Line #23 Music/TyrannyAndMutation


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The attempt at eye-watering AlienGeometries tinged with Creator/HPLovecraft tells you what to expect]]
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4	''Tyranny and Mutation'' is the second studio album by American hard rock band Music/BlueOysterCult, released in February 1973. In common with the others of their first three albums, the artwork has a minimal monochrome design (with touches of red) and is considered to be the second part of the "red, white, and black" trilogy of albums.
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6	Preceded by the self-titled LP ''[[Music/BlueOysterCult1972 Blue Öyster Cult]]'' (1972)[[note]]Officially this is the group's second album ''under this name''. But they had recorded [=LPs=] previous to this under names like the Soft White Underbelly and Saint Cecelia.[[/note]] and followed by the LP ''Music/SecretTreaties'' (1974).
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8	!!Tracklist:
9	[[AC:The Black]]
10	# "The Red and the Black" (4:20)
11	# "OD'd on Life Itself" (4:47)
12	# "Hot Rails to Hell" (5:12)
13	# "Seven Screaming Dizbusters" (7:01)
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15	[[AC:The Red]]
16	# "Baby Ice Dog" (3:29)
17	# "Wings Wetted Down" (4:12)
18	# "Teen Archer" (3:57)
19	# "Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)" (5:08)
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22	!!Personnel:
23	* Eric Bloom: vocals, rhythm guitar, synthesizers
24	* Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser: lead guitar, vocals
25	* Allen Lanier: keyboards, rhythm guitar
26	* Joe Bouchard: bass, vocals, piano
27	* Albert Bouchard: drums, vocals
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29	!!Tropes crawling up from the hottest pit of Hell or possibly forged in the Workshop of the Telescopes include
30	* AlienGeometries: The sleeve designs for the first two [=LP=]s revolve around bizarre and unsettlingly alien landscapes and architectures.
31	* AmazonianBeauty: The title character in "Teen Archer" is very explicitly a classical Amazon, a woman warrior.
32	* AntiAntiChrist: "Seven Screaming Dizbusters" poses an interesting question. What happens if fallen angels choose to rebel a ''second'' time, this time against Lucifer?
33	* BlackWidow: "Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)" has been interpreted several ways and the hard-to-pin-down WordSalad lyrics make it hard to definitively interpret. But one explanation is that this is about a woman who serially murders her lovers or husbands, using quicklime to turn them into fertiliser for her garden.
34	* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Baby Ice Dog" segues into "Wings Wetted Down" through the howling of a wolf.
35	* HeavyMithril: "Teen Archer", "Wings Wetted Down", "Seven Screaming Dizbusters".
36	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The album's two sides are split between "The Black" and "The Red"; the disc labels are even color-coded with "The Black" featuring black text on a red background and "The Red" featuring red text on a black background.
37	* RearrangeTheSong: "The Red and the Black" was a new version of "I'm On The Lamb But I Ain't No Sheep" (from ''[[Music/BlueOysterCult1972 their first album]]''). It had mostly the same lyrics, but was different musically, and was a minute longer.
38	* WolvesAlwaysHowlAtTheMoon: "Baby Ice Dog" is a song about a lover who wanted their woman to be a dog they could break in and domesticate. The narrator realises it doesn't work out like that -- this is lampshaded by the song ending not with the bark of a dog, but with the long-drawn-out howl of a wolf. The wolf-howl neatly segues into the next track, "Wings Wetted Down", which is about sinister things in the sky on a wet moonlit night.

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