[boc-l] BOC: Re Imaginos

[Andy Gilham]

Finally got my CD copy and after a couple of listens, a few observations:

1. It's good! 😊
2. Nice to have the "missing" songs incorporated into the album. Even though we've had the Brain Surgeons versions for ages now, they weren't really of a piece with the 1988 album, and now they're all together sounding great
3. Reviving the "Prince Omega" moniker is a nice tribute to Sandy
4. In fact all the credits and thanks are very generous and gracious
5. It's maybe less bombastic than Imaginos 1988, and Albert's voice gives it a different vibe. Wasn't sure about the vocals at first, in fact, but it really has to be Albert telling us this story
6. Gil Blanco is a retired baseball player who spent 1965 with the New York Yankees
7. "Imaginos" is maybe the most different from the 1988 version, and Joe's trumpet especially gives it and "Gil Blanco County" a desert/border vibe appropriate to the lyric
8. Quandary/Sublime/Ghost/Dance !?!
9. Bring on _Bombs Over Germany_!

-----Original Message-----
From: boc-l <boc-l-bounces at lists.ispnet.net> On Behalf Of EMF via boc-l
Sent: 13 November 2020 22:43
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Cc: EMF <des at efalkmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [boc-l] BOC: Re Imaginos

Thanks, Andy, for sharing these videos.  You (and Albert) made my night!!!!
I've been listening to to Re Imaginos continuously since my copy arrived Monday.
Not like the BOC version, but not so dissimilar that it's disturbing.   
It's nice that Albert gave these songs room to breath.  This whole project has me much more excited than Symbol did.  I find Symbol to be kind of Meh.



On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:01:44 -0500, Andy Gilham via boc-l <boc-l at lists.ispnet.net> wrote:

> Have you seen the videos?
>
> Blue Oyster Cult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSESBoHC9A
>
> Black Telescope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkeqjOoNeVM
>
> Albert talking about the project:  
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZF92MAm8zc
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boc-l <boc-l-bounces at lists.ispnet.net> On Behalf Of Jonathan 
> Jarrett via boc-l
> Sent: 11 November 2020 16:11
> To: Andy Gilham via boc-l <boc-l at lists.ispnet.net>
> Cc: Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [boc-l] BOC: Re Imaginos
>
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Andy Gilham via boc-l wrote:
>> Good interview with Albert in The Wire 
>> https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/albert-bouchard-on-bl
>> u e-oyster-cult-sandy-pearlman-and-re-imaginos
>
>  	There are a lot of good story kernels there! But the album sounds 
> quite different from what I was imagining, clearly lighter and less 
> overblown. I shall reset my expectations accordingly! Still very 
> excited about it. It told me something about where my fandom lay that 
> although the last few HW albums have been pretty good - _Into the 
> Woods_ perhaps the best since _Alien4_ - I still take my time getting 
> them when one comes out (as well as marvelling that they still do and 
> that the line-up is still never the same). But this one and the BÖC 
> one I had on pre-order as soon as I heard about them :-) Yours all,
>  				     Jon
>
> ObCD: Räd Kjetil and the Loving Eye of God - Räd Kjetil and the Loving 
> Eye of God_ (maybe not the worst preparation for _Reimaginos_, from 
> what Al
> says...)
>


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