Dead: The Grim Reaper's Greatest Hits

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  • Release Date: 03/14/2006
  • Label: ACE RECORDS UK
  • UPC: 029667017626

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Dead: The Grim Reaper's Greatest Hits

1LISTENTerry / Twinkle 3:09
2LISTENGive Us Your Blessings / The Shangri-Las 3:14
3LISTENEndless Sleep / Jody Reynolds 2:21
4LISTENDeath of an Angel / Donald Woods 3:08
5LISTENCondition Red / The Goodees 2:53
6LISTENI Want My Baby Back / Jimmy Cross 3:23
7LISTENDead Man's Curve / Jan & Dean 2:29
8LISTENThe Drunken Driver / Ferlin Husky 2:29
9LISTENJohnny Remember Me / John Leyton 2:38
10LISTENLast Kiss / Wilson, J Frank & The Cavaliers 2:26
11LISTENPatches / Dickey Lee 3:02
12LISTENOnce You Understand / Think 3:54
13LISTENThe Death of a Surfer / Riviares 2:34
14LISTENDead! / Carolyn Sullivan 2:48
15LISTENPsycho / Jack Kittel 3:38
16LISTENEbony Eyes / The Everly Brothers 3:07
17LISTENRequiem (For a Girl Born of the Wrong Times) / Betty Barnes 2:59
18LISTENA Beginning from an End / Jan & Dean 2:59
19LISTENTell Laura I Love Her / Ray Peterson 2:56
20LISTENThe Dream / Fox 3:30
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Editorial Reviews

Not to be confused with a best-of celebrating the career of Grim Reaper, the famously fugly hair metal band so memorably eviscerated by Beavis and Butthead, Dead! The Grim Reaper's Greatest Hits instead compiles 24 early rock & roll classics exploring/exploiting death. Cataloging biker tragedies (Twinkle's "Terry"), pill-popper overdoses (Walter Jackson's "The Bed"), and watery graves (the Rivaires' "Death of a Surfer"), the disc embraces mortality and music in all its forms, spanning from girl group pop to trucker country and proving as indiscriminate as death itself. Sometimes sappy (Mark Dinning's "Teen Angel"), sometimes electrifying (Jack Kittel's "Psycho"), and sometimes eerily portentous (Jan & Dean's "Dead Man's Curve"), Dead! is above all well executed (pun intended), boasting the encyclopedic scope and attention to detail for which Ace is famed. L'chaim! Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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