1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/th_25.jpg]] |
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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