Home in the valley Home in the city Home isn't pretty Ain't no home for me
Home in the darkness Home on the highway Home isn't my way Home will never be
Burn out the day Burn out the night I can't see no reason to put up a fight I'm living for giving the devil his due
And I'm burning, I'm burning, I'm burning for you I'm burning, I'm burning, I'm burning for you
Time is the essence Time is the season Time ain't no reason Got no time to slow
Time everlasting Time to play besides Time ain't on my side Time I'll never know
Burn out the day Burn out the night I'm not the one to tell you what's wrong or what's right I've seen signs of what (freezing their eyes) went through
Well I'm burning, I'm burning, I'm burning for you I'm burning, I'm burning, I'm burning for you
Burn out the day Burn out the night I can't see no reason to put up a fight I'm living for giving the devil his due
And I'm burning, I'm burning, I'm burning for you I'm burning, I'm burning, I'm burning for you
Perfect water - the dark wind braids the waves that grays birds. 'Ware the tree. Is this our destiny? To join our hands at sea - and slowly sink, and slowly think: This is perfect water, passing over me. Do you know Jacques Cousteau when they said on th
록 그룹중에는 음반보다는 실황 공연에서 진가를 발휘하는 그룹들이 많이 있는데 BOC (Blue Oyster Cult)가 그 대표적인 그룹중 하나이다. 레이저 광선을 실황 공연 무대에서 처음 사용한 그룹으로 알려진 이들은 뉴욕 언더그라운드에서 활약한 브루스 스프링스틴, 패티 스미스 등과 함께 대중적인 성공을 거둔 실력파이기도 하다.
1970년 Soft White Underbelly 와 Stalk-Forrest Group 이 합쳐져 결성된 BOC는 1972년 데뷔 음반 'Blue Oyster Cult'를 발표하고 이듬해인 1973년에 커버를 보고 있으면 심한 현기증을 느끼게 하는 'Tyranny And Mutation'을 발표했다.
이 음반에는 이들 공연의 단골 연주곡인 Hot Rails to Hell 을 비롯하여 7 Screaming Diz-Busters 등이 실려있는데 묵직한 헤비메틀 사운드와 Donald Roeser, Eric Bloom, Allen Lanier, 3인의 기타연주는 팬들의 관심을 끌기에 충분했다.
1974년 'Secret Treaties'에 이어 1975년에는 2장짜리 공연 음반 'On Your Feet or on Your Knees' 을 발표하면서 Steppenwolf 의 Born to Be Wild 와 연주곡인 Buck's Boogie를 실었다.
1976년에는 그들의 최대 히트곡 (Don't Fear) The Reaper가 실린 'Agents of Fortune'이 나왔고 1977년에는 최고 걸작 Spectres가 발표되었다. 이 음반은 전작들에 비해 다소 사운드가 약해졌다는 평가를 받았으나 발라드인 I Love the Night를 비롯하여 주술적인 Nosferatu 와 영화로 만들어져 유명해진 고질라를 노래한 Godzilla등이 담겨있다.
공연에 자신감이 있는 BOC는 1978년 2번째 공연음반 'Some Enchanted Evening'을 발매했고 1979년에는 다소 평범한 'Mirrors'를 1980년에는 'Cultosaurus Erectus'를 발표하였다.
1981년 BOC는 The Doors의 기타리스트 로비 크리거를 초빙하여 그룹으로서는 3번째 실황 공연 음반이었으며 더블앨범인 'Extraterrestrial Live'를 발표 하였는데, 이 음반은 이들 BOC의 국내 최초 라이센스 발매반이기도 하다.
이 라이센스 음반은 더블 음반에서 곡을 간추려 싱글 음반으로 발매가 되었는데, 그로인해 아름다운 커버까지 싱글로 발매되는 아쉬움을 남겼다.
1970년대 초중반 헤비메틀 사운드와 악마적인 공연 분위기 연출로 인기를 끌었던 BOC는 80년대 들어 'Fire of Unknown Origin'(1981), 'The Revolution by Night'(1983)등을 냈지만 세월의 흐름을 어쩌지 못하고 점차 잊혀져 가는 그룹이 되었다.
블랙사바스와 어깨를 나란히 하던..."악마의 음악"이라는 평을 들었던 그룹... 레이저 광선을 이용한 공연은 "Blue Oyster Cult" 의 트레이드마크였다... 몽환적인 분위기와 사악하고 그로데스크한 이미지가 결합된 Live는 당시('70)로는 획기적인 사건이었다... 때문에 종교단체와 보수 층으로부터 거센 반발을 불러 일으키기도 한 락계의 악동들이다...
이 앨범은 이들의 싱글로는 최대의 성공을 거둔 "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"(12위)가 수록된 '76년 4집 앨범이다...
미국 뉴욕 출신의 그룹인 이들은 헤비메탈의 원류(原流)를 논할 때 빼놓을 수 없는 중요한 그룹이며...이들의 사운드적 특성은 '60년대 후반을 휩쓴 사이키델릭과 블루스 리바이벌에 의한 하드락 대신 로큰.롤의 부기 사운드와 리프 중심의 심플하고 강력한 사운드로 정평이 나있는 그룹이기도 하다...
