History Music / SecretTreaties

* VillainSong: "Career of Evil"; "Harvester of Eyes".

''Secret Treaties'' is the third studio album by American hard rock band Music/BlueOysterCult, released in 1974. It is their last LP cover to have a minimal monochrome design (with touches of red) and has been dubbed the third part of the "red, white, and black" trilogy of albums. It is considered a contender for the title of the band's MagnumOpus (alongside ''Music/AgentsOfFortune'' and ''Music/{{Spectres}}'').

* MusicToInvadePolandTo: ME 262, with its middle eight of falling bombs and marching jackboots.

''Secret Treaties'' is the third studio album by American hard rock band Music/BlueOysterCult, released in 1974. It is their last LP cover to have a minimal monochrome design (with touches of red) and has been dubbed the third part of the "red, white, and black" trilogy of albums.

* MusicToInvadePolandTo: ME262, with its middle eight of falling bombs and marching jackboots.

[[caption-width-right:350:The band next to their tour bus. There are some color pictures on the rear sleeve.]]


''Secret Treaties'' is the third studio album by the American hard rock band Music/BlueOysterCult, released in 1974. It is their last LP cover to have a minimal monochrome design (with touches of red) and has been dubbed the third part of the "red, white and black" trilogy of albums.

Preceded by the LP ''Tyranny and Mutation'' (1973) and followed by the live LP ''Some Enchanted Evening'' (1975). Their next studio album was ''Music/AgentsOfFortune'' (1976)

* IronicNurseryTune: The children's music box jingles that link some of the tracks: heard in the transition from "Harvester of Eyes" into "'Flaming Telepaths" and then from "Flaming Telepaths" into "Astronomy".

[[caption-width-right:350:The band next to their tour bus. There are some colour pictures on the rear sleeve,]]


Secret Treaties is the third studio album by the American hard rock band Music/BlueOysterCult, released in 1974. It is their last LP cover to have a minimal monochrome design (with touches of red) and has been dubbed the third part of the "red, white and black" trilogy of albums.

Tracklist:-
[[AC: Side One]]:

# "Subhuman"
# "Dominance and Submission"
# "ME 262"

[[AC: Side Two]]:

# "Harvester of Eyes"
# "Flaming Telepaths"
# "Astronomy"

* AcePilot: The "Willi" named in ''ME-262'' could be Willi Steinhoff, a Luftwaffe ace who became the first to score five kills in this plane; despite hideous burns in a crash-landing, he survived the war to succeed Herman Goering as commander-in-chief of the new West German Luftwaffe.
* CoolPlane: you're allowed one guess. ''ME-262''.
* Creator/AleisterCrowley: his occultism is alluded to in ''Astronomy''.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Implied. Between Suzie and Wild Charles in ''Dominance and Submission''
* MoreDakka: ME-262 is a hymn of praise to the power of the first combat jet fighter. Its armament is specifically referred to as "great silver slugs, eager to feed".
* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Strongly implied to have happened to the narrator of ''Dominance and Submission''
* IronicNurseryTune: the childrens' music box jingles that link some of the tracks: heard in the transition from ''Harvester Of Eyes'' into ''Flaming Telepaths'' and from "Telepaths" into ''Astronomy''.
* LyricalDissonance: ''Harvester of Eyes'' is a catchy upbeat number. About a serial killer who takes his victims' eyes as souvenirs and stores them in jars.
* NoEnding: Employed on ''Flaming Telepaths''
--> ''and the joke's on you...and the joke's on you...and the joke's on you...and the jo-''
* NoSocialSkills: the maladjusted nerd protagonist of ''Cagey Cretins''
* SafeSaneAndConsensual: the alternative reading of ''Dominance and Submission'' is that it's about wholly consenting BDSM practices involving three people, two men and a woman.
* SunglassesAtNight: Charles, the sinister protagonist of ''Dominance and Submission''
* ThreeWaySex: ''Dominance and Submission'' - the song's narrator, Suzie, and
-->Wild Charles - the one they call her brother!
* Music/PattiSmith: She wrote ''Career of Evil''.
* VillainSong: ''Career of Evil''.

* Music/PattiSmith: She wrote ''Career of Evil''.

* IronicNurseryTune: the childrens' music box jingles that link some of the tracks: heard in the transition from ''Harvester Of Eyes'' into ''Flaming Eelepaths'' and from "Telepaths" into ''Astronomy''.

#1. "Career of Evil"

#1. "Cagey Cretins"

#1. "Career of Evil"
#2. "Subhuman"
#3. "Dominance and Submission"
#4. "ME 262"

#2. "Harvester of Eyes"
#3. "Flaming Telepaths"
#4. "Astronomy"

1. "Career of Evil"
2. "Subhuman"
3. "Dominance and Submission"
4. "ME 262"
Side two

1. "Cagey Cretins"
2. "Harvester of Eyes"
3. "Flaming Telepaths"
4. "Astronomy"

* NoSocialSkills: the maladjusted nerd protagonist of ''Cagey Cretins''

Secret Treaties is the third studio album by the American hard rock band Music/BlueOysterCult, released in 1974. It is their last LP cover to have a minimal monochrome design (with touches of red) and has been dubbed the third part of the "red, white and black" trilogy of albums.