From: Glen Sherman, themoonandthestars@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: BOC
Date: 6/8/2001 10:36:38 AM
To: remindlessness@hotmail.com
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Don't forget ETI (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence). That's "Agents of Fortune" you're referring to. A great classic. Don't Fear The Reaper is easily one of the greatest songs ever written. I never get tired of it. Early BOC was not as refined as the stuff that showed up between "Agents" and "Fire", but had a lot of rock and roll energy. Buck Dharma's great guitar work was the cornerstone of their overall well furnished musical house. (I'm a big fan of those boys...perhaps you can tell. I've seen 'em 4 times.) There is another great, great Buck Dharma song that you should check out. It's called I Love The Night, from "Spectres". You might want to pick up "Workshop Of The Telescopes", a compilation double CD that came out 5 or 6 years ago. It's got most of the better-known songs they ever did, including Cities On Flame With Rock and Roll and Transmaniacon MC. Oh, and let's not forget Astronomy

These guys still tour. They have never stopped. The Bouchard brothers (from near my home town) quit the band several years ago, but Eric Bloom, Allan Lanier, and Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser are still playing out in bars around the country. I saw them in a club (stood 4 feet away from Buck) in '98 in Jackson, Mississippi. They were fabulous. Even got to meet the guys and have a Heineken with Eric (the evil one) afterwards. It was really cool.

Glad to know there are Seancers like me out there. "Long live rock...I need it every night!"

>From: "Jesse Taylor" 
>To: seance@lists.no-fi.com 
>Subject: Re: BOC 
>Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 07:56:08 -0400 
> 
> 
>>I would look for the first 3 Blue 
>>Oyster Cult albums 
> 
> 
>hmmm.. that's two votes for the first 3 albums.. I have 2 of em but 
>never 
>caught onto them. 
> 
>I tend to like their middle career a little better - the whole album 
>"Fire 
>of Unkown Origin" is fantastic, as well as the album that spawned 
>Dont Fear 
>the Reaper - cant remember the name of it right now - 
> 
>BOC did some really great stuff - like "Joan Crawford" - which seems 
>to 
>insinuate Joan coming back from the dead to terrorize her daughter 
>just a 
>bit more.. and "Vera Gemini" which seems to be about the conversion 
>of a 
>lady into the occult, and of course "Dont Fear the Reaper" which a 
>suprising 
>amount of people dont realize is about a cult suicide; a man trying 
>to 
>convince his lover to die with him - they make death seem so 
>attractive and 
>beautiful - chillingly sinister: 
> 
>"seasons dont fear the reaper, 
>nor do the wind the sun or the rain; 
>we can be like they are 
>come on baby - 
>dont fear the reaper" 
> 
> 
>"came the last night of sadness 
>and it was clear that she couldnt go on 
>the door was open and the wind appeared 
>the candles blew and dissappeared 
>the curtains flew and he appeared 
>saying "dont be afraid" 
>and she ran to him 
>and she took his hand 
>and they started to fly 
>she looked backward and said goodbye 
>she had become like they are 
>she had taken his hand 
>she had become like they are" 
> 
>incredible!!!!! It makes me want to polish myself off right here 
>and now! 
>I mean that in the nicest way, of course. 
> 
>- jt 
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