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Date of upload: Oct 5, 2012 ^^
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YouTube Comments - 820 Comments
Top Comments of this video!! :3
Love it when they play this at their shows!
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Seriously can't get enough of this song
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im surprised no one has noticed buck's acting skills!!!! hell i think they all can. if ya ask me..
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Yes, kids, the music videos of the 80's were something to behold.
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I've met Buck Dharma twice and got his autograph both times. Guitar legend with a great singing voice, and a class act. Love him and the others.
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Criminally underrated band. Buck, Eric, Alan, Al, and Joe are made up one of the greatest bands if all time. The Blue Oyster Cult was ahead of their time. They still are. Thankfully, they created a treasure trove of sonic gems to enjoy for the rest of my life. π
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Poor Buck! His dream girl turned into a goat. I hate it when that happens!!
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just realized from watching this that Buck Dharma is actually the Edger Allen Poe of rock :P
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the very
best song of this band
i like so much
1983
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Truthfully I became a BOC fan in 1981
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Buck Dharma has always looked like a nice man. And he is a great guy Iβve met him.
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Definitely during the early eighties and the old MTV years and BOC
Kind of sounding a little new wave with this song and I graduated
high school in 1983 and I'm 58 now and this really takes you back
in time and wishing you had it back, g'day y'all from Oklahoma.
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Pure Eighties essence. I am born in these years. The song is very nice
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Graduated from college the other day while a family member drove me back from the ceremony this song came on from shuffle. I've never heard it before. While this song was playing I saw a girl who meant the world to me who drove off with her boyfriend after we confessed our feelings to each other over the year. I think that is the last time I will ever see her in person, with Shooting Sharks playing by BOC. I will always think of that time when this song comes on.
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Lyrically, the song is about a romantic couple in a dysfunctional relationship, in which keep breaking up and getting back together again. The couple breaks up and gets back together 3 times. Every time they break up, a "shooting shark" lights up the sky. It is not entirely clear exactly what that is, but it seems to be some sort of celestial event, like a meteor shower. The "magic man" is a fortune teller/tarot card reader who advises the protagonist to finally let go of the relationship and move on.
When the couple breaks up for the 4th time at the end of the song, "the 4th time around is the last time around, there is nothing else to say". The cycle has been broken. Buck releasing the dove at the end of the video symbolizes him finally finding peace.
Thanks to Patti Smith for writing the poem that went on to became the lyrics.
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I fell in love with this song the first time I heard it.
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i think that blue oyster cult is the most underrated band on rock history
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The best song most people havenβt heard.
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I got a BOC compilation several years ago. Making dinner while playing it, I heard TWO songs I remembered from years ago I had no idea was them: In Thee ("Well I wrap myself in cities I travel, I wrap myself in dreams ...) and Shooting Shark. The former I'd always wondered what it was and who did it, and SS I simply forgot about until it played on my CD. It was a trip as my synapses devoted to that melody awaked from their 20-year slumber. I said to myself, "the chorus is gonna go, 'sick of haulin your love around ...' and 'three times I sent you back from me, three times something something something ... blah blah, shooting shark lighting up THE sky!'" LOL. Quite a musical reunion moment.
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@JDGothard
3 years ago
Worked on this video back in the 80's as a Production Assistant. The cave/dream scenes were actually shot inside Bronson Cave which was "the Bat Cave" (from the TV Show version of BatMan). The band members were fun to work with and not snotty or stuck up and the girls/dancers were all fabulous and 80's hair beautiful. I was 20 or so and amazed by the whole music video biz, I really learned so much. Good times in 80's Hollywood!! I miss those days.
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