Blue Oyster Cult - Dont Fear the Reaper C or D

David, it's a total classic and if you really like it I seriously recommend picking up the Agents of Fortune record from which it comes. The whole record is uniformly excellent, I think you'd really like it!

We said we were gonna, but we were actually listening to "Debbie Denise" when the car went over the cliff. Just as well.

the snl bit with will ferrell playing the cowbell and chris walken producing is possibly even more classic.

the riff is brilliant; 'mexican bandits' by felt always reminds me of it.

are the lyrics written by that crazy rock critic, 'the aesthetics of rock' guy, who was sort of like the robert hunter for BOC on a bunch of records, if i'm not mistaken?

buck dharma? sounds like a new age porn star.

"Don't Fear the Reaper," meanwhile, is a fuckin' classic, and anyone who says differently should be summarily flogged.

Their finest hour, however, reamins "Joan Crawford (Has Risen from the Grave)."

Fuckin A man its a total classic, now to comb my mullet.

"career of evil" should have been the hit that "godzilla" was. what a same.
i'd like to do it to your daughter in a dirt road.

The best part though was that they actually tried to look like BOC! When probably 70% of the audience doesn't even know who the song is by let alone what BOC look like.

that said, though, Walken's overenunciation of the word "cowbell" gives me fits

It's a comedy classic for me despite that Fallon crap though. I can't even HEAR a cowbell in a song these days without Walken yelling "I have a fever..." in my head.

Song's a classic too. I wish Buck Dharma sang all their stuff. How's that solo album of his?

Anyways, classic all the way (along w/the rest of the first side of "Agents...").

Anthony: the Dharma solo record is pretty good, but I haven't listened to it in ages. If you like Buck's voice it's worth looking for. It has one Meltzer track on it. Obv 80's drums n' all that though. It took me ages to find the fucker though. Like I think I looked for it for five or six years (this was pre-eBay)(or at least pre-me-using eBay).

Does anyone else love "Morning Final"?

I actually won this in a high school give-away but never played it! I think I gave it to someone afterwards.

Not to be Johnny Pedantic, but those early BöC albums were produced by one Bruce Dickinson, not -- however -- the same gent who sings for the Maiden. Know your history, students!

"It was completely fiction," Bloom said, laughing, "but that's what kind of made it bizarre. They made it all up. Funny thing is, the actor who plays the cowbell guy - Will Ferrell - he's got a name at the end and it says he died. I've had people come up to me and ask, 'What happened to that guy who died?' I'm like, 'Uh, there was no guy that died. It was all fiction from beginning to end.' And Bruce Dickinson is a real guy, but he has nothing to do with 'Don't Fear (The Reaper).' He works for Sony and he's in charge of the production and remastering of all our old albums. He had nothing to do with the original 1976 'Don't Fear (The Reaper).'

Is that kind of a rhetorical question?

Um... *checks* April 8, 2000?

-- J0hn Darn1elle (edito...), April 25th, 2003.

revive b/c i just saw the clip.

"I gotta have that cooOWbell."

http://www.home.no/magnarmuller/cowbell.gif

my oldest brother got to see BOC live back in the day w/ Black Sabbath (the Black and Blue Tour). Dio had just joined Sabbath I think.

Great song. Whenever that middle part that sounds different starts up, I always think, WAIT- WHAT IS THIS SONG? I KNOW THIS SONG! But then it goes back to the main tune, and I think, oh yeah, it's the same song.

I know paulstretch is played out but I still listen to this occasionally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNRGu2-t3PA

im gonna listen to that stretch later but
this song makes me cry on the reg, it is so beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DzuzAoBovY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8N9-UtGVXo

That stretched version is all kinds of awesome. It'd sound perfectly at home on a Boards of Canada album.

come on baby

Heard this on the radio for the first time in an age today, the section with intertwining vocals just slays.

BOC FUCKIN RULES

Classic, obviously!

That Built To Spill cover version is pretty nice.