Imaginos
Sign in to saveImaginos is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult. It was released in 1988, and was their last recording with their original record label, CBS/Columbia Records.
Release · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Album
- Artist
- Blue Öyster Cult
- First released
- 1988-07
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- Listeners
- 9
- Total plays
- 45
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Key facts
- Album.name
- Imaginos
- Album.type
- studio
- Album.artist
- Blue Öyster Cult
- Album.cover
- BlueOysterCultImaginos.jpg
- Album.recorded
- 19811988
- Album.studio
- Kingdom Sound Studios, Long Island, New YorkBoogie Hotel Studios, Port Jefferson, New YorkAlpha & Omega Studios, San Francisco, California
- Album.length
- 55:01
- Album.label
- Columbia/Sony
- Album.prev_title
- Club Ninja
- Album.prev_year
- 1985
- Album.next_title
- Bad Channels
- Album.next_year
- 1992
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- title
- Imaginos
- publication date
- 1988-00-00
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Article
19 sectionsContents
- Background
- Sandy Pearlman and ''The Soft Doctrines of Imaginos''
- Blue Öyster Cult in 1988
- Concept and storyline
- Production
- Albert Bouchard's solo album
- The Blue Öyster Cult album
- Packaging
- Release
- Tour
- Critical and commercial reception
- Influence
- Albert Bouchard's new version
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Charts
- Notes
- References
- External links
Imaginos is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult. It was released in 1988, and was their last recording with their original record label, CBS/Columbia Records.
The album took nearly eight years to complete and was originally intended to be the first in a trilogy of solo albums by Blue Öyster Cult drummer and songwriter Albert Bouchard after he was fired from the band in August 1981. CBS rejected the album in 1984, but a re-worked version was eventually published as a product of the band. Many guest musicians contributed to the project over this eight-year span, including Joe Satriani, Aldo Nova, and Doors guitarist Robby Krieger, but some band members were barely involved in the recording process. Thus, Imaginos is often considered more as a project of producer and lyricist Sandy Pearlman than as a true album of the band.