Secret Treaties Tracklist
Secret Treaties is the third Blue Öyster Cult album. The album spent 14 weeks in the US album charts, peaking at No. 53. It was certified gold by the RIAA in 1992.
Secret Treaties has been the basis of our live act since it came out. A lot of the fans love the songs on it, and it’s an album we feel very strongly about. It’s held up beautifully.
All of the songs from the album were played live by the band, except for “Cagey Cretins”, maybe because of the music’s backing vocals. It’s the only BÖC album that does not feature a track with lead vocals sung by Buck Dharma. The band also did not write any of the lyrics to the album, handing that duty to Sandy Pearlman, Richard Meltzer and Patti Smith.
“Secret Treaties” Q&A
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What have the artists said about the album?
Eric Bloom talked about the album in an interview with Music Radar:
This is my personal favourite. We had a band house in Eatons Neck, New York. I lived there by myself. By this point, everybody else had their own apartments or lived with girlfriends, so when the band left, I’d be there with all the guitars and equipment. I would work on ideas and tunes, some of which became songs like “ME 262”.
Secret Treaties has been the basis of our live act since it came out. A lot of the fans love the songs on it, and it’s an album we feel very strongly about. It’s held up beautifully.
The record has been called a blueprint for a lot of metal, but I can’t really speak about labels. That’s something somebody else thought of. When you write an album, you don’t sit there and say, ‘I’m going to write a proto-metal record.’ You just write what you write.
