Blue Öyster Cult Discography

1972   Blue Öyster Cult                                                             

Singles: (Then Came) Last Days of May/ Cities on Flame with Rock n' Roll/ Stairway to the Stars/ Workshop of Telescopes/ Transmaniacon MC/ Redeemed Screams/ 7 Screaming Diz-Busters

1973   Tyranny and Mutation                                                     

Singles: Hot Rails to Hell/ The Red & the Black/ Wings Wetted Down/ Baby Ice Dog/ Teen Archer

1974   Secret Treaties                                                               

Singles: Astronomy/ ME 262/ Flaming Telepaths/ Career of Evil/ Harvester of Eyes/ Dominance and Submission

1975   On Your Feet or on Your Knees (Live)                              

1976   Agents of Fortune                                                           

             Singles: (Don't Fear) The Reaper/ True Confessions/ The Revenge of Vera Gemini/ Morning Final/ E.T.I/ Sinful Love/ This Ain't the Summer of Love/ Tenderloin/ Debbie Denise

1977   Spectres                                                                        

Singles: Godzilla/ Goin' Through the Motions/ I Love the Night/ Death Valley Nights/ Celestial the Queen/ Nosferatu/ Fireworks/ R.U. Ready 2 Rock

1978   Some Enchanted Evening (Live)                                      

             Single: Astronomy (live)

1979   Mirrors                                                                           

Singles: In Thee/ Mirrors/ You're Not the One (I Was Looking For)/ Dr. Music/ I Am the Storm/ The Vigil/ Moon Crazy

1980   Cultösaurus Erectus                                                       

             Singles: Black Blades/ The Marshall Plan/ Lips in the Hills/ Fallen Angel/ Deadline

1981   Fire of Unknown Origin                                                    

Singles: Burnin' for You/ Joan Crawford/ Don't Turn Your Back/ Before the Kiss, a Redcap/ After Dark/ Divine Wind

1982   Extraterrestrial Live (Live)                                                

Singles: Veteran of the Psychic Wars/ Vengeance (the Pact/ Fire of Unknown Origin/ Heavy Metal/ Sole Survivor/ Feel the Thunder/ (Don't Fear) The Reaper (live)/ Veteran of the Psychic Wars (live)/ E.T.I (live)/ Dr. Music (live)/ Cities on Flame with Rock n' Roll (live)/ Burnin' for You (live)

1983   The Revölution by Night

Singles: Shadow of California/ Let Go/ Veins/ Light Years of Love/ Dragon Lady

         

1986   Club Ninja                                                                      

Singles: Make Rock, Not War/ Madness to the Method/ Perfect Water/Spy in the House of the Night/ Beat 'Em Up/ Shadow Warrior/ White Flags

1987   Career of Evil: The Metal Years (Compilation)                  

1988   Imaginos                                                                        

Singles: Les Invisibles/ I Am the One You Warned Me Of/ Del Rio's Song/ Born to be Wild (live)/ Buck's Boogie

1990   On Flame with Rock and Roll (Compilation)                      

1994   Live 1976 (Live)                                                              

1995   Workshop of the Telescopes (2-disc set) (Compilation)     

1998   Heaven Forbid                                                                

1998   Super Hits (Compilation)                                                 

2000   Don't Fear the Reaper: The Best of Blue Öyster Cult (Compilation) 

2001   Curse of the Hidden Mirror                                               

2001   St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings                                  

2002   A Long Day's Night (Live)

2003   The Essential Blue Öyster Cult (Compilation)                   

2004   Extended Versions: The Encore Collection (Live)              

2010   Setlist: The Very Best Of Blue Öyster Cult Live (Live)       

Originally posted on Saturday, 05 February 2011

Karn Evil 9 by Emerson, Lake and Palmer with Pete Sinfield

Karn Evil 9 First Impression, Part 1

(Music by Keith Emerson/ Lyrics by Greg Lake)

Cold and misty morning, I heard a warning borne in the air
About an age of power where no one had an hour to spare,
Where the seeds have withered, silent children shivered, in the cold
Now their faces captured in the lenses of the jackals for gold.
I'll be there
I'll be there
I will be there.

Suffering in silence, they've all been betrayed.
They hurt them and they beat them, in a terrible way,
Praying for survival at the end of the day.
There is no compassion for those who stay.
I'll be there
I'll be there
I will be there.

