The World Is Their Oyster
author: Gareth
If you're a Blue Oyster Cult fan but have so far been dismissive of The Brain Surgeons' hitherto slightly indigestible, avant garde back catalogue, then you should definitely give this album your immediate attention! I'll spare you a track by track analysis, but suffice it to say that this is the best album BOC never wrote! Just look at the umlaut-laden, rough, tough and literary referencing track listing for a clue - just like the good old days of 'Cult mythology as exercised in the original killer black n' white BOC LP trilogy. Yeah, THAT good!
The arrangements are amazing and the playing is tight throughout.
Ross The Boss never sounded better, like a twisted amalgam of the stinging six string action purveyed by the likes of Angus Young, Ted Nugent and Ace Frehley.
Albert Bouchard has clearly been listening to a lot of double-kick drum metal lately, ably demostrated in his formidable attack on this album. Check out opener Rocket Science (with it's thrilling NASA countdown, shrill vocals and whinnying guitars) for proof.
Whilst Debra's vocals might be something of an acquired taste (Janis Joplin meets Patti Smith, anyone?), the leads are mainly shared by Albert, most notably on epics like 1864 and the jawdropping Tomb Of The Unknown Monster.
Albert knows his audience well and has littered the tracks with crypic lyrics, macabre humour and sly BOC references. He is truly playing to the gallery on this album and there's nothing wrong with that in my opinion.
In closing, this is the best Blue Oyster Cult album since Imaginos! But waddya mean Imaginos was Albert's solo album? So's this, dum dum!
Meditate on this - Albert Bouchard is the Brian Wilson of heavy metal. Discuss ...
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Waoww !!
author: Lio
Du Rock qui accroche ! Des arrangements variés !
Ca pète bien dans les oreilles, allez y, c'est du tout bon !!! Et pour le prix du CD, faites lui faire un saut de puce au-dessus de l'Atlantique, ça vaut le détour !!!!
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Heavy in all the right ways!
author: Ethan Cruze
This is good hard rock with great lyrics riding a wave of bass and catchy guitar work. All built on a solid framework of driving drum rhythms and then some niiiice vocal work! This is solid and on my replay several times a day list now!
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Addictive!
author: Wyvern
I don't know how they made it but the Brain Surgeons have their name perfectly picked. They have discovered a way to introduce a most addictive drug into the wavesounds, so once you play the album you simply can't stop!
Since I bought it I have spin it so many times I believe by now the plastic has been worn (LOL). You can't have an idea of the quality of the music, is not BOC and it's not Manowar, forget your misconceptions and absorb this. IT'S HEAVY DAMN ROCK!, it's a bulldozer, a steamroller of passion, energy, electricity comin' at ya and taking over your mind and body.
I''m ashamed of not have bought this album last year because surely would have made high in the top ten of 2006. Most amazing songwriting and performance and if you don't fell on your knees and bow with '1864', well you're not a rocker and you're dead!
Absolutely recommended.
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