Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper (Audio) 

Holy sheetu, the only reason I knew of this band was because of a game called roadkill, glad I remembered the name of the band

Sanic the Studmuffin It gave me a fever. Now, I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.

It's almost perfect, but it needs more cowbell.

777 likes I'm not gonna change it.

@@pinkidd5647 I learned about their existance only some three years ago while reading John Shirley's A song called youth. What a discovery and what a perfect ending for the first installment of the Eclipse trilogy.

I'm a member of the same club! Cheers to you!

I was 15, no fear either,.............

@@plicketyplunk Looks like we could stat a club, lol.

@@cliffordkinnear9705 It's officially a club.

I've cheated Reaper Death at least 5 times in my life & have found that when you stare the devil in the face and show him you have no fear you will survive and win!

Good job. I'm a stranger, but know that I'm proud of you.

As am I. Wonderful for you❣️❣️❣️

I applaud anyone that accepts they are powerless over addiction The humility and bravery to fight that daily battle and succeed one day at a time, is glory bound. You faced Lucifer, at your most vunerable and turned away. May you be blessed in your sobriety, every day.

I could do about anything out there and I never could be addicted or an alcoholic. I alot of people did and my older brother was a bad alcoholic. I just did for fun I could take it or leave it. I feel bad for the one's that are.

i dont know you but im very proud of you god bless.

It was played at my moms, 15 years ago when I was 14. It seemed very fitting and if ever there was a good choice of funeral song I’d say this is it

this will be played at my funeral as well. such a beautiful song. vastly misunderstood

Same

@@bobmerlington1330 How do you interpret it?

My headcanon is that the reaper is constantly hitting the cowbell as seconds fly by, like a death countdown reminding us that time is finate. Notice how in the guitar solo representing death the cowbell isn´t present.

This comment made me laugh more then any reasonable person should.

Needs more cowbell, dude. lol

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@Karen Sanders that theory's been floating around forever, it's already officially been deconfirmed. The only reason Romeo and Juliet are mentioned is because the theme is being happy together in death. The song is just about accepting death.

Well that's the beauty of this song it sounds like who cares about living we'll die in the end but it shows the beauty of death and how love trancends death

That may not be your destiny. Remember Oedipus...

@@chrisingignoli3100 That's optimistic🙄

@@mikecole1664 Just saying, " Dont think to much into it. That may not be your journey. Oedipus worst fear became his reality because he made it so....

I was born on the 18th. I have 2 daughters born on the 18th. Sometimes you've got to let it ride!

Kinda reminiscent of Pink Floyd.

It's the first gothic rock song. The Cure were definitely taking notes

That’s why I’m hear , now I notice it more

@@bryansoriano6765 MORE COWBELL!!!!!

@@thebackrooms7511 WE WANT MORE COWBELL!!!!

After watching SNL and searching this outside the voice part all I hear now is that damn bell 😭

@@alexiachimciuc3199 Same. SNL brought me here.

That's a nice quote!

we're all made of ashes of stars that died with extreme violence

Deep cut ✂️

CAUSE YOU NEVER EXISTED BEFORE

@@dogsareawesome9197How do yoou know that though

Bruh your music would be worser than a preschooler screaming

true!! XD

Needs more cowbell.

Agreed, one of the few greats! What happened to today's music? No talent, no harmony, just noise and no value... 60's, 70's and 80's, best eras ever, may they live forever!

damn skippy

How’d it go

@@lordomemes4520 Great!

Thank you, nobody even near my age has good taste in music and it drives me nuts

@@AlexisWilliams123try; I've Been Waiting For a Girl Like You- Foreiner

@@rayguest6851 Thank you, that was such a good song!

"Needs more cowbell"

I disagree. 2 and half more would to fab-boo

See I still think it needs some more cowbell

Needs more cowbell. As much as Couldn’t get it Right, climax blues band

Christoper Walken would disagree.

