And "I Love the Night" (with its guitar part resembling "Reaper" for a moment) is one of rock & roll's truly strange and seductive love songs. It sounds less like the Cult than anything they'd recorded, but as a classic rock & roll single it succeeds in spades. Written by Eric Bloom and Ian Hunter, it's a stunning single. The former track is a wonderful blend of Tommy James & the Shondells, Boston, and Mott the Hoople's roots rock glam attack. However, upon hearing Spectres again, the album offers proof that the commercial and creative bent of Agents of Fortune was still in place at certain moments, and the band laid out a major single in the opening cut, "Godzilla," a tune - however silly it may be - that is every bit as memorable as "(Don't Fear) The Reaper." It's not the only big number here either: "Goin' Through the Motions" and the truly spooky "I Love the Night" by Buck Dharma also scored. Spectres is not the masterpiece that Agents of Fortune is, but it didn't need to be. Not only did the Cult want to respond, they wanted to cement their place. But upon arrival, they found that kind of success difficult to respond to. * Newark Boys Chorus-vocals (on "Golden Age of Leather")īlue Öyster Cult scored big with Agents of Fortune and its now-classic rock hit, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper." It took the album into the stratosphere and the band's profile with it it put them in the visible pop space they'd tried for years to get to. * Albert Bouchard-drums, vocals, harmonica lead vocals on 3,5
* Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser-lead and rhythm guitars, vocals lead vocals on 1,2,9 * Joe Bouchard-bass guitar, vocals, guitar lead vocals on 7,10
* Eric Bloom-vocals, guitar lead vocals on 2,4,6,8
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