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DISCID=6309d109,6609d109,6609d209
DTITLE=Blue yster Cult / Cultsaurus Erectus
DYEAR=1980
DGENRE=Rock
TTITLE0=Black Blade
TTITLE1=Monsters
TTITLE2=Divine Wind
TTITLE3=Deadline
TTITLE4=The Marshall Plan
TTITLE5=Hungry Boys
TTITLE6=Fallen Angel
TTITLE7=Lips in the Hills
TTITLE8=Unknown Tongue
EXTD=1988 Columbia Records, Inc.\nOriginally Released 1980\nCD Edition
EXTD= Released September 1988\nRemastered + Expanded CD Edition Releas
EXTD=ed \n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Signing on with Deep Purple/Black Sabba
EXTD=th producer Martin Birch, Blue yster Cult made more of a guitar-
EXTD=heavy hard-rock album in Cultosaurus Erectus, after flirting with
EXTD= pop ever since the success of Agents of Fortune. (They also prom
EXTD=oted this album by going out on a co-headlining tour with Sabbath
EXTD=.) Gone are the female backup singers, the pop hooks, the songs b
EXTD=ased on keyboard structures, and they are replaced by lots of gui
EXTD=tar solos and a beefed-up rhythm section. But the band still was 
EXTD=not generating strong enough material to compete with their conce
EXTD=rt repertoire, so they found themselves in the bind of being a st
EXTD=rong touring act unable to translate that success into record sal
EXTD=es. -- William Ruhlmann \n \nAmazon.com Customer Review\nJust awe
EXTD=some, wicked album!, March 10, 2005\nReviewer: Tim "Yo" (Wellingt
EXTD=on, NZ.)\nThis is a totally underrated gem of an album, easily on
EXTD= par with their earlier albums, and superior to Fire Of Unknown O
EXTD=rigin in my opinion. What truly baffles me is when people accuse 
EXTD=BOC of abusing synths and keyboards, or of being too 'commercial'
EXTD= or trying to be popular...are we listening to the same band here
EXTD=? I listen to a helluva lot of 'cheesy' music, from Europe to Dio
EXTD=, and I tell ya...BOC is incredibly restrained compared to the ma
EXTD=jority of 80s groups when it comes to cheesy synths. I don't thin
EXTD=k their 80s output has even aged that noticeably, still sounds wa
EXTD=rm and modern, and the synths are used very effectively and not t
EXTD=oo cheesily. BOC are funny, a little campy and pretty melodramati
EXTD=c, but that's all part of the damn charm. If you can't take a lit
EXTD=tle wry campy melodrama schlock psuedo-horror with an ironic twis
EXTD=t, stay the hell away from BOC...you uptight fool that has a brai
EXTD=n riddled with bad judgement. *clears throat* Anyways... \n\nCult
EXTD=osaurus Erectus doesn't sound cheesy at all, nor bland, nor any o
EXTD=f these other stupid things people have said. It offers something
EXTD= different from say Tyranny And Mutation or Agents of Fortune, so
EXTD=mething more polished and less spontaneous, but expertly crafted 
EXTD=that is in its own way as good, if not SUPERIOR to their earlier 
EXTD=work. Even if BOC seemed to be collapsing under publicity, in-fig
EXTD=hts, some perceived sense of lacking inspiration (and it wasn't t
EXTD=rue), and other conflicts, their music still KILLED AND SLAYED as
EXTD= much as ever. And that's the bottom line. This album is bloody m
EXTD=arvelous and sounds to me like a band at a creative peak AND styl
EXTD=istic changing point. \n\nIn terms of the music I'll just point o
EXTD=ut a few outstanding cuts. 'Monsters' is an early highpoint, cos 
EXTD=it rocks and drives along with tremendous force, and includes awe
EXTD=some 'jazzish' sections. 'Deadline' is infectiously catchy, with 
EXTD=a really awesome bassline and very mystical sounding floaty vocal
EXTD=s. The lyrics rock too. 'Lips In The Hills' seriously sounds like
EXTD= it could be an Iron Maiden song, and I think that's damn cool. V
EXTD=ery VERY energetic, catchy, fast and rocking. 'Hungry Boys' is to
EXTD=tally strange, and very campy, but the weirdest works somehow and
EXTD= what we have is a totally rocking tune. Great stuff. Finally we 
