The Revolution By Night - Blue Öyster Cult

The Revolution By Night

Blue Öyster Cult

  • Genre: Hard Rock
  • Release Date: 1987-10-13
  • Explicitness: notExplicit
  • Country: USA
  • Track Count: 9

  • ℗ 1983 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Tracks

Title Artist Time
1
Take Me Away Blue Öyster Cult 4:31 USD 1.29
2
Eyes On Fire Blue Öyster Cult 3:56 USD 1.29
3
Shooting Shark Blue Öyster Cult 7:10 USD 1.29
4
Veins Blue Öyster Cult 3:59 USD 1.29
5
Shadow of California Blue Öyster Cult 5:10 USD 1.29
6
Feel the Thunder Blue Öyster Cult 5:48 USD 1.29
7
Let Go Blue Öyster Cult 3:25 USD 1.29
8
Dragon Lady Blue Öyster Cult 4:08 USD 1.29
9
Light Years of Love Blue Öyster Cult 4:06 USD 1.29

Reviews

  • The shadow of B.O.C.

    3
    By Reckia6
    Wow, what a great cover! Worth getting on vinyl for just the very dark and mysterioso cover. As for the songs, this is a pretty good album, with 3 of my favorite songs all on the first half, 'Take Me Away' 'Shooting Shark' and 'Veins'. The second half isn't as strong, though I quite like 'Shadow of California' and have a soft spot for the ballad 'Light Years of Love'. What hinders this album is the syndrums, which show up too often. I would love to hear the drums re-recorded for this album, for the songs deserve better. I do like the mix of guitars and synthesizers. I prefer this album to Fire of Unknown Origins, which felt like a bit of a sell out to me. Anyway, buy this album, darn it!
  • Vintage But Flawed Cult

    4
    By Cagey Cretin
    Although "Revolution By Night" does suffer from some dated production elements (electronic drums, etc.), it is actually a very solid, atmospheric BOC album, successfully cultivating the supernatural-noir aesthetic the band is legendary for on tracks such as "Take Me Away," "Shooting Shark" (lyrics by subversive rock icon and National Book Award winner Patti Smith), "Veins," "Shadow of California," and "Dragon Lady." The Cult also gives respectful nod to its procivlity for dark biker anthems on full-throttle metal nugget "Feel The Thunder," and to its occult romantic inclinations on underrated closer "Light Years Of Love." The two tracks which seriously mar the album's profile are "Let Go" and "Eyes On Fire," the former a hamfisted exercise in self-mythologizing, and the latter a forgettable power ballad by an outside songwriter which sounds like warmed-over late period Foreigner. Aside from these missteps, however, the album delivers the sinister gothic-prog vibe that is the Cult's calling card and primary appeal.
  • Great album

    5
    By TheMetalAge
    Great songs. Especially shadow of California, shooting shark, and take me away.
  • Disappointing, with 2 must-have exceptions

    3
    By Seattle Karma
    I would not recommend buying this album - it's a pretty big disappointment from a formerly great band on the decline, as BOC took to 80's hair-rock with ill-fitting results. But I would highly recommend picking up two individual tracks off this album: "Shooting Shark" is very atypical for BOC, and that's partly what makes it work so well. Whereas most of the other tunes on this album come off as cliched early-80s knockoffs, Shooting Shark stands out as a masterful pop song. Though it's drenched in synths, it sounds mysterious and beautiful, and contains some truly astounding (albeit brief, but well worth it) guitar solo work from Buck Dharma. The second must-have track is "Take Me Away", a classic BOC hard-rocker that sounds like it belonged on one of their earlier albums. It's a superior hard rock tune that stands head and shoulders above everything else on this album, and ranks right up there with their very best material. Pick up those two tracks, and leave the rest alone, because it's simply filler, and pretty bad filler at that. But do not miss either "Shooting Shark" or "Take Me Away", both of which deserved to be included amongst a much better collection than this one.
  • Curse of the 80's

    2
    By Pond4434
    This was the beginning of the end for BOC. They lost their way on this one with electronic drums, big hair chorus lines, and echo mixes. Gone were the wild vocals, mysterious lyrics, and interesting guitar riffs. Take Me Away is the only song somewhat reminiscent of classic BOC.
  • I wish there was a 4 1/2 star rating

    5
    By archangel in GA
    Well hmmmm I bought this on vinyl WAY back in the day. At that point I owned every BOC album that had been issued to that point. IMO the first three tracks can stand up to almost anything in their catalog, plus the Shooting Shark video was awesome. Buck's best work usually lurked in the background and left you gasping if you were paying attention. Veins was quirky like Joan Crawford but not nearly as interesting. Then it seemed like this quintessential East Coast band tried to ride the Asian onslaught going on at the time. Let Go ( subtitled BOC in the credits on the album ) ...... I dunno a theme song for your group after so many years..... just seemed kinda lame to me. With their body of work if you don't know who BOC is you need to go back to school, baby. So I guess for BOCrockers like me you need to buy it to complete the canon, but lighter fans or curious ones should definitely buy the first 3 tracks, all great songs, and maybe check out the rest when you know the band better. It may be cliched but they really were the thinking man's heavy metal band. Saw 'em a few times, love 'em still.....

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