Rhythm guitarist and keyboard player for the band Lester Bangs called "America's answer to Black Sabbath" Blue Öyster Cult, Allen Lanier, has left us. In his memory, here are some of my favorite tracks from his work with the group:
"Before the Kiss, A Redcap"
"Transmaniacon MC" (Listen for the Altamont reference!)
Both tracks from their debut LP in 1972.
"The Red and The Black"
"7 Screaming Diz-busters"
Both tracks come from their second album Tyranny and Mutation.
"Boorman the Chauffeur" (An outtake. Listen to that barreling rhythm...)
"Dominance and Submission" (Radio Birdman named their album Radios Appear after a line in this song)
The angry and brooding "Flaming Telepaths"
All three tracks come from their third album, Secret Treaties.
Notice that "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" doesn't appear here. I didn't link it because even though I love the song and its dark repeating A G F G riff, I wanted to post some songs from before they exploded onto the scene.
Bought this in Daejeon because the cover art's hilarious:
They're called a punk band, but they like to party more than they like to damn the man. Flaming Nuts, their 7th LP,is jammed with big singalong choruses, hard-hitting drums, and songs that make you want to get up and move. They follow up the "serious" song of "Unknown Universe" with the Green Day bounce-punk of "Five Minute Wash."
Flaming Nuts reminds me most of Sum 41 and Dropkick Murphys. A good time record from a good time band.
I'll be buying more from them! They're probably even better live.
1. Pirate Song - Dropkick Murphys with Korean vocals. Yeah!
2. The "Wild Thing" riff takes a ride down to the Caribbean and they jam it up.
3. Fun vocals, loud guitars. 90s-style.
4. Minor key bass, swirling guitars.
5. Green Day/Sum 41, palm mutes and rhymes. "Five Minute Wash" = Cool title.
6. Party thrash about peanuts?!
7. An upbeat acoustic number about new shoes? Folk-esque--with accordion!
8. Slap-happy Dropkick Murphys action.
9. 90s pop-punk Christmas singalong.
10. Mariachi with distortion and Spanish vocals--or is it Korean that sounds Spanish? Either way, 'tis a happy little number.
