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First time commenting. Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser wrote, sang and plays the guitar parts on this dreamy sound-scape about a late night encounter with a vampiress. "One look in the mirror told me so" tips it off. And it's such a clever song, too. A full verse followed by a double chorus, anchored by the "I love the night" hook, into a beautiful solo, then a half verse/half chorus, followed by the "I love the night" hook outro. It's brilliant and unique. Glad you loved it.
I've been listening to Blue Oyster Cult for a very long time, I know they have many great albums, if you like this style I would recommend that you pick up the pentology of albums including Agents of Fortune, Spectres, Mirrors, Cultosaurus Erectus and Fire of Unknown Origin. Initially some critics complained about some of the tracks on these albums but over time The Blue Oyster Cult fan base has universally embraced this quintet as the cream of the crop and the very finest of BOC. They were at their creative peak during these years. Get these albums and get a good set of headphones and enjoy the ride Because sonically there is only one other band that comes close and that is that English band It had an album about the dark side of the moon
You hit the nail on the head in your assessment of the group. Can’t place them in any one category as they are all over the place. With all members writing and singing, every song sounds different.
Nice reaction Ms. Maggie! Yes, Each BÖC album has its own character and the songs comprising the catalog are quite different. Don “Buck Dharma” Roeser, a Master of guitar, delivers an amazing vocal once again. The harmonies BÖC could create are marvelous as each of the five had lead vocals in their catalog. The members, separately for the most part played gigs in their formative years in dances with surf music and doo-wop being the popular fare of those days and built a solid foundation for harmonies. You might enjoy an example of this by reacting to such an example of the Öyster Boys rendition of the Ronettes classic “Be My Baby” as one doesn’t often hear how well the song works with male harmonies?! Don Roeser also sings a lovely tune by the late great Allen Lanier who played keys and guitar for about thirty years since the band formed. “Astronomy” performed live would make an excellent reaction as well Ms. Maggie. Nearly all live performances today work off a click track to coordinate backing tracks, effects, etc. BÖC is an musical taste best experienced live, for they utilize tempo to magnificent emotive effect with retardando and accelerando masterfully performed! A staple of opera, jazz, and blues it has but vanished from rock and pop of the digital age. I’ve seen BÖC perform across five decades and they brought it without shortcuts whether in arenas, theaters or small clubs! In addition to his song “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper”, Donald Roeser also delivers lead vocals on “Burning for You”, “The Vigil”, and “Perfect Water” to name a few of the more popular. 💪🏻🎸🎤🎶🫶🏻
A very unique group that followed their own path and didn't follow trends. They could do it all from softer songs like this and were also known as one of the heaviest of the heavy metal groups. Their career was really built on their live shows throughout the 1970's. It was during this period that they produced their best material. They recorded some fine studio material, but You had to see them live to really appreciate them.
This is absolutely one of my favorite bands and one of my favorite songs! I've heard it hundreds of times, and it still gives me goose bumps! It's a good story telling song.
Maggie, BOC is one of the most underrated bands of all time, they have a very diverse catalog and a great mix of rockers, epics, ballads like you just heard and just plain great rock songs. The album this comes from, Specters, is amazing, for more from it, try their atmospheric classic, Nosferatu, their ode to vampires. They belong in the RR HoF, like 3 decades ago! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎸🎹🎶
Since the first time I heard this when this album was released this has been the song to my life because I do so love the night. Blue Oyster Cult has a very deep catalog of great songs. I saw the four times back in the '70s and early '80s. They were a great band live too.
Thanks! This was not in the original set in the Twitch stream but was added by popular demand in the Chat. And they were so right! Loved your reaction and analysis! 🌃
Certain tunes leave a deeper mark than others. I Love the Night takes me to longing for a time and a woman in late 1983. We loved this song and the shared memories to which it is branded. But every morning she slipped away like those magic nights evaporated into dawn and turned to her real world. 😢
Wow, it's been so long since I've heard this. I liked the album so much, I bought a second copy, waiting for the first one to wear out, haha. I still have that second wrapped album. BOC was such a great band. I remember so well, seeing them in 1977. It wasn't just a concert, it was a show.... and it was the most fantastic light show I ever saw. There were 4 giant mirror balls hanging in the rafters of the arena and they fired their lasers at them and it was literally raining light. It was truly one of the top 3 concerts on my all-time list. Thanks for the memories.
It looks as if you have not been introduced to Kansas. The logical place to start, where most people have started with Kansas, is Carry On Wayward Son. I have different favorite songs than most, but this is the song that started their mainstream airplay.
