THIS WAS MUCH BETTER!.. | FIRST TIME HEARING Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reeper REACTION
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- THIS WAS MUCH BETTER!.. | FIRST TIME HEARING Blue Oyster Cult- (Don't Fear) The Reeper REACTION
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I think it's hysterical an Amber's first words on this video was "cowbell". I guarantee you every single person watching this who knows this song knows why. Please please please now that you've done this song you have to do a reaction video to the Saturday Night Live skit By Christopher Walken, about the cowbell in this song. Please!
Yes! Yes! Yes!!!
😂😂😂😂😂❤️
Don’t forget Will Ferrell!
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Absolutely!!!
This and 'Burnin' For You' are the quintessential Blue Oyster Cult tracks. Great song... MORE COWBELL!!!!!!!!
Indeed
More cowbell for sure!
Those are probably my favorite BOC songs, but you gotta love Godzilla and some others for something a bit harder rockin.
Not to mention "Godzilla"!
@@jjr007 Came here to say this!
I’m glad you guys like this song, it’s amazing, More Cowbell!!!!!
I will always see Will Farrell and Jimmy Fallon in my mind everytime I hear this song.
@@scapito exactly! I saw them back in the day. The crowd went nuts when they started this song. But now when I hear it i yell "more cowbell". Don't care where I am at. Had a few strange looks but I don't care.
@@scapito Three songs that will be forever connected to SNL - "Bohemian Rhapsody", "What Is Love", and this.
I got a fever and the prescription is more cowbell
Christopher Walken has stated that he's grown to hate that SNL skit...."it ruined my life!", he said!
I got a fever...and the only prescription...is more cowbell! 😂🙌🏼 I’ve told my husband and kids if this isn’t played at my funeral I WILL come back and haunt them. Full poltergeist shit lmao This is in my top ten favorite songs of all time.
That was a funny skit, but it really depresses me that when people hear this song, that is the first thing they think of. Blue Oyster Cult's Eric Bloom and Alan Lanier saw the Saturday Night live skit when it happened and were duly unimpressed. Don't mess with great songs!!!
Not many "perfect" songs written in the history of music. This is one of them. Buck Dharma absolutely hit a monster home run with this song. This will be played and enjoyed two hundred years from now.
Yes
They nailed this Album
Agreed; Perfection.
It'll be played thousands of years from now...that is if we're still here.
I have to reply and say, every time I listen to this song it is hard not to call this a masterpiece. An all-timer.
BOC has 15 studio albums. 15! They got something for everybody. Y’all need to do Godzilla. Yes, it’s about the big lizard. But so much more.
It’s really not about Godzilla. Godzilla is a metaphor for the actual topic of the song.
Seeing them live on New Years Eve and a midnight the Godzilla eyes above the stage started blaring red and then the music starts…..EPIC! The 70s were the BEST!
There goes Tokyo.
GODZILLA FTW!!!
Halloween is coming! You gotta find as many monster songs as possible… Godzilla is a good start!
"Don't Fear The Reaper" is stellar. "Burnin' For You" is a very close second.
Not even close
Godzilla and Astronomy as well.
Yes please do “Burning for you”!
Love Burnin For You
@@NikkieTwix it’s ok but it’s not Don’t Fear the Reaper
The "More Cowbell" sketch is over 20 years old and has surely made an impact on the American Lexicon!
And it's still hilarious 😂
I've got a fever. Lol
Until now, that sketch was the only place I had heard this song. So this is what the rest of the song sounds like. Nice.
I'm even teaching my grandkids the importance of Cowbell!!! LOL
And the only prescription is more cowbell
I feel like a teenager in the 70"s again when I see you guys jamming to music I grew up on. Thank guys. God Bless
I love how the guitarist held that note for like 20 seconds after the interlude and back into the chorus. Such a cool transition. Amazing song.
Listen at 7:10 mark
"I have a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell."
