First Time Hearing Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper (Reaction!)
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Now watch the SNL sketch with this song and you’ll never be able to hear it again! 🤣
Need more cowbell my favorite skit ever😂👏
MORE COWBELL
I have a fever! And the prescription is more cowbell!🤒😏🤣
😂😂😂
Yes !!!
Blue Oyster Cult was one of the most eclectic bands of all time. You will absolutely love their song "Godzilla". Which is literally about Godzilla.
...also, Burning For You...which is about a guy who is hot for a girl...
Never liked Godzilla
To this day, one of the most popular songs in history in Japan lol.
This band deserved more hits than they had. Only this, Godzilla, and Burning for You got popular but their whole catalog is pure gold
Check out the album "Imaginos"
BOC was my first concert
@@dalewatkins9000 Damn, mine was Pearl Jam...now, almost 30 years later...I wish I was born about 30 years ealier so I could see the progression of "Rock" music...there really is nothing like your first concert...and then you know whether you are in or out...
Black blade and Harvester of Eyes!
Go go godzilla😂
The portion of that song from the break with the solo leading back into the last of the song is simply one of the greatest moments in recorded music history...
Agree! Like Heavenly Prog Out Of The Blue Sky! For a couple of minutes. 🤣
I love that part! When the solo note holds and the riff starts during it, love it!
“I’m gonna need more cowbell.” You have to watch the SNL sketch with this song. One of the best of all time with Christopher Walken and Will Ferrell. You’ll fall over.
Came here to say the same thing. Such a classic sketch.
This song also plays during a very cool scene on the TV show Supernatural when one of the main characters is actually being pursued by a very creepy cadaverous Reaper ha! Love that show, it ran for 15 unbelievable seasons. All about 2 brothers fighting evil creatures and monsters and demons etc.
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, rather than suicide. He used Romeo and Juliet to describe a couple who wanted to be together in the afterlife. He guessed that "40,000 men and women" died each day (from all causes). BOC are still playing today. They didn't have many hits, but they do have a great catalog of good music such as Godzilla, Burning for You, and Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll. Just to name a few.
Veteran of the psychic wars
artist often lie about their work. they don't want to be blamed for anything. i think the message is obvious in this song.
You never fail to amuse me with your honest reactions. I love this song. You are slaying it with your variety of selections. I think your regular viewers make great suggestions. Keep 'em coming!
Now I beg of you to check out the SNL skit "More Cowbell" (it features this song) with Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken. Hilarious!
As my sister-in-law was losing her kidney function on the way out, I told her to go toward the light...though the doctors claimed she was unconscious, tears started going down her face. The hearing is the last thing to go.🙏 She was at peace. I miss her, but she's in a better place!
One of my favorite songs of all time, great hook, great vocals and an awesome solo. Check out 'Burnin' For You' for another great tune by these guys. Cheers.
I am so glad you get the message of this song. So many people that hear it for the first time think it is advocating suicide, which is absolutely NOT the case.
Potentially assisted suicide
Often overlooked is THE DRUMMER. 🥁 that drummer went HAM on this song
Blue Oyster Cult is one of the most original and amazingly talented band
No One sounds like them
My all time favorite band
More please
Great reaction Shon but, I think you need more Cowbell! 😂🐄🔔
😂
There's only one song that needs more cowbell and it isn't Don't Fear the Reaper. It's the Divinyls hit, I Touch Myself.
Dont Fear the Reaper has an adequate amount of cowbell.
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain
Well said
Then Thomas Edison asked Twain to help him test out this new chair he just invented. Called an “electric chair.”
Well,you're not actually DEAD before you're born are you?
A co- worker of mine died yesterday and right now this reaction and song is just what I needed... RIP, Erika... so long
6:48 I agree. It's a paradox for me. I'm not fearful of death, but I am fearful of not existing.
You only need to fear death when you dont know where you will spend eternity. If you know where you are going and you are ok with that, then dont fear.
Oddly enough, my dad had a sit down with me before he’d allow me to hear it. He stated that this song led a lot of people to end their lives, but I didn’t feel despair when I heard it. It made me happy and emboldened to hear it. It’s both comforting and inspiring to keep going.
