"to describe a couple believing they would meet again in the afterlife. He guessed that ""40,000 men and women"" died each day, and the figure was used several times in the lyrics; this rate was 100,000 off the mark. ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" was written and sung by lead guitarist Buck Dharma and produced by David Lucas, Murray Krugman, and Sandy Pearlman. The song's distinctive guitar riff is built on the ""i-VII-VI"" chord progression, in an A minor scale. The riff was recorded with Krugman's Gibson ES-175 guitar, which was run through a Music Man 410 combo amplifier, and Dharma's"
"Apollo 440 transcribed an electronic version of the track on the 1995 debut album ""Millennium Fever"". In 1998, Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers recorded a cover of the song on their ""Rock the Party"" album. Celtic rock band Big Country included a cover of the song on their 2001 covers album ""Under Cover"". The Mutton Birds recorded a version for the 1996 movie ""The Frighteners""; this version is also included on their 2002 greatest hits compilation ""Flock: The Best of the Mutton Birds"". Folk rock band Unto Ashes issued a rendition of ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" on the 2003 album"
"""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" performed by New Zealand alternative rock band The Mutton Birds. The Mutton Birds version of the song had been previously released as a B-side to their single ""She's Been Talking"" released in 1996. It plays also ""Superstar"", written by Bonnie Bramlett + Leon Russell and performed by Sonic Youth. Critical reception was average; Jason Ankeny of album database AllMusic described the soundtrack as ""imaginative"" giving it three stars out of five. This was a lower rating on the site than Elfman's other scores of the era, such as """", ""Mars Attacks!"" and ""Flubber"". The soundtrack review"
"In 1976 ""Rolling Stone"" named ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" the song of the year and, in 2004, the magazine placed the song at number 397 on its list of ""The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time""; however, the 2010 version of the list moved it down to number 405. In 1997 ""Mojo"" listed the song as the 80th best single of all time, while ""Q"" ranked ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" number 404 in its 2003 countdown of the ""1001 Best Songs Ever."" When ""The Guardian"" released its unranked list of the ""1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear"" in 2009, the song"
"band members and those close to the band. It is complete up to ""Curse of the Hidden Mirror"". Their hit single ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" was featured in the famous ""Saturday Night Live"" sketch, ""More cowbell"". The original recording was produced at The Record Plant in New York by David Lucas, who sang background vocals with Roeser and played the now famous cowbell part. Manager Sandy Pearlman mixed the record. ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" was also used in writer/director John Carpenter's horror film classic, ""Halloween"" (1978), the opening sequence of the miniseries adaptation of ""The Stand"" (1994) by Stephen King,"
"""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" by Blue Öyster Cult and ""Black Celebration"" by Depeche Mode. It also features vocals from the song ""Yeh Kali Kali"", from the Indian movie ""Baazigar"" Behind the Cow ""Behind The Cow"" is a 2007 single by German band Scooter featuring American rapper Fatman Scoop. Premiered at ""The Dome 40"" in Düsseldorf on 1 December 2006, it was released on 19 January 2007 as the lead single from their twelfth studio album ""The Ultimate Aural Orgasm"". Jeff ""Mantas"" Dunn plays guitar on the track. The video was filmed in India, where the band caused controversy by painting"
"2002 album ""A Long Day's Night"". Buck Dharma released an acoustic version of the song on the 1994 various artists compilation album ""Guitar Practicing Musicians 3"". Gus Black covered the song in 1996 for the ""Scream"" soundtrack. Finnish gothic rock band HIM recorded a version of the song on their 1997 debut album ""Greatest Lovesongs, Vol. 666"". Pop rock band the Goo Goo Dolls recorded a cover of ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" on their 1987 self-titled album. In 1992, Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch released the extended play ""Don't Fear the Reaper"", on which their rendition of the song appears."
