#1090 Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult

BOC's first album is about as straightforward as hard rock gets: throw down that riff, that big backbeat, that groaning moaning vocal line, verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-chorus-maybesecondsolo, repeat 10 times, boom, done. Nothing surprising here, few real swerves, no real insights, 3-4 minutes at a time and done. The beats get skitterey, the guitars amble with occasional angles, but it's mostly meat and potatoes rock, Led Zeppelin without the pretention, Deep Purple without the power, just some dudes who made a band doing what dudes in a band do and doing it reasonably well 3/5