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Blue Oyster Cult – Tyranny & Mutation (LP Vinyl)

$ 59.95
$ 59.95
Est. 1974, Curated by Heads
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Tyranny & Mutation arrived in 1973 as Blue Oyster Cult's second album, deepening the dark, literate hard rock blueprint they'd established with their debut. Produced by Sandy Pearlman and Murray Krugman, the record captures the band at their most raw and experimental, before arena success would later refine their edges. For fans who came to BOC through "Don't Fear the Reaper," this is where the cult began in earnest.

Although the band offers a mix of slightly subdued, milder pieces, the opening number 'The Red & The Black' makes it fully clear that we are in for a dizzy roller-coaster ride here. Subsequently the Black side with it's straightforward guitar riffs is mixed together with a complex melody and results in an amazingly colourful sound ("O.D.'d On Life Itself"), it is refreshingly naive, full of feisty complicated rock ("Baby Ice Dog"), and soars to celestial heights in "Wings Wetted Down" with it's polyphonic male voices.

Tracklist

Side A

1. The Red & The Black (4:20)
2. O.D.'d On Life Itself (4:50)
3. Hot Rails To Hell (5:12)
4. 7 Screaming Diz-Busters (7:00)

Side B

1. Baby Ice Dog (3:28)
2. Wings Wetted Down (4:12)
3. Teen Archer (3:57)
4. Mistress Of The Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl) (5:07)

UPC: 4260019715159
Label: Speakers Corner
Release Date: 9.4.26
Format: LP Vinyl