Tracklist

The Black
1	The Red & The Black	4:24
2	O.D.'d On Life Itself	4:47
3	Hot Rails To Hell	5:11
4	7 Screaming Diz-Busters	7:01
The Red
5	Baby Ice Dog	3:28
6	Wings Wetted Down	4:12
7	Teen Archer	3:57
8	Mistress Of The Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)	5:08
Bonus Tracks
9	Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll (Live)	4:44
10	Buck's Boogie (Studio Version)	5:21
11	7 Screaming Diz-Busters (Live)	14:00
12	O.D.'d On Life Itself (Live)	4:52

Companies, etc.

• Copyright (c) – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Credits

• Art Direction [Reissue] – Howard Fritzson
• Artwork [Cover Art] – Gawlik
• Artwork [Packaging Manager] – Emily Goldberg
• Bass, Vocals, Keyboards – Joseph Bouchard*
• Design – Smay Vision
• Drums, Vocals – Albert Bouchard
• Engineer – Tim Geelan
• Guitar, Vocals – Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser
• Keyboards, Rhythm Guitar – Allen Lanier
• Liner Notes – Lenny Kaye
• Mastered By [Original] – Jack Ashkinazy
• Photography By – Don Hunstein, Roni Huffman, Roz Levin*
• Producer – Blue Öyster Cult (tracks: 11, 12), George Geranios (tracks: 11, 12), Murray Krugman (tracks: 1 to 10), Sandy Pearlman (tracks: 1 to 10)
• Recorded By [Recordist] – Lou Schlossberg, Phil Giambalvo
• Reissue Producer – Bruce Dickinson
• Remastered By [Reissue] – Vic Anesini
• Vocals, Guitar [Stun], Synthesizer – Eric Bloom
• Written-By – A. Bouchard* (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 12), D. Roeser* (tracks: 2, 4, 9, 11, 12), E. Bloom* (tracks: 1, 5, 7, 10, 12), J. Bouchard* (tracks: 3, 4, 6, 11), P. Smith* (tracks: 5), S. Pearlman* (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 9 to 12)

Notes

Tracks 1 to 8 recorded 1972 at Columbia Studio, New York.
This is the remastered version of the original 1973 release.
Track 9 recorded 1972 in Rochester NY.
Track 10 recorded 1972 in New York; outtake from "Tyranny And Mutation" session.
Track 11 recorded 5 July 1974 in Seattle, Washington.
Track 12 recorded 4 July 1974 in Portland, Oregon.
Tracks 10-12 previously unreleased
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Full booklet
a replica of Columbia / Legacy release – Tyranny And Mutation

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 696998548121

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
KC 32017	The Blue Öyster Cult*	Tyranny And Mutation ‎(LP, Album, San)	Columbia	KC 32017	US	1973
CK 32017	The Blue Öyster Cult*	Tyranny And Mutation ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Columbia	CK 32017	US	Unknown
MHCP 1352	The Blue Öyster Cult*	Tyranny And Mutation ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, Pap)	Sony Records Int'l	MHCP 1352	Japan	2007
WKC 32017	The Blue Öyster Cult*	Tyranny And Mutation ‎(LP, Album)	Columbia	WKC 32017	Canada	1973
PCT 32017	Blue Öyster Cult	Tyranny And Mutation ‎(Cass, Album, RE, Dol)	Columbia	PCT 32017	US	Unknown