Workshop of the Telescopes

Workshop of the Telescopes is a two-disc compilation album by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released by Sony Music/Columbia Entertainment in 1995. All of the material on this album was recorded prior to the Imaginos sessions; some of it was previously only available on promo discs (marked (*)), and a few others were previously unavailable on CD (marked (+)).

The CD comes with an explanatory booklet outlining the development of Blue Öyster Cult and their rise to fame throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

The album served as a basis of the double-disc reissue of The Essential Blue Öyster Cult in 2012, sharing 21 tracks, substituting some tracks with their live counterparts.

Disc one

 * 1) "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" – 4:03
 * 2) "Transmaniacon MC" – 3:20
 * 3) "Before the Kiss, a Redcap" – 4:58
 * 4) "Stairway to the Stars" – 3:43
 * 5) "Buck's Boogie (Live)" – 5:17
 * 6) "Workshop of the Telescopes (Live)" (*) – 3:46
 * 7) "The Red and the Black (Live)" (*) – 4:35
 * 8) "7 Screaming Diz-Busters" – 7:00
 * 9) "Career of Evil" – 4:07
 * 10) "Flaming Telepaths" – 5:23
 * 11) "Astronomy" – 6:15
 * 12) "Subhuman (Live)" – 7:30
 * 13) "Harvester of Eyes (Live)" – 5:00
 * 14) "ME 262 (Live)" – 8:17
 * 15) "Born to Be Wild" (+) – 3:38 (Steppenwolf cover)

Disc two

 * 1) "Don't Fear the Reaper"  – 5:08
 * 2) "This Ain't the Summer of Love"  – 2:21
 * 3) "E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)"  – 3:42
 * 4) "Godzilla"  – 3:41
 * 5) "Goin' Through the Motions"  – 3:12
 * 6) "Golden Age of Leather"  – 5:51
 * 7) "Kick Out the Jams (Live)"  – 3:12 (MC5 cover)
 * 8) "We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Live)"  – 4:33 (The Animals cover)
 * 9) "In Thee"  – 3:48
 * 10) "The Marshall Plan"  – 5:24
 * 11) "Veteran of the Psychic Wars"  – 4:48
 * 12) "Burnin' for You"  – 4:30
 * 13) "Dominance and Submission (Live)"  – 5:56
 * 14) "Take Me Away"  – 4:30
 * 15) "Shooting Shark"  – 7:09
 * 16) "Dancin' in the Ruins"  – 4:00
 * 17) "Perfect Water"  – 5:29

Some of these songs were later included on the remastered editions of BÖC's studio albums.

Personnel
The album is a compilation encompassing Blue Öyster Cult from the early 1970s to 1986. It does not include material from 1988's Imaginos.