LOL, I commented this same thing and I just came across your comment now. So funny.
This is the opening song of Stephen Kings The Stand TV Miniseries. The original '94 version. I think of it every time I hear this song. The Stand is the greatest novel ever written, fyi, lol. There is also a famous SNL sketch with Chris Walken, centered around this song.
I remember that opening scene so well! The Stand is a brilliant book. Did you watch the new version of the mini series?! I hated it! Loved the original. So much better.
IMO, that opener with this song is the best opening credits scene in tv history. Talk about setting up the creepy vibe of the entire show!
Love the opening to The Stand. May have to rewatch that again today. This song is also in the original Halloween movie (1978) with Jaime Lee Curtis.
I have a fever, and the only cure is more cowbell.
I have watched the stand ofer and over. Its about today's situation!
We need more cowbell!!
Dang. You beat me to it.
"I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell"
Don’t blow this for us Gene
They said they had no idea that will farrell was going to do that, and that he put that shirt on right before the skit started. Jimmy Fallon couldn't keep it together.
You’re gonna be wearing gold plated diapers.
This song, 'Dust in the Wind' and 'Carry on My Wayward Son', 'Sister Golden Hair', 'Hotel California', and so many other absolute CLASSIC songs came out in a period between 1975-77. Add just a couple more years and you others like the entire 'Tusk' album from Fleetwood Mac as well. Every era has it's bangers, but the 1970s were just packed end to end with amazing music. The 80s had it's own brand of awesome music, but the arrival of MTV added a new minimum level of physical attractiveness required to be huge that would have excluded a lot of earlier artists.
Heard a rumor in the 80's that video killed the radio star.
The solo in this song is so haunting/terrifying. It makes me wonder what my baby brother, who died in april, saw. I hope he had no fear. I miss and love you forever, brother, with love always ❤️
This comment hit me so hard I also lost my baby brother 😢😢 I’m so sorry for your loss and pain.
It is a witch song, I also lost my brother.
Undoubtedly BOC's best song. "Burnin' For You" is a Close Second...The whole "Fire of Unknown Origin" Album is great.
I didn’t buy many albums back in the day, but one I did was Fire of Unknown Origin. You are so right, not a single filler on it.
I disagree Astronomy is their best song.
The Last Days of May, ME262, Astronomy, their live versions of Born to be Wild and Ain't Got You. I saw them play live in 1986 or 87 in Derby in the east midlands of the UK but they were past their prime by then.
I had just taken a drink before Amber said, "cowbell." I literally did a spit-take. 😆
The band member who wrote this piece, explained that this song is actually a love song to his then girlfriend, now wife, after being diagnosed with cancer, which he had beaten.
Wow
That really puts the song into context.
Really, because I read that the lead guitarist was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat, which got him thinking about his mortality and the inevitability of death and the belief that we should not fear it. He was thinking about what would happen if he died at a young age and if he would be reunited with his loved ones after his death.
@@AZambri1 i thought it was about suicide? 40 thousand men and women every day? come on baby dont fear the reaper.
@@stewartross1030 It is about suicide. These lines should have given it away..."Came the last night of sadness,
And it was clear she couldn't go on"
"Then the door was open and the wind appeared, the candles blew and then disappeared, the curtains flew and then HE appeared..." Chillingly beautiful lyrics.
The original TV version of Stephen King's The Stand played this over the opening credits, which was the outbreak of a pandemic. It's one of the best opening sequences in a film/TV series.
When Covid was growing, that tv-movie opening kept playing in my head.
"Don't Fear The Reaper" is just so well produced and engineered....I can't imagine how many takes they had to go through to get this song so perfect.....Christopher Walken just gave us a small glimpse!
YES! That Bruce Dickinson!!!
