Spectres (album)

Spectres
Studio album by
Blue Öyster Cult
ReleasedNovember 1977 (1977-11)[1]
RecordedJuly–September 1977
StudioThe Record Plant (New York City)
Genre
Length40:29
LabelColumbia
ProducerMurray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman, David Lucas, Blue Öyster Cult
Blue Öyster Cult chronology
Agents of Fortune
(1976) 		Spectres
(1977) 		Some Enchanted Evening
(1978)
Singles from Spectres
  1. "Goin' Through the Motions"
    Released: December 1977 (US)[2]
  2. "Godzilla"
    Released: February 1978 (US)[3]
  3. "I Love the Night"
    Released: 4 August 1978 (UK)[4]

Spectres is the fifth studio album by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released in November 1977 by Columbia Records. The album features one of the band's biggest hits, concert staple "Godzilla," and was certified gold by the RIAA on January 19, 1978.[5]

The cover art features lasers, which Blue Öyster Cult used in their live shows at that time.

A remastered version was released on February 13, 2007, which included four previously unreleased outtakes from the Spectres sessions as bonus tracks.

  1. ^ Dave Swanson (November 17, 2013). "How Blue Oyster Cult Searched for Identity on 'Spectres'". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved September 26, 2022. Pressured for a follow-up, Blue Oyster Cult then issued the somewhat unbalanced, but still striking, Spectres in November 1977.
  2. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 75. ISBN 9780862415419.
  3. ^ "Blue Oyster Cult singles".
  4. ^ "Blue Oyster Cult singles".
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference RIAA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).