There must be someone who can set them free:

To take their sorrow from this odyssey
To help the helpless and the refugee
To protect what's left of humanity.
Can't you see
Can't you see
Can't you see.

I'll be there
I'll be there
I will be there;To heal their sorrow
To beg and borrow
Fight tomorrow.

Step inside! Hello! We've the most amazing show
You'll enjoy it all we know
Step inside! Step Inside!

We've got thrills and shocks, supersonic fighting cocks.
Leave your hammers at the box
Come Inside! Come Inside!
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!
See the show!

Left behind the bars, rows of Bishops' heads in jars
and a bomb inside a car
Spectacular! Spectacular!

If you follow me there's a speciality
some tears for you to see
Misery, misery,
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!
See the show!

Next upon the bill in our House of Vaudeville
We've a stripper in a till
What a thrill! What a thrill!
And not content with that, with our hands behind our backs,
We pull Jesus from a hat,
Get into that! Get into that!
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!
See the show!

Karn Evil 9 First Impression, Part 2

(Music by Keith Emerson/ Lyrics by Greg Lake)

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends
We're so glad you could attend
Come inside! Come inside!
There behind a glass is a real blade of grass
be careful as you pass.
Move along! Move along!

Come inside, the show's about to start
guaranteed to blow your head apart
Rest assured you'll get your money's worth
The greatest show in Heaven, Hell or Earth.
You've got to see the show, it's a dynamo.
You've got to see the show, it's rock and roll . . . .

Right before your eyes we pull laughter from the skies
And he laughs until he cries then he dies then he dies
Come inside the shows about to start
Guaranteed to blow your head apart

You gotta see the show
It's a dynamo
You gotta see the show
It's rock and roll . . . .

Soon the Gypsy Queen in a glaze of Vaseline
Will perform on guillotine
What a scene! What a scene!
Next upon the stand will you please extend a hand
to Alexander's Ragtime Band
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!
See the show!

Performing on a stool we've a sight to make you drool
Seven virgins and a mule
Keep it cool. Keep it cool.
We would like it to be known the exhibits that were shown
were exclusively our own,
All our own. All our own.
Come and see the show! Come and see the show! Come and see the show!
See the show!

Karn Eval 9 Second Impression (Instrumental)

Karn Evil 9 Third Impression

(Music by Keith Emerson/ Lyrics by Greg Lake and Pete Sinfield)

Man alone; born of stone;
Will stamp the dust of time
His hands strike the flame of his soul;
Ties a rope to a tree and hangs the universe
Until the winds of laughter blows cold.

Fear that rattles in men's ears
And rears it's hideous head
Dread . . . . death . . . . in the wind . . . .

Man of steel pray and kneel
With fever's blazing torch
Thrust in the face of the night;
Draws a blade if compassion
Kissed by countless kings
Whose jewelled trumpet words blind his sight.

Walls that no man thought would fall
The altars of the just
Crushed . . . . dust . . . . in the wind . . . .

No man yields who flies in my ship
Danger!

Let the bridge computer speak
Stranger!
Load your program. I am yourself.

No computer stands in my way
Only blood can cancel my pain
Guardians of a new clear dawn
Let the maps of war be drawn.

Rejoice! Glory is ours!
Our young men have not died in vain,
Their graves need no flowers
The tapes have recorded their names.

I am all there is
Negative! Primitive! Limited! I let you live!
But I gave you life
What else could you do?
To do what was right
I'm perfect! Are you?