"to work on a follow-up. The band members were able to purchase home recording units to record demos for their next album. Their next studio album, ""Agents of Fortune"" (1976), was their first to go platinum and was again produced by David Lucas. It contained the hit single ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"", which reached number 12 on the Billboard charts and has become a classic of the heavy rock genre. Other major songs on the album were ""(This Ain't) The Summer of Love"", ""E.T.I. (Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)"" and ""The Revenge of Vera Gemini"". Having recorded demos of the songs at home"
"""Empty into White"". Alternative rock group The Beautiful South covered the song on their 2004 album ""Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs"". ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" was covered by hardcore punk band Snuff on their 2005 album ""Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other: 1986-2002"". Synthpop band Heaven 17 recorded a cover of the song on their album ""Before After"", also released in 2005. Pat DiNizio, frontman for the Smithereens, covered the song on his 2006 solo album ""This is Pat DiNizio"". In 2008, jam band moe. recorded a live version of the song on their ""Dr. Stan's Prescription,"
"The Reaper (Grave Digger album) The Reaper is the fifth studio album by the German Power metal and speed metal band Grave Digger. It was released on 2 November 1993 for the label GUN Records. This was the band's return after a long , released seven years after their previous album ""Stronger Than Ever"". A new line-up was formed except for the band leader, Chris Boltendahl and guitar player Uwe Lulis. The latter had convinced Boltendahl to release a new album in the first place, which was why he later on tried to get the name Grave Digger when he"
"Volume 2"" album. Rock band L.A. Guns added a version of the song on their 2010 covers album ""Covered in Guns"". Pierce the Veil covered the song on the ""Punk Goes Classic Rock"" (2010) compilation. Swedish doom metal band Candlemass covered the song on their 2010 EP ""Don't Fear The Reaper"". The song was memorialized in the April 2000 ""Saturday Night Live"" comedy sketch ""More Cowbell"". The six-minute sketch presents a fictionalized version of the recording of ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" on an episode of VH1's ""Behind the Music."" Will Ferrell wrote the sketch and played Gene Frenkle, an overweight"
"Öyster Cult's ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" (1976). Unlike many other XTC songs, he instructed a specific bass part to Colin Moulding: ""Colin had to work very hard to get that bass line. It's very precise. It took me a long time to work it out, because I wanted to get into the J.S. Bach mode of each note being the perfect counterpoint to where the chords are and where the melody is. The bass is the third part in the puzzle."" Its lyrics are sometimes criticised for its similarity to Sam Cooke's ""Wonderful World"" (1960), but Partridge denied copying the"
"The Ripper (song) ""The Ripper"" is a single by British heavy metal band Judas Priest, first released in March 1976. It was also featured on their 1976 studio album ""Sad Wings of Destiny"". The Ripper is a heavy rocker having a midpart with layered operatic voices. Like ""Epitaph"" it's one of the band's most Queen-inspired songs. It tells the story of ""Jack the Ripper"" from the killer's point of view. It has become a fan favorite and is one of the band's signature songs. Glenn Tipton penned the song shortly after joining the band, but producer Rodger Bain rejected including"
"of the band, as a younger Danny Sexbang. The band called ""Danny Don't You Know"" their ""favorite-ever song"", both musically and as a video. It became the #1 trending video on YouTube. ""Cool Patrol"" was released on August 17, 2018 and immediately reached #1 on the ""Billboard"" Top Comedy Albums chart, and remains there as of September 28, 2018. In August 2018, Avidan and Wecht hosted an AMA on Reddit where Avidan confirmed that ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" by Blue Öyster Cult, ""Sledgehammer"" by Peter Gabriel, ""Glory of Love"" by Peter Cetera, and ""Down Under"" by Men at Work would"
"the Attic"" (1975), which reached number 11 in the American album chart, and ""Rocks"" (1976), which peaked at number three. Blue Öyster Cult, formed in the late 60s, picked up on some of the elements introduced by Black Sabbath with their breakthrough live gold album ""On Your Feet or on Your Knees"" (1975), followed by their first platinum album, ""Agents of Fortune"" (1976), containing the hit single ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"", which reached number 12 on the Billboard charts. Journey released their eponymous debut in 1975 and the next year Boston released their highly successful début album. In the same"
