Editing The Columbia Albums Collectiön

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Columbia Albums Collectiön''}}{{Infobox album
|title=''The Columbia Albums Collectiön''
|image=The columbia albums collection cover.jpg
|artist=[[Blue Öyster Cult]]
|released=October 30, 2012
|recorded=1969–1988
|length=819:24 (pre-released material)<br>459:36 (new material)<br>1279:00 (total)
|label=Sony Music<br>Legacy Recordings
|producer=Bruce Dickinson<br>Steve Schenck
|previous-album=''[[The Columbia Albums Collectiön Sampler]]''
|next-album=''[[Rarities]]''<br>(concurrent)}}
'''''The Columbia Albums Collectiön''''' is a compilation album by [[Blue Öyster Cult]]. It contains every album produced under their contract to [[Columbia Records]] (''[[Blue Öyster Cult (album)|Blue Öyster Cult]]''–''[[Imaginos]]''), as well as two compilation discs and a set of digital downloads. It was released on October 30, 2012 by the Legacy Recordings subsidiary of Sony Music.

''[[Rarities]]'' is a compilation of demos, live performances, and pre-BÖC material that had yet to see an official release. ''[[Radios Appear: The Best of the Broadcasts]]'' is a compilation of several live performances from the height of their career.

''[[Harvester of Lives]]'' is a four-concert set of digital downloads available via a one-use code to those who purchased the collection. The concerts, though incomplete, took place from 1980 to 1986 and total five hours of material.

== Personnel ==
=== Blue Öyster Cult ===
* [[Eric Bloom]] – lead vocals, stun guitar, keyboards, drums
* [[Buck Dharma|Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser]] – lead guitar, vocals, drums
* [[Allen Lanier]] – keyboards, guitar, vocals
* [[Joe Bouchard]] – bass, vocals
* [[Albert Bouchard]] – drums, vocals, guitar
* [[Rick Downey]] – drums
* [[Tommy Zvoncheck]] – keyboards
* [[Jimmy Wilcox]] – drums
* [[Jon Rogers]] – bass

=== Production ===
* Bruce Dickinson – producer
* Steve Schenck – producer
* Vic Anesini – mastering
* Maria Triana – mastering
* Darren Salmieri – Legacy A&R
* Bryan Koniarz – project director
* Edward O'Dowd – design
* Sandy Speiser – photos (pages 2–3)
* Don Hunstein – photos (pages 7, 16–17, 24, 28–29, 38)
* Art Maillet – photos (pages 18–19)
* Thanks to Sean Brennan, John Conroy, Jeff Frederick, Vanessa Gonzales, Jeremy Holiday, John Jackson, Matt Kelly, Donna Kloepfer, Mike Kull, Jim Lane, Mike Panico, Jeffrey Schulberg, Tim Sturges, Tom Tierney

== Album listing ==
# ''[[Blue Öyster Cult (album)|Blue Öyster Cult]] ''
# ''[[Tyranny and Mutation]]''
# ''[[Secret Treaties]]''
# ''[[On Your Feet or on Your Knees]]''
# ''[[Agents of Fortune]]''
# ''[[Spectres]]''
# ''[[Some Enchanted Evening]]''
## ''Some OTHER Enchanted Evening'' (DVD)
# ''[[Mirrors (album)|Mirrors]]''
# ''[[Cultösaurus Erectus]]''
# ''[[Fire of Unknown Origin (album)|Fire of Unknown Origin]]''
# ''[[Extraterrestrial Live]]''
# ''[[The Revölution by Night]]''
# ''[[Club Ninja]]''
# ''[[Imaginos (album)|Imaginos]]''
# ''[[Rarities]]''
# ''[[Radios Appear: The Best of the Broadcasts]]''
# ''[[Harvester of Lives]]'' (digital download)

== The Columbia Albums Collectiön Sampler ==
{{Main|The Columbia Albums Collectiön Sampler}}
Prior to the release of the box set, a promotional sampler CD was released containing selected tracks from throughout the compilation. It also featured a track not found in the final box set, a cover of The Who's "Substitute" performed at the Civic Center in Providence, RI in 1980.

=== Track listing ===
* <sup>-</sup> cover song
* * incorrect credit
{| class="wikitable"
!#
!Title
!Writer(s)
!Lead vocals
!Length
|-
|1
|[[Godzilla]]
|Roeser
|Roeser, Bloom
|3:41
|-
|2
|[[I Want You (She's So Heavy)]]<sup>-</sup> <font size=1>(Live)</font>
|John Lennon, Paul McCartney
|Bloom
|5:53
|-
|3
|[[Wings of Mercury]] <font size=1>(Live)</font>
|Karl Precoda
|Bloom
|4:52
|-
|4
|[[In Thee]] <font size=1>(Live)</font>
|Lanier
|Roeser
|3:53
|-
|5
|[[(Don't Fear) The Reaper]]
|Roeser
|Roeser
|5:08
|-
|6
|[[Double Talk]] <font size=1>(Demo)</font>
|J. Bouchard
|J. Bouchard
|3:48
|-
|7
|[[Veteran of the Psychic Wars]]
|J. Bouchard, P. Smith, Bloom, A. Bouchard, Roeser*
|Bloom
|4:50
|-
|8
|[[Burnin' For You]]
|Roeser, Meltzer
|Roeser
|4:31
|-
|9
|[[The Marshall Plan]]
|Blue Öyster Cult
|Bloom
|5:23
|-
|10
|[[Astronomy]]
|J. Bouchard, S. Bouchard, Pearlman*
|Bloom
|6:28
|-
|11
|[[Dancin' in the Ruins]] <font size=1>(Live)</font>
|Larry Gottlieb, Justin Scanlon
|Roeser
|4:19
|-
|12
|[[O.D.'d on Life Itself]]
|Bloom, A. Bouchard, J. Bouchard, Pearlman
|Bloom
|4:48
|-
|13
|[[The Great Sun Jester]] <font size=1>(Live)</font>
|Bloom, Michael Moorcock, John Trivers
|Bloom
|5:49
|-
|14
|[[Arthur Comics]] <font size=1>(Live)</font>
|A. Bouchard, Meltzer
|Roeser
|3:16
|-
|15
|[[Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll]]
|Pearlman, Roeser, A. Bouchard
|A. Bouchard
|4:03
|-
|16
|[[Substitute]]<sup>-</sup> <font size=1>(Live)</font>
|Pete Townshend
|Bloom
|3:26
|}
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