Secret Treaties
by Blue Öyster Cult
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Secret Treaties is ranked as the best album by Blue Öyster Cult.
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Secret Treaties track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Secret Treaties rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  spigelwii | Top 6 Music Albums of 1974 | 1/6 | 5 |
| 2026 |  slatsheit | Top 68 Music Albums of 1974 | 53/68 | 1 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 40 Music Albums of 1974 | 9/40 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1974 | 36/100 | - |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 89/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 56 Music Albums of 1974 | 44/56 | 1 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 99 Music Albums of 1974 | 12/99 | 4 |
| 2026 |  djrodo | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 71/100 | 6 |
| 2026 |  Robert Anton Wilson | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1970s | 61/99 | 8 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 53/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 181 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,087 | |||
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Secret Treaties ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/15/2026 21:46 |  MetalMan67 | 6,251 | 71/100 |
| ! | 08/23/2026 09:45 | markl73 | 637 | 78/100 |
| ! | 08/07/2026 05:11 | adbrack1988 | 1,129 | 83/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.0/100, a mean average of 79.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.
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Secret Treaties forum mentions
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Decurso TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/05/2014 04:56 | #113790 | TOP COMMENT
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Whatever else you say about this album...it's definitely unique. The lyrical content has a certain sense of of humor and the music is certainly different from most of the heavy arena rock bands of the day. It's a bit corny at times, but it definitely gets points for originality.
Robert Anton Wilson TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/07/2011 18:47 | #30062 | TOP COMMENT
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The band's better cover to cover offering.
A criminally underrated album from a criminally underrated band. The weakest song is just average, the best songs are the highlights of hard rock genre. The downside is production, which is of it's era. Should be rated higher.
Top 3 Tracks
ME 262
Flaming Telepath
Astronomy
Fischman TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/15/2016 15:55 | #180206 | TOP COMMENT
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Lots of good, dark fun on this album. By this time BOC had fully evolved, but not yet gone commercial, and the result is quite possibly the best album in their catalog.
This is where it all comes together for BOC. There is not a bad song on here and really this might be their best collection of songs. The one drawback I have, as with the first two BOC albums, is a production that sounds dated and weak as it ages. If this had the production of Spectres with these songs it would be the best album ever.
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