Workshop of the Telescopes (2-disc set)

Infobox Album | Name = Workshop of the Telescopes
Type = Greatest
Artist = Blue Öyster Cult

| --> Released = September 26, 1995 (US)

Recorded =
Genre = Hard rock ,heavy metal
Length = 2:28:56
Label = Columbia
Producer =
Last album = "Bad Channels"
(1992)
This album = "Workshop of the Telescopes"
(1995)
Next album = "Heaven Forbid"
(1998)

Workshop of the Telescopes is a 2-cd set released by Sony Music/Columbia Entertainment in 1995. It is a compilation album of material before "Imaginos", with some of the material being either previously issued as promo only versions (shown below by (*)) and some of the tracks first appeared on CD with this album (shown below by(+)).

The CD comes with an explanatory booklet outlining the development of Blue Öyster Cult and their rise to fame throughout the 1970's and 1980's.

Track listing

Disc one

#"Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" – 4:03
#"Transmaniacon MC" – 3:20
#"Before the Kiss, a Redcap" – 4:58
#"Stairway to the Stars" – 3:43
#"Buck's Boogie" – 5:17
#"Workshop of the Telescopes" (*) – 3:46
#"The Red and the Black" (*) – 4:35
# 7 Screaming Diz-Busters – 7:00
#"Career of Evil" – 4:07
#"Flaming Telepaths" – 5:23
#"Astronomy" – 6:15
#"Subhuman" – 7:30
#"Harvester of Eyes" – 5:00
#"ME"-262 – 8:17
#"Born to be Wild" (+) – 3:38 (Steppenwolf cover)

Disc two

# (Don't Fear) The Reaper – 5:08
# This ain't the Summer of Love – 2:21
# E.T.I (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) – 3:42
# Godzilla – 3:41
# Goin' through the Motions – 3:12
# Golden Age of Leather – 5:51
# Kick out the Jams – 3:12 (MC5 cover)
# We Gotta Get out of this Place – 4:33 (The Animals cover)
# In Thee – 3:48
# The Marshall Plan – 5:24
# Veteran of the Psychic Wars – 4:48
# Burnin' for You – 4:30
# Dominance and Submission – 5:56
# Take Me Away – 4:30
# Shooting Shark – 7:09
# Dancin' In The Ruins – 4:00
# Perfect Water – 5:29

Personnel

The album is a compilation encompassing Blue Öyster Cult from the early 1970's to 1986. It does not include material from 1988's "Imaginos"