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The Essential Blue Öyster Cult

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Released
  
1 April 2003

Length
  
70:17

Release date
  
1 April 2003

Genres
  
Hard rock, Heavy metal

Recorded
  
1971-1983

Artist
  
Blue Öyster Cult

Label
  
Legacy Recordings

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Blue Öyster Cult albums
  
Don't Fear the Reaper: T, Workshop of the Telescopes, Career of Evil: The Metal Ye, Bad Channels, Cult Classic

The Essential Blue Öyster Cult is a compilation album by the hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released in 2003 as part of Sony BMG's Essential series. An expanded edition of the album, with different cover, was released in 2012, based from 1995 compilation Workshop of the Telescopes.

Contents

Track listing (2003)

  1. "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" (Albert Bouchard, Buck Dharma, Sandy Pearlman) - 4:04
  2. "7 Screaming Diz-Busters" (A. Bouchard, Joe Bouchard, Dharma, Pearlman) - 7:02
  3. "Harvester of Eyes" (Eric Bloom, Dharma, Richard Meltzer) - 4:24
  4. "Astronomy" (A. Bouchard, J. Bouchard, Pearlman) - 6:28
  5. "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (Dharma) - 5:09
  6. "E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)" (Dharma, Pearlman) - 3:44
  7. "Godzilla" (Dharma) - 3:42
  8. "I Love the Night" (Dharma) - 4:26
  9. "In Thee" (Allen Lanier) - 3:48
  10. "Black Blade" (Bloom, Michael Moorcock, John Trivers) - 6:29
  11. "Burnin' for You" (Dharma, Meltzer) - 4:31
  12. "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" (Bloom, Moorcock) - 4:49
  13. "Shooting Shark" (Dharma, Patti Smith) - 7:10
  14. "Take Me Away" (Bloom, Aldo Nova) - 4:30

Disc 1

  1. "Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll" - 4:05
  2. "Before the Kiss, a Redcap" (Pearlman, Murray Krugman, Allen Lanier, Dharma) - 4:59
  3. "Stairway to the Stars" (Meltzer, A. Bouchard, Dharma) - 3:43
  4. "Transmaniacon MC" (Meltzer, A. Bouchard, Dharma, Bloom) - 3:21
  5. "Buck's Boogie (Live)" (Dharma) - 5:17
  6. "The Red & the Black" (A. Bouchard, Bloom, Pearlman) - 4:21
  7. "O.D.'d on Life Itself" (Bloom, A. Bouchard, J. Bouchard, Pearlman) - 4:48
  8. "7 Screaming Diz-Busters" - 7:01
  9. "Career of Evil" (A. Bouchard, Smith) - 4:00
  10. "Flaming Telepaths" (A. Bouchard, Bloom, Pearlman, Dharma) - 5:18
  11. "Astronomy" - 6:28
  12. "Hot Rail to Hell (Live)" (J. Bouchard) - 5:32
  13. "Harvester of Eyes (Live)" - 4:56
  14. "M.E. 262 (Live)" (Bloom, Dharma, Pearlman) - 8:05
  15. "Born to be Wild (Live)" (Mars Bonfire) - 6:18

Disc 2

  1. "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" - 5:08
  2. "This Ain't the Summer of Love" (Krugman, A. Bouchard, Donald Waller) - 2:21
  3. "E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) (Live)" - 5:18
  4. "Godzilla" - 3:41
  5. "I Love The Night" - 4:25
  6. "Goin' Through the Motions" (Bloom, Ian Hunter) - 3:12
  7. "In Thee" - 3:48
  8. "Black Blade" - 6:28
  9. "The Marshall Plan" (Blue Öyster Cult) - 5:24
  10. "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" - 4:48
  11. "Joan Crawford" (Bouchard, David Roter, Jack Rigg) - 4:54
  12. "Burnin' for You" - 4:30
  13. "Roadhouse Blues (Live)" (Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore) - 9:14
  14. "Shooting Shark" - 7:09
  15. "Take Me Away" - 4:30
  16. "Dancin' in the Ruins" (Larry Gottlieb, Justin Scanlon) - 4:00

Album credits

  • Production Credits
  • Performance Credits

    • Songs

    1Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll4:03
    27 Screaming Diz-Busters7:01
    3Harvester of Eyes4:23

    References

    The Essential Blue Öyster Cult Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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