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Long Island, New York, United States (1967 – present)

Blue Öyster Cult is a renowned hard rock/heavy metal band which formed in 1967 in Long Island, New York, United States. The band is led by founding members Eric Bloom (vocals, guitar) and Buck Dharma (guitar, vocals). They are best known for their hit singles “

(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” and “

Burnin’ for You”.

The members of the band began to come together in the late 1960s, as a band called Soft White Underbelly, in the vicinity of Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, at the prompting of critic Sandy Pearlman. Pearlman was very influential for the band, getting them gigs, their first record with Columbia, and using his poetry as the basis of many of their songs, including “Astronomy”. The band changed its name to the Stalk-Forrest Group in 1968. One single was released on Elektra Records under this name in 1969, though over one album of material was recorded. The name changed once more, to Blue Oyster Cult, in 1970. The umlaut was added later that year. They became a successful heavy metal band during the 1970s, and unlike many of their colleagues are still active today.

They are best known for three songs: their 1976 single “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” from the album Agents of Fortune (also featured in the cult movie Halloween, and in Stephen King’s novel The Stand), “Godzilla” (1977) from the album Spectres and their 1981 single “Burnin’ for You” from the album Fire of Unknown Origin.

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1	(Don't Fear) The Reaper full track	3,667
2	Don't Fear The Reaper full track	1,479
3	Burnin' for You full track	1,417
4	Godzilla full track	1,340
5	Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll full track	757
6	Astronomy full track	740
7	This Ain't the Summer of Love full track	461
8	Flaming Telepaths full track	433
9	I Love the Night full track	379
10	Veteran of the Psychic Wars full track	366
11	In Thee full track	317
12	Fire of Unknown Origin full track	301
13	Goin' Through the Motions full track	285
14	Take Me Away full track	275
15	Joan Crawford full track	266

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henderham wrote:
yesterday evening

BÖC is God

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sionborg wrote:
Friday morning

Great Band !!

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FjordSweetFjord wrote:
Thursday morning

I agree, monsters and black blade are wonderful songs :) Spectres and Tyranny and Mutation are tied for my #1 spot.

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hickori16 wrote:
Wednesday evening

Le groupe qui m'a fait decouvrir le Heavy Metal.... c'est ma madeleine de Proust

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Grimnok wrote:
last week

DOMINANCE! submission. DOMINANCE!

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TheFeldster wrote:
last week

Great hard rock band

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MrChimney wrote:
last week

Monsters, monsters, monsters... in black and white

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danconsiglio wrote:
last week

Black Blade

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SoloBloodySolo wrote:
14 days ago

-fire of unknown origin ftw

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freddy_cosme wrote:
15 days ago

I'm burnin'... I'm burnin'... I'm burnin' for you!!

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Roronoa_HKF wrote:
19 days ago

coooooool

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NisforN wrote:
20 days ago

Mmm loving Blue Öyster Cult.

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AnimatedOysters wrote:
last month

Second greatest band ever.

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fmaratz wrote:
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Pure awesomeness!

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eugene_ripper wrote:
last month

legendary band..

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Preacher_WF wrote:
last month

great band!

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Daddoman wrote:
last month

Astronomy... a staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar!

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brianwelsch wrote:
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The only band that I've consistently listened to for the past 30 years, no matter what my current tastes were.

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Fraggle497 wrote:
last month

still needs more cowbell

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jenualubansky wrote:
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ОХУЕННА МУЖИКИ ЕБАШИМ ЕБАШИМ!

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