vinyl

dusting off the old tunes and reliving the glory

Blue Oyster Cult:
Cultosaurus Erectus

Columbia Records, (1980)
PC 36550

"The [Blue Oyster] Cult are still going strong with ex-Sabbath producer Martin Birch forging a brisk sound to match their mighty dynamics"

Steve Sutherland, Melody Maker, 1980

dinosaur music

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Inner sleeve features KIDS sitting in fossilized dinosaur tracks! Scap found this to be MINDBLOWING!

Scap has become fixated on the album "Cultosaurus Erectus" by Blue Oyster Cult. He's convinced it is "dinosaur music", which it is, in a way, but for different reasons than his classification. Scap saw me alphabetizing some of my old vinyl lps and immediately glommed-on to my old copy. He was mesmerized by the dinosaur imagery depicted on the front and back of the cover. He regularly insists on listening to the "dinosaur music," despite the fact that he is somewhat fearful of it, particularly at high volume, which is how it was meant to be listened to. The idea that one of the songs is titled "Monsters" is also intriguing to him.

Classic jam at a Blue Oyster Cult concert.

Like any real group effort, the song list is varied in substance and style. When the album debuted in 1980 the reviews were mixed. The album yielded no "hits," however, if you are a BOC fan, you probably aren't interested in "hits" anyway, and instead focus on the guitar playing of Buck Dharma. Buck is arguably one of the most underrated rock guitarist in history, and he really shines on Cultosaurus Erectus. Dharma (real name Donald Roeser) penned BOC's biggest hit "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" and contributed three tracks to Cultosaurus Erectus, from the melodic and floating "Deadline" to the straight out speed-rock of "Lips In The HIlls."

fun facts

16 weeks on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart:
Entered Jul 12, 1980, last appearance Oct 25, 1980
Peaked and held at #34 for two weeks: Aug 23 & 30, 1980.

The song "Black Blade" was co-written by science-fiction author Michael Moorcock.

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