Complete List Of Blue Öyster Cult Albums And Discography

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This Complete List Of Blue Oyster Cult Albums And Songs presents the full discography of Blue Oyster Cult studio albums. The band Blue Oyster Cult was first formed in 1967. The group hails from the area of Stony Brook, New York. The band’s most famous lineup, from 1970 to 1981, consisted of Eric Bloom on lead vocals, guitar, and keyboards; Buck Dharma on lead guitar and vocals; Allen Lanier on keyboards, rhythm guitar, and backing vocals; Joe Bouchard on bass and vocals; and Albert Bouchard on drums and vocals.

This complete Blue Oyster Cult discography also includes the band’s official live albums. All these exhilarating Blue Oyster Cult albums have been presented below in chronological order. We have also included all original release dates with each Blue Oyster Cult album. Every Blue Oyster Cult album listed below showcases the entire Blue Oyster Cult album tracklisting.

Blue Öyster Cult STUDIO ALBUMS

Blue Öyster Cult (1972)

Released: January 16, 1972

CD Track Listings:

1. “Transmaniacon MC” – 3:21
2. “I’m on the Lamb but I Ain’t No Sheep” – 3:10
3. “Then Came the Last Days of May” – 3:31
4. “Stairway to the Stars” – 3:43
5. “Before the Kiss, a Redcap” – 4:59
6. “Screams” – 3:10
7. “She’s as Beautiful as a Foot” – 2:58
8. “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll” – 4:03
9. “Workshop of the Telescopes” – 4:01
10. “Redeemed” – 3:51

Tyranny and Mutation (1973)

Released: February 11, 1973

CD Track Listings:

1. “The Red & the Black” – 4:24
2. “O.D.’d on Life Itself” – 4:47
3. “Hot Rails to Hell” – 5:12
4. “7 Screaming Diz-Busters” – 7:01
5. “Baby Ice Dog” – 3:28
6. “Wings Wetted Down” – 4:15
7. “Teen Archer” – 3:57
8. “Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)” – 5:08

Secret Treaties (1974)

Released: April 1974

CD Track Listings:

1. “Career of Evil” – 3:59
2. “Subhuman” – 4:39
3. “Dominance and Submission” – 5:23
4. “ME 262” – 4:48
5. “Cagey Cretins” – 3:16
6. “Harvester of Eyes” – 4:42
7. “Flaming Telepaths” – 5:20
8. “Astronomy” – 6:28

Agents of Fortune (1976)

Released: May 21, 1976

CD Track Listings:

1. “This Ain’t the Summer of Love” – 2:21
2. “True Confessions” – 2:57
3. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” – 5:08
4. “E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)” – 3:43
5. “The Revenge of Vera Gemini” – 3:52
6. “Sinful Love” – 3:29
7. “Tattoo Vampire” – 2:41
8. “Morning Final” – 4:30
9. “Tenderloin” – 3:40
10. “Debbie Denise” – 4:13

Spectres (1977)

Released: November 1977

CD Track Listings:

1. “Godzilla” – 3:41
2. “Golden Age of Leather” – 5:52
3. “Death Valley Nights” – 4:07
4. “Searchin’ for Celine” – 3:35
5. “Fireworks” – 3:14
6. “R. U. Ready 2 Rock” – 3:45
7. “Celestial the Queen” – 3:24
8. “Goin’ Through the Motions” – 3:12
9. “I Love the Night” – 4:25
10. “Nosferatu” – 5:27

Mirrors (1979)

Released: June 1979

CD Track Listings:

1. “Dr. Music” – 3:10
2. “The Great Sun Jester” – 4:48
3. “In Thee” – 3:48
4. “Mirrors” – 3:44
5. “Moon Crazy” – 4:06
6. “The Vigil” – 6:25
7. “I Am the Storm” – 3:42
8. “You’re Not the One (I Was Looking For)” – 3:14
9. “Lonely Teardrops” – 3:41

Cultösaurus Erectus (1980)

Released: June 14, 1980

CD Track Listings:

1. “Black Blade” – 6:34
2. “Monsters” – 5:10
3. “Divine Wind” – 5:07
4. “Deadline” – 4:28
5. “The Marshall Plan” – 5:25
6. “Hungry Boys” – 3:38
7. “Fallen Angel” – 3:12
8. “Lips in the Hills” – 4:25
9. “Unknown Tongue” – 3:56

Fire of Unknown Origin (1981)

