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* InnBetweenTheWorlds: The Four Winds Bar is such a strange place, poised outside space and time where the Four Winds meet.
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Preceded by the LP ''Tyranny and Mutation'' (1973) and followed by the live double-LP ''On Your Feet or On Your Knees'' (1975). Their next studio album was ''Music/AgentsOfFortune'' (1976).

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Preceded by the LP ''Tyranny and Mutation'' ''Music/TyrannyAndMutation'' (1973) and followed by the live double-LP ''On Your Feet or On Your Knees'' (1975). Their next studio album was ''Music/AgentsOfFortune'' (1976).
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* VillainSong: "Career of Evil"; "Harvester of Eyes". In fact, one could argue the whole album is about different forms of evil, from the potential rapist Charles, to a Luftwaffe pilot, and Desdemona, the cause of wars.

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* VillainSong: "Career of Evil"; "Harvester of Eyes". In fact, one could argue the whole album is about different forms of evil, from the potential rapist Charles, to a Luftwaffe pilot, and Desdemona, Desdinova, the cause of wars.
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* Music/PattiSmith; a log time associate of the band, she wrote "Career of Evil" for this LP.

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* Music/PattiSmith; a log long time associate of the band, she wrote "Career of Evil" for this LP.

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* EldritchLocation: The Four Winds Bar from "Astronomy", which exists "behind the clock" (outside time), and can not be found on a map. It's the "nexus of the crisis" and "origin of storms". Its bizarre physical proportions are described, with some doors barred and others only letting people in. Susie and Carrie find themselves at the bar despite the lack of directions, and come face to face with Desdinova.

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* EldritchLocation: The Four Winds Bar from "Astronomy", which exists "behind the clock" (outside time), ([[PlaceBeyondTime outside time]]), and can not be found on a map. It's the "nexus of the crisis" and "origin of storms". Its bizarre physical proportions are described, with some doors barred and others only letting people in. Susie and Carrie find themselves at the bar despite the lack of directions, and come face to face with Desdinova.



* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: The first lyric of "Astronomy", which is then echoed halfway through.

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* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: The first lyric of "Astronomy", which is then echoed halfway through.through.
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* TickTockTune: "Astronony" is a subtle example, with the steady hit-hat throughout the song simulating the ticking of a clock, a recurring motif in the lyrics.

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* TickTockTune: "Astronony" is a subtle example, with the steady hit-hat drum bit throughout the song early verses simulating the ticking of a clock, a recurring motif in the lyrics.

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* EldritchLocation: The Four Winds Bar from "Astronomy", which exists "behind the clock" (outside time), and can not be found on a map. It's the "nexus of the crisis" and "origin of storms". Its bizarre physical proportions are described, with some doors barred and others only letting people in. Susie and Carrie find themselves at the bar despite the lack of directions, and come face to face with Desdinova.



* VillainSong: "Career of Evil"; "Harvester of Eyes". In fact, one could argue the whole album is about different forms of evil, from the potential rapist Charles, to a Luftwaffe pilot, and Desdemona, the cause of wars.

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* TickTockTune: "Astronony" is a subtle example, with the steady hit-hat throughout the song simulating the ticking of a clock, a recurring motif in the lyrics.
* VillainSong: "Career of Evil"; "Harvester of Eyes". In fact, one could argue the whole album is about different forms of evil, from the potential rapist Charles, to a Luftwaffe pilot, and Desdemona, the cause of wars.wars.
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: The first lyric of "Astronomy", which is then echoed halfway through.
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* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Drummer Albert Bouchard sings "Dominance and Submission" by himself and duets with singer Eric Bloom on "Career of Evil". Albert, bassist brother Joe, and Bloom all sing on "Creepy Cretins".

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* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Drummer Albert Bouchard sings "Dominance and Submission" by himself and duets with singer Eric Bloom on "Career of Evil". Albert, bassist brother Joe, and Bloom all sing on "Creepy "Cagey Cretins".
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* VillainSong: "Career of Evil"; "Harvester of Eyes". In fact, one could argue the whole album is about different forms of evil, from the potential rapist Charles, a Luftwaffe pilot, and Desdemona, the cause of wars.

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* VillainSong: "Career of Evil"; "Harvester of Eyes". In fact, one could argue the whole album is about different forms of evil, from the potential rapist Charles, to a Luftwaffe pilot, and Desdemona, the cause of wars.
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* VillainSong: "Career of Evil"; "Harvester of Eyes".

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* VillainSong: "Career of Evil"; "Harvester of Eyes". In fact, one could argue the whole album is about different forms of evil, from the potential rapist Charles, a Luftwaffe pilot, and Desdemona, the cause of wars.
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# "Danube Waves"[[note]]27 seconds of borrowed music. See below under "Sampling"[[/note]]
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...oh right, i think i misremembered where this was placed. lol


* {{Sampling}}: The segment between "Flaming Telepaths" and "Astronomy" was a short piece of classical music arranged for a music box, sampled from an unlabelled recording in the possession of the band's sound engineer. The band and the engineer both liked it, so they included it as a ThrowItIn. The composer was unknown until 2017, when a dance professor named Nona Monahin identified it as an arrangement of an 1880 waltz by Iosef Ivanovici entitled "Danube Waves". The original source of the recording is still unknown.

