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I bought this album when it first came out in 1975, mainly because I was a huge Blue Oyster Cult fan and read that Sandy Pearlman, Murray Krugman and Richard Metzler were involved in producing it. The result is 180 degrees different than BOC and became one of my all time favorite albums. Instead of the steely musical precision and obtuse lyrics of the early BOC albums (first 3 are genius, check them out if you haven't), "Go Girl Crazy!" is a sloppy (in a good way) buzzsaw masterwork with some of the funniest lyrics ever put to paper; this is wise-ass NYC punk (before punk existed) at it's tuneful finest. Example from "Weekend": "Bobby is a local punk, cuttin' school and gettin' drunk, eatin' at McDonald's for lunch, oh, weekend, soon he threw up in the store, but if he does it any more, I'll make him eat it off the floor." Remember that when this was released, the music scene was very serious with bands like Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Sabbath and Zeppelin ruling the world. And here these guys are, sitting at a lunch counter at White Castle and singing "Who's that boy with the sandwich in his hand?" from "Teengenerate". There's no "Tales of Topographic Oceans" or "the darkest depths of Mordor" here.....It's hard to imagine the impact this album must have had on the Ramones (the album sleeve shows The Dictators in leather jackets a year or so before the first Ramones album) and the Beastie Boys. The Dictators are another in a line of "first on the beach" groups to be hugely influential but commercially unsuccessful (e.g. Velvet Underground, New York Dolls, etc.) and were dropped by Epic after this album. They continued recording a few years later but the joyous naivete was gone and they never recaptured that beautiful magic.If there'd been a quick follow-up to "Go Girl Crazy" in the same vein, these guys would have been probably bested the Ramones. But you know what happens when you're "first on the beach"....