Tyranny & Mutation

Tyranny & Mutation Artist: Blue Öyster Cult
Label: Sony
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 696998548121
EAN: 0696998548121
ASIN: B00005LNBP


Release Date: 2001-06-26

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  1. Blue Oyster Cult albums
  2. Greatest 3 Album Stretches Ever
  3. Classic Rock Albums
  4. Melodic Progressive Metal Plus
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  10. best in rock 1970-1976

Tracks:

  1. The Red & The Black
  2. O.D.'d On Life Itself
  3. Hot Rails To Hell
  4. 7 Screaming Diz-Busters
  5. Baby Ice Dog
  6. Wings Wetted Down
  7. Teen Archer
  8. Mistress Of The Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)
  9. Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll (Live)
  10. Buck's Boogie (Studio Version)
  11. 7 Screaming Diz-Busters (Live)
  12. O.D.'d On Life Itself (Live)

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Cult Classic.......2006-11-02

This is a great recording for anyone who enjoys the Blue Oyster Cult. They have one of the best lead guitarist in the world. He's right up there with Clapton and Page. This recording shows a lot of his talent. Check out their new live CD with a DVD included and watch him play that guitar. He's great. they're great and this recording is great.

4 out of 5 stars Another Good One.......2006-10-17

BOC's second album mines similar territory to their debut with it's mix of hard rock, metal, jams, and just plain weirdness. The original vinyl album was divided into two sections, side one called "The Black" and side two "The Red". Side one is pretty much straight ahead rock and roll. The album starts out with "The Red And The Black" which is a re done version of "I'm On The Lamb But I Ain't No Sheep" which appeared on their first album. It is followed by "O.D.'d On Life Itself", "Hot Rails To Hell" and "& Screaming Diz-Busters" all former concert staples. Side two, The Red, mixes in more variety with some of BOC's patented mysterious lyrics. You can tell just by the titles that this is not your average stuff, "Baby Ice Dog", "Wings Wetted Down", "Teen Archer", and "Mistress Of The Salmon Salt", all delightfully strange. Personally I don't think this album is quite as good as their debut, but it is a good one and the first half is some of the most rocking music BOC produced in their career.

5 out of 5 stars Not just a continuation of that great debut.......2006-06-15

This album never left my turntable back when i first bought it when in high school. I had every hard rock, prog rock, "metal" (or whatever we called in back then) album there was. Spent a fortune on music in the early 70's. But this album and, obviously, the first one, were as wild, outlandish, unhinged, funny and hard rocking as you could get back then. The combination of writing, tone, and musicianship were without peer. Period. My ONLY gripe with the first two BOC albums? The mixing was heinous. Why did they make even the best stereo sound crappy? The drumming had no "weight". The guitars were muted. The vocals just didnt project the sound these guys deserved. They sounded like they were recorded from inside a beer can. It didn't improve until "Secret Treaties" which, while not an improvement over the first two in content, at least sounded like a hard rock album should. But, after 30+ years, i still would group the first two BOC albums as all time favorites.

5 out of 5 stars BOC's first TRULY solid effort in a long line of CLASSICS!!.......2006-02-23

The second in BOC's "Black and White" period. The B&W period consists of their first three albums and is named that for the dark and cryptic over-tones they possess (an everlasting theme they've perfected to this day, but yet not to the extent of the B&W period), and ofcourse, the black and white album-covers they sport. Personally, Tyranny & Mutation is by far my favorite of BOC's first three massive assaults, and is a lot tighter and well-rounded than the first. It's divided in two sections, "The Black" and "The Red", and the first track is appropriately called "The Red & The Black" and is actually an impressive re-doing of "I'm On The Lamb But I Ain't No Sheep" off their debut. Stand-outs are "O.D.d' On Life Itself", "Hot Rails To Hell", "Wings Wetted Down" and "Mistress Of The Salmon Salt" (commonly known as "Quicklime Girl"). But in my opinion, EVERY song on this impressive album totally rocks and has the MOST classic (and dark!) rock & roll sound and "feel" to it, of the entire B&W period. Where as the first and third may have just a couple possible throw-away tracks, Tyranny & Mutation is solid from start to finish, and it begins to show the incredible talents of the band, and demonstrates what I love most about BOC: they are one of THE most creative and interesting bands out there! If you liked their debut, then you are sure to love their second effort with even more ease than the first (though it doesn't take much effort at all to get into these guys). An instant classic!

4 out of 5 stars One of the best.....4.5 stars .......2005-12-13

From the opening feedback to the last song, the energy is there; easily one of my fav Cult discs, this collection represents a young Blue Oyster Cult pushing the limits of early 1970's hard rock, and their own creativity. Although slightly experimental,(for example, check out Eric Bloom's jive- turkey linguistics ..this would never be repeated on later recordings) the listener cannot help but enjoy all the songs in one way or another. Check out the wierd "Seven Screaming Diz-Busters"; the songs starts with a Get Smart-like riff and continues into a maze of progressions and jamming that makes Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick" seem tame. "Baby Ice Dog" is another favorite..(careful with that lyric, Eric), and of course, the AWSOME, BLISTERING, SPEEDFREAK "Red & The Black" is the opening track. Never again would Blue Oyster Cult burn with such intensity with such an opening track. "Hot Rails To Hell" is another fav, and is Joe Bouchard's contribution to this wicked collection. All and all, this one is a classic.

Music CD:

  1. Celestial Entrance ~ Pagan's Mind
  2. Cross Road ~ Bon Jovi
  3. Another Perfect Day ~ Mot%C3%B6rhead
  4. White Pony ~ Deftones
  5. Enthrone Darkness Triumphant ~ Dimmu Borgir
  6. Crazy World ~ Scorpions
  7. Transilvanian Hunger ~ Darkthrone
  8. Tear from the Red ~ Poison the Well
  9. The Darker Side of Nonsense ~ Dry Kill Logic
  10. Energy ~ Tommy Bolin

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Dance Hard ~ Northern Cree Singers

Fight for the Rock ~ Savatage

The Best of Nemesis Live ~ Various Artists

Road to Paradise ~ Drive She Said

Faraualla ~ Faraualla

Urbino ~ Paolo Giaro

Adidas World ~ Edwyn Collins

War of the Worlds

Nero Veneziano ~ Original Soundtrack

Supernatural ~ Static Revenger