Yes, the engineering for the time is insane
Listen again closely. As the bridge ends (you called it the transition) you hear the guitar play a note. If you listen that note continues to vibrate through the chorus and into the final verse. It is the world record longest human strummed sustained guitar note ever recorded and in the 50 years since no one has bested it
ted Nugent - Hybernation on Double live Gonzo 1977
I love this song and never heard that long note till you said
Thank you for your comment. I never noticed or knew that..within the song.
I didn't know that. Cool history 😎
Actually that's not true. It is definitely not the longest sustained note ever recorded. Not sure where you got your information.
"Godzilla" a must listen by B.O.C. these tunes are speaker busters.
_Right! Ho no there's goes Tokyo, go, go, Godzilla, yea!_
I was gonna recommend this too!
Possibly my favorite BOC song!
Probably the only song in history that has more solos than verses. :D
Blue Öyster cult is so underrated man , my favourite top 5 band of all times
One of the greatest rock songs of all time! BOC is such an underrated band still!
This is a perfect October and Halloween 🎃 song!
Blue Oyster Cult: try Cities on Flame, Godzilla, Dominance Submission, Veteran of the Psychic Wars (do the live version), Astronomy, Hot Rails to Hell. There are a lot of really good songs from them.
Yes!! Veteran of a thousand psychic war from "extraterrestrial live" is must! The solo is out of this world!
I was gonna comment Godzilla is another great BOC song
Now that you've heard "Don't fear the Reaper" now you need to watch a clip of SNL "more cowbell". Lots of familiar faces and a hilarious dive into this song.
It’s impossible for me to listen to a serious discussion about cowbell without busting into laughter. LOL I’d swear I was watching Saturday Night Live if I didn’t know any better.
With its hypnotically seductive opening, the hushed, cajoling voices, the sudden, jagged death-throe guitar violence, and finally the souls drifting away on the outro, this song is so beautiful that it’s spooky, and so spooky that it’s beautiful.
Oh my, Amber saying cowbell! If she only knew. Loved it.
"Veteran of Psychic Wars" - is an amazing song of theirs.
And their "Godzilla."
Veteran of the Psychic Wars is one of my all-time favorites!!
@@mrbrightside719: As long as it's the live version. . .
You have to check out godzilla live in concert
@@edwardkennedy8098 Godzilla would like to see the Blue Oyster Cult perform Godzilla.
I think he would approve of their rendition.
I totally agree. Particularly the live versions. Those songs are so much better.
This song came out in 1976, a song that has held up and still sounds good. Another song that I liked, "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc came out the year before, in 1975, was technologically ahead of it's time. Have a listen, I'm sure Amber would go into the same trance!
Yes, 10cc! Great song.
Definitely! Also Ten years after “I’d love to change the world” would also be a cool song choice and anything by AMBROSIA.💙💜💚
@@coolcpa3321 I always liked A Clockwork Creep. How can you beat a song which is a conversation between a bomb and the jet it is on.
_Great song from 10cc!
@@thancrow It's a clever song with a rhythm and lyrics that create a sense of increasing anxiety and impending doom. 10cc was always pushing the envelope.
now you have to watch the SNL skit featuring Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken doing this song
And Jimmy Fallon on drums!
Can't stand Will Farrell or Christopher Walken
one of the most famous opening bass riffs ever. this song is a monster masterpiece and BOC is an incredible band
cowbell. lmao!
BOC has many different sounding songs. This one, 'Burning For You,' 'Godzilla,' and 'Veteran of the Psychic Wars' are my favorites.
I really like 'I Love the Night' and 'Harvest Moon'. Saw BOC in concert last year and they still sound great.
This is their most well known song, but my favorite is GODZILLA.
Fuck yeah!!!!
I always laugh at that song. Maybe because of the movies and those lyric lines.
@@ajruther67 It's just a fun song.
my fav too
I used to like Godzilla. Than one day I was singing along and realized how repitious the song was. I was turned off after that.
"Burning For You* is an even better song by BOC
I agree.. 👍🏼
Yes!
I can do nothing but agree with you.
Yes!