OMGosh you totally got the message of the song. A lot of people think it’s about suicide
I was 15-16 the first time I heard this and had already had to read Romeo and Juliet. I certainly didn’t fear the Reaper then. Now I’m 63, have beaten cancer 5 times and still don’t fear that SOB.
Dude, I love your reactions. You bridge the gap between us old guys (61) who grew up in the 70s and you young cats who are being turned on to these great tunes for the first time. You take me back to my youth!
I highly recommend you listen to their songs VETERAN OF THE PSYCHIC WARS, ASTRONOMY, THE LAST DAYS OF MAY and so many other great songs. They are a criminally underrated band.
you should try "she sells sanctuary" and "ciao baby" both by the cult (different band)
BOC is one of the best bands ever.. they did so many different styles of music it's hard to put them in a box. Great show live... I also suggest Godzilla to go to next but they have so many good ones.. I also like Fire of Unknown Origin.. and Black Blade... Their new song The Alchemist is great.. for a heavy one I suggest See You in Black...
I had the pleasure of seeing them live twice.
My favorite BOC song and always will be.
The beginning of Stephen King's "The Stand" (1994 and best version) features this at the beginning.
Some folks back when this was on the radio every day thought it was encouraging suicide but deep down it's a love song. Two is one.
Another band with this kind of vibe and depth you need to check out if you haven't already is Kansas.
Fun Fact: Before they were BOC, the band's name was Great White Underbelly.
This was really popular my senior year in 1977, it played on the radio all of the time. Blue Oyster Cult was fire in the 70's, we were spoiled. You have to watch the SNL skit with Blue Oyster Cult band members and Christopher Walkens.
Fun fact... HS friend married the drummer, they live locally, down to earth, their son is young teen now drumming at some of their gigs. Very cool!
Love the reactions. It's nice to see people hearing for the first time, the music I grew up with, got high with, and went to concerts to see. You need to check out Astronomy off their live album (Some Enchanted Evening). Excellent song and a guitar solo that will blow you away.
Finally, someone who's as blown away with this song as I am. I've shared this song with people and always get, 'yeah, it's nice.'
Impossible to hear this song without "More cowbell!" in your head.
Now you have to do "More Cowbell" SNL skit!
The only thing this song needs is... say it with me now.... MORE COWBELL!!
THE most positive, inspiring, and just downright cheerful song about death/dying written during my generation (1976).
Only one other song comes close to this subject matter and energy vibe.
That track is Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks (1974 before I was born).
Not only did SNL make a parody of this song, but Stephen King used this track in his movie,The Stand.
I’ve been listening to rock music my whole life and what you pick up(hear) is crazy to me. I’ve never listen to music the way you do.
If you have ever heard a comment about needing "More Cowbell..." this Band and song from SNL skit is where it originated.
All I see is will Farrell dancing on stage with the cow bell and stomache hangin out
BOC still tours. Saw them last year and they are as great as ever.
Such an underrated band. They were good live too. ☮️❤️
They were fucking GREAT live. Saw them more than any other band, probably upwards of 20 times.
@@charliemac64 Very cool!!!!!
Awesome live, like Charlie I also saw them live more than any other group. First time in 75, Styx opened before Tommy Shaw joined.
@@bradb3248 I'm probably just a few years younger than you...I was 16 when I first saw them in 1980. The lineup that day? Riot opened, Molly Hatchet 2nd, BÖC 3rd, Black Sabbath headlined at Memorial Stadium in Seattle. My 2nd concert. Saw them 2 more times in big venues (Kingdome, Tacoma Dome), then nothing but the smaller venues. Sadly didn't get to see them with lasers, large Godzilla, any of that stuff. Just straight up rock 'n' roll, and that was freaking awesome. One show I saw at a bar in San Rafael (87? 88?) is actually on youtube somewhere. Video is meh (closed circuit from bar's cameras), but the audio is great, as it was simulcast on the local radio station and someone still had that audio.
Fun fact. This song was in the horror classic HALLOWEEN.
