Worked on this video back in the 80's as a Production Assistant. The cave/dream scenes were actually shot inside Bronson Cave which was "the Bat Cave" (from the TV Show version of BatMan). The band members were fun to work with and not snotty or stuck up and the girls/dancers were all fabulous and 80's hair beautiful. I was 20 or so and amazed by the whole music video biz, I really learned so much. Good times in 80's Hollywood!! I miss those days.
Wow! Never would have guessed it was Bronson Cave. That is a pretty infamous location, and I'm surprised I didn't recognize it. Thanks, that's really interesting to find out. Cheers.
That's awesome bro. I was born in 80 n my older sis loves this song..I would play my older brothers cassette tapes n my sis heard when I had this song on n told me she loved the song.. I wish she was doing better these days.. Awesome memory for u tho
If you don't mind me asking what did you wind up getting into from being a production assistant? Very interesting..i know i already commented but I was so curious I couldn't not ask you..
I remember, one afternoon in like 1990-91, I was doing 'the bread route' as a salesman and was down in the south bay, listening to KSJO, when they said, "Tonight, one night only, at New George's in San Rafael, Soft White Underbelly." That was it - I canceled any further sales calls and jammed my '88 Mustang 5.0 GT as fast as I could back from Santa Clara to the office in San Rafael, grabbed my little brother (family biz) called our closest friends and got down to New George's by 5PM before the crowd caught on. BOC did not let us down...10 feet in front of Buck in a 200 person bar....My ears did melt and then my eyes!
Criminally underrated band. Buck, Eric, Alan, Al, and Joe are made up one of the greatest bands if all time. The Blue Oyster Cult was ahead of their time. They still are. Thankfully, they created a treasure trove of sonic gems to enjoy for the rest of my life. 😁
Definitely during the early eighties and the old MTV years and BOC Kind of sounding a little new wave with this song and I graduated high school in 1983 and I'm 58 now and this really takes you back in time and wishing you had it back, g'day y'all from Oklahoma.
This is such a great bass line...I didn't know it was Jackson either until I read the liner notes about a month ago...I've only had the vinyl album since the early 80s...
"He said you do need help my friend", I whispered, "Obviously" Love this tune, the guitar work in between versus, and all the solos, horns ect. just so melodic and even the electronics, hot at the time, work in my opinion, great lyrics, ," Remove yourself from her side, do without her love" , I also like, " I could mail a letter to you but, I still have my pride." Great Song
Lyrically, the song is about a romantic couple in a dysfunctional relationship, in which keep breaking up and getting back together again. The couple breaks up and gets back together 3 times. Every time they break up, a "shooting shark" lights up the sky. It is not entirely clear exactly what that is, but it seems to be some sort of celestial event, like a meteor shower. The "magic man" is a fortune teller/tarot card reader who advises the protagonist to finally let go of the relationship and move on. When the couple breaks up for the 4th time at the end of the song, "the 4th time around is the last time around, there is nothing else to say". The cycle has been broken. Buck releasing the dove at the end of the video symbolizes him finally finding peace. Thanks to Patti Smith for writing the poem that went on to became the lyrics.
Thanks for the explanation . I've always loved the song . One of my favorites even though there's NOT enough cowbell . This is back when MIAMI VICE was a big deal .
underated all round band, i'm sad that they don't have more popularity they could've changed the thinking of many generations in my opinion. Their songs make me feel like i am part of an imaginary world that i wish was true.
"Sick of hauling your love around,wanna run this train alone,but the engine tracks straight through your heart and weighs me like a stone" what badass lyrics only from a band like BOC, it never ceases to make me wonder were the real music has gone?
Born & Raised on Long Island myself.. saw them as stalk forrest, soft white underbelly then Amazing Blue Oyster Cult... Greatest Band in my day n still are!!
Saw them in about '81 when they did a kind of "secret " tour for Fire Of Unknown Origin. They announced the show as The Soft White Underbelly. David Rotor opened up the show ( he got boo'd off the stage.) David actually wrote some stuff for BOC. Anyway, I think it wasn't too long after that when Albert got the ax and they brought in Rick Downey who was their drum tech. These guys were my first concert ('79) and will always be my favorite band.
