Blue Oyster Cult: Cultösaurus Erectus

Camels can down 30 gallons (113 liters) of water in just 13 minutes. The water is stored in the camel bloodstream, while the fatty hump  Rather than being stored in its fatty hump serves as a source of nourishment when food is scarce. - See more at: http://www.livescience.com/28170-25-fun-facts.html#sthash.X117I2wP.dpuf

Camels can down 30 gallons (113 liters) of water in just 13 minutes. The water is stored in the camel bloodstream, while the fatty hump  Rather than being stored in its fatty hump serves as a source of nourishment when food is scarce. - See more at: http://www.livescience.com/28170-25-fun-facts.html#sthash.X117I2wP.dpuf

Blue Oyster Cult: Cultösaurus Erectus

1980

Columbia Records

Format I Own it on: Vinyl and Compact Disc

Track Listing: 1. Black Blade  2. Monsters  3. Divine Wind  4. Deadline  5. The Marshall Plan  6. Hungry Boys  7. Fallen Angel  8. Lips in the Hills  9. Unknown Tongue



Now that's an album cover!! I love that big weird dinosaur...

 And check out the Cultosaurus' slug-like body and long neck on the back cover!  Back when I had the CD version I could never find the hidden logo, but when I finally got the Vinyl version, it was  easy to spot (It's written on the tiny spaceship flying by the monster's head)...The facts underneath the photos are really great by the way...A bunch of references to Blue Oyster Cult lore...For example, who knew the Cultosaurus Erectus was a distant relative of the Horn-Swooped Bungo Pony?  That's the kind of thing they just don't teach in schools anymore...

As for the music, this record finds the band stepping away from the pop-rock sound from their last few albums and getting heavy on us again, and  manage to summon the supernatural feel that they had largely lost since "Agents of Fortune." Maybe, it's due to the fact that Eric seems to have been restored as lead singer..He actually provides vocals for the majority of the tracks...

The only real throwback to the Agents of Fortune-Spectres era is "The Marshall Plan" which you kind of have to hear to believe..It's your standard "Johnny" song...Y'know, the kind Foreigner or Bad Company would write...It's about this kid named Johnny, who decides to aid post-war Europe...

Nahhhh..It's actually about a kid deciding to become a rock star or something...But they take it so much further...As far as I can tell, Johnny takes his girl, Susie, to the Rock Show and she ends up banging the band, so Johnny gets sick of it and decides to become a rock star to get her back...And he actually ends up a successful musician...The process of which takes us from the "Smoke on the Water" riff through a guest appearance by none other than Don Kirshner himself...

(giving one of his trademark electrifying performances....)

...But in the end he still doesn't get Susie...Well,  that 's how it goes at these Rock N' Roll shows...

I find the song so hilarious and entertaining for some reason... But really, it's not very representative of the rest of the album...Like I said before, it's mostly surreal hard rock...Like album-opener "Black Blade," which rocks so much..Another collaboration with Michael Moorcock, it tells the story of some living sword, and the band plays it up to the hilt..."BLACK BLADE...ADE...ADe...Ade...ade.."
 I especially love the outro, where the "Reading Rainbow" type keyboard sequence gives way to a pissy robot...

I'd always heard the rumor that the robot or living sword or whatever drops an F-bomb at the end, but I'd never noticed it...So I decided this time around I'd put on some decent headphones and crank up the fadeout good and loud, and lo and behold, I actually heard it!  Bigger than shit, it says, "You Poor Fucking Humanzzzzzz...." So there you go...No longer a myth... Again, they don't teach you this in school, therefore, I am officially re-branding The Friday Night Record Party blog as an educational website...Here...

Holy shit, is that official!

Here are some educational facts you probably didn't know:

1. In 200 BC, when the Greek city of Sparta was at the height of its power, it was incredibly hard to get a table at the Olive Garden...

2. Ev,er,y, syll,a,ble, in, the, En,glish, lang,uage, must, have, a, com,ma,

3. Only three English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry,"  "hungry," and "lonegry."

4. The shortest complete sentence in English is the following: "Sheeeyyyiiiit..."

5. Camels can drink 30 gallons of Monster Energy Drink in 30 seconds, which they can then store in their fatty lady humps in case of an emergency skydive...

6. Want to lose 175 pounds the easy way? Move to the Moon!

7. Ending a list on an odd number gives you an itchy feeling!

And look! Here's our old friend Mr. Bookworm! He's here to remind us to keep reading this summer!  And not just the spank magazines you hide under your mattress! But real books too! Books without staples! Like "50 Shades of Grey"....

Okay, that's enough learning for today...Let's  check out"Monsters" by Blue Oyster Cult...

When a woman gets pregnant, she's not only growing a baby — - See more at: http://www.livescience.com/28170-25-fun-facts.html#sthash.X117I2wP.dpuf

can down 30 gallons (113 liters) of water in just 13 minutes. The water is stored in the camel bloodstream, while the fatty hump  Rather than being stored in its fatty hump serves as a source of nourishment when food is scarce - See more at: http://www.livescience.com/28170-25-fun-facts.html#sthash.X117I2wP.dpuf

Camels can down 30 gallons (113 liters) of water in just 13 minutes. The water is stored in the camel bloodstream, while the fatty hump  Rather than being stored in its fatty hump serves as a source of nourishment when food is scarce. - See more at: http://www.livescience.com/28170-25-fun-facts.html#sthash.X117I2wP.dpuf