I've always liked this even better than Reaper. The multi-layered guitar tracks..... If you like their "journey through the cosmos" stuff, the studio version of their 1974 "Astronomy" will give you that 1-way ticket. Eric Bloom is vocalist on that one, and although he sang most of their "hard as nails" stuff in their early days, that track was an exception.
Nasferatu, Morning Final, Dominance and Submission, Then Came the Last Days of May(Live), Black Blade, Monsters, The Marshall Plan, Cities on Flame............ The list goes on....... ..
What a great surreal sound it has and it sounds like you are walking the in the night ..That album cover is the best ,my fav of all of them ,it looks like they are time travelers in the 1800s and laser beams were used to give it a bizarre effect and they used lasers in their shows also that attracted concern from the US Gov about the possibility of it blinding attendees..
I get some of the weirdest looks when im asked who my fav classic rocks bands are. And my answer is always Blue Oyster Cult and Boston. 2 completely different vibes. But i dont care. Blue Oyster Cult brings chills and strong emotions.
Best vampire song ever! This was a pretty big hit in Seattle back when I was in high school. It got major airplay on radio. Elsewhere, not as much, I'm told. That quiet guitar break Buck uses in this song, like in the one in '(Don't Fear) the Reaper', always adds an element of mystery.
I've been listening to them since 1976 when I was 13 years old. I have throughout my life owned most of their albums. But of all their songs, and I have loved so many of them, this song is my all-time favorite. It is timeless, perfection on every level, in every way. I know of no other song that creates such embience, evokes such powerful emotion. The vocal harmonies are flawless, the keyboards are haunting, but that guitar works on so many levels, it evokes such pathos, such sorrow and longing, yet so much willing resignation a sweet surrender. In the live version, you should know, there is another verse and then the chorus continues on so the actual version was supposed to be about 7 minutes long. I wish that they had released a full 7 minute studio version with the chorus and guitar trailing off into infinity. After all the song is about a vampiress and vampires never die...🧛♀️
No let me elaborate this album got me through a few months of my life. Every song felt so in tune. I didn’t know how much of a Goth I was. I thought I was just a nerd, but this music is too good to dismiss The lyrics are all pure science fiction and horror the highest caliber the guitarist is from some other planet and their vocals sound like a UFO landing
Their early records were sort of muddy sounding, meant to recreate a "live" sound (read: cheap production costs). Starting with the Agents of Fortune album, they came out with a much cleaner sound and found much greater commercial success.
This is maybe a vampire song from one of my favorite bands. BOC have so many different music styles just for a heavy metal/hardrock band. Love it. By the way: Holy cheese muffins? I prefer blueberry chocolate ones ;-)
The ambiance of this masterpiece song perfectly captures the man's euphoric feelings under the repeated attacks from the Vampiress in white. The lyrics focus on the man transforming into her vampiric minion & losing his humanity while under her hypnotic spell. Vampires put their victims under hypnotic spells where they feel nothing but euphoria. Draining all the blood means death. Repeated attacks while not completely draining the blood will turn a human into a Vampiric servant to the Vampire that turned them. "If only you had been there my dear We could have shared this together" - His last thoughts of his girlfriend who just broke up with him. "No mortal was meant to know such wonder One look in the mirror told me so" - He is losing his reflection. (Vampires have no reflection in mirrors).
Definitely different than Godzilla! But another monster song....She's a Vampire!..and he joins her....BOC can play anything from a smooth ballads like this from Buck Dharma, a breezy but eerie love song like Don't Fear the Reaper, to progy epics like Astronomy, to flat out ballls to the Wall rockers like Cities on Flame and Dominance and Submission..and their harmonies are always top shelf..Do more BOC!!!
You should check out the live version of Then Came The Last Days Of May from Blue Oyster Cult On Your Feet Or On Your Knees album. If you like the guitar on I Love The Night you'll love it on this song. Make sure it's the On Your Feet Or On Your Knees version.
The UK had Pink Floyd; the USA has Blue Oyster Cult. Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser is as great a guitarist as David Gilmour, and his singing chops are as good also. "The Golden Age of Leather" from this album, Spectres, is excellent too!
This song is about a guy getting turned by a beautiful woman. They have another song called After Dark which, I imagine, is the same guy after the novelty wears off.
Great show. I got to see them live at least five or six times back in the mid and late 70's. Buck Dharma wrote and played lead guitar as well as sang this song. Some live versions are better. Eric Bloom also wrote some great BOC songs.
Such a great tune. This band has sooo much talent and range. the ONE thing...is vocals are NOT top notch. And thats from a diehard fan. If they had a great singer everyone would know about them, of that I'm sure.
