Don't Fear the Reaper: The Best of Blue Öyster Cult

Don't Fear the Reaper: The Best of Blue Öyster Cult
Greatest hits album by Blue Öyster Cult
Released	February 8, 2000
Recorded	1971 - 1983
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal
Length	75:52
Label	Columbia/Legacy
Blue Öyster Cult chronology
Heaven Forbid (1998) Don't Fear the Reaper: The Best of Blue Öyster Cult (2000) Curse of the Hidden Mirror (2001)

Don't Fear the Reaper: The Best of Blue Öyster Cult is a compilation album by the hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult. The album was released in 2000 and features songs from the band's 1972 debut album up through The Revölution by Night, which was released in 1983.

Track listing

1. "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" (Albert Bouchard, Sandy Pearlman, Donald Roeser) - 4:04
2. "The Red & the Black" (Eric Bloom, A. Bouchard, Pearlman) - 4:28
3. "Flaming Telepaths" (Bloom, A. Bouchard, Pearlman, Roeser) - 5:18
4. "Astronomy" (A. Bouchard, Joe Bouchard, Pearlman) - 6:26
5. "This Ain't the Summer of Love" (A. Bouchard, Murray Krugman, Don Waller) - 2:22
6. "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (Roeser) - 5:09
7. "I Love the Night" (Roeser) - 4:26
8. "Goin' Through the Motions" (Bloom, Ian Hunter) - 3:13
9. "Godzilla" (Roeser) - 3:42
10. "In Thee" (Allen Lanier) - 3:50
11. "The Marshall Plan" (Bloom, A. Bouchard, J. Bouchard, Lanier, Roeser) - 5:26
12. "Black Blade" (Bloom, Michael Moorcock, John Trivers) - 6:29
13. "Joan Crawford" (A. Bouchard, Jack Rigg, David Roter) - 4:56
14. "Burnin' for You" (Richard Meltzer, Roeser) - 4:31
15. "Shooting Shark" (Roeser, Patti Smith) - 7:11
16. "Take Me Away" (Bloom, Aldo Nova) - 4:30

Original album releases

• Track 1 from Blue Oyster Cult (1972)
• Track 2 from Tyranny and Mutation (1973)
• Tracks 3-4 from Secret Treaties (1974)
• Tracks 5-6 from Agents of Fortune (1976)
• Tracks 7-9 from Spectres (1978)
• Track 10 from Mirrors (1979)
• Tracks 11-12 from Cultosaurus Erectus (1980)
• Tracks 13-14 from Fire of Unknown Origin (1981)
• Tracks 15-16 from The Revolution by Night (1983)