Don't Fear the Reaper: The Best of Blue 脰yster Cult
by Blue 脰yster Cult
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 8 February 2000
- Label: Legacy
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:15:43
- Community rating: 3.62/5 from 1 rating
Artists on this release: Eric Bloom, Allen Lanier, Jack Rigg, Murray Krugman, David R. Roter, Patti Smith, Steve Schenck, Tom Werman, Rick Downey, Scott Schinder, Aldo Nova, Bruce Fairbairn, Richard Meltzer, Martin Birch, Albert Bouchard, Michael Moorcock, Ian Hunter, Joe Bouchard, Bruce Dickinson, Sandy Pearlman, Josh Cheuse, Vic Anesini, 銉掋儹浼婅棨, Don Waller, Paradise Artists, David Lucas, John Trivers, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Best-of collection spanning the band's Columbia albums from 1972 to 1982, taking its title from their best-known song. It gathers the singles and key album tracks of their first decade.
Genres
Descriptors: compilation, guitars, occult, melodic, male-vocals
Tracklist
- Cities On Flame with Rock and Roll (4:03)
- The Red & the Black (4:24)
- Flaming Telepaths (5:20)
- Astronomy (6:26)
- This Ain't the Summer of Love (2:20)
- (Don't Fear) The Reaper (5:08)
- I Love the Night (4:25)
- Goin' Through the Motions (3:12)
- Godzilla (3:41)
- In Thee (3:49)
- The Marshall Plan (5:24)
- Black Blade (6:28)
- Joan Crawford (4:54)
- Burnin' for You (4:30)
- Shooting Shark (7:09)
- Take Me Away (4:30)
Credits
- Joe Bouchard - bass, vocals, written-by, vocal
- Albert Bouchard - drums, vocals, written-by, drums (drum set), vocal
- Allen Lanier - keyboards, guitar, written-by, keyboard
- Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser - lead guitar, vocals, written-by, guitar, vocal
- Eric Bloom - lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, written-by, keyboard, lead vocals vocal
- Lily Lew - product manager [packaging manager]
- Mark Feldman - project manager [project direction]
- Tom Burleigh - project manager [project direction]
- Bruce Dickinson - compilation producer, producer
- Dave Robison - design [front cover design], design
- Vic Anesini - mastered by, mastering
- Roz Levin Perlmutter - photography by [back cover], photography
- Jeffrey Mayer - photography by [booklet back cover], photography
- Eric Meola - photography by [pages 7 & 10], photography
- Murray Krugman - producer, written-by
- Sandy Pearlman - producer, written-by
- Josh Cheuse - art direction
- Paradise Artists - booking
- Michael Skinner - graphic design [graphic artist]
- Scott Schinder - liner notes
- Steve Schenck - management
- Hiro Ito - photography by [cd tray]
- Pop Scene - photography by [page 11]
- Pat Gober - photography by [page 6]
- David Lucas - producer
- Martin Birch - producer
- Don Waller - written-by
- Ian Hunter - written-by
- Tom Werman - producer
- John Trivers - written-by
- Michael Moorcock - written-by
- David R. Roter - written-by
- Jack Rigg - written-by
- Richard Meltzer - written-by
- Bruce Fairbairn - producer
- Patti Smith - written-by
- Aldo Nova - written-by
- 銉掋儹浼婅棨 - photography