A Long Day’s Night

Blue Oyster Cult are an immense band known for a handful of immortal rock smashes such as "Don't Fear The Reaper", "Godzilla" and "Burnin' For You". The band has had a mega successful run throughout the 70's and for some of the 80's, and in 2002 they graced us with this live album. Taken from their performance at Navy Pier in Chicago. It's a pretty solid live album that's for sure.

The setlist was composed of all of their hits, and some deeper cuts and fan favorites, so overall I would say the material covered was pretty balanced. The finale being "Reaper" is epic, and Buck Dharma's guitar playing is in full effect for pretty much every song but especially for that one. The band kicks ass, the only thing holding this back from being a truly great live album to me is the vocal performance. Eric Bloom's vocals are noticeably older-sounding and on most occasions it sounds like he's straining or struggling to hit certain notes. Because of this, a lot of the deeper cuts here sound a bit awkward compared to others. Even still, this is a decent live album but probably not one that you should immediately seek out, as the band has put out other live records from back when they were a stronger (and younger) group.