I got a BOC compilation several years ago. Making dinner while playing it, I heard TWO songs I remembered from years ago I had no idea was them: In Thee ("Well I wrap myself in cities I travel, I wrap myself in dreams ...) and Shooting Shark. The former I'd always wondered what it was and who did it, and SS I simply forgot about until it played on my CD. It was a trip as my synapses devoted to that melody awaked from their 20-year slumber. I said to myself, "the chorus is gonna go, 'sick of haulin your love around ...' and 'three times I sent you back from me, three times something something something ... blah blah, shooting shark lighting up THE sky!'" LOL. Quite a musical reunion moment.
Interesting. In Thee was written by Allan Lanier and Shooting Shark's lyrics were based on a poem by his long time girlfriend Patti Smith, yes that Patti Smith.
Pure coincidence, but as I was reading your post and listening to the song, the song and the written lyrics " three times I sent you back from me" synchronized. it's funny how lyrics in your head that have be idle for 20 years can comeback. It was good reading your post
This is the first time I've heard this song and I'm 45. Great 80's sounding song but very different from the BOC I know. Sounds like it should be in Miami Vice.
Buck looked so young there and when this came out I was only 18 myself! This song is one of their all time best songs and here is set to such a weird video. Like a lot of the great 80's songs this video does the song no justice whatsoever. Better to just listen to it and come up with your own imagery.
Awesome band. Rock magicians... From really heavy, catchy as hell to weird as f*ck - you get the lot and in each genre they dabble in the songs are just always so brilliant.
I saw BOC at Prince Georges Community College in Largo Md. in 1973 for a couple of bucks in our gym with no stage effects. It was total insanity. They had this four guitar attack that I'd never seen. They were menacing but kind of funny too. They took everyone to the stars that night for the price of a six pack. I will never forget those first few albums. No other band has done what they've done.
Vincent Diorio When l was 6 years old Deep Purple played in South Houston, TX at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church bazaar for FREE right after they'd released Machine Head. That day influenced my life SO MUCH l'm a studio musician & teacher - as well as a live player. It's those kindsa shows that IMPACT US FOR LIFE!
Cool. I saw BTO and REO speedway playing together in a high-school gym in Omaha. Don't care for either but for 5 bucks it was a fun thing to do at 14. Great times to live through. Then technology and hip hop took over and the world changed for the worst.
I didn't care much for this song until I heard it played live. It's one of their most moving, soulful numbers. And Buck's solos just seem to carry you far from this world. This was the highlight of my experience, the last time I saw them live. The other songs were great, but there was something very special about this one.
@@brademerick9181 it's a Patti Smith lyric. Could it be about Allen Lanier? Edit: I just re-read the lyrics and checked the dating and some other facts and I believe the song really is about Allen. It's very likely the lyric was written about five years before the song was released. The lyric describes a process of breaking up a relationship, a series of splitting up and getting back together, searching for answers about your partner's behavior and your feelings towards them. It's beautifully written as expected of Patti. She captured the complexities involved in a breakup. In other readings about what happened, Patti could not reconcile her feelings for Allen and his talents with some of his behaviors on the road. I'm sure the breakup had to be a process over time. Both were complex, creative individuals who felt strongly for each other. It makes sense that writing a song like this would be cathartic to that process.
I did not like these guys in the old days, but a friend made me listen to this song, and now I appreciate them. Great song. Not that my approval is needed.
A top ten '80s favourite. These guys were not promoted into the big leagues, this song would be played on the local station here in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at 2:00 am. It sounded even better at that time, the best.
Shooting Shark Is An Absolutely Awesome Spectacular Great Straight Up KickAss Rock N Roll Song By Blue Oyster Cult And Totally Rocks It Needs To Be Fully Cranked Up All The Way To Full Maximum Volume.🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
This has been my favorite 80s BOC song ever (and if it weren't for "Harvest Moon" my favorite post-classic-era song period) since I first heard it on "Workshop", but I had no idea til today that it had a video and got decent MTV airplay.
