Spectres (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Spectres
Type = Album
Artist = Blue Öyster Cult


Released = October 1977 (original LP)February 13, 2007 (remastered CD)
Recorded = July - September 1977, New York City
Genre = Hard rock, heavy metal
Length = 40:29
Label = Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings
Producer = Blue Öyster Cult
Murray Krugman
Sandy Pearlman
David Lucas
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Awzfyxq95ldte link] |
Last album = "Agents of Fortune"
(1976)
This album = "Spectres"
(1977)
Next album = "Some Enchanted Evening" (live)
(1978)

"Spectres" is a rock album by Blue Öyster Cult released in November 1977. The album was certified gold in January 1978Fact|date=August 2007 and contained the album rock hits "Godzilla", "Death Valley Nights", and "I Love the Night".

A remaster of this album was released on CD in early 2007, which included four previously unreleased outtakes from "Spectres" sessions as bonus tracks. The outtakes were recorded July–September 1977 in New York.

Track listing

ide one

#"Godzilla" (Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser) – 3:41
#"Golden Age of Leather" (Bruce Abbott, Donald Roeser) – 5:53
#"Death Valley Nights" (Richard Meltzer, Albert Bouchard) – 4:07
#"Searchin’ for Celine" (Allen Lanier) – 3:35
#"Fireworks" (Albert Bouchard) – 3:14

ide two

#"R.U. Ready 2 Rock" (Sandy Pearlman, Albert Bouchard) – 3:45
#"Celestial the Queen" (Helen Wheels, Joe Bouchard) – 3:24
#"Goin’ Through the Motions" (Eric Bloom, Ian Hunter) – 3:12
#"I Love the Night" (Donald Roeser) – 4:23
#"Nosferatu" (Wheels, Joe Bouchard) – 5:23

CD reissue bonus tracks

#

"Night Flyer" (Joe Bouchard, Murray Krugman) – 3:48
#

"Dial M For Murder" (Donald Roeser) – 3:11
#

"Please Hold" (Albert Bouchard) – 2:47
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"Be My Baby" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) – 3:01

Personnel

*Eric Bloom—vocals, guitar
*Joe Bouchard—bass guitar, vocals, guitar
*Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser—lead and rhythm guitars, vocals
*Albert Bouchard—drums, vocals, harmonica
*Allen Lanier—keyboards, guitar
*Newark Boys Chorus—vocals (on "Golden Age of Leather")

Production credits

*Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman, David Lucas, and Blue Öyster Cult—producers
*Shelly Yakus—engineering, mixing
*John Jansen—engineering
*Corky Stasiak—engineering
*Thom Panunzio—engineering
*Roni Hoffman—design
*Eric Meola—photos
*David Infante—laser effects and photo assistance
*Joe Brescio—mastering
*Gray Russell—assistant engineer
*Dave Thoener—assistant engineer
*Jay Krugman—assistant engineer
*Rod O’Brien—assistant engineer
*Sam Ginsberg—assistant engineer
*Andy Abrams—other engineer

Trivia

* The song "Godzilla" was covered by the band Racer X on their album "Superheroes", as well as by Fu Manchu (band) on Eatin' Dust; it was also remixed by Thunderpuss in 1998.

* "Godzilla" also has been used in the hit PS2 game "Guitar Hero".

* The New York Yankees outfielder, Hideki Matsui, has used "Godzilla" as his plate appearance music.

* The Newark Boys' Chorus, who provide ethereal backing vocals on "Golden Age of Leather" may, a year or so before, have provided a similar service for Van Morrison on his "Hard Nose the Highway" album. They performed ethereal fade-out vocals on a track called "Snow in San Anselmo."

* In the song "Goin' Through the Motions" the line "ill even sign it love to you...again", is a reference to an earlier Blue Öyster Cult song: "Stairway to the Stars", which included the original line "I think ill sign it love to you".