Thursday, April 25, 2024

Blue Öyster Cult - Ghost Stories (2024)

The 17th album from this band from USA.

The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.

Two guests added drums, guitars, keyboards and vocals.

This is not really a new studio album, I discovered far too late... that is after two listening sessions. This is archive material from the 1970s 1980s plus a couple of cover versions. Kick Out The Jams by MC5 and We Gotta Get Out Of This Place by The Animals is those two golden oldies covered here.

The rest of the songs are songs who were deemed not good enough for the studio albums. That include a couple of dreadful studio albums. 

The eleven original songs are pretty dreadful. Nevertheless, you can still hear the typical Blue Oyster Cult sound on these tracks and that is mostly a good sound.

The result is a fairly decent album clocking in at forty minutes. It is not an album I will ever play again. The band is so much, much better than this album.

1.5 points



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