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"(Don't Fright) The Reaper"
DontFearTheReaper.jpg
Single by Blue Öyster Cult
from the anthology Agents of Fortune
B-side "Tattoo Vampire"
Released July 1976 (1976-07)
Recorded 1975
Genre
  • Hard rock[i]
  • psychedelic rock[ii]
  • soft stone[iii]
Length
  • v:08
  • iii:45 (single edit)
Label Columbia
Songwriter(due south) Donald "Cadet Dharma" Roeser
Producer(southward)
  • David Lucas
  • Murray Krugman
  • Sandy Pearlman
Blue Öyster Cult singles chronology
"Then Came the Last Days of May"
(1975) 		"(Don't Fear) The Reaper"
(1976) 		"This Own't the Summertime of Love"
(1976)
Official audio
"(Don't Fearfulness) The Reaper" on YouTube

"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" is a song by American stone band Blue Öyster Cult from the band's 1976 album Agents of Fortune. The vocal, written and sung past lead guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, deals with eternal beloved and the inevitability of death. Dharma wrote the song while picturing an early expiry for himself.

Released equally an edited single (omitting the dull building interlude in the original), the song is Blue Öyster Cult's highest nautical chart success, reaching #seven in Cash Box and #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1976. Critical reception was positive and in Dec 2003 "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was listed at number 405 on Rolling Rock 's list of the height 500 songs of all time.[4]

Groundwork [edit]

"I felt that I had but 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 information technology as an advertisement for suicide or something that was non my intention at all. It is, like, not to be agape of [expiry] (as opposed to actively bring it nigh). It's basically a dear song where the love transcends the actual physical existence of the partners."

 — Cadet Dharma, lead singer[5]

The song is about the inevitability of expiry and the foolishness of fearing it, and was written when Dharma was thinking almost what would happen if he died at a young age.[5] Lyrics such as "Romeo and Juliet are together in eternity" take 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.[six] He used Romeo and Juliet to describe a couple who wanted to exist together in the afterlife.[seven] He guessed that "40,000 men and women" died each day (from all causes), and the effigy was used several times in the lyrics; but this number was near 100,000 too depression.[eight]

Composition and recording [edit]

"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was written and sung by lead guitarist Cadet Dharma and produced by David Lucas, Murray Krugman, and Sandy Pearlman.[9] The song's distinctive guitar riff is built on the "I-bVII-bVI" chord progression, in an A minor scale.[10] The riff was recorded with Krugman'due south Gibson ES-175 guitar, which was run through a Music Man 410 combo amplifier, and Dharma'southward vocals were captured with a Telefunken U47 tube microphone. The guitar solo and guitar rhythm sections were recorded in one accept, while a four-track tape machine amplified them on the recording. Sound engineer Shelly Yakus remembers piecing together the separate vocals, guitar and rhythm section into a primary track, with the overdubbing occurring in that guild.[11]

Mojo described its creation: "'Guys, this is it!' engineer Shelly Yakus announced at the finish of the first accept. 'The legendary once-in-a-lifetime groove!' ... What evolved in the studio was the extended solo department; it took them about as long to edit the 5-minute track downwardly to manageable length equally it did to record it."[12]

The vocal features prominent use of the cowbell percussion musical instrument, overdubbed on the original recording. Bassist Joe Bouchard remembered the producer requesting his brother, drummer Albert Bouchard, play the cowbell: "Albert thought he was crazy. But he put all this tape effectually a cowbell and played it. Information technology really pulled the track together."[xiii] Even so, producer David Lucas says that he played it;[14] while bandmember Eric Blossom claims that he was the ane to play information technology.[fifteen]

Reception [edit]

The song was on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for twenty weeks, reaching number 12 for the weeks offset Nov vi and Nov 13 in 1976.[sixteen] Information technology was BÖC's highest-charting U.S. song and helped Agents of Fortune accomplish number 29 on the Billboard 200.[17] "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" charted even higher in Canada, peaking at number 7.[18] The single edit was released in the UK in July 1976 (CBS 4483) but failed to chart. All the same the unedited anthology version was released as a single (CBS 6333) in May 1978, where it reached number sixteen on the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Singles Chart.[nineteen]