Another Classic from a time when there was so many Great Groups producing Classics like this . Wish those times were back again. Stay safe and well all of you out there, from the UK 2021
@@SpaceLord2025 Joe was the bass player. Albert was the drummer: "Albert Thomas Bouchard is an American musician. He is a founding member and the original drummer of the hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult".
@@bradstensland506 i miss read it. i googled that shit. and got this... (Comments133. Albert Bouchard did not play on this album (Rick Downey was the drummer), and the bass on this track was Randy Jackson, not Joe (who was on the album, just not the bass player on this song).....
Graduated from college the other day while a family member drove me back from the ceremony this song came on from shuffle. I've never heard it before. While this song was playing I saw a girl who meant the world to me who drove off with her boyfriend after we confessed our feelings to each other over the year. I think that is the last time I will ever see her in person, with Shooting Sharks playing by BOC. I will always think of that time when this song comes on.
This song will remind you of a woman if you have been in a situation similar to yours. Some of us can identify with this song. I haven't been in the exact same situation as the one that you are describing, but let's just say it's something, somewhat, similar.🎵⚡🤘
I've loved this song for decades, even though I barely knew what it was about. I never saw this video before today, however.I think I now understand the song even less than I did before.
There's no such thing as "BOCs greatest song". There're only very good, awesome and pure awesome. Just listen to "Astronomy", "Veterans of the psychic wars", "Feel the thunder", "Flaming Telepaths", "Cities on Flame", "Subhuman" (random pick) and try to choose the best. Simply impossible
Right on, their first 5 albums are pretty much perfect, and from then there are rarely any 'just ok' songs here and there, between all the Masterpieces the band has produced
Que música excelente! Que atmosfera soturna e romantica, além de envolver aspectos de bruxaria. Com certeza é um clássico pela sonoridade, temática obscura e romântica. Excelente para escutar num bar e pensar naquela desgraçada que voce venderia sua alma para tê-la novamente.
Worked on this video back in the 80's as a Production Assistant. The cave/dream scenes were actually shot inside Bronson Cave which was "the Bat Cave" (from the TV Show version of BatMan). The band members were fun to work with and not snotty or stuck up and the girls/dancers were all fabulous and 80's hair beautiful. I was 20 or so and amazed by the whole music video biz, I really learned so much. Good times in 80's Hollywood!! I miss those days.
Wow! Never would have guessed it was Bronson Cave. That is a pretty infamous location, and I'm surprised I didn't recognize it. Thanks, that's really interesting to find out. Cheers.
That’s the COOLEST “I was there” story ever ❤️
The good old days 😉
That's awesome bro. I was born in 80 n my older sis loves this song..I would play my older brothers cassette tapes n my sis heard when I had this song on n told me she loved the song.. I wish she was doing better these days.. Awesome memory for u tho
If you don't mind me asking what did you wind up getting into from being a production assistant? Very interesting..i know i already commented but I was so curious I couldn't not ask you..
The best song most people haven’t heard.
I agree. Turned my daughter on to it. And Bad Company.
Definitely, it was my favourite on "Revolution By Night" by some margin - a hidden gem
Do you know what year it came out I'm 60 now love the song one of the best that BOC came out with in the 1980's
Totally agree -- super underrated!
@@jakehorn5205 Album: Revolution by night. Year: 1983
Heard this one live a few months ago, they still got it
I remember, one afternoon in like 1990-91, I was doing 'the bread route' as a salesman and was down in the south bay, listening to KSJO, when they said, "Tonight, one night only, at New George's in San Rafael, Soft White Underbelly."
That was it - I canceled any further sales calls and jammed my '88 Mustang 5.0 GT as fast as I could back from Santa Clara to the office in San Rafael, grabbed my little brother (family biz) called our closest friends and got down to New George's by 5PM before the crowd caught on.
BOC did not let us down...10 feet in front of Buck in a 200 person bar....My ears did melt and then my eyes!