"a staple of rock-station playlists. This is also the only album in the band's catalogue to have every original member perform lead vocals. Agents of Fortune Agents of Fortune is the fourth studio album by American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, originally released by Columbia Records on May 21, 1976. The Platinum-selling album peaked at No. 29 on the U.S. Billboard chart, while the cryptic single ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" peaked at No. 7 in ""Cash Box"" magazine and at No. 12 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 singles chart, making it BÖC's biggest hit. The band became a bigger"
"Reaper"" was originally released by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult on their 1976 album ""Agents of Fortune"". The ""Romeo and Juliet""-inspired lyrics of the song convinced Valo to record it as a duet, explaining: ""I never understood the manliness of the original by Blue Öyster Cult, as [the song] is clearly an exchange between a man and a woman. I thought it would be more interesting to make a version, where a boy and a girl decide you don't have to be afraid"". ""When Love and Death Embrace"" was released as the first single from the album in October"
"after Jimmy Fallon laughs for the first time in the sketch. According to Fallon, Ferrell wore a tighter shirt in the live sketch than he wore at dress rehearsal to allow his gut to hang out, in turn making Fallon laugh. While the song ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" by Blue Öyster Cult does indeed feature a cowbell playing throughout the song, its sound is largely drowned out by the rest of the instruments. According to Donald ""Buck Dharma"" Roeser, the lead singer and author-composer of the song, the sketch accurately portrays the band's look during the 1970s, but it inaccurately"
"and in 2004, ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" was listed at number 405 on the ""Rolling Stone"" list of the top 500 songs of all time. 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 as motifs"
"the band as the Mutton Birds continued working in the UK and Europe. Long was replaced by the London-based New Zealand expatriate Chris Sheenan. ""David was the most homesick of all of us and the least in love with the associated paraphernalia of being in a band,"" McGlashan said. The album was released in some territories with a bonus track of the band's version of Blue Öyster Cult's ""Don't Fear the Reaper"", which the band had recorded for the soundtrack of the 1996 Peter Jackson horror comedy film ""The Frighteners"". McGlashan said the song had been included after Australia's Triple"
"2014 episode of ""The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"" for a charity drum-off battle. Despite Smith clearly giving the better performance, Ferrell was named the winner and awarded a giant gold cowbell. Both were joined by Smith's Chili Peppers bandmates for a performance of ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" with Ferrell playing cowbell. More Cowbell ""More Cowbell"" is a comedy sketch that aired on ""Saturday Night Live"" on April 8, 2000. The sketch is presented as an episode of VH1's documentary series ""Behind the Music"" that fictionalizes the recording of the song ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" by Blue Öyster Cult. The"
"Reapers (song) ""Reapers"" is a song by English rock band Muse. It was released as the second promotional single from the band's seventh studio album ""Drones"", and was given a 7"" single release, as part of Record Store Day 2016, on 16 April 2016 as the fifth and final single from ""Drones"". It peaked at number 75 on the French Singles Chart, 71 on the Swiss Hitparade singles chart, 37 on ""Billboard""s Hot Rock Songs, and became Muse's highest-charting single on ""Billboard""s Mainstream Rock Songs at number 2. ""Reapers"" was released a promotional single for ""Drones"" on 29 May 2015."
"The Jaggerz The Jaggerz are an American rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They came to national attention with their single ""The Rapper"" which was released on the Kama Sutra label. ""The Rapper"" was #1 in the Record World Charts and #2 in the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in March 1970. Having sold over one million copies the recording received a gold record awarded by the R.I.A.A.. The band's name derives from the Pittsburgh English slang term, ""jagger bush,"" meaning a thorny bush. They were managed by The Skyliners manager, Joe Rock. While attending college at Slippery Rock State College, Donnie"
"Robert Galbraith (pseudonym for J. K. Rowling) novel – ""Career of Evil"" (a Cormoran Strike novel). in 2014, ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" was performed by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as part of a drum off between Chad Smith and Will Ferrell. The cowbell part was played by Ferrell. During their career, Blue Öyster Cult have frequently collaborated with outside lyricists, though in the later 70's, the band members also wrote lyrics for some of their songs. Lyricists for Blue Öyster Cult have included all the original members (Bloom, Roeser, Albert & Joe"
"The Creepers The Creepers were an English rock music group, formed in Manchester in 1982, originally as ""Marc Riley & The Creepers"". After being dismissed from The Fall by Mark E. Smith, Marc Riley formed his own record label (In-Tape) with Jim Khambatta, and his own band. The first single ""Favourite Sister"" (which featured his former bandmates Steve Hanley, Craig Scanlon and Paul Hanley) was followed up with ""Jumper Clown"", which poked fun at his previous band's singer. A Peel Session was the source of the next release in 1984, with a compilation of these early releases, ""Cull"", following the"