Critical reaction was mostly positive. Denise Sullivan of Allmusic praised the song'due south "gentle vocals and virtuoso guitar" and "haunting eye break which delivers the listener straight dorsum to the heart of the vocal once the thunder is finished".[20] Nathan Beckett called it BÖC's "masterpiece" and compared the vocals to the Beach Boys.[21] Writing for PopMatters, James Isle of mann hailed it every bit a "landmark, genre-defining masterpiece" that was "equally chiliad and emotional every bit American rock and roll ever got".[22] Pitchfork Media likewise referred to the vocal as a "masterpiece".[23] "Extremely poetic" was the verdict of Fountains of Wayne founder Chris Collingwood. "A sad ballad near a human being who wants to die with his true love before their dear is spoiled by earthly things."'[12]

Track list [edit]

7" Vinyl
  1. "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (Roeser) – three:45
  2. "Tattoo Vampire" (Albert Bouchard, Helen Robbins) – 2:40

Personnel [edit]

  • Eric Flower – guitar, bankroll vocals
  • Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser – guitar, atomic number 82 vocals
  • Allen Lanier – keyboards, guitar
  • Joe Bouchard – bass
  • Albert Bouchard – drums, percussion, cowbell [24]

with:

  • Michael and Randy Brecker - horns (their contribution appears but on the extended album track and was edited out of the released single)[25]
  • David Lucas – backing vocals, keyboards, percussion

Charts [edit]

Twelvemonth Nautical chart Peak
position
1976 Canada Top Singles (RPM)[xviii] 7
US Billboard Hot 100 Chart[17] 12
1978 Republic of ireland (IRMA)[26] 17
United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Singles (The Official Charts Company)[27] 16
2017 The states Billboard Hot Rock Songs[28] 11

Certifications [edit]

Mutton Birds version [edit]

New Zealand band The Mutton Birds recorded a version for the soundtrack of Peter Jackson'due south film The Frighteners.[ commendation needed ] In 1997, it peaked at No.48 on the Australian ARIA singles charts, the only Mutton Birds single to chart in Commonwealth of australia.[30]

Continue Shelly in Athens cover [edit]

Greek duo Keep Shelly in Athens released a version of the vocal in 2019 [31] that was later on included on the soundtrack of the 2020 moving-picture show Unhinged, heard during the closing credits.

Accolades [edit]

In 1976 Rolling Stone named "(Don't Fright) The Reaper" the vocal of the twelvemonth[9] and, in 2004, the magazine placed the song at number 397 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension";[32] nonetheless, the 2010 version of the list moved it downward to number 405.[9] In 1997 Mojo listed the song as the 80th best single of all time,[33] while Q ranked "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" number 404 in its 2003 countdown of the "1001 Best Songs Ever."[34]

When The Guardian released its unranked listing of the "1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear" in 2009, the song was included. The publication wrote that the song'south charm "lies in the disjuncture between its gothic storyline and the sprightly, Byrdsian guitar line that carries it."[6] In his book The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made, rock critic Dave Marsh ranked the song at number 997.[35]

Legacy [edit]

"More than Cowbell" [edit]

The song was memorialized in the April 2000 Sabbatum Nighttime Live comedy sketch "More Cowbell". The vi-minute sketch presents a fictionalized version of the recording of "(Don't Fright) The Reaper" on an episode of VH1's Behind the Music. Will Ferrell wrote the sketch and played Gene Frenkle, an overweight cowbell thespian. "Legendary" producer Bruce Dickinson, played past Christopher Walken, asked Frenkle to "really explore the studio space" and upwards the ante on his cowbell playing. The rest of the ring is visibly annoyed by Frenkle, but Dickinson tells everyone, "I got a fever, and the merely prescription is more cowbell!" Buck Dharma said that the sketch was fantastic and he never gets tired of it[thirteen] but besides lamented that it made the vocal lose its 'creepy' vibe for some time.[36]