This song is much different sound of boc. that a heard manny other songs of boc. but is very interesting sounds to me hy from croatia all boc. fans
Criminally underrated band. Buck, Eric, Alan, Al, and Joe are made up one of the greatest bands if all time. The Blue Oyster Cult was ahead of their time. They still are. Thankfully, they created a treasure trove of sonic gems to enjoy for the rest of my life. 😁
couldn't agree more seen them many, many times over 48 years
They're far from underrated.
Well said......
not underrated!!! never have been!!!
Pure Eighties essence. I am born in these years. The song is very nice
Seriously can't get enough of this song
I listen whenever I do DMT
I can lol
@@avatar2xl Depeche Mode Time!!!!! 🤣😍
Yes, kids, the music videos of the 80's were something to behold.
just realized from watching this that Buck Dharma is actually the Edger Allen Poe of rock :P
wholly shit yes he does look like pics of Poe
Yeah! He looks like Poe a lot! Never noticed.. until now hahaha
This comment should have more likes!
No that would be Alan Parsons Project LOL
But he's got a sense of homour to go with the dark side.
Poor Buck! His dream girl turned into a goat. I hate it when that happens!!
Yeah, but if you love her you can make it work.
Hasn't that ever happened to you?
Yeah, and after the fourth time around, I quit...for now...
Well, as the Four Tops sang, "Ain't no loving like a one-eyed goat", or something like that. 😉
Too much cowbell
Shooting Shark has the best guitar fills of any song I’ve ever heard. BOC = Legends
Boc has a way of changing their sound all the time n a lot of their songs have a mysterious sound :)
I've met Buck Dharma twice and got his autograph both times. Guitar legend with a great singing voice, and a class act. Love him and the others.
Such a great guitar player.
Donald and Eric are great guys. Got both their autographs after a show, and got to chat with them both.
I fell in love with this song the first time I heard it.
Same. I saw them play this at our city's music fest way back in 2003 and I had never heard it before, but I had to look it up after the show.
@@pinkfreud62 One of my top ten favorite songs ever.
I love the guitar solos while he sings the versus
Definitely during the early eighties and the old MTV years and BOC
Kind of sounding a little new wave with this song and I graduated
high school in 1983 and I'm 58 now and this really takes you back
in time and wishing you had it back, g'day y'all from Oklahoma.
Buck Dharma has always looked like a nice man. And he is a great guy I’ve met him.
0:58 I just wanted to say I have that same dresser in my guest bedroom. Carry on.
BOC are true honest to God artists, they deserve the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame more than a lot of artists who were inducted.
In my opinion their art is on too high a level for the HOF. BOC is like a fine aged red wine; the HOF is Miller beer.
Bah! who needs the hall of fame! Most of the staff probably wouldn't even know more than two songs by BOC anyway.
If ever there was a band that could give less of a fuck about "Hall of Fame". We, the fans know. The band knows. That's all that matters.
HoF is a joke. Thay inducted Madonna 8 years earlier than Deep Purple. That and the fact thay did not get BOC tells you all you need to know
@@IMajst3RI Madonna isn't even Rock n Roll
I love this song, especially Randy Jackson's bass line. Yeah, that's him and it's a bass driven song.
+ghostdancer2302 i so agree with you!
ghostdancer2302 really?randy Jackson huh? I honestly hadn't ever heard that
Yes! That Randy Jackson! Worked with a lot of rock bands back in the day. Google him, you'll see.
This is such a great bass line...I didn't know it was Jackson either until I read the liner notes about a month ago...I've only had the vinyl album since the early 80s...