EXTD=have 'Unknown Tongue'. OH MY GOD. What a song. Words cannot descr
EXTD=ibe how good it is...definitely BOC's creepiest, most melodramati
EXTD=c (and that's good) and best tale of demented schlock horror. The
EXTD= song is just the best, ever. Nuff' said. \n\nAs far as I'm conce
EXTD=rned, if you call yourself a hardcore Blue Oyster Cult fan and ye
EXTD=t don't like this album...you are an idiot. Anyone who says Agent
EXTD=s Of Fortune is the culmination of their early output is stupid t
EXTD=oo, because it's clearly Secret Treaties. I cannot comprehend why
EXTD= albums like Spectres, (the amazing) Cultosaurus Erectus and Imag
EXTD=inos are bad albums, nor worthy of standing RIGHT NEXT to the ear
EXTD=ly classics. BOC only have like two bad albums out of a huge disc
EXTD=ography really...almost all the rest are simply awesome. You can 
EXTD=almost not go wrong with this band, that is, unless you get Club 
EXTD=Ninja. Any so called 'fan' of BOC that gives up on them with thei
EXTD=r 80s albums is not much of a fan, because 80s BOC is easily as g
EXTD=ood as 70s BOC, it's just a different style. Cultosaurus Erectus 
EXTD=and the following Fire Of Unknown prove this WITHOUT A DOUBT, and
EXTD= the case is furthered by Imaginos. \n\nSome of you need to get a
EXTD= clue. Yeah and sorry for the rant, been obsessed with BOC lately
EXTD=...go figure. Some of you 'old-time' fans are idiots for not liki
EXTD=ng the later stuff. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nThis is the b
EXTD=est BOC album..., October 2, 2004\nReviewer: Chris Jordan "seejor
EXTD=dan" (Surrey, B.C. Canada) \nBlue Oyster Cult have way too many a
EXTD=lbums. Another record company scam and marketing ploy. BOC is the
EXTD= worst band that I know for doing it. They aren't even that great
EXTD= a band. However, they've had clever promoters and have cashed in
EXTD= with their sci/fi, mysticism themes that are prevalent on all th
EXTD=eir album covers and in their lyrics. They are a good band, but c
EXTD=ertainly not great. Their lyrics, for example, have occultic over
EXTD=tones, but are mostly just nonsensical. If you want a real heavy 
EXTD=metal album this is the one to get. Get this, "Classic Cult" (a s
EXTD=pin on Coca Cola Classic) and "Tyranny and Mutation" and you'll h
EXTD=ave all their great metal albums. Some previous reviewer from the
EXTD= U.S. (he seems to like singling out Canadian reviewers for some 
EXTD=reason) said that he didn't think that this album should get acco
EXTD=lades. I believe it's their best, complete album without getting 
EXTD=a greatest hits package. "Black Blade", "Marshall Plan", "Hungry 
EXTD=Boys", "Lips in the Hills" are all classics. They are well-produc
EXTD=ed and engineered (by Martin the WASP Birch; the best heavy metal
EXTD= producer, likely). Don't get caught up in the album covers or ma
EXTD=rketing tactics. I know what I'm talking about. Also, don't buy t
EXTD=he North American version. Try to get the European one, which has
EXTD= been digitally remastered. It cranks.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Rev
EXTD=iew\nB.O.C. as N.W.O.B.H.M., November 9, 2003\nReviewer: Johnny S
EXTD=. Geddes (Northern Ireland) \nA producer can override a group in 
EXTD=making an album's flavor this way or that. In this case, Martin B
EXTD=irch (later of Iron Maiden / Whitesnake fame) Britified B.O.C.'s 
EXTD=sensibilities a bit. There's that awfully English sense of irony 
EXTD=and self-deprecation present on this, their seventh studio effort
EXTD=. The doominess of the group's lyrical energy and sound has also 
EXTD=been largely traded in for something Stan Lee could click his fin
EXTD=gers to. \n'Black Blade' swooshes in on an air of comic-book comb
EXTD=at ardour, seguing funly into 'Monsters' (replete with Jazzy saxe
EXTD=s and fun-fantasy demon talk). The British taste on this LP truly
