"I think newborn babies fear life." I mean - never have I ever thought this or read it or anything and yet somehow Lex drops this off-the-cuff unintended Socrates level philosopher ish during a rock song review - and I can't stop dwelling on this notion! holy crap!!!
It’s a bald assertion that only sounds deep. Babies are probably freaking out from the first trauma of their life, but the crying is actually beneficial to clear their lungs & would have been selected for during mammalian evolution.
Maybe the most underrated rock band of all time. They were so great and talented, made so many hits and great songs. Yet they arent ever talked about as one of the greats.
@@robbenmitchell2286 thats like your opinion, man. music is subjective but man are you wrong. fear the reaper, godzilla, burning for you, Then Came the Last Days of May, The Red & the Black, Career of Evil, ME 262, Fire of Unknown Origin, Burnin' for You, Veteran of the Psychic Wars, The Alchemist, are all critically aclaimed and have comercial success.
I always remember what my maternal grandfather said to my mom when he was near death. He died of liver cancer when I was nine. She asked him whether he was scared. He shrugged and said no - if there was an afterlife he'd find himself there, and if there wasn't he'd never know, so there was nothing to worry about either way.
I've listened to this song for literally decades. Lex you've made me see this song in a different light. Holy shit. This is going to be my death bed song if I see it coming. And a new phrase has entered my life. Hard in, hard out. Damn.
Not only does no one else sound like them (although Ghost attempts to), they sound like a completely different band from one song to the next. They helped launch Rush's career by having them as an opening act on Rush's debut album. By the time the mid 80s arrived, Rush was in a position to return the favor and I was able to see two of my favorite bands on the same evening.
@@danielsmith5088 Also, "Then Came the Last Days of May" or "Cities on Flame with Rock 'n Roll," etc. from their first album. There's so much interesting guitar work on it, for one thing. Lex would dig it.
The solo @4:06 is the Reaper’s scythe: it unexpectedly knocks the door down, singles out each person, and viscously removes each soul while engaging them in long, intimate eye contact. Friggin LOVE this solo.
Lex: "I was literally thinking, what a perfect song to die to. A deathbed bumper." Never ever thought of it that way, but now, I totally want this song playing when I go out... like literally when they are pall barring my a** to the grave site... I want this song playing. Love your channel guys. Love your banter together, love Lex's unique take on the tracks, and Lex's smile is absolutely to die for. So happy that you are moved by the music I grew up with. Thank you for your channel. So amazing to watch young people experience my youth.
hahaha yeah her saying that made me think oh man i need to put together a playlist of some songs I want to be the last songs i hear when i'm dying. Cuz ya know i might die alone idk. My friends though will know what to play at my funeral. Cuz they're my friends. :)
A perfect love song. It’s especially appropriate around this time of year when it is said that the veil between our world and the next is thin. It describes a love which lasts for all eternity!
One of my favorite things about this channel is Lex letting herself go and bouncing off Brad, and he looks totally focused and doesn’t give notice to her eccentricity. Cracks me up.
"Death is more natural than a lotta of things we do when we're alive." Damn. Great reaction and great comment. Probably the quickest understanding of the lyrics I've witnessed. 40,000 refers to births and deaths daily even though it's waaay more than that.
I’ve actually thought that. You’ve been sitting in this confined spot in the dark all by yourself for nine months, and then suddenly, someone’s pulling you out of that confined space into the light where all these people are. Yeah, they’re probably scared to death!!
per the writer of the song: " I wrote the guitar riff, the first two lines of lyric sprung into my head, then the rest of it came as I formed a story about a love affair that transcends death. I was thinking about my wife, and that maybe we’d get together after I was gone.”
when it come to reaction videos the two of you are a joy to watch when Lex starts to dance on the couch and really getting into the music, you are comical. And at the same time Brad is so deep into the music and absorbing all that is being played on top of her moving around. A real joy to take the time and check the two of you out.. Peace
This song's always had one of my favorite "vibes" of basically anything I've heard. I always felt that middle instrumental was jarring, but then realized it's the part where Death takes you, and then it's over and on the other side there is that same calm, almost hypnotic groove.
Saw these guys three times live...back in the 70's. Great live shows....they did one thing that I have never seen before in their live shows and I believe it was in this song. All five of them were across the front of the stage on guitars...no one on drums....just all on guitars. It was crazy great. Great band!
Lex just invented the concept of a deathbed playlist. And the philosophical conjecture that newborns fear life the same way we fear death. Brilliant. Also her spazzing out at the solo drop is the typical adorableness that we come here for.
A deathbed playlist is not new. I've had mine picked out for years. I'm ill and the end can come at any time or I may last a few more. But my son knows where the playlist is. 🙂
All your reactions: Brad with a look on his face like he is analyzing the song/lyrics; you can see the wheels spinning in his head. Lex is all about the feeling; she lets the song take her.