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First time commenting. Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser wrote, sang and plays the guitar parts on this dreamy sound-scape about a late night encounter with a vampiress. "One look in the mirror told me so" tips it off. And it's such a clever song, too. A full verse followed by a double chorus, anchored by the "I love the night" hook, into a beautiful solo, then a half verse/half chorus, followed by the "I love the night" hook outro. It's brilliant and unique. Glad you loved it.
Welcome! 🤗 Hope to see you on my livestream later today.🎶
Thank you and thanks to all those who recommended it. Clearly I need to get more into BOC!
if u like these kind , more lyrical and melodic, that Buck dharma takes the front. I guess u´ll like In thee also.
I've been listening to Blue Oyster Cult for a very long time, I know they have many great albums, if you like this style I would recommend that you pick up the pentology of albums including Agents of Fortune, Spectres,
Mirrors,
Cultosaurus Erectus and
Fire of Unknown Origin.
Initially some critics complained about some of the tracks on these albums but over time The Blue Oyster Cult fan base has universally embraced this quintet as the cream of the crop and the very finest of BOC. They were at their creative peak during these years. Get these albums and get a good set of headphones and enjoy the ride Because sonically there is only one other band that comes close and that is that English band It had an album about the dark side of the moon
BÖC is second to none!
This band is So Supernatural.
I see what you did there.
You should listen to "Then Came the Last Days of May". Probably my favorite BOC song.
This Is One Of My Fav's By BOC
Glad You Liked It &
Thanks For Doing It.
Some live versions have extra lyrics that darken and further shroud the song in mystery.
BOC, as they were known, was one of the best of the best IMO
One of the best rock-metal band🤘
Thank you so much for featuring this incredible song! I already knew you would just love it..🥂🧡🎶
You hit the nail on the head in your assessment of the group. Can’t place them in any one category as they are all over the place. With all members writing and singing, every song sounds different.
A Masterpice from my all time favorite band, gives me chills everytime I hear this tune.A Vampire love song way before it was popular.
Spectres, my favorite BOC Album!!!
Nice reaction Ms. Maggie! Yes, Each BÖC album has its own character and the songs comprising the catalog are quite different. Don “Buck Dharma” Roeser, a Master of guitar, delivers an amazing vocal once again. The harmonies BÖC could create are marvelous as each of the five had lead vocals in their catalog.
The members, separately for the most part played gigs in their formative years in dances with surf music and doo-wop being the popular fare of those days and built a solid foundation for harmonies.
You might enjoy an example of this by reacting to such an example of the Öyster Boys rendition of the Ronettes classic “Be My Baby” as one doesn’t often hear how well the song works with male harmonies?!
Don Roeser also sings a lovely tune by the late great Allen Lanier who played keys and guitar for about thirty years since the band formed.
“Astronomy” performed live would make an excellent reaction as well Ms. Maggie. Nearly all live performances today work off a click track to coordinate backing tracks, effects, etc. BÖC is an musical taste best experienced live, for they utilize tempo to magnificent emotive effect with retardando and accelerando masterfully performed! A staple of opera, jazz, and blues it has but vanished from rock and pop of the digital age. I’ve seen BÖC perform across five decades and they brought it without shortcuts whether in arenas, theaters or small clubs!
In addition to his song “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper”, Donald Roeser also delivers lead vocals on “Burning for You”, “The Vigil”, and “Perfect Water” to name a few of the more popular. 💪🏻🎸🎤🎶🫶🏻
Thinking man's heavy metal
A very unique group that followed their own path and didn't follow trends. They could do it all from softer songs like this and were also known as one of the heaviest of the heavy metal groups. Their career was really built on their live shows throughout the 1970's. It was during this period that they produced their best material. They recorded some fine studio material, but You had to see them live to really appreciate them.
If you think of the lady as a vampire it adds a little more meaning
Yeah. The girlfriend dumped him, he does out wandering, and meets the lady vampire of his dreams...
Such a GREAT band with so many wonderful songs.
This is absolutely one of my favorite bands and one of my favorite songs! I've heard it hundreds of times, and it still gives me goose bumps! It's a good story telling song.
There are so many outstanding songs by BOC. Nesferatu is interesting in context. It's also a vampire song.
Yeah, that's one of Joe's quintessential pieces. It'll get you climbing the cliffs of Dracula's castle...
Nosferatu gives me chills!