EXTD= comes through on 'Hungry Boys', 'Deadline' and 'The Marshall Pla
EXTD=n' (complete with a tip of the hat to Deep Purple in its mid-sect
EXTD=ion!). \nIn this case, B.O.C. seem to have eschewed their gothic-
EXTD=futurist formulas in favor of running with the make-your-own-rule
EXTD=s New Wave people who were seriously charting at the time.\nAnd t
EXTD=hat's what 'Cultosaurus ...' is all about. It's fun, fun, fun and
EXTD= very silly but there's still a good bit of hardline B.O.C. runni
EXTD=ng under the rubber-masked veneer. Just take the downbeat slammer
EXTD= 'Divine Wind' and run it next to liquorice-spirited 'Unknown Ton
EXTD=gue': certainly not standard kiddy sci-fi fare. 'Lips In the Hill
EXTD=s' (the only thing truly identifiable on the work as heavy metal 
EXTD=proper) and it's lightweight doppelganger 'Fallen Angel' bring up
EXTD= the average and then some. All in all, it's not a bad album and 
EXTD=it followed on the coattails of 'Mirrors' with not too much predi
EXTD=ctability. In this one, the group learned how far they could go w
EXTD=ith pop rock before they might run the risk of sounding like Mott
EXTD= the Hoople. There seems to have been concern at the production e
EXTD=nd about putting some metal back into the foundations before the 
EXTD=band's steely shell sank altogether. Maybe that's where the added
EXTD= strain of forcing more than the usual amount of fantasy though E
EXTD=ric Bloom's microphone came from. Whatever the reasons, things la
EXTD=rgely gelled together and Birch kept idiosyncrasies from cancelli
EXTD=ng themselves out. \nAnd it does set the stage nicely for 'Fire .
EXTD=..'. A nice pre-amble through and through.\n\nAmazon.com Customer
EXTD= Review\nI just want to be a lover not a critic?, April 13, 2002\n
EXTD=Reviewer: "prelim2" (United Kingdom) \nI have to play this album 
EXTD=to remind myself just how good it is. Sadly, that comment sort of
EXTD= says it all really. I tend to pass over it and head for any othe
EXTD=r Blue yster Cult album instead. Technically it's at least as go
EXTD=od as the `black and white period' stuff but for some reason I ju
EXTD=st can't warm to it. As a reaction to the (totally unwarranted) a
EXTD=ccusations that the band had somehow `sold out' with their preced
EXTD=ing two studio albums and that they had become a watered down, `p
EXTD=op' version of their former selves they hit back with this. It si
EXTD=lenced the critics and the diehards but it lacks a certain freshn
EXTD=ess and heart. Eric Bloom's collaboration with Michael Moorcock a
EXTD=nd John Trivers, the energetic and engaging `Black Blade' and the
EXTD= provocatively weird Albert Bouchard/David Roter opus `Unknown To
EXTD=ngue' aside the album suffers from - dare I say it? - a general l
EXTD=ack of the BC trademark, that underlying deliciously warped iron
EXTD=y and self-deprecating humour. There is an air of trying too hard
EXTD=. Is it possible that the critics had drawn blood and in response
EXTD= the guys started taking themselves and their music just a little
EXTD= too seriously? It's rock n roll guys, it's supposed to be fun. A
EXTD= severe case of needing to lighten up a little here I fear. Don't
EXTD= get me wrong I like it; most of the tracks are acceptable, compe
EXTD=tent if not outstanding, and bear repeated hearings. Highlights o
EXTD=ther than those already mentioned are Donald Roeser's `Divine Win
EXTD=d' and `Deadline' and I find myself liking the Joe Bouchard/Helen
EXTD= Robbins collaboration `Fallen Angel' more each time I hear it. T
EXTD=he Roeser/Bloom/Meltzer track `Lips in the Hills' has also become
EXTD= creepily compulsive over time. On the other hand Albert and Cary
EXTD=n Bouchard's `Monsters' and `Hungry Boys' feel more contrived and
EXTD= forced with each successive hearing. I was going to gloss over `
EXTD=The Marshall Plan' but seeing that no one is willing to admit to 