He *makes* the song ! ;-)
the solo guitar and the voice of buck dharma ,made this song immortal
I love this beautiful song. One of my favorites. "Take Me Away" is my other favorite song of theirs.❤ 0:24
Great album. I was young
"He said you do need help my friend", I whispered, "Obviously" Love this tune, the guitar work in between versus, and all the solos, horns ect. just so melodic and even the electronics, hot at the time, work in my opinion, great lyrics, ," Remove yourself from her side, do without her love" , I also like, " I could mail a letter to you but, I still have my pride." Great Song
Lyrically, the song is about a romantic couple in a dysfunctional relationship, in which keep breaking up and getting back together again. The couple breaks up and gets back together 3 times. Every time they break up, a "shooting shark" lights up the sky. It is not entirely clear exactly what that is, but it seems to be some sort of celestial event, like a meteor shower. The "magic man" is a fortune teller/tarot card reader who advises the protagonist to finally let go of the relationship and move on.
When the couple breaks up for the 4th time at the end of the song, "the 4th time around is the last time around, there is nothing else to say". The cycle has been broken. Buck releasing the dove at the end of the video symbolizes him finally finding peace.
Thanks to Patti Smith for writing the poem that went on to became the lyrics.
Thanks for the explanation . I've always loved the song . One of my favorites even though there's NOT enough cowbell . This is back when MIAMI VICE was a big deal .
@@BruceStephan Yet another dumb cowbell comment.
badass lyrics huh!!
This is the first time that I've heard this song in almost (30) years and it still sounds fresh and new.
Mark Twain, I agree.
I just saw them on 8/26 at the Backlot Bash in Cicero (Chicago), IL. It was vibrant, crisp and awesome. Check YT and see if someone taped it.
@@prgray77 That's Backlot Bash in Skokie, IL...and that was a great show!!!
underated all round band, i'm sad that they don't have more popularity they could've changed the thinking of many generations in my opinion. Their songs make me feel like i am part of an imaginary world that i wish was true.
Hey... were certainly getting old... but still love The Cult
"Sick of hauling your love around,wanna run this train alone,but the engine tracks straight through your heart and weighs me like a stone" what badass lyrics only from a band like BOC, it never ceases to make me wonder were the real music has gone?
Patti Smith = writer of a bunch of BOC songs...this one as well.
Can't understand the lines as an non English speaker.
@@sunstar9709 it's metaphorical. The lyrics are a poem describing the breakup of a relationship.
@Jhon Houlgate thanks, it's like he wants to go elsewhere but it always leads him to her like a railway track would.
@@JohnHoulgate thanks
This song have such magical chorus
i love this song shooting shark.
Me too!
Born & Raised on Long Island myself.. saw them as stalk forrest, soft white underbelly then Amazing Blue Oyster Cult... Greatest Band in my day n still are!!
Saw them in about '81 when they did a kind of "secret " tour for Fire Of Unknown Origin. They announced the show as The Soft White Underbelly. David Rotor opened up the show ( he got boo'd off the stage.) David actually wrote some stuff for BOC. Anyway, I think it wasn't too long after that when Albert got the ax and they brought in Rick Downey who was their drum tech. These guys were my first concert ('79) and will always be my favorite band.
the very
best song of this band
i like so much
1983
The bass line it's otherworldly so its the song!
Really underrated song. Love that bass.
Randy Jackson he is.
@@bradstensland506, please don't insult Joe like that.
@@gregggoss2210 excuse me? Randy Jackson played bass on that song...prove me wrong.
Love it when they play this at their shows!
Best BOC song few people have heard....
I got a BOC compilation several years ago. Making dinner while playing it, I heard TWO songs I remembered from years ago I had no idea was them: In Thee ("Well I wrap myself in cities I travel, I wrap myself in dreams ...) and Shooting Shark. The former I'd always wondered what it was and who did it, and SS I simply forgot about until it played on my CD. It was a trip as my synapses devoted to that melody awaked from their 20-year slumber. I said to myself, "the chorus is gonna go, 'sick of haulin your love around ...' and 'three times I sent you back from me, three times something something something ... blah blah, shooting shark lighting up THE sky!'" LOL. Quite a musical reunion moment.
Interesting. In Thee was written by Allan Lanier and Shooting Shark's lyrics were based on a poem by his long time girlfriend Patti Smith, yes that Patti Smith.
Pure coincidence, but as I was reading your post and listening to the song, the song and the written lyrics " three times I sent you back from me" synchronized. it's funny how lyrics in your head that have be idle for 20 years can comeback. It was good reading your post
This song is so goood.
