Blue Oyster Cult - Shooting Shark

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.

Poor Buck! His dream girl turned into a goat. I hate it when that happens!!

Truthfully I became a BOC fan in 1981 💖😎🤟🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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. 😁

just realized from watching this that Buck Dharma is actually the Edger Allen Poe of rock :P

Seriously can't get enough of this song

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.

Buck Dharma has always looked like a nice man. And he is a great guy I’ve met him.

Yes, kids, the music videos of the 80's were something to behold.

"He said you do need help my friend", I whispered, "Obviously" Love this tune, the guitar work in between versus, and all the solos, horns ect. just so melodic and even the electronics, hot at the time, work in my opinion, great lyrics, ," Remove yourself from her side, do without her love" , I also like, " I could mail a letter to you but, I still have my pride." Great Song

I love this song, especially Randy Jackson's bass line. Yeah, that's him and it's a bass driven song.

Love it when they play this at their shows!

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.

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.

underated all round band, i'm sad that they don't have more popularity they could've changed the thinking of many generations in my opinion. Their songs make me feel like i am part of an imaginary world that i wish was true.

This is the first time that I've heard this song in almost (30) years and it still sounds fresh and new.

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.

Bucking Frilliant!!:)

BOC are true honest to God artists, they deserve the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame more than a lot of artists who were inducted.

"Sick of hauling your love around,wanna run this train alone,but the engine tracks straight through your heart and weighs me like a stone" what badass lyrics only from a band like BOC, it never ceases to make me wonder were the real music has gone?