Released: July 1981

CD Track Listings:

1. “Fire of Unknown Origin” – 4:09
2. “Burnin’ for You” – 4:29
3. “Veteran of the Psychic Wars” – 4:48
4. “Sole Survivor” – 4:04
5. “Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver” – 3:16
6. “Vengeance (The Pact)” – 4:41
7. “After Dark” – 4:25
8. “Joan Crawford” – 4:55
9. “Don’t Turn Your Back” – 4:07

The Revölution by Night (1983)

Released: October 1983

CD Track Listings:

1. “Take Me Away” – 4:31
2. “Eyes on Fire” – 3:56
3. “Shooting Shark” – 7:10
4. “Veins” – 3:59
5. “Shadow of California” – 5:10
6. “Feel the Thunder” – 5:48
7. “Let Go” – 3:25
8. “Dragon Lady” – 4:08
9. “Light Years of Love” – 4:05

Club Ninja (1985)

Released: December 10, 1985

CD Track Listings:

1. “White Flags” – 4:41
2. “Dancin’ in the Ruins” – 4:01
3. “Make Rock Not War” – 3:56
4. “Perfect Water” – 5:30
5. “Spy in the House of the Night” – 4:20
6. “Beat ‘Em Up” – 3:24
7. “When the War Comes” – 6:02
8. “Shadow Warrior” – 5:40
9. “Madness to the Method” – 7:26

Imaginos (1988)

Released: July 1988

CD Track Listings:

1. “I Am the One You Warned Me Of” – 5:04
2. “Les Invisibles” – 5:33
3. “In the Presence of Another World” – 6:26
4. “Del Rio’s Song” – 5:31
5. “The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein’s Castle at Weisseria” – 6:43
6. “Astronomy” – 6:47
7. “Magna of Illusion” – 5:53
8. “Blue Öyster Cult” – 7:18
9. “Imaginos” – 5:46

Cult Classic (1994)

Released: 1994

CD Track Listings:

1. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” – 5:07 (re-recorded)
2. “E.T.I. (Extraterrestrial Intelligence)” – 5:14 (re-recorded)
3. “M.E. 262” – 3:10 (re-recorded)
4. “This Ain’t the Summer of Love” – 2:45 (re-recorded)
5. “Burning for You” – 4:28 (re-recorded)
6. “O.D.’d on Life Itself” – 4:53 (re-recorded)
7. “Flaming Telepaths” – 6:07 (re-recorded)
8. “Godzilla” – 3:41 (re-recorded)
9. “Astronomy” – 8:46 (re-recorded)
10. “Cities on Flame with Rock ‘n’ Roll” – 4:08 (re-recorded)
11. “Harvester of Eyes” – 3:57 (re-recorded)
12. “Buck’s Boogie” – 6:52 (re-recorded)

Heaven Forbid (1998)

Released: March 24, 1998

CD Track Listings:

1. “See You in Black” – 3:17
2. “Harvest Moon” – 4:55
3. “Power Underneath Despair” – 3:30
4. “X-Ray Eyes” – 3:48
5. “Hammer Back” – 3:35
6. “Damaged” – 4:22
7. “Cold Gray Light of Dawn” – 3:52
8. “Real World” – 5:08
9. “Live for Me” – 5:19
10. “Still Burnin'” – 3:39
11. “In Thee” – 3:40

Curse of the Hidden Mirror (2001)

Released: June 5, 2001

CD Track Listings:

1. “Dance on Stilts” – 6:06
2. “Showtime” – 4:38
3. “The Old Gods Return” – 4:36
4. “Pocket” – 4:17
5. “One Step Ahead of the Devil” – 4:15
6. “I Just Like to Be Bad” – 3:54
7. “Here Comes That Feeling” – 3:21
8. “Out of the Darkness” – 5:06
9. “Stone of Love” – 5:49
10. “Eye of the Hurricane” – 4:41
11. “Good to Feel Hungry” – 4:12

The Symbol Remains (2020)

Released: October 9, 2020

CD Track Listings:

1. “That Was Me” – 3:18
2. “Box in My Head” – 3:45
3. “Tainted Blood” – 4:18
4. “Nightmare Epiphany” – 5:30
5. “Edge of the World” – 4:52
6. “The Machine” – 4:15
7. “Train True (Lennie’s Song)” – 3:58
8. “The Return of St. Cecilia” – 4:12
9. “Stand and Fight” – 4:49
10. “Florida Man” – 4:08
11. “The Alchemist” – 6:00
12. “Secret Road” – 5:24
13. “There’s a Crime” – 3:37
14. “Fight” – 3:13