YES!!!!
"Burnin' For You" should be next if you liked this one. "Don't Fear The Reaper" always makes me think of the original "Halloween" movie from 1979. I know a lot of people think of the SNL sketch, but that kind of undercuts the awesomeness of this song to me.
78
I've always loved how the feedback from the last note of the guitar solo sustains halfway through the next verse (7:12-7:43).
When I hear this song I immediately think of SNL's "More Cowbell" skit.
This song, “Burnin’ for You” and “Then Came the Last Days of May” are a must listen.
“Then Came the Last Days of May” LIVE from "On Your Feet Or On Your Knees"
Time to play B-sides!
If you want to do the Amber sway and mellow out, react to
Christopher Cross
"Sailing"
Will totally take you to another place
"RIDE LIKE THE WIND" is another Christopher song that is a must
@@danielgeorge2735 both are legit..theyd like em
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!
And Chris reaches out to reactors as he did with Jamel aka Jamal. He has just recovered from a strong case of Covid.
Blue oyster cult is an awesome group. I seen them at the Showcase theater in Corona, Ca years ago, and they played their music as it was recorded....Awesome
I've got a fever and the only medicine I need is more cowbell! Classic SNL. This skit about BOC is rated one of the top 10 SNL skits ever. Also, this song was in the opening of The Stand miniseries written by Stephen King. I always think of Flagg when I hear this song. There is a mini bio on RUclips with the person who directed this song all the way back in the 1970s, when music didn't have any extra computerized help. He will listen to one person and edit out the other players analyzing their instrument to the song. It is truly amazing.
Glad you picked up the cowbell so quickly. This song was the one in the Saturday Night Live sketch that gave rise to the Christopher Walken "more cowbell" meme. This song has forever after been associated with cowbell.
The lyrics are haunting!! Until I looked them up, I didnt really understand some of them, but a very powerful message in this song🎶🎸 On a fun note, watch SNL's sketch on this song...its hilarious and spawned the phrase " more cowbell"!!😆🎶🎸
It would be really fun to see them react to the SNL sketch.
@@lordessducky8494 yesss!!😆
I've got a fever!
@@ericwalker8636 🤣🤣🤣
Most of the guys here go back to the SNL skit, more cowbell. I go back to Steven King's The Stand original version as the opening credits song. Really highlights the scene.
Yes!!!! That was an amazing use of the song!
It's talking about a love so strong they always die in each other's arms. That transition was the chaos of change and how we all fear or at least find change distasteful, but that once you're through dying there's a peace in that transition waiting at the end of it.
This song is indelibly connected in my mind with the TV miniseries of Steven King's apocalyptic masterpiece _The Stand_, where it was used as the most appropriate opening.
The Stand opening always comes to mind when I hear this song.
I wasn't that into Classic Rock yet when I saw the miniseries and instantly fell in love with this song.
King also referenced this song in his book "Salems Lot".
One of the greatest rock songs ever recorded and one of my all time favorite songs. I used to cue this song up and listen to it over and over. Burning For You is a good next song for sure. The tune is pretty simply about accepting that death is a part of life but when I first heard this song I thought it was maybe about vampires, "She had become like they are". BTW you two NEED to see the "more cowbell" skit on SNL if you've never seen it, it's so damn funny.
I can't help but think of Stephen King's The Stand every time I hear this lol.
OMG! I just thought about rereading The Stand because of the reaction! Rob Sqras makes me smile so often.
This is a quote from an article about the meaning of the song: Nothing boosts a song’s popularity like a little controversy, and there was plenty surrounding “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” Donald Roeser said in 1998, “The second verse is the one that’s caused all the trouble all these years. ‘Valentine’ is a metaphor for mortal love. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ I used as an example of a couple who had faith to take their love elsewhere when they weren’t permitted the freedom to love here and now. What I meant was, they’re in eternity cause they had the faith to believe in the possibility. It frankly never occurred to me that the suicide aspect of their story would be plugged into people’s take on ‘Reaper,’ making it an advertisement for suicide. The “40,000” number was pulled from the air as a guess about how many people died every day worldwide, not how many people committed suicide.”
