRONG N' WHAT'S RIGHT
>agents of fortune sounds very distinct from specters, which sounds very distinct from fire of unknown origin.
I think you're misunderstanding my point, I don't mean that those albums sound the same. Sure they have their own sound and feel, naturally being recorded at different times, the band evolved
I mean that the pattern is the same, a few very enjoyable songs and a lot of unmemorable "filler"
I love their first three albums, I've listened to them back to back countless times. I could happile never listen to any of their other albums in full ever again.
not in my opinion man
i think mirrors has some great tracks, but it's really inconsistent.
>I mean that the pattern is the same, a few very enjoyable songs and a lot of unmemorable "filler"
i guess, but imo this really only applies to mirrors
>I could happile never listen to any of their other albums in full ever again.
even fire of unknown origin? i prefer that one to the b&w trilogy.
fair. But what I really want to know is why this youtube.com
Because they are both prog rock bands.
>Jethro is a no name
Fine, forget Jethro. Moody Blues was better than both. Check the rankings if you don't believe me. They're just not circle jerked on this board.
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>In Thee
>Moon Crazy
>The vigil
>Dr Music
>The Great Sun Jester
I stand by the claim that at least 70% of that album was killer
>even fire of unknown origin?
In full yeah easily, I'll certainly listen to Veteran of the Psychic Wars hundreds more times in future though
Prog Rock is a niche genre, there are only a handful of Prog that are popular outside of the scene. BOC is a classic rock band, they were far more popular than practically every Prog band with the exception of Pink Floyd, pick actual popular hard rock bands if you want to make this argument
because it wasn't a single
maybe it's better than i remember, i haven't listened to it in years
i'll give it another shot tonight
moodies were never really popular "as a prog band"
all their singles were more traditional pop and rock, despite the albums they came from being progressive. their two most remembered songs today are wildest dreams, which came from a total pop album, and nights in white satin, which was a radio edit of a longer song.
Distinctions Not Cost Effective [1980s]: Of seven studio tracks on the hits-packed Career of Evil, only two were recorded in the '80s. They should know.
what did he mean by this
Their post-70s output was ass.
but why did he phrase it like that
Because he can't overcome his fixation with making every review as obtuse as humanly possible.
>Culasuarus
>Fire of Unknown Origin
Even 2001's Curse of The Hidden Mirror was pretty damn good
A few good songs and so much filler on every album.
The Moody Blues were more popular than BOC. If you looked at the links I posted you would know this.
How on earth is everyone repeating this retarded meme? The band went under specifically because the band made solid albums, not singles. Why is everyone under the impression that BOC has ever made filler?
The first two albums were the best ones and then they started turning into buttrock.
it's a matter of taste
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