EXTD=perpetrating this abomination - and who can blame them for hiding
EXTD= behind the `Blue yster Cult' billing? - I won't. What were you 
EXTD=thinking? It's truly terrible. I'd give this album a perfect 5 fo
EXTD=r technical merit - Martin Birch's production is clean, polished 
EXTD=and hard-edged - but for artistic expression and emotional pull i
EXTD=t only rates a 3 (I was tempted to go for 2.5 but the rating syst
EXTD=em doesn't allow for half points so for old times sakes - oh and 
EXTD=the irreproachable `Fire of Unknown Origin' that was to follow - 
EXTD=I rounded up instead of down). It averages out at a four.\n\nAmaz
EXTD=on.com Customer Review\nSCARY stuff! (Find the rabbit! Find the r
EXTD=abbit!!), December 13, 2000\nReviewer: Henry R. Kujawa ("The Forb
EXTD=idden Zone" (Camden, NJ))\nSome may have felt 1979's MIRRORS trie
EXTD=d too hard to appeal to mainstream pop audiences; 1980's CULTOSAU
EXTD=RUS ERECTUS clearly was a step back toward the bizarre. I have to
EXTD= admit, I didn't like this much the first time I heard it. But li
EXTD=ke so much else, it's GROWN on me, like the comically-oversized c
EXTD=ritter in the cover paintings. (One might be forgiven for not not
EXTD=icing the spaceship flying by for scale at first-- but sadly, on 
EXTD=the shrunken CD art, the B.O.C. logo is now IMPOSSIBLE to see.) A
EXTD= lot of unusual stuff for this band turned up here, including ove
EXTD=r-the-top electronic keyboard work, supernatural spirit voices, s
EXTD=axophones and even Don Kirchner (now that really IS scary!). That
EXTD= makes it either wildly erratic or highly intriguing, depending o
EXTD=n personal opinion. My faves include "Black Blade" (a no-holds-ba
EXTD=rred tribute to the tragic S&S character ELRIC and his haunted sw
EXTD=ord Stormbringer), "Monsters" (try playing this while watching th
EXTD=e "big fight" at the end of the movie DESTROY ALL MONSTERS-- I di
EXTD=d!), "Deadline" (Buck Dharma's foray into almost-top 40 pop), "Li
EXTD=ps In The Hills" (a high-speed romp filled with suggestive imager
EXTD=y) and "Unknown Tongue" (the spooky-yet-goofy finale that takes a
EXTD= twisted look at Catholic school girls, courtesy of David Roter, 
EXTD=who also penned "Joan Crawford" as well as several solo albums, i
EXTD=ncluding the totally-whacked FIND SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL). CBS slipp
EXTD=ed up again, causing the opening note of "Deadline" to somehow ge
EXTD=t SNIPPED off! I highly recommend the remastered import version, 
EXTD=on which this has been corrected. (Will we see a day when ALL the
EXTD= CBS Oyster CDs will have become superfluous?)\n\nAmazon.com Cust
EXTD=omer Review\nDaring and innovative, yet heavy..., October 11, 200
EXTD=0\nReviewer: George M. (Vancouver Island)\nIndeed, one of their h
EXTD=eaviest albums. I bought this one out of curiosity, after having 
EXTD=heard some so-so things about it. I must say, I was taken aback b
EXTD=y the quality and power of this underrated CD. I wouldn't hesitat
EXTD=e to place this one among the 5 best Cult albums ever! Certainly 
EXTD=better than 'Fires...' or 'Mirrors'. Throughout BOC's career ther
EXTD=e have been some really outstanding albums, along some inferior o
EXTD=nes. In my view, the most powerful statements have been 'Spectres
EXTD=', 'Cultosaurus', 'Imaginos' and 'Revolution by Night'. I also li
EXTD=ke the two earlier ones 'Tyranny and Mutation' and 'Secret Treati
EXTD=es'. This is, of course, subjective, but no doubt there are some 
EXTD=great songs in 'Cultosaurus': The opening Black Blade is impressi
EXTD=ve and manages to put together a number of diverse themes and ide
EXTD=as. I especially enjoy the use of synthesizers and the obscured '
EXTD=vocals' in the last part of the song. I have never heard anything
EXTD= similar in any BOC album. There is originality here. Same as in 
EXTD='Monsters', a great song, changing from heavy to jazzy. There are
