Blue Öyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin (1981) {198x Columbia} **[RE-UP]**

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Date: Feb. 2, 2021

Blue Öyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin (1981) {198x Columbia}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and log | scans | 274 mb
MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 114 mb
Genre: hard rock, pop rock, classic rock

Fire Of Unknown Origin is the 1981 album by Blue Öyster Cult. This features the massive hit "Burnin' For You", plus "Veteran Of The Psychic Wars", "Heavy Metal: The Black And Silver" and "Joan Crawford." This is the second CD pressing, with the "triangle in circle" below the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo on the right side of the disc. This was released most likely in 1989 on Columbia, perhaps in 1990.
Who would have thought that in 1981, after a pair of limp, unfocused studio offerings, and two mixed – at best – live outings, that the once mighty Blue Öyster Cult would come back with such a fierce, creative, and uncompromising effort as Fire of Unknown Origin. Here was their finest moment since Agents of Fortune five years earlier, and one of their finest ever. Bringing back into the fold the faithful team who helped articulate their earlier vision, producer Sandy Pearlman, Richard Meltzer, and Patti Smith all helped in the lyric department, as did science fiction and dark fantasy writer Michael Moorcock. The band's sound was augmented by a plethora of keyboards courtesy of Allen Lanier, but nonetheless retained a modicum of its heaviness, and the sheer songwriting craft that had helped separate the band form its peers early on was everywhere evident here – especially the gloriously noir-ish Top 40 single "Burning for You," written by Meltzer and guitarist Buck Dharma. Other standouts on the set include the plodding, über-riff pyrotechnics of "Heavy Metal: The Black and the Silver," and the Mott the Hoople- and Queen-influenced glammed up roots rock of "Joan Crawford." The terrifying images of desecration and apocalyptic war in "Veteran of Psychic Wars," with words by Moorcock, feature huge synth lines, dual leads by Dharma and Eric Bloom – as well as a tom-tom orgy from Albert Bouchard – offered a new pathway through the eternal night of the Cult's best work.


1. Fire Of Unknown Origin
2. Burnin' For You
3. Veteran Of The Psychic Wars
4. Sole Survivor
5. Heavy Metal: The Black And Silver
6. Vengeance (The Pact)
7. After Dark
8. Joan Crawford
9. Don't Turn Your Back

EAC extraction logfile from 24. July 2006, 2:12 for CD
Blue Oyster Cult / Fire Of Unknown Origin

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