"Churchill) and later changed their name to ""Blue Öyster Cult"". He managed the band (with Murray Krugman) from 1967–1995, and produced or co-produced 7 of their studio albums, and 4 of their live albums. Significantly, Pearlman was co-producer, with David Lucas and Murray Krugman, of BÖC's ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" in 1976. The song reached No. 12 on the Top 40 charts and has remained an FM radio staple since. On the ""Rolling Stone"" list of top 500 songs of all time, it is listed as No. 405. In 1966, he was introduced to the founder of ""Crawdaddy!"" magazine, Paul"
"Öyster Cult. Lucas produced their first album at his Warehouse studio, and later as music producer for their 1976 album ""Agents of Fortune"", including the song, ""Don't Fear the Reaper"". ""Reaper"" became a huge hit, and is listed at number 405 on ""Rolling Stone""'s list of the top 500 songs of all time. In it, Lucas sang background vocals and came up with the idea and played the cowbell. This was parodied by Christopher Walken in a ""Saturday Night Live"" ""More cowbell"" comedy sketch on April 8, 2000. In 1977 Lucas produced ""Spectres"" which included the hit Godzilla. In 1998,"
"the band's sound, and was touted as the honorary sixth member of the group by vocalist Ville Valo. When recording began, HIM had eight songs ready for the album, two of which (""Wicked Game"" and ""The Heartless"") were previously recorded for the group's 1996 EP """". After initial recording ended, the album clocked in at 32 minutes, which the band's record label BMG felt was too short. As a result, HIM opted to include a cover of Blue Öyster Cult's ""(Don't Fear) the Reaper"" on the record, which the band had recorded the previous winter. The track also featured guest"
"Bouchard, and Lanier), producer Sandy Pearlman, and writers Richard Meltzer, Patti Smith, Michael Moorcock, Eric Van Lustbader, Jim Carroll, Broadway Blotto and John Shirley. Blue Öyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult (often abbreviated BÖC or BOC) is an American rock band formed on Long Island, New York, in 1967, whose most successful work includes the hard rock songs ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper,"" ""Godzilla,"" ""Black Blade,"" ""Burnin' for You"" and ""Shooting Shark."" Blue Öyster Cult has sold more than 24 million records worldwide, including 7 million in the United States alone. The band's music videos, especially ""Burnin' for You,"" received heavy rotation"
"(1988). The drum beat also appeared at the beginning of the third remix of Was (Not Was)' song, ""Out Come the Freaks,"" which appeared on their 1987/88 album, ""What Up, Dog?"". Rock Steady (The Whispers song) ""Rock Steady"" is a single released by American group The Whispers, from their eighteenth studio album ""Just Gets Better with Time"" (1987). It was released on June 13, 1987 and was their highest charting single on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100, peaking at number seven in late August, and was their second and final number one on the Hot Black Singles Chart. It was"
"from Neil Finn, released by Virgin Records. Their third proper CD, ""Envy of Angels"", was recorded in Wales and released in 1996 worldwide. It sold typically well in Australia and New Zealand, and sales increased from those of Nature in the rest of the world. This year also saw The Mutton Birds' contribution to the soundtrack of Peter Jackson's film ""The Frighteners"" with a cover of Blue Öyster Cult's 1976 classic ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"". The band now moved to the United Kingdom where they would remain based until 2000. In 1997, the band played several concert dates in Canada"
"Primal Fear (band) Primal Fear is a German power metal band formed in 1997 by Ralf Scheepers (vocals, ex-Gamma Ray) and Mat Sinner (bass and vocals, Sinner). Sinner and Scheepers formed the band after Scheepers was not hired as Rob Halford's replacement in Judas Priest. Primal Fear was founded in October 1997 by singer Ralf Scheepers and Mat Sinner. Scheepers and Sinner have been constants in the heavy metal scene before the band was founded. Ralf Scheepers sang in the bands Tyran Pace, F.B.I. and the internationally successful band Gamma Ray. After a gig with his Judas Priest cover band"
"The Grip Weeds have performed at venues across the United States, and internationally, including the South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas, The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England, and several tours of Europe, among others. The Grip Weeds The Grip Weeds are an American rock band from Highland Park, New Jersey. The Grip Weeds were formed in 1988 in New Brunswick, New Jersey by brothers Rick Reil (guitar) and Kurt Reil (drums). The band is named after the fictional character “Musketeer Gripweed”, played by John Lennon in Richard Lester’s 1967 motion picture ""How I Won The War"". The Reil"