EXTD= no bad songs in this album, but other personal favs are 'Deadlin
EXTD=e', 'Divine Wind', 'Lips on the Hills' and the chilling 'Unknown 
EXTD=Tongue'. Granted, 'Cultosaurus' is not for everybody, it's dark, 
EXTD=ominous and heavy. But it's also atmospheric, spiritual and power
EXTD=ful. Also, sonically, it's one of the most advanced BOC albums ev
EXTD=er. Great guitar work, too!\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nSome e
EXTD=xcellent BOC--doesn't measure up to earlier offerings, June 2, 19
EXTD=99\nReviewer: A music fan\nI admit it--I'm a Blue Oyster Cult sno
EXTD=b. Anyone who really wants to be serious about a review of any BO
EXTD=C album requires, in my mind, a rich knowledge of their past. Tho
EXTD=se who have it are slower to bestow an "album of the century" pri
EXTD=ze upon this rather ordinary BOC offering. \n"Cultosaurus Erectus
EXTD=" offers many excellent tunes, to be sure, which by the time of t
EXTD=he album's release had come to be expected. But does it offer any
EXTD=thing new relative to the albums before it? Nah. In fact, if you 
EXTD=were just discovering this band in its Top 40's days, you missed 
EXTD=the boat on what an old man like me would call vintage BOC--the f
EXTD=irst four (4) albums, culminating with "Agents of Fortune". These
EXTD= gems represent leaps and bounds of band progression in only four
EXTD= years. "Cultosaurus Erectus", meanwhile, represents merely a pro
EXTD=ven formula, one that appeared on several albums before and after
EXTD= it. This fact alone admittedly prejudices my viewpoint: remember
EXTD=, I was already worshipping this band way before they discovered 
EXTD=Top 40 with tripe such as "Burnin for You". Admit it, readers, is
EXTD=n't this a song that you could do without ever hearing again?\n\n
EXTD=So what's the point? "Cultosaurus Erectus" has some good tunes, b
EXTD=ut a five star rating? Please! No offense, but I can tell that it
EXTD='s the much younger BOC fans who are responsible for bestowing th
EXTD=ese unworthy accolades on what should be seen simply as another g
EXTD=ood BOC offering, and precious litte more. \n\nHere's a suggestio
EXTD=n: Go get a Gold CD of BOC's 1973 "Tyranny and Mutation". This wa
EXTD=s before they got heavy on the use of organ music as a filler (th
EXTD=at would come with "Secret Treaties"). In those days, it was pure
EXTD= rock--guitars and drums. Lay on the track "Teen Archer" and list
EXTD=en to BOC in its purest form. No organ, no Top 40, and no Patti S
EXTD=mith (Aarrrghh!). Oh, and one other thing. They were the days bef
EXTD=ore Buck Dharma got this big idea that he was a singer rather tha
EXTD=n merely the best rock guitarist I've heard. Eric Bloom? Now he c
EXTD=an sing.\n\nEnjoy the real thing!\n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer:
EXTD= Martin Birch \n\nAlbum Notes\nAs the title suggests, Blue Oyster
EXTD= Cult attempted to toughen up its act here after a flirtation wit
EXTD=h pop on MIRRORS; the twin guitars of Buck Dharma and Eric Bloom 
EXTD=were (sensibly) returned to center stage and the lyrics were once
EXTD= again in keeping with the band's trademark esthetic of vague sci
EXTD=-fi and occult musings. On the arena-ready "Marshall Plan," the b
EXTD=and also continues its tradition of self-referential rock mytholo
EXTD=gizing (begun with "Cities on Flame With Rock & Roll" from the ba
EXTD=nd's debut album), and on "Divine Wind" revisits evergreen metal 
EXTD=concerns like God and the Devil. Occasionally, there are some sur
EXTD=prising stylistic detours--the otherwise Black Sabbath-ish "Monst
EXTD=ers" has a jazzy saxophone break, perhaps meant ironically (loung
EXTD=e metal?), and "Deadline" is pure California pop--but most of the
EXTD= album is vintage BOC (and the Doors-ish "Unknown Tongue" more th
EXTD=an lives up to its leering title). YEAR: 1980
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