Out of all the decades. The 1970's/1980's to me is the BEST in music, tv shows, going to the mall and just hanging out. "WE HAD IT ALL."
Today's life is all about reflections of a Black Mirror episode.
June 16,2021 and I made it to 62 years old and BOC has been there every step of the way love this song
The Best Underrated Band of All DAMN TIME!! No credit ever given to these guys!?!?
This song was big on MTV back in 1983 but it’s largely forgotten now. It sucks because it’s one of their most underrated songs
I love this song and album my fave. Why wasn't this a hit
This is my absolute favorite BOC song!!!!!!
Same!
Same
me too
same, and they have a lot of great ones!
This is the first time I've heard this song and I'm 45. Great 80's sounding song but very different from the BOC I know. Sounds like it should be in Miami Vice.
Funny you mentioned that.The 1st time I heard this song was on a 45-Dancin' in the Ruins was the other side!😂
Some Alan Parsons Project there.
I first heard it when I was 12, circa 2000. Most of my favorite music was made before my time.
This was one of their records that didn't chart very well.
Boy you should listen to Club Ninja. Full 80s bliss. Doesn’t sound like BÖC, but it’s really great in its own way!
Buck looked so young there and when this came out I was only 18 myself! This song is one of their all time best songs and here is set to such a weird video. Like a lot of the great 80's songs this video does the song no justice whatsoever. Better to just listen to it and come up with your own imagery.
100% agree!! I dearly love this song!!! The video is silly by comparison and detracts from the depth and emotion of this masterpiece!
The cults rather maligned period. And I never understood why.
Great songs this one especially.
yeah as confusing as Rush's synth era...I frikkn love PROG rock bands that progress with the times.
Time has definitely been kind to Blue Öyster Cult; their music has aged incredibly well.
I just can't get enough of B.O.C.!
+Ｋᶦᶫᶫᵉʳᵃᶰᵈᵘᶰᵈᵉʳᵗᵃᵏᵉʳ I agree. My favorite band of all time.
Careful. One wrong letter hit and that sentence becomes something totally different LOL. I agree, Blue Oyster C is amazing!!!
British Broadcasting Company? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
LOL See...you and I should be friends!
For sure! Nice record collection. I subscribed.
Awesome, broken relationships, so many artists sing about their pain in their own way.
True.
Awesome band. Rock magicians...
From really heavy, catchy as hell to weird as f*ck - you get the lot and in each genre they dabble in the songs are just always so brilliant.
Truthfully I became a BOC fan in 1981
💖😎🤟🏾👏🏾👏🏾
79
I saw BOC at Prince Georges Community College in Largo Md. in 1973 for a couple of bucks in our gym with no stage effects. It was total insanity. They had this four guitar attack that I'd never seen. They were menacing but kind of funny too. They took everyone to the stars that night for the price of a six pack. I will never forget those first few albums. No other band has done what they've done.
Vincent Diorio When l was 6 years old Deep Purple played in South Houston, TX at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church bazaar for FREE right after they'd released Machine Head. That day influenced my life SO MUCH l'm a studio musician & teacher - as well as a live player. It's those kindsa shows that IMPACT US FOR LIFE!
I just read this post. I would love to hear a very detailed memory of this and the positive fallout....big fan of Buck and the boys
Cool. I saw BTO and REO speedway playing together in a high-school gym in Omaha. Don't care for either but for 5 bucks it was a fun thing to do at 14.
Great times to live through. Then technology and hip hop took over and the world changed for the worst.
Love this song, think Randy Jackson played bass on this one. Awesome hit, the other songs on this album are good too!
i think that blue oyster cult is the most underrated band on rock history
It is ♥️
What makes you believe they're underrated? Please explain.
@@gogoyubari366 what do you mean they have countless bangers 😂
Correct. And still on tour, still putting out great music.
I think you would be right if Wishbone Ash did not existed!
