Blue ?yster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin
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Artist: Blue ?yster CultEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Fire Of Unknown Origin
- Burnin' For You
- Veteran Of The Psychic Wars
- Sole Survivor
- Heavy Metal: The Black And Silver
- Vengeance (The Pact)
- After Dark
- Joan Crawford
- Don't Turn Your Back
Free Music Notes for Fire of Unknown Origin
Free Music Review: BOC finally gets it right
Hit: 5 Stars
Fire Of Unknown Origin has a magic that BOC was not able to produce on any of their other works. It is like no other album they released. I mean, c'mon, let's face it - aside from "Don't Fear the Reaper" and "Godzilla", Blue Oyster Cult is largely known for uneventful, very forgettable, boring music.
Until "Fire of Unknown Origin", that is.
BOC got "Fire" right. It's really a lot of fun, and all the magical elements that one would expect from a band named Blue Oyster Cult is found here in all it's spooky glory. But an interesting aspect of this album is that your kids can listen to it, a rare find. Matter of fact, with songs like "Joan Crawford", "Dont Turn Your Back", "After Dark", etc, Fire Of Unknonw Origin makes one begin to think BOC was attempting to release a soundtrack for a Walt Disney movie about haunted houses.
Comments on a few of the songs:
Veteran Of The Psychic Wars: Haunting. Immortal. Hall of Fame kind of stuff. The unique flow and haunting death drums is immortalized in history as part of the soundtrack to the animated movie "Heavy Metal".
Any comments I add to that would be unworthy to desribe the song itself. It's that cool.
"Burnin For You" still gets tons of airplay even today, and rightly so. It's virtually the perfect mix for a pop song with hard rock at it's foundation.
Deserving special mention, and equally as cool as "Veteran", is the song "The Pact", which is actually the correct plot summary/synopsis of the final "Taarna" episode in the original animated movie "Heavy Metal" (for all the guys out there, it's the chapter with the well-endowed, silver-haired babe who rides the the funky "birdosaur"), even including spoken lines of script being used for lyrics in the song. Perfect work, the songs fit the content.
This is the one difinitive BOC album/disc you have to have for your collection. Sadly, is the best BOC ever did, and Fire Of Unknown Origin stands out like a sore thumb compared to all their other work - it's like someone else wrote the entire album (I know that sounds horrible, I apologize - but this is the only album where everything "clicked"). When you mention "Blue Oyster Cult" to a fellow rock music connoseiur, the reaction is always the same: the response is always about Godzilla, Reaper, Veteran or maybe Burnin For You. If you were an alien that just landed on earth today, you'd think these are the only 4 songs BOC ever recorded.
Regardless, after listening to every BOC release, this is the only one I purchased. And multiple times over the years (record, tape, CD).
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