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* {{Sampling}}: The segment between "Harvester of Eyes" and "Flaming Telepaths" and "Astronomy" was a short piece of classical music arranged for a music box, sampled from an unlabelled recording in the possession of the band's sound engineer. The band and the engineer both liked it, so they included it as a ThrowItIn. The composer was unknown until 2017, when a dance professor named Nona Monahin identified it as an arrangement of an 1880 waltz by Iosef Ivanovici entitled "Danube Waves". The original source of the recording is still unknown.

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Preceded by the LP ''Tyranny and Mutation'' (1973) and followed by the live double-LP ''On Your Feet Or On Your Knees'' (1975). Their next studio album was ''Music/AgentsOfFortune'' (1976).

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Preceded by the LP ''Tyranny and Mutation'' (1973) and followed by the live double-LP ''On Your Feet Or or On Your Knees'' (1975). Their next studio album was ''Music/AgentsOfFortune'' (1976).


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* {{Sampling}}: The segment between "Flaming Telepaths" and "Astronomy" was a short piece of classical music arranged for a music box, sampled from an unlabelled recording in the possession of the band's sound engineer. The band and the engineer both liked it, so they included it as a ThrowItIn. The composer was unknown until 2017, when a dance professor named Nona Monahin identified it as an arrangement of an 1880 waltz by Iosef Ivanovici entitled "Danube Waves". The original source of the recording is still unknown.
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Patti's in here somewhere

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* Music/PattiSmith; a log time associate of the band, she wrote "Career of Evil" for this LP.
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* JailBaitWait: What may be happening to the narrator of "Dominance and Submission" (their gender is unspecified) as three people wait in a car and the clock ticks towards midnight.
-->It will be time.
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* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Drummer Albert Bouchard sings "Dominance and Submission" by himself and duets with singer Eric Bloom on "Career of Evil". Albert, bassist brother Joe, and Bloom all sing on "Creepy Cretins".
** Subverted with Buck Dharma: this is the only BOC album in which he ''doesn't'' StepUpToTheMicrophone
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* RockOpera: The songs on the album were originally intended to be part of ''Imaginos'', a rock opera about a man given superhuman powers by alien gods in exchange for becoming their servant and causing wars and destruction, which fell through and was eventually released in a fragmentary form in 1988. "Subhuman" and "Astronomy" were re-recorded for that album.

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* RockOpera: The songs on the album were originally intended to be part of ''Imaginos'', a rock opera about a man given superhuman powers by alien gods in exchange for becoming their servant and causing wars and destruction, which fell through and was eventually released in a fragmentary form in 1988. "Subhuman" and "Astronomy" and "Subhuman" (retitled "Blue Öyster Cult") were re-recorded for that album.

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* ShoutOut: * Creator/AleisterCrowley's occultism is alluded to in "Astronomy".
** Received one when Creator/JKRowling titled her novel ''Literature/CareerOfEvil'' after a song on this album.

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* ShoutOut: * Creator/AleisterCrowley's occultism is alluded to in "Astronomy".
** Received one when Creator/JKRowling titled her novel ''Literature/CareerOfEvil'' after a song on this album.
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* Creator/AleisterCrowley: His occultism is alluded to in "Astronomy".



* Music/PattiSmith: She wrote "Career of Evil".
* ShoutOut: Creator/JKRowling's novel ''Literature/CareerOfEvil'' is titled after a song from this album.

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* Music/PattiSmith: She wrote "Career of Evil".
* ShoutOut: Creator/JKRowling's * Creator/AleisterCrowley's occultism is alluded to in "Astronomy".
**Received one when Creator/JKRowling titled her
novel ''Literature/CareerOfEvil'' is titled after a song from on this album.



* TroubledProduction: This LP contains the largest concentration of thematic ideas from the ill-fated ''Imaginos'' cycle to be commited to music. Several songs were re-arranged for the ill-fated 1988 album ''Imaginos'', which represents the lowest ebb in the band's fortunes and which was panned as a critical turkey.
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The pilot of the plane on the cover

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* TheGrimReaper: Take a close look at the rather anorexic-looking pilot in the cockpit of the ME-262 on the cover.

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* SkeletonCrew: Take a close look at the pilot in the Me-262 jet fighter on the front cover.



* Music/TroubledProduction: This LP contains the largest concentration of thematic ideas from the ill-fated ''Imaginos'' cycle to be commited to music. Several songs were re-arranged for the ill-fated 1988 album ''Imaginos'', which represents the lowest ebb in the band's fortunes and which was panned as a critical turkey.

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* Music/TroubledProduction: TroubledProduction: This LP contains the largest concentration of thematic ideas from the ill-fated ''Imaginos'' cycle to be commited to music. Several songs were re-arranged for the ill-fated 1988 album ''Imaginos'', which represents the lowest ebb in the band's fortunes and which was panned as a critical turkey.
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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).

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Preceded by the LP ''Tyranny and Mutation'' (1973) and followed by the live LP ''Some Enchanted Evening'' double-LP ''On Your Feet Or On Your Knees'' (1975). Their next studio album was ''Music/AgentsOfFortune'' (1976).

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