Does anyone know if there are plans to reissue / remaster any more Blue Oyster Cult albums?

I know that the Spectres remaster is pending. Probably some more after that too. But, really, there's maybe an album's worth of good stuff after Agents Of Fortune.

Just checked their website :

"December 15, 2005
The remastered series of BOC's back catalogue will continue, with remastered re-releases of "Spectres" and "Some Enchanted Evening" slated for release in 2006, probably in the fall. Each release will contain extra never-before-released tracks."

Now reissue the Stalk-Forrest Group album properly, fuckers!

...and the Buck Dharma solo album.

What was improper about the Stalk-Forrest Group CD? Do you mean that it was so limited? I know what you mean about the 1 good album-worth, but I'm hoping that they had some decent songs that didn't get so far.

I think the one good album might have:

Death Valley Nights
Nosferatu
I Love the Night
Fireworks
The Vigil
Hungry Boys
Lips in the Hills
Deadline
Unknown Tongue
Vengeance (The Pact)
Shooting Shark

on it.

"Burnin' For You" is excellent whether it comes from a totally-past-their-prime BOC or not

Also :

Joan Crawford
Veteran Of The Psychic Wars
The Golden Age Of Leather
Godzilla

Maybe 2 albums then.
Yeah, the Stalk-Forrest seemed to go out of print very quickly. Can't say I'm too thrilled about an expanded version of Some Enchanted Evening either, it was a substandard cash-in live album to start with.

Fuck, I love Blue Oyster Cult!

the Fire of Unknown Origin album is actually almost totally kick-ass all the way through. don't let the production turn you off.

stormy otm

Buck Dharma's Flat Out came out on Wounded Bird a year or two ago. Lots of other stuff as a box set used to be sold on his website as part of the Buck Dharma fan club.

I have a copy of Imaginos on CD. About half of it is a flat tire.
"[the investitute of something or other at] Weisseria" is the best song for me. The chorus sticks in your head because of some vigorous "Carpe Diems." "The Del Rio Song" isn't bad, either.

On Your Feet Or On Your Knees hasn't been remastered for some reason. I could do without Some Enchanted Evening by comparison. For the Heavy Metal Kids was a decent import of the live white label EP the band did early on. It's raw but effective. Some of it, if not all -- I can't remember, was on Workshop of the Telescopes.

The Stalk-forrest LP is still available:

http://www.rhinohandmade.com/browse/ProductLink.lasso?Number=7716

thanks for the flat out info

I remember interviewing Buck Dharma for Imaginos in Creem. Did it at Columbia and it was a nice experience but it was their last album for the enemy. That day they were all hepped up at the office over Britny Fox's first album and, in retrospect, the writing was on the wall for Imaginos even before it was out of the gate.

Some Enchanted Evening is being remastered and released as an expanded 2 cd set on April 4, 2006. Spectres is also being remastered and reissued on that same date. Here are links to the new cds on cduniverse:

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7042377&style=music&cart=309898950&BAB=E

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7042315&style=music&cart=309898950&BAB=E

Anyone know the expanded song list for the reissued Some Enchanted Evening?

Hey, I think Spectres is underrated (s'got their greatest "ballads" ever for what that's worth), and even Extraterrestrial Live and The Revolution By Night have a coupla gems apiece on 'em. Those two were pretty much the last gasp, tho, far as I can tell. Imaginos was such a letdown that I've never investigated further.

(Still, possibly America's greatest metallers ever.)

I'm not sure what people don't like about "Imaginos" - I can hear that it could use a better mastering job (it's quite trebly), and some of the arrangements / takes seem to be a bit flat (i.e. "I Am the One You Warned Me Of", which should rock a little more than it does), but "Blue Oyster Cult", "Les Invisibles", "Del Rio's Song", "Seige and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein's Castle at Weisseria" (sp?) and "Magna of Illusion" sound like pretty great songs to me.

LP cover and song titles were great; but the MUSIC reminded me of those concurrent "new" Alice Cooper records - 70s hard-rock giants attempting a comeback by harnessing their take on "modern" 80s metal. (A flawed strategy.) That list of guitar heavyweights seemed more like an unimpressive stunt. (All stunt, no stun.) And the best two songs were done better 14 years earlier.

(Just my humble opinion, tho - I admit I never gave it much of a chance back in '88! And I'm biased by my '70s snobbery, as I often am.)

So, if it is really being released on April 4, 2006, how long do we have to wait to get an expanded song list for Some Enchanted Evening? Shouldn't there be something out somewhere by now?

I picked up the Stalk-Forrest Group album in the end, it's great in a Byrds-meets-Steppenwolf fashion. What I'd really like to hear is the original version of Imaginos that Albert Bouchard was reportedly working on in about 1981 or so. Dunno how far he actually got with it though. Myonga OTM about the version that was finally released. Guest appearance from Aldo Nova? Piss off.

Seriously, someone must know the song list by now.

I really have no idea how these places expect to sell any of these CDs if they don't show what's on them. WTF!?*!!!!
....breathe.......breathe.......ok, I'm fine now.;)

Looks like the Spectres and Some Enchanted Evening remasters have been delayed, they are no longer listed at CDuniverse or anywhere else for that matter. This happens all the time at Columbia.

-Ken

They're still listed at CD Universe with an April 4, 2006 release date at least if you click on those links you gave above.

.......of course, I just scrolled through the releases for next week at CD Universe and I didn't see any BOC, so who really knows what's going on?! Actually, at this point I don't care anymore, I have all the studio and live BOC I need right now.

I heard the early versions of "Imaginos" songs from 1984, and they sound very different from the ones that ended up on the released album. While it's clear that some of the parts are the same (the synthesizer parts from the beginning of "Les Invisibles", many of the guitar lines, the "a star!" vocal part from the end of "Astronomy"), overall there seemed to be really different keyboard parts (making "I Am the One You Warned Me Of", for example, sound more interesting as a rocker that doesn't quite rock) and completely different vocal lines (in one case, the beginning of "In the Presence of Another World" sounded much nicer with the original vocal melody). In almost all the cases, it sounded as if Mr. Bouchard hadn't gotten very far in working out the phrasing or melodies (all Buck Dharma's vocal replacements sounded much better, but I think he has an exceptional gift for that sort of thing and seems always to sound cool). There are some unreleased songs, like "The Girl that Love Made Blind", which wound up being rearranged by The Brain Surgeons - it's a great song, but the version here could have standed to lose a few chorus repeats at the end. They also redid "Gil Blanco County" in a nice arrangement, and I wish it had replaced "Imaginos" on the album, because that one was a bit tedious. There was a "Blue Oyster Cult reprise" which started with a really cool vocoder line, but then meandered with percussion pretty painfully in the middle, and also an acapella version of one of the verses from "Magna of Illusion", which I'd read was meant to be included, but doesn't sound very worked-out at all (though closer to the vocal melody used on the album) and I don't know what purpose it would have served musically or conceptually. "The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein's Castle at Weisseria" has a better arrangement - it's less dense and has a neat guitar part that wasn't on the album version. I can't imagine the album having been released, or even considered for release the way these recordings sounded, but I don't know what stage they came from, and I imagine they were worked on further before being submitted to the label. It's a little disappointing for me to hear them, as a fan of the album (and Mr. Bouchard's vocals) who nonetheless acknowledges its flaws, but people that found the album entirely too commercial-metal-sounding may be surprised at what it could have been.