Editing Tyranny and Mutation

{{Infobox album
|title=''Tyranny and Mutation''
|image=Tyranny and mutation cover.jpg
|artist=[[Blue Öyster Cult]]
|released=February 1973
|recorded=1972 at Columbia Studios, New York City (tracks 1–8, 10)<hr>1972 at Rochester, NY (track 9)<hr>July 5, 1974 at Seattle, WA (track 11)<hr>July 4, 1974 at Portland, OR (track 12)
|length=38:11 (original)<hr>66:30 (reissue)
|label=Columbia Records
|producer=[[Murray Krugman]]<br>[[Sandy Pearlman]]
|previous-album=''[[Blue Öyster Cult (album)|Blue Öyster Cult]]''
|next-album=''[[Secret Treaties]]''}}
'''''Tyranny and Mutation''''' is the second studio album by [[Blue Öyster Cult]]. It was released in February 1973 by Columbia Records and, on May 12, peaked at No. 122 on the Billboard 200.

This album spawned one single, "[[Hot Rails to Hell]]" / "[[7 Screaming Diz-Busters]]", which did not chart.

== Personnel ==
=== Blue Öyster Cult ===
* [[Eric Bloom]] – lead vocals, stun guitar, synthesizers
* [[Buck Dharma|Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser]] – lead guitar, vocals
* [[Albert Bouchard]] – drums, vocals
* [[Joe Bouchard]] – bass, vocals, keyboards
* [[Allen Lanier]] – keyboards, guitar

=== Production ===
* [[Murray Krugman]] – producer
* [[Sandy Pearlman]] – producer
* Tim Geelan – engineer
* Lou Schlossberg – engineer
* Phil Giambalvo – engineer
* Jack Ashkinazy – mastering
* George Geranios – producer (tracks 11–12)
* [[Bill Gawlik]] – cover art
* Special thanks to Bill of "The Leather Man," New York

== Track listing ==
{| class="article-table"
!#
!Title
!Writers
!Lead vocals
!Length
|-
| colspan="5" |'''Side one (The Black)'''
|-
|1
|[[The Red and the Black]]
|A. Bouchard, Pearlman, Bloom
|Bloom
|4:20
|-
|2
|[[O.D.'d on Life Itself]]
|Bloom, A. Bouchard, J. Bouchard, Pearlman
|Bloom
|4:47
|-
|3
|[[Hot Rails to Hell]]
|J. Bouchard
|J. Bouchard
|5:12
|-
|4
|[[7 Screaming Diz-Busters]]
|A. Bouchard, J. Bouchard, Roeser, Pearlman
|Bloom
|7:01
|-
| colspan="5" |'''Side two (The Red)'''
|-
|5
|[[Baby Ice Dog]]
|Bloom, A. Bouchard, Smith
|Bloom
|3:29
|-
|6
|[[Wings Wetted Down]]
|A. Bouchard, J. Bouchard
|J. Bouchard
|4:12
|-
|7
|[[Teen Archer]]
|Roeser, Bloom, Meltzer
|Roeser
|3:57
|-
|8
|[[Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)]]
|A. Bouchard, Pearlman
|Bloom
|5:08
|-
| colspan="5" |'''2001 reissue bonus tracks'''
|-
|9
|[[Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll]]<sub> (live)</sub>
|A. Bouchard, Pearlman, Roeser
|A. Bouchard
|4:44
|-
|10
|[[Buck's Boogie]]<sub> (studio version)</sub>
|Bloom, A. Bouchard, Pearlman
|Instrumental
|5:22
|-
|11
|7 Screaming Diz-Busters<sub> (live)</sub>
|A. Bouchard, J. Bouchard, Roeser, Pearlman
|Bloom
|14:01
|-
|12
|O.D.'d on Life Itself<sub> (live)</sub>
|Bloom, A. Bouchard, J. Bouchard, Pearlman
|Bloom
|4:52
|}

== Trivia ==
* ''Tyranny and Mutation'' is the only album featuring the band's name as "'''The''' Blue Öyster Cult."

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