Yay go me but maybe refrain from clickbaiting 😁

Sewb waht

Sewb oh

ND Trends why is a clickbait channel with 856k subscribers here

Link said free robux

Great game

B - 52's have a cow bell . Song Rock Lobster 🦞

Great story 😁 I bet the nurses were relieved that you had dark humor cause they usually do too lol

Freaking HILARIOUS 😂😂😂😂 AWESOME 😎 THANK S FOR THAT

Priceless!!!!

That made me cry

I could use a little more cowbell

cringe

The reaper is God’s best servant.

People don't fear dying they fear the suffering beforehand. They also fear dying before they get to accomplish their potential. I don't think many people fear dying peacefully in old age.

I just want more cow bell

The cow has to show up, first.

You had me until the "no shrieking" part. THE FUTURE IS NOW OLD MAN.

Indeed

You know a classic song is truly good when to this day its still grabbing people's attention who have never heard it and aren't just listening "because it's a classic." This is one of those songs.

I totally agree with you lmao your words are beautiful ❤️

the last time I had a dark touch, I wound up in jail for killin the som'bitch

@@brokenbeautifuly21 thank you bro music is a beautiful thing. And i tend to analyze it to the best of my abilities.

@@brokenbeautifuly21 Dang, youse easy to please

@@bestboy897 You definitely need to try harder...Bro

True

You can really hear him exploring the space.

I can't unhear that cowbell playing loud from the More Cowbell Saturday Night Live

You got that right 😁

It's that damn COWbell. Just RINGing... in my EARS.

Imagine restoring a 70s classic car and her radio lights up crooning don't fear the reaper 😮 🚘 would you be scared?

No it's about his wife's cancer diagnosis.

It would be the best song in history if it had just a little more cowbell

@@imtheboss1826 Actually it’s not son - this just you being a silly drama queen. Try and have some dignity for once…

@@rtlthemusician5598 real funny joke, bozo

@Tejesh Patel its better

So sorry for your loss. Best wishes to you and yours.

Sorry to hear of your loss brother. But you're pops had great taste in music.Rip rocker!

I lost mine 3 months ago.. his love for music inspired me to pursue a career in music and never stopped supporting me until he died. it does get better but I gets worse before it does. Stay strong!

I'm sorry for you loss. Keep him close to your heart and in your memories and he'll always be there with you.

I am very sorry for your loss, losing a parent is hard. Lost my dad at a young age. best of luck to you and don’t fear the reaper friend prayers sent 🙏

Those Were The Days, Man, They Don’t Make Music Like This No More, And The 70’s/80’s/90’s were a much better times back then, than these modern crazy times

While it has a much slower and calmer vibe, may i also suggest Worldwide by Dancing Fantasy?

I can see that. And it's strange, considering they were a bunch of guys from, what was it, Long Island, NY?

I've been trying to pinpoint this for so long!

Cette musique est pour lui ❤️courage

My condolences.

Thank you all. I had been extremely hard on my whole family. It's not fair at all and my heart hurts so

Sympathize with you, my friend, unfortunately, having filled this tattoo, he became his primary goal.

I wish a great hug and peace to you with what has happened to you. For your father also peace he'll be in my prayers tonight.

It's the guitar. Masterful.

@@reesecup3ify yes, you’re right

@@ralphitalian777 for me it’s the guitar at parts like 0:52. It reminds me of cold, dark airports at 1am. The cold, distant echoes of the guitar, rather t,Han harsh and raucous screaming.

@@funwithfish1507 interesting take, awesome

@@lucidchariot9984 interesting. It makes you feel definitely out of the ordinary.

Nowhere. It's just being hidden from you by some old person.

Doesn't really sound like a 🐄 🔔! "Condamine" 🐄🔔's have a, "certain 💍 tone" (so 🐄🐄🐄 can "be found" if, "lost!") cheers🍹 from OZ 🇦🇺, one (of a few) 🏘️' s of the legendary (conny) "COW 🐄 BELL 🔔!!" "FABULOUS" 🏎️ driving tune!! 🎶

@@beauvearing8450 What the hell is wrong with you? Can't you communicate like a human being?

