Blue Öyster Cult Tracklist
Blue Öyster Cult is the self-titled debut album of American rock band Blue Öyster Cult. Released on 16 January 1972, the album introduced the sound of Blue Öyster Cult, and provided the foundation for their more commercially successful ventures; such as Agents of Fortune, which eventually went platinum.
Despite lacking substantial commercial success, the album was given positive reviews by critics, with Circus magazine declaring, “it could well be the album of the Seventies.”
“Blue Öyster Cult” Q&A
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What have the artists said about the album?
Eric Bloom talked about the album in an interview for Music Radar:
It was the culmination of us going from Underbelly to Stalk-Forrest to Blue Öyster Cult. A lot of the songs had evolved over a long period. We had been in studios, but I don’t know if we were all fully comfortable in the recording studio yet.
It doesn’t sound real hi-fi to me. We did it on eight-track, and once you start overdubbing on multiple tracks, every time you do that you’re degenerating the sound of something else. Everything gets squashed in the mix. But the album is what it is. It’s our first record as Blue Öyster Cult in 1972. Analog, man! That’s going back.