A segment of the song was performed by Red Hot Chili Peppers on May 22, 2014,[37] as the conclusion of a drumming contest between the ring's drummer Chad Smith and role player Volition Ferrell. In a repeat of the 2000 SNL sketch, Ferrell again played cowbell for the rendition, which appeared on an episode of The Tonight Evidence Starring Jimmy Fallon. [38] [39]

In other media [edit]

Stephen King cited the song as the inspiration for his novel The Stand, and its lyrics are quoted at the beginning of the novel. It as well appears as the opening theme song for the 1994 Television receiver miniseries based on the novel.[22] It was subsequently used every bit the end credits music for the 5th episode of the 2020-21 miniseries adaptation.

In the film Halloween, the song plays in the car when Jamie Lee Curtis' character, Laurie Strode, is being stalked by serial killer Michael Myers.[40]

The 1994 film The Stoned Historic period features the song when one of the master characters criticizes the song every bit being "a pussy song" despite it being performed past Blue Oyster Cult.[41]

The vocal was featured in the starting tracklist of the rhythm game Stone Band.[42]

The song is used throughout the video game Returnal, appearing unaltered in the firm and car sequences and in a modified version against the Hyperion boss fight, played on an organ.[43]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Kelly Boyer Sagert (1 January 2007). The 1970s. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 181. ISBN978-0-313-33919-6. Meanwhile, Blueish Oyster Cult released two of the decade'southward hard rock favorites: "Don't Fright the Reaper" and "Godzilla.
  2. ^ Strong, Martin Charles; Griffin, Brendon (2008). Lights, camera, sound tracks. Canongate. p. 18. ISBN978-ane-84767-003-8. Reaper' was a one-off return to their 60s psychedelic roots.
  3. ^ Jurek, Thom. "Agents of Fortune - Blue Öyster Cult". AllMusic . Retrieved March 21, 2019. The anthology yielded the band's biggest single with "(Don't Fearfulness) The Reaper," a multi-textured, deeply melodic soft rock song with psychedelic overtones.
  4. ^ Stone, Rolling (December xi, 2003). "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone.
  5. ^ a b Lien, James (Nov 6, 1995). "Cadet Dharma interview". Higher Music Journal. New York City: CMJ.
  6. ^ a b "Life and death: yard songs anybody must hear". The Guardian. March 19, 2009. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
  7. ^ Targoff, Ramie (Autumn 2012). "Mortal Beloved: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and the Do of Joint Burial". Representations. 120 (1): 17–38. doi:10.1525/rep.2012.120.1.17.
  8. ^ "Not bad Moments in Pedantry: Fact-checking "Don't Fear the Reaper"". Boing Boing.
  9. ^ a b c "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. Wenner Publishing. seven April 2011.
  10. ^ Rooksby 2002, p. 93
  11. ^ Forlenza, Jeff (June i, 2009). "Classic Tracks: Blue Oyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"". Mix . Retrieved August ii, 2012.
  12. ^ a b Mojo, August 1997, p52
  13. ^ a b Farhi, Paul (January 29, 2005). "Blue Öyster Cult, Playing Forth With 'More than Cowbell'". The Washington Post . Retrieved August 2, 2012.
  14. ^ George, Eli (June thirty, 2011). "Blue Oyster Cult cowbell ringer honored". WIVB-Idiot box. Archived from the original on July 2, 2011. Retrieved August two, 2012.
  15. ^ Sauro, Tony (September 17, 2009). "Blue Oyster Cult'south innovative employ of a cowbell volition never be forgotten". The Record (Stockton) . Retrieved Baronial vii, 2012.
  16. ^ "Agents of Fortune". Blue Öyster Cult . Retrieved Baronial 6, 2012.
  17. ^ a b "Blue Oyster Cult awards". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved Baronial 2, 2012.