Right there in the top ten. BOC was not a one hit wonder but this the only one that will leave a mark for decades more. The hook is in the Kashmir, Release,, Purple Haze category. When you hear the opening chord it snaps you to attention each and every time!

@@simonlong2305 what the frig are u raving on about?

A "haunting" 🐄🔔 😆😆😆

No this song is strictly about suicide around 40000 people a year kill them selves as you hear in the song I think they said every day just because it sounds better Romeo and Juliet both killed themselves and the woman at the end of the song literally kills herself this song is not about not living in fear and living your life to the fullest it is a song about not being afraid to take your own life don't fear the reaper

​@@aggroelohim3537 "came the last night of sadness it was clear that she couldn't go on 😵‍💫"

@@aggroelohim3537 It's funny how you can say something so incorrect with so much confidence. Even Buck Dharma, who wrote the song, refuted that. The song is about love and the inevitability of death, and the message the original commenter took out of it is closer than yours

​​​@@SkeletonGuyVT how is it even remotely about love lovers suicide maybe Romeo and Juliet and the woman at the end that is in the context of suicide in the first part it's almost like the singer is trying to convince his lover to commit lovers suicide with him "40000 Men and Women every day we can be like they are baby take my hand we'll be able to fly" as it the previous comment 40000+ people kill themselves per year do you think the writer just pull that number out of nowhere and at the end of the song the woman clearly kills herself who appears at her window and they fly away together it's death it's a allegory for suicide "she has become like they are" aka the 40000+ who killed themselves per year

@@SkeletonGuyVT maybe bucky boy felt remorse for writing such an amazing song about killing yourself and no doubt this song has inspired many a suicide that he wanted to change the original meaning of the song

guitar is damn near hypnotic

don't forget the cow bell!

We all have to face the reaper! Let’s just get on the right side. Get right Just think about it!!!

+CowLunch the song is whatever you want it to be

+CowLunch I love how it can make you feel both melancholy and uplifted all at once.

+CowLunch That's my life

+CowLunch I have it on a CD of the 10 to play at my funeral, after Comfortably Numb and followed by Stairway to Heaven.

+Davitofratito It's hard to limit a CD to only 10 that define your life and say what you want people to hear. Rock is the beginning, but it'll end in a Beethoven piano sonata, and include a number by Django Reindhardt and perhaps John Coltrane. Comfortably Numb is just to ease the tension and get everyone laughing!

So sorry for your loss

I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Alfred Tennyson

oh yeah it will,.

Hope you're doing okay.

Please accept a hug from a far and unknown man

And the funny thing is, it's a really easy one for us guitarists to play.

Even at 30, it gives me hope to not fear the Reaper. Thank you, Blue Oyster!

I woke up suddenly at 4:55 am and HAD to hear this song. What a masterpiece.

Years ahead of its time

This is indeed a truly a BADASS KICKASS SONG

Hi I recommend an Indie rock song & video called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

Homicidal Thots yeah good feeling

Homicidal Thots I know what you mean.

Homicidal Thots 💀

More cowbell

Power of nostalgia even if it's someone else's

If you take the fear out of suicide you can actually feel better. It seems counterintuitive but anything that reduces anxiety can only help you. Speaking from my own unfortunately extensive experience in these matters.

You can fight death. Fear drives us to suicide. The ultimate fear is fear of death. The paradox is it drives us to it, because we simply can't live in fear of it any longer. But if you don't fear death, you fear nothing

I also fight the call of suicide and find this song empowering

As someone who has also attempted suicide I feel the same way about this song

Eat steak .

Naike guys more cow bell

I.HAVE.A.FEVER.FOR.A.PRESCRIPTION.FOR.MORE 👉🐄🛎

You're the best

This lovely cowbell really takes this song to the next level guys.

Best comment ever!!!!

It would be a nice song to go out on.

