BOC: Buck Dharma and Mutation

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On tor 7 nov 1996 22.54 "J M Blahnik" <JMBpackers at AOL.COM> wrote:
> Disagreement here!!  BOC / Tyranny and Mutation really define Blue Oyster
> Cult as far as I'm concerned.  Listen closely and you hear something new
each
> time you play them.  I was jammin to a ST/T&M tape on my way home from
work
> this afternoon....it still raises goosebumps for me:^))).

    I'm not saying the music isn't great--definitely a lot of my favorites
in there--I'm saying I think the sound is too thin.  Sounds like it was
recorded in a closet on a spool of tin foil.  Part of that may be the CD
mastering, but a lot of it is the way it was done.  Perhaps Sandy had some
brilliant reason for doing it that way--I just don't think it was a good
one.
     Conversely, I'm not sure IMO the band ever got their production quite
were I like it.  The went from thin and gritty to full and polished.  I
would have like to keep the grit and add the fullness :)  Imaginos was very
heavily produced, of course, but the sound there is pretty good--the
guitars are full and heavy yet it doesn't sound too glitzy.  FoUO was
close--a little glitzy but some great moments.  Now if they'd just gotten a
bit of that fuller sound on the amazing music of the earlier albums, that
would have been keen :)

     Luckily, the Brain Surgeons have been turning out some very decent
sounding material, as well as some good music.  And it may be mild heresy,
but I though the sound on the recent 3OC recordings was pretty good apart
from too much percussion occasionally and the slightly sloppy sound of
_Cult Classic_--the tones was still good even if the reverb sounded a bit
ragged to me and some of the vocals were kinda mailed in.

Cheers,
Carl