The Essential Blue Öyster Cult

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll
  4:05
  3.9 ★
• 2
  Before the Kiss, a Redcap
  4:59
  3.4 ★
• 3
  Stairway to the Stars
  3:43
  3.4 ★
• 4
  Transmaniacon MC
  3:21
  3.2 ★
• 5
  Buck’s Boogie (live version)
  5:17
• 6
  The Red & The Black
  4:21
  3.9 ★
• 7
  O.D.’d on Life Itself
  4:48
• 8
  7 Screaming Diz‐Busters
  7:01
  3.8 ★
• 9
  Career of Evil
  4:00
• 10
  Flaming Telepaths
  5:18
  3.9 ★
• 11
  Astronomy
  6:28
  4.5 ★
• 12
  Hot Rail to Hell
  5:32
• 13
  Harvester of Eyes
  4:56
• 14
  M.E. 262
  8:05
• 15
  Born to Be Wild
  6:18
• CD 2
• 1
  (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
  5:08
  4.5 ★
• 2
  This Ain’t the Summer of Love
  2:21
• 3
  E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) (live)
  5:18
• 4
  Godzilla
  3:41
  3.9 ★
• 5
  I Love the Night
  4:25
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Goin’ Through the Motions
  3:12
  3.1 ★
• 7
  In Thee
  3:48
  3.2 ★
• 8
  Black Blade
  6:28
  3.6 ★
• 9
  The Marshall Plan
  5:24
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Veteran of the Psychic Wars
  4:48
  4.3 ★
• 11
  Joan Crawford
  4:54
  3.9 ★
• 12
  Burnin’ for You
  4:30
  4.4 ★
• 13
  Roadhouse Blues (live)
  9:14
• 14
  Shooting Shark
  7:09
  2.8 ★
• 15
  Take Me Away
  4:30
  3.8 ★
• 16
  Dancin’ in the Ruins
  4:00

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Release credits

• Albert Bouchard
  drums (drum set) [1.6, 1.8, 2.4-6], harmonica [4-6], lead vocals [1], percussion [7], synthesizer [7], vocal [2.4-7, 1.6, 1.8]
• Aldo Nova
  guitar [15], synthesizer [15]
• Allen Lanier
  guitar [2.4-7, 1.1-4, 1.6, 1.8], keyboard [1.1-4, 1.6, 1.8, 2.4-7]
• Andy Abrams
  engineer [1], mix [1], recording [1]
• Bill Civitella
  additional [10], percussion [10]
• Billy Robertson
  engineer [1-4]
• Blue Öyster Cult
  arranger [8-12], producer [4-6]
• Bruce Fairbairn
  producer [14-15]
• Buck Dharma
  additional [10], bass guitar [11], effects [11], guitar [1.1-4, 1.6, 1.8, 2.4-7], lead vocals [1.2, 1.6, 1.8, 2.4-7], percussion [10], vocal [1, 3-4]
• Clay Hutchinson
  engineer [8-12]
• Corky Stasiak
  additional [4-6]
• Dave Wittman
  engineer [14-15]
• David Lucas
  associate [1-4], engineer [1-4], producer [1, 4-6]
• David Thoener
  assistant [4-6]
• Eric Bloom
  guitar [2.4-7, 1.1-4, 1.6, 1.8], keyboard [1-4], lead vocals [1.3-4, 1.6, 1.8, 2.4-7], synthesizer [6, 8], vocal [1-2]
• Gary Ladinsky
  mix [7], recording [7]
• Geoff Sykes
  additional [7], assistant [7]
• Gray Russell
  assistant [4-6]
• Jai Winding
  strings [7]
• Jay Krugman
  assistant [4-6]
• Jerry Smith
  engineer [10-11]
• Jesse Levy
  strings [10-11]
• Joe Bouchard
  bass [1-4], bass guitar [1.6, 1.8, 2.4-7], guitar [4-6], keyboard [6, 8], vocal [2.4-7, 1.1-4, 1.6, 1.8]
• John Jansen
  engineer [4-6]
• Lehman Yates
  recording [10-11]
• Lou Schlossberg
  additional [7], assistant [7], recording [6, 8, 10-11]
• Marc Baum
  saxophone [14]
• Martin Birch
  engineer [8-12], producer [8-12]
• Murray Krugman
  producer [2.1, 2.4-6, 1.1-4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10-11]
• Phil Giambalvo
  recording [6, 8]
• Randy Jackson
  bass [14]
• Rick Downey
  drums (drum set) [14-15]
• Rod O’Brien
  assistant [4-6]
• Sam Ginsberg
  assistant [4-6]
• Sandy Pearlman
  producer [2.1, 2.4-6, 1.1-4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10-11]
• Shelly Yakus
  engineer [1, 4-6], mix [1, 4-6], recording [1]
• Stephen Marsh
  engineer [10-11]
• Steve Hoffman
  engineer [10-11]
• Thom Panunzio
  additional [4-6]
• Tim Geelan
  engineer [6, 8, 10-11]
• Tom Werman
  producer [7]
• Tony Cedrone
  additional [10], percussion [10]
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  The Essential Blue Öyster Cult

  2x CD
  17 April 2012
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  The Essential Blue Öyster Cult

  2x Digital Media
  17 April 2012