Clint Ruin & Lydia Lunch - Don't Fear The Reaper (Blue Öyster Cult Cover)

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From '' Don't Fear The Reaper ''
Label: Big Cat – ABB26T
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: Oct 1991

Tracklist
A Don't Fear The Reaper
Written-By – Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser
B1 Clinch
Music By – Clint Ruin
Words By – Clint Ruin, Lydia Lunch
B2 Serpentine
Written-By – Clint Ruin
B3 Why Don't We Do It In The Road
Written-By – Lennon-McCartney

Vocals, Music By – Clint Ruin
Vocals – Lydia Lunch

Cover [Back] – Clint Ruin
Cover [Front] – David Ouimet
Photography By – Wim Van De Hulst
Lettering [Chrome Lettering] – Robert Williams

Engineer – Clint Ruin (tracks: B1 to B3), Martin Bisi (track: A)

Producer – Clint Ruin

Ectopic Entertainments is a subsidiary of Self Immolation.
℗ 1991 Big Cat U.K. Records © Big Cat U.K. Records

Notes
Track A recorded at B.C., Brooklyn.
Tracks B1 to B3 recorded at Self Immolation Studios.

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"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" is a song by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult from their 1976 album, Agents of Fortune.
It was written and sung by the band's lead guitarist, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser and was produced by David Lucas, Murray Krugman, and Sandy Pearlman.

The lyrics deal with eternal love and the inevitability of death.
Dharma wrote the song while picturing an early death for himself.

The edited single version was Blue Öyster Cult's biggest chart success, reaching number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1976.
Critical reception was mainly positive.

In 2004, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was listed at number 397 on the Rolling Stone list of the top 500 songs of all time.

Background

"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was written and sung by the band's lead guitarist, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser and was produced by David Lucas, Murray Krugman, and Sandy Pearlman.
The song is about the inevitability of death and the foolishness of fearing it, and was written when Dharma was thinking about what would happen if he died at a young age. Lyrics such as "Romeo and Juliet are together in eternity" have led many listeners to interpret the song to be about a murder-suicide pact, but Dharma says the song is about eternal love, not suicide.
He used Romeo and Juliet as motifs to describe a couple believing they would meet again in the afterlife.
He guessed that "40,000 men and women" died each day, and the figure was used several times in the lyrics.

Other versions

Blue Öyster Cult performed a live version of "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" on the band's 1978 album Some Enchanted Evening.
A live version appears on their 1981 album Extraterrestrial Live.
Blue Öyster Cult's 1991 live album Live 1976 features "(Don't Fear) The Reaper".
A live version appears on their 2002 album A Long Day's Night.
Buck Dharma released an acoustic version of the song on the 1994 various artists compilation album Guitar Practicing Musicians 3.

Finnish rock (then gothic metal) band H.I.M. recorded a version of the song on their 1997 debut album Greatest Lovesongs, Vol. 666.

Pop rock band the Goo Goo Dolls recorded a cover of "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" on their 1987 self-titled album.
In 1992, Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch released the extended play Don't Fear the Reaper, on which their rendition of the song appears.

Apollo 440 transcribed an electronic version of the track on the 1995 debut album Millennium Fever.

In 1998, Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers recorded a cover of the song on their Rock the Party album.

Big Country included a cover of the song on their 2001 covers album Under Cover.

The Mutton Birds included their version of the song on their 2002 greatest hits compilation Flock: The Best of the Mutton Birds.

Synthpop band Heaven 17 recorded a cover of the song on their album Before After, also released in 2005.

Pat DiNizio, frontman for the Smithereens, covered the song on his 2006 solo album This Is Pat DiNizio.

In 2008, jam band moe. recorded a live version of the song on their Dr. Stan's Prescription, Volume 2 album.

Rock band L.A. Guns added a version of the song on their 2010 covers album Covered in Guns.

The song has appeared in several films, most notably 1978's Halloween.

The song was memorialized in the April 2000 Saturday Night Live comedy sketch More cowbell.

The six-minute sketch presents a fictionalized version of the recording of "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" on an episode of VH1's "Behind the Music." Will Ferrell wrote the sketch and played Gene Frenkle, an overweight cowbell player. "Legendary" producer Bruce Dickinson, played by Christopher Walken, asked Frenkle to "really explore the studio space" and up the ante on his cowbell playing.
The rest of the band are visibly annoyed by Frenkle, but Dickinson tells everyone, "I got a fever, and the only prescription--is more cowbell!" Buck Dharma thought the sketch was fantastic and said he never tired of it.

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