Ghost Stories (2024)

Released: April 12, 2024

CD Track Listings:

1. “Late Night Street Fight”
2. “Cherry”
3. “So Supernatural”
4. “We Gotta Get Out of This Place”
5. “Soul Jive”
6. “Gun”
7. “Shot in the Dark”
8. “The Only Thing”
9. “Kick Out the Jams”
10. “Money Machine”
11. “Don’t Come Running to Me”
12. “If I Fell”

Blue Öyster Cult Live Albums

On Your Feet or on Your Knees (1975)

Released: February 27, 1975

CD Track Listings:

1. “The Subhuman” – 7:30
2. “Harvester of Eyes” – 4:55
3. “Hot Rails to Hell” – 5:55
4. “The Red and the Black” – 4:33
5. “Seven Screaming Diz-Busters” – 8:27
6. “Buck’s Boogie” – 7:40
7. “(Then Came the) Last Days of May” – 4:35
8. “Cities on Flame” – 4:08
9. “ME 262” – 8:46
10. “Before the Kiss, a Redcap” – 5:05
11. “Maserati GT (I Ain’t Got You)” – 9:02
12. “Born to Be Wild” – 6:36

Some Enchanted Evening (1978)

Released: September 1978

CD Track Listings:

1. “R.U. Ready 2 Rock” – 5:38
2. “E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)” – 5:16
3. “Astronomy” – 6:28
4. “Kick Out the Jams” – 3:03
5. “Godzilla” – 4:09
6. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” – 6:09
7. “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” – 4:34

Extraterrestrial Live (1982)

Released: April 1982

CD Track Listings:

1. “Dominance and Submission” – 5:56
2. “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll” – 5:18
3. “Dr. Music” – 3:40
4. “The Red and the Black” – 4:34
5. “Joan Crawford” – 5:17
6. “Burnin’ for You” – 4:50
7. “Roadhouse Blues” – 9:06
8. “Black Blade” – 6:10
9. “Hot Rails to Hell” – 5:02
10. “Godzilla” – 7:45
11. “Veteran of the Psychic Wars” – 8:10
12. “E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)” – 5:17
13. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” – 6:37

Live 1976 (1991)

Released: 1991

CD Track Listings:

1. “Stairway to the Stars” – 4:19
2. “Harvester of Eyes” – 4:30
3. “Cities on Flame” – 4:59
4. “ME 262” – 5:14
5. “Dominance and Submission” – 7:39
6. “Astronomy” – 7:27
7. “Buck’s Boogie” – 19:03
8. “This Ain’t the Summer of Love” – 11:56
9. “Born to Be Wild” – 7:01
10. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” – 6:13

A Long Day’s Night (2002)

Released: September 24, 2002

CD Track Listings:

1. “Stairway to the Stars”
2. “Burnin’ for You”
3. “O.D.’d on Life Itself”
4. “Dance on Stilts”
5. “Buck’s Boogie”
6. “Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)”
7. “Harvest Moon”
8. “Astronomy”
9. “Cities on Flame with Rock ‘n’ Roll”
10. “Perfect Water”
11. “Lips in the Hills”
12. “Godzilla”
13. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”

Hard Rock Live Cleveland 2014 (2020)

Released: January 24, 2020

CD Track Listings:

1. “O.D.’d on Life Itself”
2. “The Red and the Black”
3. “Golden Age of Leather”
4. “Burnin’ for You”
5. “Career of Evil”
6. “Shooting Shark”
7. “The Vigil”
8. “ME 262”
9. “Buck’s Boogie”
10. “Black Blade”
11. “Then Came the Last Days of May”
12. “Godzilla”
13. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”
14. “Harvester of Eyes”
15. “I Love the Night”
16. “Hot Rails to Hell”
17. “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll”

40th Anniversary – Agents of Fortune – Live 2016 (2020)

Released: March 6, 2020

CD Track Listings:

1. “This Ain’t the Summer of Love”
2. “True Confessions”
3. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”
4. “E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)”
5. “The Revenge of Vera Gemini”
6. “Sinful Love”
7. “Tattoo Vampire”
8. “Morning Final”
9. “Tenderloin”
10. “Debbie Denise”

iHeart Radio Theater N.Y.C. 2012 (2020)