Maggie, BOC is one of the most underrated bands of all time, they have a very diverse catalog and a great mix of rockers, epics, ballads like you just heard and just plain great rock songs. The album this comes from, Specters, is amazing, for more from it, try their atmospheric classic, Nosferatu, their ode to vampires. They belong in the RR HoF, like 3 decades ago! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎸🎹🎶
Since the first time I heard this when this album was released this has been the song to my life because I do so love the night. Blue Oyster Cult has a very deep catalog of great songs. I saw the four times back in the '70s and early '80s. They were a great band live too.
Thanks! This was not in the original set in the Twitch stream but was added by popular demand in the Chat. And they were so right! Loved your reaction and analysis! 🌃
Thank YOU!! 🤗💖
Certain tunes leave a deeper mark than others. I Love the Night takes me to longing for a time and a woman in late 1983. We loved this song and the shared memories to which it is branded. But every morning she slipped away like those magic nights evaporated into dawn and turned to her real world. 😢
Wow, it's been so long since I've heard this. I liked the album so much, I bought a second copy, waiting for the first one to wear out, haha. I still have that second wrapped album. BOC was such a great band. I remember so well, seeing them in 1977. It wasn't just a concert, it was a show.... and it was the most fantastic light show I ever saw. There were 4 giant mirror balls hanging in the rafters of the arena and they fired their lasers at them and it was literally raining light. It was truly one of the top 3 concerts on my all-time list. Thanks for the memories.
One of my favorites, such a great late night song.
It looks as if you have not been introduced to Kansas. The logical place to start, where most people have started with Kansas, is Carry On Wayward Son. I have different favorite songs than most, but this is the song that started their mainstream airplay.
I've always liked this even better than Reaper. The multi-layered guitar tracks.....
If you like their "journey through the cosmos" stuff, the studio version of their 1974 "Astronomy" will give you that 1-way ticket. Eric Bloom is vocalist on that one, and although he sang most of their "hard as nails" stuff in their early days, that track was an exception.
Truly a beautiful song. That guitar playing is not from this world.
Nasferatu, Morning Final, Dominance and Submission, Then Came the Last Days of May(Live), Black Blade, Monsters, The Marshall Plan, Cities on Flame............ The list goes on.......
..
You haven't even scratched the surface
What a great surreal sound it has and it sounds like you are walking the in the night ..That album cover is the best ,my fav of all of them ,it looks like they are time travelers in the 1800s and laser beams were used to give it a bizarre effect and they used lasers in their shows also that attracted concern from the US Gov about the possibility of it blinding attendees..
I get some of the weirdest looks when im asked who my fav classic rocks bands are. And my answer is always Blue Oyster Cult and Boston. 2 completely different vibes. But i dont care. Blue Oyster Cult brings chills and strong emotions.
I love how this rejected sad soul stumbled on to something way better...and eternal 😊
Best vampire song ever! This was a pretty big hit in Seattle back when I was in high school. It got major airplay on radio. Elsewhere, not as much, I'm told. That quiet guitar break Buck uses in this song, like in the one in '(Don't Fear) the Reaper', always adds an element of mystery.
I've been listening to them since 1976 when I was 13 years old. I have throughout my life owned most of their albums. But of all their songs, and I have loved so many of them, this song is my all-time favorite. It is timeless, perfection on every level, in every way. I know of no other song that creates such embience, evokes such powerful emotion. The vocal harmonies are flawless, the keyboards are haunting, but that guitar works on so many levels, it evokes such pathos, such sorrow and longing, yet so much willing resignation a sweet surrender. In the live version, you should know, there is another verse and then the chorus continues on so the actual version was supposed to be about 7 minutes long. I wish that they had released a full 7 minute studio version with the chorus and guitar trailing off into infinity. After all the song is about a vampiress and vampires never die...🧛♀️
Thanks for doing this song. Deep Deep Cut.
One of my top favs of theirs.
Please continue to explore BOC.
If I may suggest, Veteran of the Psychic Wars. A deep cut from their early 80's.
Deeper...Veins, Death Valley Nights, Tenderloin, Devine Wind,
Don't Turn Your Back, Morning Final....
Great reaction Maggie ! My favorite band. First time saw live in 1973, outdoors in Central Park, NYC. Peace & Love, Tom
No let me elaborate this album got me through a few months of my life. Every song felt so in tune. I didn’t know how much of a Goth I was. I thought I was just a nerd, but this music is too good to dismiss The lyrics are all pure science fiction and horror the highest caliber the guitarist is from some other planet and their vocals sound like a UFO landing
Their early records were sort of muddy sounding, meant to recreate a "live" sound (read: cheap production costs). Starting with the Agents of Fortune album, they came out with a much cleaner sound and found much greater commercial success.
oh sister this song is such a breeze I Love it! thanks 4 reacting to one of my favourite bands.