The song is based on the Twilight Zone TV episode "Nothing in the Dark". The instrumental break in this reaction video @6:24 is even based on the Twilight Zone intro theme music.
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I always took it to mean to live your life to the fullest & if you live a life full of love, purpose & great experiences, then you shouldn't fear death, because you've lived a good life.
Yes, but that was a reaction to the rumor about it being about suicide. The real meaning of the song, or so I read, is that the lead guitarist was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat, which got him thinking about his mortality and the inevitability of death and the belief that we should not fear it. He was thinking about what would happen if he died at a young age and if he would be reunited with his loved ones after his death.
The 40,000 is a low guess... actual daily fatalities worldwide is somewhere over 150,000.
@@jkbowers56 Well, that's the present rate, but this was written in 1976 when the world population was lower. More like 120,000 per day then, but as you say 40,000 was still a low guess, but a lot easier to fit in a rhyme than the true figure!
This was BOC's massive, massive hit. The break in the song is so different and cool.
Amber's smile is so awesome! You go, girl
That transition is an absolute masterpiece. This is one of the few times I'm going to recommend listening to the live version (but only because you heard the original 1st). From the album Some Enchanted Evening. They play a bit faster and with a little harder edge without sacrificing the quality of the sound AND there's a flaming guitar solo at the end that will blow you away. You owe it to yourself to hear that.
Yes!!l
This was the opening song for the movie "The Stand" and has given me the creeps ever since. If you haven't seen the movie...you should. The story starts with a virus escaping from a lab...... Be warned though, it's like a 6 or 8 hour movie....story by Stephen King.
The original version of The Stand was soooo good. I hated the new one! Ugh!
"Veteran of the Psychic Wars", "Godzilla", "Burning For You", "Astronomy"....so many killer songs by BOC. Don't quit on 'em here!
The 1st concert i ever drove myself to was Blue Oyster Cult & Black Sabbath at Six Flags in Arlington, Tx. 1981. Good times....❤
Burning For You... another awesome song.
I've always heard the comment "made me fly back in my chair" but had never seen it in action, before this--when the guitar solo came in hard. So great!
For those here Thinking this is a pro Suicide Song, it is not. Here is the meaning from the songwriter himself
"I felt that I had just achieved some kind of resonance with the psychology of people when I came up with that, I was actually kind of appalled when I first realized that some people were seeing it as an advertisement for suicide or something that was not my intention at all. It is, like, not to be afraid of [death] (as opposed to actively bring it about). It's basically a love song where the love transcends the actual physical existence of the partners."
- Buck Dharma, lead singer[5]
Yes, I was one of the people the thought this song about suicide. I just recently learned it wasn't. I always thought the person jumped out of the window, because she went to him. Lol
Buck had recently been informed of a serious medical condition, that could have lead to an early death. He's said that this song came from his working through that event.
I know what Buck said in a later quote. But I saw BOC in concert the year this song came out. Before playing the song he mentioned how it had taken off. And was receiving lots of air play.
He also said, the song was about a couple's forbidden love. And how they resolved the situation the way Romeo and Juliet did. Soon afterwards, Ozzy Osbourne and Judas Priest found themselves in ligation over writing similar songs about suicide.
I think he just changed his story. In case someone took the song to heart. He was covering his butt. Just like the Eagles did with Hotel California. But in that case. They didn't want to pay 50 years of royalties to the hotel. Which is in Todos Santos, Baja California. I know I've been there.
That's actually pretty profound
Of course it's about suicide. Romeo and Juliette died of suicide. "We can be like they are" "Come on, baby". The cover story that it wasn't came after the fact.
