6. Don’t Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult - 1976 US #12, UK #16. The song is about the inevitability of death and the foolishness of fearing it. 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. The song features the prominent use of the cowbell percussion instrument. The song was originally recorded without a cowbell, but the sound was overdubbed into the song at a later stage. Joe Bouchard recalled: Albert thought he was crazy. But he put all this tape around a cowbell and played it. It really pulled the track together. The Saturday Night Live case parodied this moment in music history with Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken. “I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!” Great scene. My memory of this song was sitting in the living room on a hot sunday afternoon listening to the top 40 countdown on BBC and thinking “wow”. This was probably one of the first songs I really got into. Many other came and went but this one I have never got tired of.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:16:40 +0000
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