Brilliant
I didn't care much for this song until I heard it played live. It's one of their most moving, soulful numbers. And Buck's solos just seem to carry you far from this world. This was the highlight of my experience, the last time I saw them live. The other songs were great, but there was something very special about this one.
that's how i feel about Buck's solos, too. they transport me.
A song about obsession and never being able to let someone go . Betrayed , but still love her still .
@@brademerick9181 it's a Patti Smith lyric. Could it be about Allen Lanier?
Edit: I just re-read the lyrics and checked the dating and some other facts and I believe the song really is about Allen. It's very likely the lyric was written about five years before the song was released. The lyric describes a process of breaking up a relationship, a series of splitting up and getting back together, searching for answers about your partner's behavior and your feelings towards them. It's beautifully written as expected of Patti. She captured the complexities involved in a breakup. In other readings about what happened, Patti could not reconcile her feelings for Allen and his talents with some of his behaviors on the road. I'm sure the breakup had to be a process over time. Both were complex, creative individuals who felt strongly for each other. It makes sense that writing a song like this would be cathartic to that process.
@@JohnHoulgate Actually my comment was actually about myself and how i view the song , but you might be right as well .
Eh. This song is still kind of soulLESS to me simply because of the terrible 1984 production.
This song brings me to the only one night stand i ever had. Such a good song and band. The Box is my favorite Quebec band ever!!
...and the beauty of Blue Oyster Cult shows itself again. What an overlooked track!!
I have always loved this song for some reason...
Excellent tune!!! Still have the "Revolution By Night" on vinyl that I bought in late '83
Excellent!respect
I did not like these guys in the old days, but a friend made me listen to this song, and now I appreciate them. Great song. Not that my approval is needed.
Almost 40 years ago when I 1st saw this video I thought it was the best video I had ever seen. Jammin' song.
LOVE THE SONG!!!!! Video has NOTHING to do with the honest emotion of the song!!!
Bucking Frilliant!!:)
Ryan Gettig - As was your comment! Nice one!!
Yer funny....gotta use that
i saw you guys @ astroworld it was the best concert i have ever been to. i will never forget it!!!
A top ten '80s favourite. These guys were not promoted into the big leagues, this song would be played on the local station here in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at 2:00 am. It sounded even better at that time, the best.
The magician looks like grandpa joad. My favorite boc song
and this is why I will love BOC until my dying day.
Aubrey Smith I'm with you all the way Aubrey
+Aubrey Smith I think I love you.
+Sudeep Joshi Try Secret Treaties and Spectres - IMHO, the best of BOC and therefore the best music EVER.
+Duck Bharma Easily......easily - altho self-titled & OYK (and yes, even Imaginos) aren't far behind
Aubrey Smith JIST CAN'T GET ENUFF OF THERE MUSIC
Seen BOC four times, never disappointed me great band 😎
Shooting Shark Is An Absolutely Awesome Spectacular Great Straight Up KickAss Rock N Roll Song By Blue Oyster Cult And Totally Rocks It Needs To Be Fully Cranked Up All The Way To Full Maximum Volume.🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
I've always loved this song, there's a feel about it that I can't put into words.
That synth beat is hypnotic.
The ultimate 80's song I can imagine this song being in a 80's movie god I wish I lived through the 80's
One of the best songs of all time. I am an alien from another dimension(LIVERPOOL ENGLAND) and i adore this song.
This has been my favorite 80s BOC song ever (and if it weren't for "Harvest Moon" my favorite post-classic-era song period) since I first heard it on "Workshop", but I had no idea til today that it had a video and got decent MTV airplay.
Harvest Moon has had a lot of head-radio play for the past few months...that and Florida Man, since I'm moving there! :D
Another Classic from a time when there was so many Great Groups producing Classics like this . Wish those times were back again. Stay safe and well all of you out there, from the UK 2021
AAAHHHHH!!!!! Love it!!! Uni-brow, and Yoko Onoooooo in a cauldron. Joe Bouchard stepping in for Randy Jackson on video!!!
@@SpaceLord2025 Joe was the bass player. Albert was the drummer:
"Albert Thomas Bouchard is an American musician. He is a founding member and the original drummer of the hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult".