I've always loved the vibe of this song. I also love that we are still discussing the possible meaning of this song...45 years later! That's what good song writers and artists do! 🌟🎶
Almost forgot to add, "More COWBELL!!!"
To me, it's about suicide.
40,000 people everyday.
Oh yeah. More cowbell!
Buck Dharma sings lead and plays lead. Underrated in the extreme both he and the band.
I've seen these guys three times, the first time in 1991 at Bend High School in Bend, Oregon, the second in the mid-2000's at a local casino in Pendleton, Oregon, the last was a few years later at our local county fair. Their music never gets old. I thought it was funny, my then I think 23-year-old son who had been back from Iraq for only a couple of years, asks if they are going to play Godzilla, like a little kid, he really wanted to hear that. He had been a Marine sniper and at the time was also in the National Guard, but wanting to hear that had him kind of excited and he was usually so calm and focused.
When this came out there was something of an uproar because of, "Romeo and Juliet are together in eternity." Were they pushing suicide? The band came out and stated absolutely no. The story of their love is eternal. This is an amazing song.
Yeah I'm not buying it, even if the dude denies it the words don't lie -"Romeo and Juliette, together in eternity , (background vocals harmony), we can be like they are" pretty unambiguous especially if you know the story of R&J ie: suicide for love.
Either way it's a good number but not the best message for teenagers listening to it.
@@jasonhalil2591 - Arghhh - one of them was diagnosed with a heart condition and told he would be lucky to live to 30 - it's about coming to terms with that and the hope of love persevering after death. It's really not hard to find quotes from them about what it's about and why. They've admitted that if they had of realised the Romeo & Juliet bit would have been taken to be suicide rather than eternal love they would have chosen other people. The intended meaning was about hope and suiide is of course about hopelessness and the opposite of what they were going for. It's an easy misconception to make because they chose a poor example of a couple to represent eternal love but they were chose because one of them expected to die young like Romeo.
@@alphaomega7191 I realise what you say has merit and I've heard the band explain the lead singer's partner had cancer etc , so I guess you gotta take their word for it but it's not hard to imagine how a troubled lovesick teenager would comprehend the words to mean suicide , especially the Romeo and Juliette reference - she suicides then he finds out and suicides so they can be together in eternity - nothing about illness there right?
Couple that with the chorus - don't fear the reaper (death) , so in the end you've got don't fear death, kill yourself like the story of Romeo and Juliette and the outcome will be an eternity together in love and I find it very difficult to read it any other way and I think most people unaware of how you explain it would reach the same conclusion.
Bit of a shame really but either way it's an interesting track musically.
@@jasonhalil2591 - Oh I get how it can be misinterpreted as being about suicide for sure. I was unsure either way and actually went hunting for the information and found out about Buck's heart condition (see below)
Dharma was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat, which got him thinking about his mortality and inspired the song. "I thought I was going to maybe not live that long," he said in a Songfacts interview. "I had been diagnosed with a heart condition, and your mind starts running away with you - especially when you're young-ish. So, that's why I wrote the story. It's imagining you can survive death in terms of your spirit. Your spirit will prevail."
As soon as I read that it all clicked logically in my head and I totally understood his intention and what the lyrics meant but without that it's a vaguely creepy song about love and death. The Romeo & Juliet reference unfortunately is easy to read as suicide. "dont Fear the Reaper" is of course meant by him to mean dont fear death because something else happens after which is a pretty common view for those of a religious bent. Frankly once I knew about his heart condition I find it very hard to actually read the suicide interpretation into it now because it just makes total sense as a song about the possibility of dying young but not being afraid because of the afterlife. My guess is a lot of people don't necessarily like the quasi-religious interpretation because spirituality isn't edgy and people prefer rock to be edgy.
Musically it's a compelling piece of music with a lot of interesting hooks.
This is one of those songs that hits you again years later when it comes around.
When you are older and have experienced more of the ups and downs of life, love, and loss,
this old friend sings it to you again and you appreciate is all the more ....