Sorry too, man. Glad the music helped though. Much loves! :)

God Bless your Brother. he's in a much better place now & smiling down on you. treasure your memories & by all means reach out to him in prayer sessions. he'll be happy to hear from you. until you see him again in Heaven.

are you still with the living? if not RIP.

sorry to here that man rip.

Amen to that! One of My all time faves! \m/ \m/

Jesus is the ONLY way to Heaven. Turn away from your sins and put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ alone. the wages of sin is death

@@niddyblancoatschool7107 that shits a fairy tale. Get with the times

Wtf it's not the next chapter, it's the end of the book.

Being scared of death is like being scared of breathing. It's just part of the process. And as for the afterlife? Not a clue. Just enjoy the music. It's all we can do.

I'm sorry for your lose

rip

RIP

Thank you all 🙏❤️

He didn't die in fear. God bless.

Pity them their loss then forgive them their reason..

and you'll might live your entire life without hearing a song you would like as much as this, it's not a big deal

I know riiiiiiight!

luckily this is in maaaany movies and shows

They need more cowbell in their lives.

Supernatural

This was in the first Halloween too

Halloween 1978 aussi

How about HIM?!!!

Not just Halloween ends and the stand also in Halloween 78

Andromeda Hadouken ya pretty much

9/11 better

The score is out of 666.

I'd rate it 9/10, it's just missing something, like more cowbell

Needs a little more cowbell

Hi I recommend checking out an Indie Song & Video called The Bond Villain By Robert Nix

Gene Frenkle did a great job. RIP legend.

Great song that inspired probably the greatest SNL skit of all time. Doesn’t even take away from the awesomeness of the song.

Actually it’s a wood block but tbh the cowbell is funnier

I'm surprised to find you on here but hey, nice taste in music

This cracked me up.

You must be a good son...I can tell.

Your dad is cool

Nice things to hear man, my dad showed me meatloaf been a fan ever since probz to the old man haha.

I think "It Is Well With My Soul" might be better. Look up what it's about.

Cowbell: *tonk* *tonk* *tonk* *tonk* *tonk* *tonk*

Its about saturn

@@barbaraj.6309 nope

your truth isn't the universal truth

Let's party untill it does !!!

Eerie

Probably a very wise decision.

I used to listen to Sunday Morning Coming Down every Sunday morning at work

@@jimmyd1337 You sir are no doubt a Jedi Master!

Why not. We can be like they are LOL

@Shelly Watson ; Thank you for sharing this actually very meaningful background-history of this truly heavenly song!👍❤ I kinda already thought of its greater spiritual meaning and value, than 'merely' as a romanticised reference to a 'love-couple suicide' (which on its own has its rights; suicide IS to be taken seriously and is (emotionally) to be taken in respect...), yet I was not sure.. Thanks to you, I will now fully enjoy the romantic and very spiritual quality of this supreme song!👌 BTW kind greetings from San Diego, CA🇺🇸!

it isnt about suicide although that's a noble path... but it just means that nature is what is... not evil like we are,,, seasons dont fear the reaper.. meaning that life is death...

@@zandarx That is a very intresting interpretation and point of view that you offer here! Respect! And I appreciate that and thank you for it! Although I'm not religious nor church-going, I personally am kinda spiritual, and I do believe in a supreme, omnipotent (celestial) being that has caused the 'big bang' and consequently has created the universe and also ultimately this earth, ánd also mankind. What you say about nature (besides mankind) being fundamentally good (opposed to evil) and 'unspoiled' in its origins, I concur. It is mankind that definitely changed life on earth profoundly and almost completely. But I personally believe in spiritualism and spirituality; and that teaches me that, in nature, indeed, nothing is black or white, it just 'IS', in its very essence, to its true core. Mankind and how they have evolved, etc..., thát's something totally different, but that topic belongs to my personal belief-system, and I don't think I should bother you with that, right?!😉

