in response to yesterday's airplanes on album covers, Kim sent me one that had been overlooked! Blue Oyster Cult!

thank you Kim! 

Even cooler than yesterday's album covers, as I prefer the look of hand drawn art! 

PLUS! This is the only one featuring a WW2 era Luftwaffe plane. In this case the Messerschmitt 262

But here's something I just learned yesterday about the Blue Oyster Cult, and I will guess, you are going to learn this for the first time too. I hope so, I love to surprise and entertain all of you. 

things you did not know about rock bands names: 

A metal umlaut (also known as röck döts) is a diacritic that is sometimes used gratuitously or decoratively over letters in the names of mainly hard rock or heavy metal bands—for example, those of Blue Öyster Cult, Queensrÿche, Motörhead, the Accüsed, Mötley Crüe and the parody bands Spın̈al Tap and Green Jellÿ... 

Among English speakers, the use of umlaut marks and other diacritics with a blackletter typeface is a form of foreign branding, which has been attributed to a desire for a "gothic horror" feel. 

The metal umlaut is not generally intended to affect the pronunciation of the band's name.

As Vince Neil recounts: "I can remember it like it was yesterday. We were drinking Löwenbräu, and when we decided to call ourselves Mötley Crüe, we put some umlauts in there because we thought it made us look European. We had no idea that it was a pronunciation thing.