@@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...
“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.
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 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...
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
“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
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...
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
that Whoah! was an appropriate reaction to the opening of that guitar solo, one of the greatest of all time, probably the greatest beginning to a guitar solo. a significant moment in music history.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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. ❤
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😂
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 !!!
Now I beg of you to check out the SNL skit "More Cowbell" (it features this song) with Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken. Hilarious!
“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 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!
it's absolutely devastating holy cow. so aggressive, so powerful, hard to think of anything equal to it for what it accomplishes.
That transition mirrors the song. The music meshes and carries over mirroring the transition from one world to the other.
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!
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.
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.
Often overlooked is THE DRUMMER. 🥁 that drummer went HAM on this song
Now you have to do "More Cowbell" SNL skit!
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
OMGosh you totally got the message of the song. A lot of people think it’s about suicide
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.
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!
6:48 I agree. It's a paradox for me. I'm not fearful of death, but I am fearful of not existing.
“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?
The only thing this song needs is... say it with me now.... MORE COWBELL!!
you should try "she sells sanctuary" and "ciao baby" both by the cult (different band)
Impossible to hear this song without "More cowbell!" in your head.
All I see is will Farrell dancing on stage with the cow bell and stomache hangin out
A co- worker of mine died yesterday and right now this reaction and song is just what I needed... RIP, Erika... so long
BOC still tours. Saw them last year and they are as great as ever.
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...
everytime i hear this song i see the opening scene from the stand....
If you have ever heard a comment about needing "More Cowbell..." this Band and song from SNL skit is where it originated.
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.
This was the music that opened the movie The Stand. Good match…
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.
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.
Fun fact. This song was in the horror classic HALLOWEEN.
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’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.
"I have a fever... and the only cure for it is MORE COWBELL." - Christopher Walken
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Please check out
Cities on Flame
Burning for You
An Amazing Band
Great Reaction
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.
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.
Death is not the end.... It is only the beginning.
that Whoah! was an appropriate reaction to the opening of that guitar solo, one of the greatest of all time, probably the greatest beginning to a guitar solo. a significant moment in music history.
One of the best songs of the 1970s...
Gotta have more cowbell.
Needs more cowbell 😂
Probably thr best traction I have seen to this song....I love Blue Oyster Cult!
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.
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.'
That Bass player is just outstanding!!!
Great message, this band has a huge amount of material to react to
"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.
It's because you love music!!! Please continue to listen to the old music! It changed my life! May God bless you!
I enjoyed this reaction. I love R/B and soul. ..Check out "Black Pearl" , sonny charles, "Sensuality" , the Isley Bros. and "Real Love", Lakeside
Godzilla with movie clips 🤘
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.
This song was the best song to begin the series The Stsnd
Great song 👍
''MORE COWBELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
gotta have more cowbell
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.
70’s Classic Rock 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
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.
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"
Thanks, Shon... a throw-back to my teenage years.. still love it! (maybe needs a little more cowbell - lol)...appreciate your reaction!
Fun fact: Will Ferrell is on the cow bell.
Great song... other good songs by BOC... Burning For You, Godzilla, Shooting Shark.
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.
Shon, as soon as I saw who you were reacting to I would like oh hell yeah he's going to love this. 😊
This songs a little haunting to me! The reaper comes & takes her away…ahhhhhh! It doesn’t make me feel at peace lol!😅
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.
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.
Absolutely love your interpretation of the lyrics. Bang on. Thanks
I feel the same way im 30 and I think the older I get the worse my fear will become.
This was my very first concert 1984....it was awesome
The track played thru the 1st Halloween movie back in the 70's.
One of my all time favorite songs.
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.
Cowbells ! I need more cowbells !
Eagles - Hotel California (Live Hell Freezes Over)
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. ❤
From the same period: Uriah heap - Lady in black
You get it every time ,live your reactions Shon!!!!!
These is the best/correct interpretation on this I've heard
Oh, and yeah, MORE COW BELL!
hittin' the "Prog Rock" baby! love it!
Welcome to the world AFTER hearing this masterpiece...enjoy!
One of my favorite songs ever ❤️ 😊
That is very true. I recommend caution
One of my fave songs 👏👏👏
Let’s get this man, our new friend, to 30K ASAP - then on the road to 50!
Love Blue Oyster Cult. They were fabulous in concert.
check out their song godzilla, its very good.
I really think you’re doing a great job with your reactions ,always enjoy and you Analyse very clever.
I have seen them live and they sounded just like the record
Godzilla is another good one.
Could still sing every single word after how many years of not hearing it. Classic track.