@@georgelebreton3177 Kind soul Thank you for your words and youre not bothering at all! its a pleasure to get a great interpretation and well meant words of understanding instead of what we normally get from the Internet Shout Factory... lol... and i know its not a popular view to accept suicide.. i myself lost a friend a few weeks ago, a paramedic actually, to suicide and while I am sad, I comfort from the notion that he came to a decision that he felt he was no longer needed, as tragic as it is. I wish I could have been there for him but he was simply too far away. A Marcus Aurelius said (paraphrased) You were born because the world had need of thee, so to die is simply a change of state as the world needs you in some some other form"> Not easy but we have to find some meaning in that. All the best, stay safe

@@zandarx Thank you, you're very kind! Really! And you are right about how many people still treat suicide as a kind of shame; which of course, is absolutely not right at all! I am very sorry for your loss, dear friend. I whole-heartedly offer you my condolances. I feel really sorry for his sad and untimely passing. And somehow I also remain hopeful for your friend's destiny! Let's hope he has found peace now, in every way. He must have had to face a truly painful and impossible fate (even if that was only in his own mind). I think it must have also asked some kind of real courage to eventually take the step which he obviously took. In hind-sight we can all lament and feel deeply affected about his final choice, but actually, we can only try to accept it and respect him for taking 'responsibility' for his own life (and all that was unbearably hard to continue on living with, from his point of view). Sometimes life doesn't leave you with much else than despair; and it is through such (personal) desperate feelings and thoughts, that some (very) drastic and even fatal decisions are made.. I'm sincerely convinced that one has to respect someone's ultimate choice, however we feel so sad and opposed against it.. In your case it IS a beloved friend's last wish.. (as in how he must have perceived his (whole) life at that very saddening, incredibly cruel point in time..). Acceptance will come one day (soon), but keep faith in it that you guys WILL meet again, and that all this (=this chaotic, incompassionate, hard, hurtful and sometimes even inhumane life) will only be a sad but very distant memory.. I sincerely hope it may turn out so to be, one beautiful day. My family and I, myself, have lost my 18-year old nephew (my sister's son) in a similar way, almost 11 years ago. I'm sure you can imagine what kind of emotional, psychological pain and shock that deplorable happening has caused us... And still, after all this time, he remains loved and somehow present in our lives... I like your quoting about how suicide can be viewed. It IS hope-giving and kind. Thanks! And have a nice day, my friend! You too; keep faith, stay safe, stay well!!!👍👋 Edit: Clarity

Let's rip off*

Imagine if they put cowbell in Heavy Metal: The Black And Silver, haha.

Aesthetic Statue what’d they rip off

Yes

@VeteranCape yes there is.

Also as a foreshadowing in Scream they play a cover of it when Billy was first introduced.

@@tupacgaming5307 I realized this not too long ago while watching Scream. Blew my mind.

@@opresiga for real I love rewatching it and discovering new little details everytime

It‘s also part of the Soundtrack for the original Zomieland movie.

Genius little detail and it's the little things that count.

I'm ready for the reaper, i wont fear it

Jordan Evans bad ass

Thanks, the reaper may take my soul away from me whenever he wants but all i have to day is he wont take me without a fight hahaha

Jordan Evans Count me in on kickin some ass

I drive a street sweeper too

Needs more cowbell.

Needs more cowbell

word i would rock the hell out of a cow bell

I've got a fever... And the only prescription... is more cowbell

Nah same

Same

I think I saw it somewhere around here last week, and was starting to search it but got this the 3rd comment 😂

@@luciferfallenangel666 another comment DEFINITELY exists but I made this one for the convenience of others

The lyrics are now two comments below yours lmao.

Never missed nor misunderstood a word ever, sorry you did. Different generations but all cool ❤

thanks

I almost died of this very same thing after a surgery left a plastic tube and almost died. I got sick... like never felt that sick... called an ambulance and had I not and went to sleep I would not be alove now. I was in the hospital for 3 months on a daily antibiotic that smellled like model glue... it was pretty rough.