Originally posted on Saturday 5th February 2011

Albums on the Vertigo Label

CN          Cressida by Cressida

CN          Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath

CN          An Old Raincoat Never Lets You Down by Rod Stewart

CN          Chapter 3 by Manfred Mann Chapter 3

CN          Juicy Lucy by Juicy Lucy

CN          Valentyne Suite by Colosseum

CN          Vertigo Annual 1970 by Various Artists

CN          Through The Years by Freedom

6325250   Wednesday's Child by Thomas F Browne

6342010   One Fine Morning by Lighthouse

6342011   Thoughts Of Moving On by Lighthouse

6360001   From Home To Home  by Fairfield Parlour

6360002   Gracious! By Gracious!

6360003   Seasons by Magna Carta

6360004   Affinity by Affinity

6360006   Very 'eavy, Very 'umble by Uriah Heep

6360007   May Blitz by May Blitz

6360008   Elastic Rock by Nucleus

6360009   Heavy Petting by Dr. Strangely Strange

6360011   Paranoid by Black Sabbath

6360012   Manfred Mann Chapter 3 Volume 2 by Manfred Mann’s Chapter 3

6360013   Clear Blue Sky by Clear Blue Sky

6360014   Lie Back & Enjoy It by Juicy Lucy

6360015   Warhorse by Warhorse

6360016   Patto  by Patto

6360017   Daughter Of Time by Colosseum

6360018   Act One by Beggars Opera

6360019   Legend (Red Boot) by  Legend

6360020   Gentle Giant by Gentle Giant

6360021   Holy Magick by Graham Bond

6360023   Gravy Train by Gravy Train

6360024   Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening by Keith Tippett