You're comments were right on. The message of the song is that death is inevitable. 40,000 men and women everyday. It's foolish to fear death. And also I love your comment about none of the artists back then sounded alike. Unlike what our parents thought at the time we would know exactly who the artist was on the radio in the first seconds.
Blue Oyster Cult, *Don't fear the reaper*. Before this song. In 1
973. My friends, and I attended our first concert. They were the bands Cheap Trick, Black Oak Arkansas, and the Headliner was the Band Blue Oyster Cult. This is the 50 year anniversary of our first concert. Hell it's how I remember the years as they zip on bye, more B. O. C , I'm sure you will enjoy, as many of my Acquaintance's your music taste groovy. "Dominance and Submission", "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll", "Hot Rails To Hell", "Seven Screaming Dizbusters", "M.E. 262", "Red and Black", "Then came the last days of May"
"Don't fear the Reaper" - he just opens the door to a better existence. A truly iconic song from this talented band! Thanks for your reaction.
OMG I can't hear this without thinking of the SNL "More Cowbell" skit. You should totally watch that skit, now that you've heard the song.
Adding: if you do watch the skit, it's easy to forget there are other people in it besides Will Ferrell & Christopher Walken bc they totally steal the scene . But keep an eye on the other actors. They are about to completely lose it & bust out laughing.
"I have a fever... and the only cure for it is MORE COWBELL." - Christopher Walken
This was the music that opened the movie The Stand. Good match…
It's because you love music!!! Please continue to listen to the old music! It changed my life! May God bless you!
And epic song from an epic band. They only had a handful of radio hits but their catalog is DEEP. Check out their song "Veteran of Psychic Wars!"
Veteran of the Psychic Wars from Extraterrestrial Live is the definitive version.
Great message, this band has a huge amount of material to react to
everytime i hear this song i see the opening scene from the stand....
Death is not the end.... It is only the beginning.
One of the best songs of the 1970s...
That Bass player is just outstanding!!!
BOC is a deep rabbit hole worth going down. They're still touring and making music.
This song was the best song to begin the series The Stsnd
It was great to hear all these songs just on the radio. They all became our background some way or another. My faith doesn't make me fear death but I did when this song came out. It helped me not live every day fearing death. The solo is the journey which is why we say, " don't interrupt the solos.
This song was in the movie "The Stand." It gave a ghostly quality to the meaning of the song.
That’s whatI associate this song to. It opened the movie The Stand, I never forgot it.
Shon, as soon as I saw who you were reacting to I would like oh hell yeah he's going to love this. 😊
Fun fact: Will Ferrell is on the cow bell.
Bro! Unlike most (maybe every) first listeners don't get the message of the song. You nailed it right outta the gate! You're creative too.
Great song 👍
The older you get the less scared you will be ... I am 58 and in pretty good shape and I am starting to get just a little tired. I can see how my mom felt when she passed at age 89, she was tired and was ready to take a nice long rest from the struggle called life. Cheers brother ! Every day is just another new life .
53 & tired too!
Yes, this - I turned 60 this year, and having lived through the deaths of my entire immediate family and my best friend of 47 years, all in the last half-decade, has pretty much squeezed every last drop of fear out of me. Everyone dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. So don’t waste these few precious minutes we have worrying. Live.
Fantastic reaction to a wonderful song. If no one else has mentioned it, you should consider reacting to the Saturday Night Live skit about the making of this song. It is quite funny, and is really a tribute to a legendary song. Great stuff.
70’s Classic Rock 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Thanks, Shon... a throw-back to my teenage years.. still love it! (maybe needs a little more cowbell - lol)...appreciate your reaction!
Eagles - Hotel California (Live Hell Freezes Over)
What a fun reaction. And yeah hl you really understood it I think and it's like anything good man, it's worth lots of relistens; it only gets better every time and you will love it for the rest of your life. Don't Fear the Reaper. 😅😊
Two other massive hits by them that I bet you would love are, I'm Burning For You, and, Godzilla.
just out of high school when this came out and it was hypnotic. kind of pre-goth. fit my mood perfectly and moved me from beyond pop-metal to something a little more darkly introspective.
