Blue ?yster Cult - Tyranny & Mutation
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Artist: Blue ?yster CultEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-06-26
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- The Red & The Black
- O.D.'d On Life Itself
- Hot Rails To Hell
- 7 Screaming Diz-Busters
- Baby Ice Dog
- Wings Wetted Down
- Teen Archer
- Mistress Of The Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)
- Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll (Live)
- Buck's Boogie (Studio Version)
- 7 Screaming Diz-Busters (Live)
- O.D.'d On Life Itself (Live)
Free Music Notes for Tyranny & Mutation
Free Music Review: BOC at their pre-commercial creative peak
Hit: 5 Stars
This was my first BOC album. I consider it their creative peak at a point when their "art" had not yet given way to the ever-broadening audience that would follow. Every song is well-crafted and tightly played, and there are seamless transitions from one song to the next.
It was late 1973, if memory serves, when I got it on vinyl. That's probably right because I wrote a review of it for my sophomore English class. (Got a "D" in that class, btw.)
By 1976 or so, I was playing in a local band, and we did covers of "O.D.'d on Life Itself" and "Quicklime Girl." We did them pretty well, too. I remember how faithful we were to the double-leads and the keyboard and drum parts. And the Eric Bloom screaming at the end of "Quicklime." I did those honors, and one of our dear roadies would laugh to tears as my face turned totally red, holding that final, loud note.
Funny how we didn't realize it soon enough, but those BOC songs would put us in "crisis mode" at a high school dance. We were actually SCARING the kids with those lyrics. But, as I look back on it, it was a normal reaction there, in one of the stauncher Bible-belt enclaves in Southern Indiana. Whoops!
But the rest of the stuff was too challenging. Buck Dharma's guitar work here is AMAZING. The bridge on "Teen Archer," the solo on "Hot Rails to Hell," and just the playing on the rest are a feast for the ears.
And it was too weird, too. "Seven Screaming Diz-Busters?" I get the Biblical "7" reference, but what's a "Diz-Buster?" Anyway, that song is really creepy. It makes you think you're entering Hell. But the call-and-response between the singing and the rippin' fast guitar make it fun.
This album should be featured on VH1 as an example of "early metal." It wasn't just Sabbath and Deep Purple, important though they were. It deserves at least the respect of very much belated hindsight.
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