Bad Reputation (Thin Lizzy song)

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"Bad Reputation"
Song by Thin Lizzy
from the album Bad Reputation
A-side "Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me in Its Spotlight)"
Released29 July 1977
RecordedMay – June 1977
Genre
Length3:09
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)

"Bad Reputation" is a song by the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy. The song was released as the B-side to the song "Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me in Its Spotlight)" and was later also released on the album Bad Reputation .

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American all-girl heavy metal band Phantom Blue covered "Bad Reputation" on their 1993 album Built to Perform . [1]

24-7 Spyz also covered the song on their album Face the Day (2006). [2]

Foo Fighters covered the song and released it on their covers album, Medium Rare (2011). [3]

In 2015 English speed metal band Raven covered "Bad Reputation" on their album of covers titled Party Killers. This album was only made available to backers of Raven's kickstarter for their album ExtermiNation , released in April 2015. [4]

A cover version of the song is a playable song in the 2006 music video game Guitar Hero II , [5] and the Thin Lizzy version was featured in the soundtrack of the 2001 documentary movie Dogtown and Z-Boys . [6]

In the 2012 video game Sleeping Dogs it was featured on the in-game radio station Sagittarius FM. [7]

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References

  1. Built to Perform (CD cover). Phantom Blue. Santa Monica, California: Geffen Records. 1993. GEFD-24603.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. Face the Day (CD cover). 24-7 Spyz. Gumbo Records. 2006. GRC007.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. Medium Rare (CD cover). Foo Fighters. Roswell Records. 2011. 88697-84798-1.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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