This was my very first concert 1984....it was awesome
Absolutely love your interpretation of the lyrics. Bang on. Thanks
You’re grasping the real meaning of the song Not about suicide. But that last verse always reminds me of a vampire scene when she runs to him and they fly. Shivers. For real. Spooky stuff. ❤
One of my all time favorite songs.
Let’s get this man, our new friend, to 30K ASAP - then on the road to 50!
The track played thru the 1st Halloween movie back in the 70's.
Shon - you listened to America yet? Its a few more steps toward folk music, but they got that same long roadtrip sound as BOC. Spose it is more desert psychedelics than lovecraftian d&d basement in the sound tho. Im rambling.
Also.
Cowbell.
Got to have... more cowbell.
gotta have more cowbell
Oh, and yeah, MORE COW BELL!
hittin' the "Prog Rock" baby! love it!
I feel the same way im 30 and I think the older I get the worse my fear will become.
From the same period: Uriah heap - Lady in black
This songs a little haunting to me! The reaper comes & takes her away…ahhhhhh! It doesn’t make me feel at peace lol!😅
That is very true. I recommend caution
The concept of death becomes easier with time, I promise you.♥️
Back when music wasn’t crap. If you like older music and you haven’t reacted to it yet, then I suggest Long Train Running by the Doobie Brothers.
Really enjoy your reaction, comments, and great emotions. You are so much more enjoyable than some other reactions, where they're like... um, I think I heard the song on tv or at a restaurant... lol! You are awesome! Glad you enjoyed this great song!
This is the music I grew up with. BOC was epic.
Deep Purple, BOC, Zeppelin, CCR, Steppin Wolf, 3 Dog Night, Yes, Moody Blues and so many others had music that was timeless.
Also, on another topic, would you please create a Weird Al, Tom MacDonald playlist, as well as playlists for other groups?
I, and other H.O.G. Find it helps binge certain groups. If I have to look through all the videos, looking for some specific reactions, I generally give up. When there’s a playlist, I will start with the first song and then let it play through the entire list.
I understand your statement on death. I was that way also but, being 65 and in my 3rd bonus overtime of life, I no longer fear the reaper. I want to live forever but I know I might not get a 4th bonus overtime and I do not fear that day because I know some things that have removed all fear.
Hey, I almost forgot to mention a couple of songs I think you will really enjoy:
“I’m Not In Love” by 10 CC
“Radar Love” by Golden Earring
#hangovergang Forever and here for you and your algorithm 🤙🏽
One of my favorite songs ever ❤️ 😊
I really think you’re doing a great job with your reactions ,always enjoy and you Analyse very clever.
Requests:
Smokey Robinson, "ooo baby" "tracks of my tears"
Barbera Lewis, "Hello Stranger" "baby im yours"
The chantels, "Maybe"
Gene Chandler "Duke of Earl"
Fred Paris and 5 Satins "in the still of the night"
Love this song!!! Great reaction!! I highly recommend "Fly To The Angels" by Slaughter!!!🎵🎼🎶🎤🎹🎸🥁🔥🤘🤘🤘
One of my favorites!
If you have not reacted to Pink Floyd’s “Great Gig In The Sky” you will see a similar relationship to death. Rick Wright wrote this song, which is about life, gradually descending into death. Hence the angrier and more intense first half with a dying person refusing to "go gently into that good night." The second half is gentler, as the dying person gives into the inevitable and fades away. You hear vocally the 5 phases of dying, ending with acceptance. This song is a masterpiece and leave you awed. Keep charging. Good channel. Use the Pulse Restored - Live version.
This was used in Stephen King’s The Stand. I always associate it with the opening scene.
Welcome to the world AFTER hearing this masterpiece...enjoy!
I have seen them live and they sounded just like the record
''MORE COWBELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Dammit every time I hear this song, I wanna watch the stand again …that is not part of the horror movie marathon month😂
Could still sing every single word after how many years of not hearing it. Classic track.
Godzilla with movie clips 🤘
One of my fave songs 👏👏👏