"Burning For You" should be next...and find the Saturday Night Live "More Cowbell" Skit with Christopher Walken...it's hysterical!!!!
love this song ... like 1973 . totally different from all music of its time . ahead of its time .
My all time favorite band, lots of great music and just put out a new album of original material...
"I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell". You need to watch the SNL skit with Christopher Walken and cowbell.
Again another awesome reaction. I bit upset that UT lost to OU this weekend
I was expecting more cowbell. You see, I have a fever. And the only prescription is more cowbell. And I was hoping they would really explore the space with that cowbell.
I’d like to recommend the song “Jungle Love” by Morris Day & The Time. I think you’ll be very happy with it! It will definitely surprise you!
It lifts You up and Moves You alongggggg
"I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell"....... best line from the SNL skit.
Buck Dharma, lead singer, said (i am paraphrasing) the song is about the inevitability of death and the foolishness of fearing it, and love between partners, transcends death.
Junior high school. When my clock radio went off in the morning, "Don't Fear the Reaper" or "More Than A Feeling" were playing several days in a row.
Chip DaMutt I was a Junior High teacher back when this song was new, and I woke up to the same sounds. Time seems to travel with warp speed. I was in my early 20s then...I turned 76 last month! OMG, how did THAT happen?
@@jaycorby God bless you and all of the great teachers past and present!
@@chipdamutt108 Thank you very much for such a nice sentiment, Chip. I really enjoyed teaching and mentoring children from the late 60s to late 90s. Not sure I could cope with what's happening in American schools today. The thought of a mass shooting inside the walls of a school back then would have been ridiculous. How did 'things' run off the rails the way they have?
@@jaycorby one of my sister's is a k-5 principal. She got moved to a crummy school in hopes that she could get their test scores raised. It's absolutely insane what is going on in public schools these days. I will refrain from making a political comment
If they never wrote another song this would make them legendary
Anybody listening for the cowbell, MISSED a great song!
in a lot of ways this song is a masterpiece, but at the time back when it was written (I was there) :) most people thought this song represented a woman who was in pain emotionally from losing her love and was being coerced into suicide by the Reeper or angel of death, who was calling her to take his hand and fly away from land of the living. Then like Romeo and Juliet she would be reunited in death. 40,000 men and women die every day, its just what happens, "just take my hand" he urges. I have read comments below about what they are now saying the meaning is or the intention of the writer. It is a song that is truly unique and I have never heard another like it. But I think because it has suicidal imaging it should be recommended carefully. It is a very dark work of art, that is sung with an angelic voice, which captures your attention immediately. Love your channel guys and look forward to listening to it everyday. you two would have been awesome radio hosts back in the 70's.
That's how I always interpreted it, at least the third verse.
This song was written by Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, their lead guitarist and singer on this song because he had heart issues and was wondering if he was going to die.
I had to back it up 6 times to watch you guy's reaction when that lead BUSTED OUT. I knew it was coming being as I'm 68 year old. LMÀO 😂😊❤🎉
Echoing others, your next two BOC songs should be "Burnin' for You" and "Godzilla"
"Godzilla" has some amazingly insane guitar playing by Buck, you may want to re-start the song a few times.
Yes! Omg Godzilla!
this song is SUCH a vibe. it even pops up in DJ sets (not covers or techno versions, the original song) that's some serious lasting power and broad appeal.
Funny story, when I was a teenager in the late 70s I played a much slowed down version of this song in church for the offertory music on the organ, and got in just a little hot water with my music teacher who was also the church organist and not at church that Sunday, however everybody loved it although only the young people knew what it was.
To me the cowbell represents the ticking of time as your life passes by. Always ticking away.
They played this song in Stephen Kings Movie, "The Stand".
Jordan gets his cowbells! This suggestion is for our bookworm Amber. Mark Twain started it as a joke. When you do the video make sure you do it with the diagram. Ray Stevens,-(I'm my own grandpa). Teachers put your thinking cap on.