This is maybe a vampire song from one of my favorite bands. BOC have so many different music styles just for a heavy metal/hardrock band. Love it.
By the way: Holy cheese muffins? I prefer blueberry chocolate ones ;-)
Definitely a vampire love song. She had to be invited in and the only thing a mirror would tell you in one look is that you don't have a reflection.
Yeah, definitely an incredibly great song. Haunting and beautiful
I love watching your reaction to great harmonies. I recommend The Beatles' "Because" from the Abbey Road album ❤
The ambiance of this masterpiece song perfectly captures the man's euphoric feelings under the repeated attacks from the Vampiress in white. The lyrics focus on the man transforming into her vampiric minion & losing his humanity while under her hypnotic spell.
Vampires put their victims under hypnotic spells where they feel nothing but euphoria. Draining all the blood means death. Repeated attacks while not completely draining the blood will turn a human into a Vampiric servant to the Vampire that turned them.
"If only you had been there my dear We could have shared this together" - His last thoughts of his girlfriend who just broke up with him.
"No mortal was meant to know such wonder One look in the mirror told me so" - He is losing his reflection. (Vampires have no reflection in mirrors).
Debate has been is she a vampire or a ghost? Nosferatu is for sure vampire based on the very old silent film Nosferatu
Nosferatu is an atmospheric classic!
She's a vampire. One look in the mirror told me so.
Or.....is she Cocaine?? I've seen That debated, as well.
Definitely different than Godzilla! But another monster song....She's a Vampire!..and he joins her....BOC can play anything from a smooth ballads like this from Buck Dharma, a breezy but eerie love song like Don't Fear the Reaper, to progy epics like Astronomy, to flat out ballls to the Wall rockers like Cities on Flame and Dominance and Submission..and their harmonies are always top shelf..Do more BOC!!!
Most impressive .
I bought this album in 1977 first time I heard I love the night I knew it was a vampire song way back then
Also on this album: "Nosferatu", and "Godzilla".
You need to hear Pink Floyd Live "Run Like Hell"
Blue Oyster Cult have so many great songs
Please check out
Burning for You and Cities on Flame
This song always hits me hard. It’s so haunting. The video is sad,too.
I loved this album
whats not to like ! ?
You should listen to their song "She's As Beautiful As A Foot" from their debut album. It's hauntingly beautiful too.
You should check out the live version of Then Came The Last Days Of May from Blue Oyster Cult On Your Feet Or On Your Knees album. If you like the guitar on I Love The Night you'll love it on this song. Make sure it's the On Your Feet Or On Your Knees version.
Yess
Check out light years of love
Boom 💥! Good one.
Yo fellow night person ,, great review ,, BOC is my top band ,,very underrated !
Giving you a like just because you checked this out. Vastly underrated band. Buck Dharma on guitar is one BAMF.
I KNEW IT, I knew it, I Knew you would like this song!🥰
The UK had Pink Floyd; the USA has Blue Oyster Cult. Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser is as great a guitarist as David Gilmour, and his singing chops are as good also. "The Golden Age of Leather" from this album, Spectres, is excellent too!
This song is about a guy getting turned by a beautiful woman. They have another song called After Dark which, I imagine, is the same guy after the novelty wears off.
I'd like to suggest The Great Sun Jester as another BOC great. And Al Stewart is a singer-songwriter well worth some listening.
ah vampires ...my fave song of theirs played at my wedding will be played at my funeral .
Nosferatu from the same album ...or last days of May from a hard nights day video
seeing you like old music listen to DOLLI AND THE LUXE - ROCK VS OPERA
Check out light years if love
Love this song. Shot Mike o7
BOC, the worlds biggest underground group.
BTW Great Show
Great show. I got to see them live at least five or six times back in the mid and late 70's. Buck Dharma wrote and played lead guitar as well as sang this song. Some live versions are better. Eric Bloom also wrote some great BOC songs.
Please listen to fly away on the wings of the wind by Diana Ankudinova
You should react to "Golden Age of Leather"...
You know the guy singing is a Vampire,that's what the sinh is about.Hope I didn't ruin it for you,it's a beautiful song!!!@
You DO understand that she is a Vampire, and he is giving himself to her to be TURNED, right??
Vampire love
Want to blow up any preconceived notions you may be developing about this band? All I gots ta say is "Seven Screaming Diz-busters". 😂😂😂
Such a great tune.
This band has sooo much talent and range.
the ONE thing...is vocals are NOT top notch.
And thats from a diehard fan. If they had a great singer everyone would know about them, of that I'm sure.