Bad Channels (album)

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Bad Channels | type = soundtrack | artist = Blue Öyster Cult | cover = BOC bad channels.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1992|08|4}} | recorded = Alpha & Omega Recording, San Rafael, California, 1992 | venue = | studio = | genre = {{hlist|Heavy metal|punk rock|film score}} | length = 71:20 | label = Moonstone Records | producer = {{hlist|Donald Roeser|Eric Bloom|Steve Schenk|Mark Nawara (Sykotik Sinfoney)|Joker|John Bogosian (Fair Game)|Sandy Pearlman (DMT)}} | prev_title = Imaginos | prev_year = 1988 | next_title = Cult Classic | next_year = 1994 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web | url = https://www.allmusic.com/album/bad-channels-mw0000100244 | title = Blue Öyster Cult: Bad Channels review | accessdate = 2018-10-08 | last = Ruhlmann | first = William | work = AllMusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation}}</ref> | noprose=yes }}

'''''Bad Channels''''' is the soundtrack album of the science fiction spoof film of the same name, released in 1992. It features ten songs by the bands Blue Öyster Cult, Joker, Fair Game (with Ron Keel), Sykotik Sinfoney and DMT and a film score written and performed by Blue Öyster Cult.

==Critical reception== ''AllMusic'' said: "There's a lot of music here [...] but little of it is memorable."<ref name="AllMusic"/> ''Louder Sound'' called the album "a grotesque mistake from Blue Öyster Cult."<ref name="Louder">{{cite web |last1=Dome |first1=Malcolm |last2=Lewry |first2=Fraser |title=One of the most fascinating and intelligent metal bands ever: The Blue Öyster Cult albums you should definitely listen to... and one to avoid |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-to-buy-the-very-best-of-blue-oyster-cult |website=Louder Sound (Classic Rock) |publisher=Future plc |access-date=8 August 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250612150422/https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-to-buy-the-very-best-of-blue-oyster-cult |archive-date=12 June 2025 |date=30 May 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Track listing==

{{track listing | headline = Featured songs | extra_column = Original artist | title1 = Demon's Kiss | writer1 = Eric Bloom, Donald Roeser, John Shirley | length1 = 3:53 | extra1 = Blue Öyster Cult | title2 = The Horsemen Arrive | writer2 = Bloom, Roeser, Shirley | length2 = 6:12 | extra2 = Blue Öyster Cult | title3 = That's How It Is | length3 = 3:07 | extra3 = Joker | title4 = Jane Jane (The Hurricane) | length4 = 3:03 | extra4 = Joker | title5 = Somewhere in the Night | length5 = 4:30 | extra5 = Fair Game | title6 = Blind Faith | length6 = 4:24 | extra6 = Fair Game | title7 = Manic Depresso | length7 = 4:03 | extra7 = Sykotik Sinfoney | title8 = Mr. Cool | length8 = 3:38 | extra8 = Sykotik Sinfoney | title9 = Myth of Freedom | length9 = 5:07 | extra9 = DMT | title10 = Touching Myself Again | length10 = 3:59 | extra10 = DMT | title11 = Little Old Lady Polka | length11 = 3:04 | extra11 = The Ukelaliens<ref>Sykotik Sinfoney disguised as The Ukelaliens</ref> }} {{track listing | headline = Original score by Blue Öyster Cult | title1 = Bad Channels Overture | length1 = 2:01 | title2 = Power Station | length2 = 2:02 | title3 = Power Station II | length3 = 1:38 | title4 = Shadow | length4 = 0:26 | title5 = V.U. | length5 = 0:52 | title6 = Cosmo Rules, but Lump Controls | length6 = 1:09 | title7 = Battering Ram | length7 = 1:25 | title8 = This Dude Is F****d | length8 = 2:24 | title9 = Pick Up Her Feed | length9 = 1:53 | title10 = Spray That Scumbag | length10 = 1:54 | title11 = Out of Station | length11 = 1:22 | title12 = Tree Full of Owls | length12 = 1:08 | title13 = Cookie in Bottle | length13 = 0:40 | title14 = Corky Gets It | length14 = 1:01 | title15 = Eulogy for Corky | length15 = 0:43 | title16 = Spore Bomb | length16 = 1:06 | title17 = Remodeling | length17 = 2:14 | title18 = Ginger Snaps | length18 = 1:35 | title19 = Moon Gets It | length19 = 0:39 }}

==Personnel== ;Blue Öyster Cult *Eric Bloom – vocals, guitar, keyboards *Donald 'Buck Dharma' Roeser – lead guitar, vocals, keyboards *Allen Lanier – guitar, keyboards *Jon Rogers – bass, background vocals *Chuck Burgi – drums, background vocals

==Additional notes== Catalogue: (CD) Moonstone 12936

==References== {{reflist}}

Category:Blue Öyster Cult albums Category:1992 soundtrack albums Category:Science fiction film soundtracks