"Bad Reputation" is a song by the Irish

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. The song was released as the B-side to the song "

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" and was later also released on the album '' Bad Reputation''.

Covers

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

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also covered the song on their album '' Face the Day'' (2006).

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covered the song and released it on their covers album, ''

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'' (2011). In 2015 English speed metal band

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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 ''

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'', released in April 2015.

In popular culture

A cover version of the song is a playable song in the 2006 music video game ''

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'', and the Thin Lizzy version was featured in the soundtrack of the 2001 documentary movie ''

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

References

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