BLUE OYSTER CULT's Albert Bouchard Reveals His 5 Fav BOC Songs! 

My 1st concert was at San Diego Stadium(now torn down)& it featured ZZ Top, Blue Oyster Cult, Johnny & Edgar Winter. Imagine the 1st 3 guitarists I saw live were 1. Johnny Winter. 2. Buck Dharma 3. Billy Gibbons.

Albert Bouchard is a national treasure! The fact that he is still active and creating wonderful, exciting, and insightful music inspires me every day!

The best songwriter in B.O.C.

Albert is a real active guy and his name is on some fantastic songs,BOC was very big in the late 70s.

I've seen BÖC many times over the decades and they are still doing great stuff! Their last studio album is fantastic! OC, the original band with their cool ass songs and legendary live show made fans of us all! Buck gave literally one of the best solos I've ever heard anyone play -ever! Epic. Astronomy is for sure on my Top 5.Maybe # 1❤❤❤

I know it's uncool but I do enjoy the commercial 80s stuff too, Burning For You is a great song! I agree with Astronomy being one of their very best, great song. Cities on Flame, Stairway to the Stars and Career of Evil would round out my top 5.

Astronomy, Cities on Flame, Great Sun Jester, Veteran of the Psychic Wars, Shooting Shark. Honorable Mentions: In Thee, Burning for You, ETI, Mirrors, Black Blade, Joan Crawford, Nightmare Epiphany, Box in My Head, Take Me Away, Last Days of May...too many to mention!

These types of personal interviews compared to interviews were it is questions and stories they told many times are very compelling. So nice to hear a rock legend talk like he is just some nice guy at a bar or something. Great choices of songs as well. I would rank all of them high !

I like all of his favorites. Reaper was the only one I needed time warming up to. I got hooked on the band from "On Your Feet Or On Your Knees," so Reaper initially struck me as a rude surprise. But those are the guys who made the music. I like that they end their live Reaper numbers with the ending to "Gil Blanco County" from their Stalk Forrest days. I'd be really interested to know the lyrics to "Check Out Girl," lol.

Still fondly recall the "Black & Blue" tour - mid Oct. 1980 - my show was at Capital Centre near D.C. - just a couple of days before the 'Black & Blue concert video' was shot at Nassau Coliseum, just outside NYC - all 5 original members still in BÖC then - they played "Black Blade" - ( one of my all-time favs ) - bad blood between the bands - and you could feel it - both seemed to play with a chip on their shoulder - both VERY loud & aggressive - which made for an awesomely heavy show ..

Notice that none of those 5 songs are Cities On Flame. Which is one of the greatest hard rock anthems ever! His free drumming ideas on the first three albums are top notch!

Between many many great BOC’s songs I would like to add their cover for Roadhouse Blues in the live album of 1981 Don’t fear the reaper..

all of the songs on side one of Agents of Fortune are my favorite

My favorites from first listening to now are in no particular order. Wings Wetted Down Screams Dominance and Submission Perfect Water Career of Evil

My Top 5 is similar to Albert's. My 1. Astronomy. 2. Then Came The Last Days Of May(live version from On Your Feet Or On Your Knees). 3. Dominance And Submission. 4. Mistress Of The Salmon Salt(Quicklime Girl). 5. I Love The Night. 6. Nosferatu. 7. 7 Screaming Diz Busters. 8. Veteran Of The Psychic Wars(live version from Extraterrestrial Live). 9. Take Me Away. 10. The Vigil or The Revenge Of Vera Gemini. Albert is a cool dude. I'm glad that he & the other members have mended their fences. Life is too short.

Albert is a musician's musician. What he can do that 99.9999% of other musicians is he understands; rhythm, melody and harmony. All music is comprised of; rhythm, melody, and harmony. Most drummers only have a deep understanding of rhythm and not melody and harmony. Most guitar and keyboard players understand harmony and melody and not rhythm. This cat understands it all.

One thing I don't hear people talking about: the similarities in the intro to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana and "Godzilla" by BOC.

ETI...Cities on Flame... Burnin' For You....

I just started watching.... But will one be "Searching For Celine"???

Gotta love the SWUB.

Wrong lyrics or not. Thank God that Eric Bloom sang Astronomy!

You know, I saw BOC at Toads Place in CT around 1995. They had a really good drummer! Younger guy- probably 30 or mid 30s. Played the songs well… but the chemistry was off. Just enough :-/