Released: June 12, 2020

CD Track Listings:

1. “R U Ready 2 Rock”
2. “Golden Age of Leather”
3. “Burnin’ for You”
4. “This Ain’t the Summer of Love”
5. “Shooting Shark”
6. “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll”
7. “Career of Evil”
8. “The Vigil”
9. “Black Blade”
10. “Godzilla”
11. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”

45th Anniversary – Live in London (2020)

Released: August 7, 2020

CD Track Listings:

1. “Transmaniacon MC”
2. “I’m on the Lamb, But I Ain’t No Sheep”
3. “Then Came the Last Days of May”
4. “Stairway to the Stars”
5. “Before the Kiss, a Redcap”
6. “Screams”
7. “She’s as Beautiful as a Foot”
8. “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll”
9. “Workshop of the Telescopes”
10. “Redeemed”
11. “Buck’s Boogie”
12. “Godzilla”
13. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”
14. “Tattoo Vampire”
15. “Hot Rails to Hell”

Live ’83 (2020)

Released: November 27, 2020

Track Listings:

1. “Stairway to the Stars”
2. “Harvester of Eyes”
3. “Workshop of the Telescopes”
4. “Before the Kiss, a Red Cap”
5. “Born to Rock”
6. “Hot Rails to Hell”
7. “7 Screaming Dizbusters”
8. “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll”
9. “Burnin’ for You”
10. “Joan Crawford”
11. “Born to Be Wild”
12. “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
13. “Roadhouse Blues”

Live at Rock of Ages Festival – July 30th 2016 (2020)

Released: December 4, 2020

CD Track Listings:

1. “This Ain’t the Summer of Love”
2. “Golden Age of Leather”
3. “Burnin’ for You”
4. “O.D.’d on Life Itself”
5. “Harvest Moon”
6. “ME 262”
7. “Buck’s Boogie”
8. “Lips in the Hills”
9. “Then Came the Last Days of May”
10. “Godzilla”
11. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”

50th Anniversary Live – First Night (2023)

Released: December 8, 2023

CD Track Listings:

1. “Transmaniacon MC”
2. “I’m on the Lamb but I Ain’t No Sheep”
3. “Then Came the Last Days of May”
4. “Stairway to the Stars”
5. “Before the Kiss, a Redcap”
6. “Screams”
7. “She’s as Beautiful as a Foot”
8. “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll”
9. “Workshop of the Telescopes”
10. “Redeemed”
11. “Dr. Music”
12. “Burnin’ for You”
13. “Train True (Lennie’s Song)”
14. “Tainted Blood”
15. “Harvest Moon”
16. “Dancin’ in the Ruins”
17. “The Vigil”
18. “Career of Evil”
19. “Box in My Head”
20. “Godzilla”
21. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”
22. “In Thee”
23. “That Was Me”
24. “Hot Rails to Hell”

50th Anniversary Live – Second Night (2024)

Released: August 9, 2024

CD Track Listings:

1. “The Red & the Black”
2. “O.D.’d on Life Itself”
3. “Hot Rails to Hell”
4. “7 Screaming Diz-Busters”
5. “Baby Ice Dog”
6. “Wings Wetted Down”
7. “Teen Archer”
8. “Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)”
9. “Box in My Head”
10. “Burnin’ for You”
11. “Lips in the Hills”
12. “Perfect Water”
13. “Tenderloin”
14. “The Revenge of Vera Gemini”
15. “E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)”
16. “That Was Me”
17. “Godzilla”
18. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”
19. “Unknown Tongue”
20. “Tattoo Vampire”
21. “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll”

50th Anniversary Live – Third Night (2024)

Released: December 13, 2024

CD Track Listings:

1. “Career of Evil”
2. “Subhuman”
3. “Dominance and Submission”
4. “ME 262”
5. “Cagey Cretins”
6. “Harvester of Eyes”
7. “Flaming Telepaths”
8. “Astronomy”
9. “Stairway to the Stars”
10. “Golden Age of Leather”
11. “Tainted Blood”
12. “Burnin’ for You”
13. “Shooting Shark”
14. “Black Blade”
15. “Train True (Lenny’s Song)”
16. “Buck’s Boogie”
17. “Godzilla”
18. “Tenderloin”
19. “Sinful Love”
20. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”
21. “The Alchemist”
22. “I Love the Night”
23. “Joan Crawford”
24. “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll”‘

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