In a dark horse town, in the middle of the west Where Friday takes so long to arrive Johnny wakes up dreaming and turns on the radio The he jumps up playin' his guitar in the mirror Starts his day with a rock and roll pulse Tonight's the night that Suzy and he Are goin' to a rock and roll show Tonight, I'm gonna see some rock and roll Yeah, my favorite group is playin' Tonight, I'm gonna see some rock and roll Well it's showtime, and he's caught up in the crowd He hates the crush, but he loves the music loud He reaches out, but Suzy's disappeared, Now Johnny's standin' on a corner, after the show Lookin' for his Suzy dear But there goes his Suzy in the band's limousine, yeah Well that's the way it goes at these rock and roll shows That's the way it goes It's rock and roll Well, that's the way it goes It's rock and roll Now Suzy's gone, and Johnny hears a thunder As he rolls another number and he counts He counts the times he's dreamt himself to be the hero 'Cause then when Suzy (was a bore??) He's heard about adventure As he looks into the mirror now he knows He must be the star and play guitar like thunder And find Suzy at his rock and roll showBoy, if I only had a good guitar and a big amp Boy, it wouldn't be somebody else takin' my girl away I tell ya, I know what I should do I'll put an ad in the paper, and get a few other guys Who wanna play as much as I do I tell ya, I ain't playin' no surf music I'm gonna play some heavy music I'm gonna play bad, I'm gonna play loud I know just what I want it to sound like It's gonna sound like, it's gonna sound like - (...guitar solo...) This is Don Kirshner And tonight on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert A new phenomenon in the music world With six million albums to his credit in just two short years My good friend, here's Johnny Now Johnny became a legend in his time Found it easier to live in pain Half-a-hero in a hard-hearted game Now it's showtime, and he's caught up in the glow He hates the rush but he needs the music so Still he reaches out, but Suzy's disappeared Well that's the way it goes at these rock and roll shows It's rock and roll That's the way it goes, it's rock and roll (
Maybe I'll see you again baby And maybe I won't Maybe you've bought your ticket Gone back to Detroit Airplanes make strangers of us all Give us distance Much too easily.
Jim says some destinies Should not be delivered But you and I seen now baby That still they are Winning it makes losers of us all 'Cause the dice roll So indifferently.
CHORUS: Well, I'll wrap myself in cities I travel I'll wrap myself in dreams I'll wrap myself in solitude ("stranger's arms" FOR 3RD CHORUS) But I wish I could wrap myself In thee.
Tonight it's hot, without you Tomorrow'll be cold Winter will come along Driven by snow Love it makes strangers of us all When we part Oh so thoughtlessly
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Once we breathed the breath Of sweet surrender Pure, pure Arab air filled our Atmosphere But pride it makes stars of us all Until we fall For everyone to see.
Raise your can of beer on high And seal your fate forever Our best years have past us by The golden age of leather This was the night not long to come in the year of our Lord A.D. Where in a desert way-house, poised on the brink of eternity Four and ninety studded horsemen closed the knot of honor As only drunken soldiers can And passed from man to man, a wanton child to dead to care That each would find his pleasure as he might For this fantastic night was billed as nothing less than the end of an age A last crusade, a final outrage, in this day of flacid plumage And there was worn no cloth but leather Made supple by years of stinging cinders And here were seen the scars of age For age had been the common call for one last night together Down colored the sky (the ritual feast) Some had died (they were buried with their bikes) Each grabbed a rag (from a man with a sack) Torn strips of color (the red and the black) We made a vow to give it all we had to give We made a vow to die as we had lived They flew the colors, they began to fight They flailed at each other like bugs at a light Bodies and bikes beyond repair Smell of oil and gas in the air Then the wind whipped the desert with a giant hand And the humans and the Harleys caught the shifting sand And the old ranger weathered the storm And he topped the rise by the middle of morn He saw rippled dunes, calm and surreal And a glint of a shaft of chromium steel Golden age
Too wild to care, you got that animal stare You got stay anywhere in your eyes And you're leading me on, but you can be anyone 'Cause I know you'll be gone 'fore I rise And we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Going through the motions Staying with you gave us something to do I almost thought it was true for a while 'Cause there's love in your lies, you're so thinly disguised You couldn't tell right from wrong if you tried And we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Going through the motions To thee I dedicate this photograph I'll even sign it "love to you" again And when it's faded and forgotten in some book You'll sometimes look, you'll sometimes look, you'll sometimes look It's a game, it's a game, no let's call it a shame 'Cause there's no one to blame just to pay You were a friend for a day, so don't cry if I say That you got what you want, it's OK And we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Going through the motions Yeah, yeah, we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Yeah, we're going through the motions Going through the motions
Feeling easy on the outside But not so funny on the inside Feel the sound, pray for rain For this is the night we ride This ain't the garden of eden There ain't no angels above And things ain't like what they used to be And this ain't the summer of love