@@bradstensland506 i miss read it. i googled that shit. and got this... (Comments133. Albert Bouchard did not play on this album (Rick Downey was the drummer), and the bass on this track was Randy Jackson, not Joe (who was on the album, just not the bass player on this song).....
Graduated from college the other day while a family member drove me back from the ceremony this song came on from shuffle. I've never heard it before. While this song was playing I saw a girl who meant the world to me who drove off with her boyfriend after we confessed our feelings to each other over the year. I think that is the last time I will ever see her in person, with Shooting Sharks playing by BOC. I will always think of that time when this song comes on.
This song will remind you of a woman if you have been in a situation similar to yours. Some of us can identify with this song. I haven't been in the exact same situation as the one that you are describing, but let's just say it's something, somewhat, similar.🎵⚡🤘
To me this music video is Oscar worthy . Never get tired of it
I had no idea there was a video to this song I love this song back in the 80s it was great it's like listening to a Dungeons & Dragons song
Genesis: I Can Feel It Coming was my D&D song. that and Police: Spirits In the Material World, and DEFINITELY this song.
Such great lyrics, this song got me over a sad break-up.
My favorite BOC song
I've seen them at least a dozen times,starting in 1977. Such a great band,always kicked ass!
Seen them in the 80s, one of my favorite top 10 bands
Saw em on that tour with Zebra & Dokken. All 3 were good but the arena was empty.
I've loved this song for decades, even though I barely knew what it was about. I never saw this video before today, however.I think I now understand the song even less than I did before.
Perfect reaction to the video
im surprised no one has noticed buck's acting skills!!!! hell i think they all can. if ya ask me..
There's no such thing as "BOCs greatest song". There're only very good, awesome and pure awesome. Just listen to "Astronomy", "Veterans of the psychic wars", "Feel the thunder", "Flaming Telepaths", "Cities on Flame", "Subhuman" (random pick) and try to choose the best. Simply impossible
mebelbodzio fear the reaper
Like Perfect Water that was perfectly stated
I don't know man. "Veteran Of The Psychic Wars" is pretty awesome.
don't neglect the NEW STUDIO album, "The Symbol Remains"! ua-cam.com/video/j4TFfTSUbto/v-deo.html&ab_channel=FrontiersMusicsrl
Right on, their first 5 albums are pretty much perfect, and from then there are rarely any 'just ok' songs here and there, between all the Masterpieces the band has produced
I love this song -- their best, in my opinion, and terribly underrated.
Que música excelente! Que atmosfera soturna e romantica, além de envolver aspectos de bruxaria. Com certeza é um clássico pela sonoridade, temática obscura e romântica. Excelente para escutar num bar e pensar naquela desgraçada que voce venderia sua alma para tê-la novamente.
I remember watching this video on MTV when they still played music videos. I couldn't take my eyes off the TV very mesmerizing
Don Looks pretty athletic...he tackled a goat🙂
Randy Jackson on bass and lyrics from a Patti Smith poem. I love that they weren't afraid to bring on the best to make some weird magic.
Buck dharma is a fucking genius and doesn’t get the credit he deserves
If you like this song then punch in Take Me Away off of the same album. It absolutely rocks!!!!
and the song I Love the Night too.
Not even close. Shooting shark, brings out a sadness, despair and melancholy, the other song can't reach.
They're both great songs.
Pretty sure Aldo Nova played on that one
Another cool video.
You know what song is my favorite from B.O.C is THE VIGIL.
Beautiful crafted song
Rock music's greatest rugby tackle! The goat's comedy timing is also impeccable. Great, great song. Fresh for '83! Total respect to Buck D and BoC.
Saw them perform this song at Del Lago Casino in Waterloo, NY in February 2020. They played to a sold-out venue. It was AWESOME!
The new album is great too.
Did I forgot to mention, that I love BOC?
It's awesome to see a young Buck Dharma in action, too -
Has anyone else ever noticed how similar the music to this song is to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall"? Especially @2:11.