@@massdebated sorry yo hear you want through that, but glad you're still here to speak about it.

Your dad sounds like he was really rad guy. RIP

@@dinclusivenihilus9828 he definitely was. Lived a tough life, but it didn't take his spirit! Thanks for the kind words.

Hey, I’m so sorry about your father. My greatest fear is having my parents pass away. I just want to give you a hug! Have a great day kind stranger and you’ll see him again soon!

Huh?

​@@CMOplayzthere's a rythm gamemode on Fortnite now, and this is one of the songs featured there.

Yessir is it just me or does it sound like dont fear the reafer

This IS a 70s band, so maybe that is what they’re saying!

actually it takes a lotta bells

OMFG, 1976

I mean it’s good, but it just needs more cowbell

10/10 best comment.

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both very real

ha, what a good comment. What's more, is to look even further into such a proposition. genius.com/Bladee-college-boy-lyrics well see how someone does very that, in this song give your prescription

@Point Venus right this isnt that dumb screamo music

Yes Ethan G you know it

I hate how YT disabled comments on so many videos. We need a new platform to watch videos and listen to music. People forget that YT wasn’t up until 2006 and there were streaming platforms that came before it.

@@PaulieWalnuts1776 it's not only RU-vid turning off the comments. Sometimes it's the poster

Yes, I definitely agree with Ethan.

I love that we can all come together on RU-vid and not only groove on this music, but share with each other as well......TOTALLY AWESOME!!! PEACE & LOVE!

A man of culture I see.

BATEMAN

Not enough songs about accepting suicide

this

Need more cowbell!

Just found it today at 18. This is infinitely better than most “modern” music. That guitar solo was one of the best solos I’ve heard

Umm ......this song came out in 1975 I was 10 years old and turn 59 this November.

@@troynov1965 Math not quite adding up is it.

You'd have to be 58 honestly if you were 9 though.

@@troynov1965 1976

❤❤❤❤

thats shitty man im sorry

People don't realize how much the death of a parent can affect a person...My boss's wife and my mom died on the same day. My boss got a week's paid vacation off and I had to work right through my mother's death, no time off was granted to me (my work doesn't consider the death of a parent to be traumatic)...Yeah my mom was my best friend too. I feel for your loss, it's not easy

Sorry for your loss.

Thank you. Its ABSOLUTELY awful

It sounds like he's one of the few good people to have been able to grace the Earth with his life. I can only hope to achieve something as good as what he had with you, in my own life. I'm glad and happy you two, were able to create and share those amazing experiences for and with each other. And I can only hope and try to be as nearly as happy. Please, take care.

❤

Awesome choice for a wedding song.

Wouldn't it be 12? 1-13 is 12, not ten.

@@nomadicmirror3660 ten years ago I lost him... We were married 12 yrs

Listening to this in 1996 at 20 was better than 46 now more mystic then

I’m on my tractor working right now and took a break and I can tell you I’m listening to the whole album! BTW I’m 62

Listen to Spanish train the album by Chris de Burgh

people were invented in 1980 an the world is about to shut down. there will be plenty more computer auto generated music next game

Of course, you need people to play the song. If there were no people who's gonna play it, a kangaroo?

They are opening for Deep Purple at the Hard Rock in S. Fla - can't wait!

@@bettieboop77 wow Blue Oyster Cult AND Deep Purple? Dayum!

@Hunter Vonnegut k

I am 51 my Parents had this Album, what a great song... I took it 😀

Oh, wow! I love that song!

Same lol

to whisper sing this song is very funny

Exactly! 😆

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Don't hate me for this just something I was thinking but they were both suicides so there together for eternity all right..... but where lol

Yes

So true. I love heavy metal but this song brings me to tears. It's beautiful.

I’m a gangster rap and classic rock guy here.

Its relateable to everyone.

​@@demisemeister159 Have you listened to anything else by BÖC? If not... let's just say I think you'll like a whole _lot_ of what they have to offer. 😉