I did? But I never Joke about Soft White Underbelly...
You should DEFINITELY review the More Cowbell sketch from SNL. It’s is a classic that lives on today.
I second the nomination. And since they are adding interviews to their reactions, I want to see them react to Chris Foley interviewing Paul McCartney also from SNL.
Back in the day I was a roadie for Charlie Daniels Band and one of his first concerts that I helped work for him, he opened for Blue Oyster Cult. Being back stage listening to them was probably the loudest I've ever heard music played!
My son was a relief pitcher, closer in college. I told him this should be his entrance song when he came in out of the bullpen and he could be The Reaper. . He said, "dad, it says DON'T fear the reaper." I told him yep. No sense in fearing you, you're gonna get him so he might as well get just his bat, get up there and face the inevitable. LOL BTW, He was 1st team All Conference pitcher his senior year.
Many say this is about suicide. I like to think of it as not letting the fear of death prevent you from taking chances, exploring further, etc.
Ever the optimist eh?
It's about suicide. As evidence I point you the official video as well as the lyrics. Citing how many people die every day & Romeo and Juliet & saying "we can be like they are" plus that she was overcome with sadness before she took his hand and started to fly, i.e. fell to her death.
@@pauld6967 40, 000 every day, ...it is Suicide.
"Donal Roeser explained to Louder Sound that he drew the words from a very inspiring well: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. "I was thinking about the concept of an eternal love, one that transcends the borders of death," he said"
@@Motorheadhesperia It's nice that he said that and I guess "hurray for love eternal" but when all is said & done, one or both of the couple are still dead.
@@robindavisduckworth8992 Thanks for standing with me on the meaning of the song.
"Astronomy" is also a great song- and Metallica did a fantastic cover of that tune also
Nailed it. Been going as Gravely Diggs for years. Every once in awhile someone will ask if it's from the song. Yep and it's a place not a name.
This song leads into "the revenge of Vera Gemini" another banger. "Tattoo Vampire" has some great guitar work. Now I have to go play that album. Love your reactions. You two are a great couple and always entertaining.
With Patti Smith!!!!!!!!!!!!! It does not get cooler than that!
Actually it goes into E.T.I., great rocker will dual guitars, then revenge... the whole album flowed well.
The bass player, Kasim Sulton, started with Todd Rundgren and still plays with him along with other groups. He is so good!
Right but Kasim was a recent addition to BÖC, this song was the original band with Joe Bouchard on bass.
An obscure Blue oyster cult song that's fantastic is cities on flame with rock and roll
Not just another tune. It's one of a few hundred of the most iconic rock tunes of all time.
anahatatutu Absolutely spot on! It sounds like the 70s, I should know...I was there!
Jay, everyone feels the way you do about the dynamics and transitions of this song. It's brilliant and so groundbreaking for its time. So glad you both enjoyed it!
Legendary tune that has been played on the radio often ever since it’s release!. Godzilla is another tune, a rocker that is worth reacting to!
This song was also featured in a 1996 Michael J Fox movie called The Frighteners.
It was also used in the opening sequence of the original mini-series The Stand. I cannot hear this song without thinking of it.
That was a good flick! 👍
That version on the Frighteners was a cover from an Australian band, but it is super hard to track down. Liked it a lot though!
@@johnbutler5650 I was wondering about that. It did seem to have more edge to it.
@@TheArchangel911 Sorry ( my apologies to the Kiwis that might have read my previous reply ) that band that I mentioned before were from New Zealand, they are The Mutton Birds. Like most Americans, I confused Australia with New Zealand ( again, my apologies ). It IS a really good cover of the tune though! I have to say that there aren’t many bands out there that would try to cover BOC! Take it easy🤙
Am lucky enough to have seen Blue Oyster Cult band live, back in early 2000's. They played all their classics!