  18. ^ a b "RPM Top Singles". RPM. RPM Music Publications Ltd. 26 (7). Nov xiii, 1976. Archived from the original on November 1, 2014. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
  19. ^ Betts 2004, p.89
  20. ^ Sullivan, Denise. "(Don't Fearfulness) The Reaper review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Archived from the original on August 21, 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
  21. ^ Beckett 2004, p. 88
  22. ^ a b Isle of mann, James (July 25, 2001). "Blue Oyster Cult: Agents of Fortune / Tyranny and Mutation". PopMatters . Retrieved Baronial ii, 2012.
  23. ^ "The Clash: The Essential Clash | Album Reviews | Pitchfork". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 2015-09-16. Retrieved 2015-01-xviii .
  24. ^ "Blue Oyster Cult Drummer Reveals Truth About Cowbell on 'Don't Fear the Reaper,' Says It Sounded Similar 'Crap' First". world wide web.ultimate-guitar.com.
  25. ^ Refer to the personnel listing and artiste credits provided on the sleeve notes of the LP Agents Of Fortune, CBS records (1976)
  26. ^ "Search the Charts". irishcharts.ie. Irish Recorded Music Association. Retrieved Baronial two, 2012.
  27. ^ "(Don't Fear) The Reaper". Official Charts Company . Retrieved ten September 2015.
  28. ^ "Blueish Öyster Cult (Don't Fear) The Reaper Nautical chart History". Billboard . Retrieved March 11, 2018.
  29. ^ "British unmarried certifications – Blue Oyster Cult – Don't Fright the Reaper". British Phonographic Manufacture. Retrieved Apr 29, 2022.
  30. ^ Australian-Charts.com website
  31. ^ Buckley, David. "Unhinged (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)".
  32. ^ "The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension". Rock List Music . Retrieved May 2, 2010.
  33. ^ "Mojo – The 100 Greatest Singles Of All Time". Rock Listing Music . Retrieved August 6, 2011.
  34. ^ "Q – 1001 all-time songs e'er (2003)". Muzieklijstjes.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved August 6, 2011.
  35. ^ Marsh 1999, p. 628
  36. ^ Spitz, Marc. "'(Don't Fright) the Reaper' Is a Creepy Tune, Even With the Cowbell". The New York Times . Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  37. ^ Newman, Jason (xvi May 2014). "Chad Smith, Will Ferrell Talk Trash for 'Fallon' Pulsate-Off". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  38. ^ The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (22 May 2014). "Will Ferrell and Chad Smith Drum-Off" (Video upload). The This night Bear witness Starring Jimmy Fallon on YouTube. Google, Inc. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  39. ^ Thomas, Sarah (23 May 2014). "More cowbell: Will Ferrell, Chad Smith face off on This night Show with Jimmy Fallon". The Sydney Morn Herald . Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  40. ^ Spitz, Marc (20 May 2016). "'(Don't Fear) the Reaper' Is a Creepy Tune, Even With the Cowbell". The New York Times . Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  41. ^ Spitz, Marc (May 20, 2016). "'(Don't Fear) the Reaper' Is a Creepy Tune, Even With the Cowbell (Published 2016)". The New York Times.
  42. ^ "Review: 'Rock Ring' hits right notes for music fans". CNN. Retrieved 12 Apr 2019.
  43. ^ "5 Standout Moments from Returnal on PlayStation 5". 4 May 2021.

References [edit]

  • Betts, Graham (2004). Complete Great britain Hit Singles 1952–2004 (1st ed.). London: Collins Press. ISBN0-00-717931-6.
  • Brackett, Nathan (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide . Rolling Stone LLC (fourth ed.). New York City. ISBN0-7432-0169-8.
  • Marsh, Dave (1999). The Heart of Stone and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made. New York City: Da Capo Press. ISBN0-306-80901-X.
  • Rooksby, Rikky (2002). Riffs: How to Create and Play Cracking Guitar Riffs. Backbeat Books. ISBN0-87930-710-2.

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