Some Enchanted Evening (Blue Öyster Cult album)

"We Gotta Get Out of This Place (live) / E.T.I. (live)"
Released: October 1978
"We Gotta Get Out of This Place (live) / Stairway to the Stars"
Released: November 1978

Some OTHER Enchanted Evening

Video by Blue Öyster Cult

Released

2007

Recorded

Capital Centre, Largo, Maryland, 1978

Genre

Hard rock, heavy metal

Length

56:55

Label

Legacy Recordings

Producer

Bruce Dickinson

Blue Öyster Cult chronology

A Long Day's Night
(2002)

Some Enchanted Evening
(2007)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
AllMusic	(DVD)^[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	6/10^[3]
Q	^[4]
Rolling Stone	(favorable)^[5]

Some Enchanted Evening is the second live album by the American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released in September 1978 (see 1978 in music). It is Blue Öyster Cult's best selling album, having sold two million copies, including over a million in the United States.^[6] The album's seven original tracks were recorded at various locations in the United States and England.

The album was re-issued on CD in early 2007 on Legacy Recordings and included seven previously unreleased bonus tracks recorded in various locations around the US, along with a DVD entitled Some OTHER Enchanted Evening, which featured a previously unreleased performance videotaped at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland in the spring of 1978.

In chronological order the songs were recorded at:

Track 8 recorded 12/31/77, Rochester, New York
Tracks 10–13 recorded 1/30/78, Detroit, Michigan
Track 14 recorded 1/31/78, Boston, Massachusetts
Tracks 6 & 9 recorded 4/9/78, Little Rock, Arkansas (track 6 original album)
Tracks 1 & 4 recorded 4/13/78, Atlanta, Georgia (original album)
Tracks 2-3 recorded 4/11/78, Columbus, Georgia (original album)
Tracks 5 & 7 recorded 6/1/78, Newcastle, England (original album)

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"R.U. Ready 2 Rock"	5:29
2.	"E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)"	5:04
3.	"Astronomy"	8:18

Side two
No.	Title	Length
4.	"Kick Out the Jams" (MC5 cover)	3:03
5.	"Godzilla"	4:10
6.	"(Don't Fear) The Reaper"	5:51
7.	"We Gotta Get Out of This Place" (The Animals cover)	4:09
Total length:		36:04

2007 CD re-issue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
8.	"ME 262"	3:24
9.	"Harvester of Eyes"	4:35
10.	"Hot Rails to Hell"	5:01
11.	"This Ain't the Summer of Love"	2:48
12.	"5 Guitars"	8:34
13.	"Born to Be Wild" (Steppenwolf cover)	6:30
14.	"We Gotta Get Out of This Place" (alternate version)	4:36
Total length:		35:28

Some OTHER Enchanted Evening (DVD)

No.	Title	Length
1.	"R.U. Ready 2 Rock"	5:42
2.	"E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)"	5:09
3.	"Harvester of Eyes"	3:54
4.	"We Gotta Get Out of This Place"	4:05
5.	"Golden Age of Leather"	6:48
6.	"Astronomy"	8:30
7.	"ME 262"	3:08
8.	"Kick Out the Jams"	2:55
9.	"This Ain't the Summer of Love"	5:38
10.	"5 Guitars"	5:05
11.	"Born to Be Wild"	5:56

Filmed in 1978 at the Capital Centre, Largo, Maryland

Personnel

Band members

Eric Bloom – lead vocals on tracks 1-4, 7-9, 11, 13-14, stun guitar, keyboards
Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser – lead guitar, lead vocals on tracks 5-6
Allen Lanier – keyboards, guitar, mixing
Joe Bouchard – bass, lead vocals on track 10
Albert Bouchard – drums, guitar, backing vocals

Production

Sandy Pearlman – producer, mixing
Murray Krugman – producer
Corky Stasiak – engineer, mixing
Jay Krugman – engineer
George Geranios – live sound, DVD live mix
Bruce Dickinson – re-issue producer
Vic Anesini – remastering

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1978	Billboard 200 (United States)	44^[7]
	UK Album Chart	18^[8]
	RPM100 Albums (Canada)	43^[9]

Sales Certifications

Year	Country	Organization	Sales
1988	U.S.	RIAA	Platinum (1,000,000+)^[6]

References

↑ Ruhlmann, William. "Blue Öyster Cult Some Enchanted Evening review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
↑ Jurek, Thom. "Blue Öyster Cult Some Enchanted Evening (Bonus DVD) review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
↑ Popoff, Martin (October 2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1894959025.
↑ Mongredien, Phil (April 2007). "Blue Öyster Cult – Some Enchanted Evening". Q. No. 249. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ Schneider, Mitchell (22 February 1979). "Album Reviews: Blue Oyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
1 2 "RIAA Database Search for "Blue Oyster Cult"". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
↑ "Some Enchanted Evening Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
↑ "Some Enchanted Evening Chart Stats". Chart Stats.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
↑ "Top Albums/CDs – Volume 30, No. 10, December 02 1978". Library and Archives Canada. 2 December 1978. Retrieved 2012-01-25.

Blue Öyster Cult

Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser Eric Bloom Richie Castellano Jules Radino Kasim Sulton Allen Lanier Albert Bouchard Andrew Winters Les Braunstein Joe Bouchard Rick Downey Jimmy Wilcox Tommy Zvoncheck Jon Rogers Ron Riddle Chuck Burgi John Miceli Greg Smith Danny Miranda John O'Reilly Bobby Rondinelli Rudy Sarzo

Studio albums	Blue Öyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation Secret Treaties Agents of Fortune Spectres Mirrors Cultösaurus Erectus Fire of Unknown Origin The Revölution by Night Club Ninja Imaginos Cult Classic Heaven Forbid Curse of the Hidden Mirror

Live albums	On Your Feet or on Your Knees Some Enchanted Evening Extraterrestrial Live Live 1976 A Long Day's Night

Compilation albums	Career of Evil: The Metal Years On Flame with Rock and Roll Workshop of the Telescopes Don't Fear the Reaper: The Best of Blue Öyster Cult The Essential Blue Öyster Cult

Soundtracks	Bad Channels

Singles	"This Ain't the Summer of Love" "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" "Godzilla" "Black Blade" "Burnin' for You" "Astronomy"

Videos	Black and Blue Live 1976 A Long Day's Night Some OTHER Enchanted Evening

Lyricists	Sandy Pearlman Richard Meltzer Patti Smith Michael Moorcock John Shirley

Related	Discography Brain Surgeons More cowbell St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings Nail You Down

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