6360025   Asylum by Cressida

6360026   Still Life by Still Life

6360027   We'll Talk About It Later by Nucleus

6360028   Salisbury by Uriah Heep

6360029   Catapilla by Catapilla

6360030   Assagai by Assagai

6360031   Local Anaesthetic by Nirvana

6360032   Hold Your Fire by Patto

6360033   Jade Warrior by Jade Warrior

6360034   If You Saw Thro' My Eyes by Ian Matthews

6360037   2nd Of May by May Blitz

6360038   Oakdown Farm by Daddy Long Legs

6360039   Solar Plexus by Ian Carr's Nucleus

6360040   Songs From Wastie's Orchard by Magna Carta

6360041   Acquiring The Taste by Gentle Giant

6360042   We Put Our Magick On You by Graham Bond

6360043   Tudor Lodge by Tudor Lodge

6360045   Heads Together by Various Artists

6360046   Space Hymns by Ramases

6360048   Three Parts To My Soul by Dr. Z

6360049   Through The Years by Freedom

6360050   Masters Of Reality by Black Sabbath

6360051   Ballad Of A Peaceful Man by Gravy Train

6360052   Ben by Ben

6360053   Mike Absalom by Mike Absalom

6360054   Waters Of Change by  Beggars Opera

6360055   Blue by John Dummer

6360056   Tigers Will Survive by Ian Matthews

6360060   Pieces Of Me by Linda Hoyle

6360062   Released by Jade Warrior

6360063   Moonshine by Legend

6360064   Earth Harmony by Hokus Poke

6360066   The Red Sea by Warhorse

6360068   In Concert by Magna Carta

6360069   Gordon by Gordon Waller

6360070   Three Friends by Gentle Giant

6360071   Volume IV by Black Sabbath

6360072   Freedom Is More Than A Word by Freedom

6360073   Pathfinder by Beggars Opera

6360074   Changes by Catapilla

6360076   Belladonna by Ian Carr's Nucleus

6360079   Last Autumn's Dream by Jade Warrior

6360080   Octopus by Gentle Giant

6360081   Framed by Sensational Alex Harvey Band

6360082   Piledriver by Status Quo

6360083   Oobleedooblee Jubilee by John Dummer

6360087   Manfred Mann's Earthband by Manfred Mann's Earthband

6360088   Messin' by Manfred Mann's Earthband

6360500   Gasoline Alley by Rod Stewart

6360609   Atlantis by Atlantis

6360616   Ralf & Florian by Kraftwerk

6641077   Kraftwerk by Kraftwerk

6673001   666 by Aphrodite's Child

Originally posted on Saturday, 05 February 2011

Album Covers Designed by Roger Dean

1968      Gun, TheThe Gun by Gun          

1969      Earth and Fire by Earth and Fire          

1970      Elastic Rock by Nucleus          

1970      Lighthouse by Lighthouse       

1970      Heavy Petting by Dr. Strangely Strange           

1970      Clear Blue Sky by Clear Blue Sky                                                                          

1971      Osibisa by Osibisa      

1971      Dedicated to You But You Weren’t Listening by Keith Tippett Group

1971      Space Hymns by Ramases      

1971      Nitro Function by Billy Cox

1971      Woyaya by Osibisa     

1971      Into Your Ears by Pete Dello and Friends        

1971      Fragile by Yes 

1971      In Hearing of Atomic Rooster by Atomic Rooster           

1971      Assagai (test pressing) by Zimbabwe

1971      Midnight Sun by Midnight Sun

1972      Blue by John Dummer Blues Band (Featuring Nick Pickett)

1972      This Is...Gracious!! by Gracious!

1972      Close to the Edge by Yes                                                                                       

1972      Demons and Wizards by Uriah Heep                                                                       

1972      Octopus by Gentle Giant

1972      First Base by Babe Ruth

1972      Squawk by Budgie

1972      Music from Macbeth by Third Ear Band

1972      The Magician's Birthday by Uriah Heep

1972      Charge! by Paladin      

1973      Greenslade by Greenslade

1973      Lord of the Age by Magna Carta                        

1973      Yessongs by Yes                                             

1973      Never Turn Your Back on a Friend by Budgie     

1973      Tales from Topographic Oceans by Yes             

1973      Spring Suite by McKendree Spring                   

1973      One Live Badger by Badger                              

1973      Bedside Manners Are Extra by Greenslade        

1973      SNAFU by Snafu                                             

1974      Staircase to the Day by Gravy Train                                                                       

1974      Relayer by Yes                                                                                                      

1974      Yesterdays by Yes                                                                                                 

1975      Beginnings by Howe, SteveSteve Howe                                                                                     

1976      Cactus Choir by Dave Greenslade  
1977      Natural Avenue by John Lodge                                                                              

1979      The Steve Howe Album by Steve Howe                                                           

1980      Drama by Yes                                                                                                        

1980      Yesshows by Yes                                                                                                  

1981      Classic Yes by Yes                                                                                                

1982      Asia by Asia                                                                                                          

1983      Alpha by Asia                                                                                                        

1983      Breaking Starcodes by Barry Devlin                                                                       

1985      Astra by Asia                                                                                                        

1989      Eat Me in St. Louis by It Bites                                                                                

1989      Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe by Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe                

1990      Then & Now by Asia                                         

1991      Union by Yes                                                   

1991      Turbulence by Howe, SteveSteve Howe                               

1991      Yesyears by Yes                                              

1992      Yesstory by Yes                                                                                                    

1993      An Evening of Yes Music Plus by Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe                     

1993      Symphonic Music of Yes by The London Philharmonic Orchestra

1993      Rick Wakeman’s Greatest Hits by Rick Wakeman                                                   

1994      Not Necessarily Acoustic by Steve Howe                                                                

1994      Aria by Asia                                                                                                          

1995      Sea of Light by Uriah Heep                                                                                    

1995      Tales from Yesterday by Various Artists                                                                 

1995      Yessongs (LaserDisc) by Yes                                                                                 

1996      Supernatural Fairy Tales: The Progressive Rock Era by Various Artists                    

1996      Keys to Ascension by Yes                                                                                      

1996      An Ecstasy of Fumbling - The Definitive Anthology by Budgie                                  

1997      Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd by LJaz Coleman and The London Philharmonic Orchestra        

1997      The Moray Eels Eat The Space Needle by Space Needle                                         

1997      Keys to Ascension 2 by Yes                             

1997      Open Your Eyes by Yes                                                                                         

1997      Symphonic Rock: American Classics by The London Symphony Orchestra            

1997      Symphonic Rock: The British Invasion, Vol. 1 by The London Symphony Orchestra

1998      Symphonic Rock: The British Invasion, Vol. 2 by The London Symphony Orchestra

1998      Ad Infinitum by Ad Infinitum                                                                                  

1998      Yes, Friends and Relatives by Various Artists                                                         

1998      Keys to Ascension Volumes 1 and 2 by Yes                                                            

1999      The Ladder by Yes                                                                                                 

1999      Return to the Centre of the Earth by Rick Wakeman                                                 

2000      Yes, Friends and Relatives Volume 2 by Various Artists                                          

2000      House of Yes: Live from House of Blues by Yes                                                       

2001      Acoustically Driven by Uriah Heep                                                                          

2001      Keystudio by Yes                                                                                                   

2001      Remasters: The Official Anthology by Uriah Heep                                                    

2001      Resurrection by Atomic Rooster                                                                             

2001      Aura by Asia                                                                                                         

2002      In a Word: Yes (1969–) by Yes                                                                               

2002      Flattening Mountains and Creating Empires by Vermilion                                         

2003      The Iridium Controversy by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic                                           

2003      Elements by Howe, SteveSteve Howe                                                                                       

2004      The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection by Yes                                              

2005      The Inconsolable Secret by Glass Hammer                                                             

2005      The Word Is Live by Yes                                                                                        

2006      White by Alan White

2008      Phoenix by Asia                                                                                                    

2010      Omega by Asia                                                                                                      

Originally posted on Friday, 04 February 2011