Album: Secret Treaties (1974)

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• Oh yeah
  It's been ten years, half my life
  Just getting ready but then it was time
  War page in the figures, radios appear
  Midnight was the barrier, back in 1963
  
  Each night, the covers were unfolded
  Each night, It's Susy's turn to ride
  While Charles, the one they call her brother
  Covers on his eyes, murmurs in the background
  It will be time
  
  Oh yeah
  Susan and her brother, Charles the grinning boy
  Put me in the backseat, and they took me for a ride
  Yeah, the radio was on, can't you dig the locomotion
  Kingdoms of the radio, 45 R-P-M
  Too much revolution then
  
  Each night,
  Each night, It's Susy's turn to ride
  While Charles, the one they call her brother
  Covers on his eyes, murmurs in the background
  It will be time
  
  It's past midnight said Charles the grinning boy
  And looking at me greedily, said it's 1964
  
  In times square now, the people do the polka
  Dominance, submission, radios appear
  New Year's eve, it was the final barrier
  Dominance, submission, radios appear
  We took you up and put you in the back seat
  Dominance, submission, radios appear
  Form year to year we looked out for the venture
  Dominance, submission, radios appear
  Dominance, submission Writer/s: ALBERT BOUCHARD, E BLOOM, SAMUEL PEARLMAN
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Grim from FloridaMy first introduction to the Blue Oyster Cult was "Some Enchanted Evening" in 79 or 80,perhaps the greatest live album of all time! After that I absorbed every record in their catalog. Still have them and the first three I have framed hanging on my wall in my office. Now tell me why they havent been inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame!!!!???? Complete shame and pathetic they are not in yet! Favorite song you ask? Hard to say since there are too many to list but I often return to the great Sun Jester off of Mirrors. Yeah I know, but come on what a story! Spin it and tell me otherwise :}
• Browno from São Paulo, BrasilIt's such a delightful experience for a late fan like me to read those reviews and experiences about this masterpiece. I back Mike up and can easily say that their first 3 albums are bangers and my favorites. I even bought the CDS just to hear it loud in my car. Can assure that I like all this 3 records musics and add that Fire of Unknown Origin is among one of my favorites albums too. This music was one of my best friends from college favorite music from his favorite album, he died this year in a presumed not disclosed overdose. Now like Astronomy says he finally is a star. Long live Blue Oyster Cult and the iconic Secret Threaties. That's for you, my friend Rafaell Miranda.
• Zed from Ral NcSoft White Underbelly. Long Liv BOC
• Donald from Edinburg, TxFive man guitar attack! Lasers projected into the audience's eyes before they knew what lasers could do to one's sight! General admission shows! 70s, baby. Those were THE DAZE!!
• Mike M from San DiegoYou all have excellent taste ! The first 3 BOC albums ( yes, he said 'albums' ) were some of the best rock albums ever made, in particular Tyranny & Treaties. Buck's solo at the end of this song is still one of my very favorite all-time ! I still see them in concert from time to time and it gratifies me to no end that they largely play songs off these first 3 LP's during their shows.
• Tom from Pinellas Park, FlThis is probably my favorite song on my all time favorite album. This album still gets my heart pumping every time I listen to it. I love everything about this album, especially Buck's totally awesome guitar. This band was way ahead of their time!
• Ross from Brooklyn, NyAh, happy to be in the company of those (few) who get it. Ruing BOC's lack of mass popular success (which us hard core Oyster Boys do) may be missing the point. It means something to dig and understand (partially anyway!) these guys. And yes the sum etc. What a motherlode of great work to go back to. Still worth seeing live btw though it really is pretty much Buck and hired guns (Eric virtually sits in a lawn chair and watches). Saw them 3 years ago and they smoked.
• Drkrunk from Nyc, NyTotally agree with all points @MarHam. In fact, I registered here just to agree with you ;-) . Most people just never "got it". BOC like so many great bands was more than the sum of the parts - I was looking back through stuff the Bouchard brothers wrote separate from the band and none of it is anywhere near as inventive. Ditto post-Bouchard post-Pearlman BOC. And that final solo still stands up both structurally and technically almost 40 years later. It was recorded 10yrs before anyone was "shredding" as we know it today, but it's more than just speed and noise - it's totally musical and propels the song out of earth orbit. The fact that it's at the END of the song was,and still is creative and while not totally unheard of, is certainly creative. And the entire LP is on even keel - IMO "Secret Treaties" was one of the best - if not THE best alternative rock LPs recorded, period, and the record still stands up today as BOC's Magnum Opus. An "absolute masterpiece"ndeed -well said. A few years ago, while flying home from a client I met a buttoned-down white-haired ad executive from the Midwest, the last person in the world you'd think would be into BOC who was also addicted to Secret Treaties - we spent an hour dissecting ME-262 , another excellent example of BOC's lyrical songwriting prowess.
  And then of course there is "Astronomy".
• Margret Hamilton from St. Paul, MnThis song is great representation of the complexity and intrigue of Blue Oyster Cult's song writing talents. The lyric, more than the music, begins the journey. Then we see we are on a New Year's Eve trip and what's it all about. Morphing into this creepy yet alluring dominance and submission exchange. What a build up! Listen to all the musical sounds going on via head phones. The crescendo is a lightning explosion solo by Buck Dharma -- an absolute masterpiece, no doubt whatosver! By the end of the song it has everyone's attention.in the room. Blue Oyster Cult --- forever misunderstood by the masses.

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