Watching Brad's Rock/Metal journey has been difficult at times. Now that you're reacting to more classic rock, instead of hearing terms like "ear bleeder", I've been hearing more comments like "soothing, "calming" and "my speed". It's nice seeing you breakdown lyrics, while feeling the music and with a smile on your face. I think you've found a sound better for your ears.
One of the "problems" with online metal reactors is that the community often pushes for the harshest stuff right away for the immediate shock value. "Oh youve decided to give this giant ranged genre a chance? Here check out this Slaughter to Prevail!" Whereas most of us "natural fans" grew into it and trained our ears and brains to listen faster and have a library in our heads to juxtapose and appreciate off of. Probably no one who considers themselves a metalhead hadnt heard this song DFTR a dozen times and most everything in between, like for example most of the Iron Maiden, Motorhead, and Metallica catalog before listening to Jinjer. (And im sure anyone about to jump in with random band comments like Slayer or Cannibal Corpse understand what I mean and dont need to waste their time on what defines "standard" or "heaviest")
@@mokane86 Absolutely right! I have had the exact same thought watching reaction videos. Maybe worded slightly differently but same idea. Also the thing is that someone like me who at 54 has been a lifelong metal head still can't and have no desire to wrap my head around a lot of the super hard metal. Honestly some of the metal I have liked a lot over the years has slowly become songs I have to "be in the mood" for and some I almost never am anymore.
I was a teenager when I first heard this song. At the time, I didn't fear death...after all, I was only 15 or so, and felt like death was so far away that it would actually never happen. Now, in my late 50's, and poor of health, I think about death every day...and I do fear the reaper. I dont want to die, yet at the same know that it is inevitable...I just wake up every day glad that it isn't today. At least not yet.
"We shall meet again, those who have loved." (Anonymous) There's mounting evidence that consciousness is a non-local phenomenon, and came before matter...so in the end, science is helping us realize to not fear the reaper either.
You two have always made me smile, I love your connection even when there isn't one. This song is exactly what Lex described, the perfect transitional song.
5:10 to 6:10. Lex you got it! As a hospice nurse I guarantee some people are terrified. However, my grandmother was 99 and ready. She seemed mad she was still here hours before she passed. And I think we need to encourage people to put these kind of instructions into their advanced directives, or at least make sure someone knows what you would like to hear (and what not to play). (Edited for spelling)
Ol' Christopher Walken...great actor. I mean back in the days of ol' Farrell, Sandler, Farley, Spade, Shannon, as well as others...there we're so many great skits.
Amazing song by one of my favorite bands. Groovy, haunting, melodic, epic, with one of the most unique solos ever & that sustained note from the solo all the way through the next verse
Blue Oyster Cult has a lot of songs about death, the occult, sci-fi/fantasy, ESP, UFOs, etc. One of their more haunting songs is "Then Came the Last Days of May", a song based on a real life event where three young men from New Jersey got gunned down in the desert outside of Tucson in a drug deal gone bad.
Hi Brad and Lex. I'm so glad to see you've done a review of this song by Blue Oyster Cult, especially as I'll be seeing them perform live in Glasgow this Saturday, as the support act for Deep Purple. Tonight, I watched Halloween Ends in Scotland's best cinema screen, in IMAX with Laser quality. This '(Don't Fear) The Reaper' song was used at the end credits of the movie and it was great to hear. I remember being really creaped out by this song when it was used as the opening credits song for the Stephen King TV series called The Stand in 1994, while the camera panned around a catastrophic scene, with dead bodies all over the place. It certainly worked well then too. A creapy, but classic song. Æx 🙏
Lex is just such a joy to watch! The second I saw this I couldn't wait for you guys to get to the bridge to see your reactions!! It's so cool watching people discover my favorites for the first time :)
LEX, you look so fun !! I wish you were around when I was young I would have taken you to every party I ever went to. From your beautiful smile to your happy face when you hear music you like. You look like a fun kind sincere and a real party girl that makes everyone around you have fun. Thx for the great reaction I really enjoyed it. I finally subscribed to your channel. I have watched many of your videos but wasnt sure you were worthy. The more I watched and the more you enjoy gives me no reason not to. So keep the songs coming and I will turn you on to a few in the near future !!!
You two are definitely a match made in heaven. Brad is very methodical and dissecting the lyrics and Lex just goes with it and enjoys it for what it is... Awesome!!
I wish all couples were like them. Just watching them can make anyone feel good. 😍 Really don't care what their relation is like off camera. They provide real *FEEL GOOD* reactions whatever they react to. They should have millions of subscribers. This is what this world needs!
I always forget what amazing musicians Blue Oyster Cult were, until I hear this song again. The musicianship and feeling of harmony here is out of this world.
Great band, more reactions needed. "I Love the Night" (about a vampire), "Astronomy", "Last Days of May" and "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" (especially live) are great songs to check out.
63 here, remember (in H.S.) with crystal clarity when this was hot on the airwaves. A song of hope, not despair. Kind of funny, some thought it was saying don't fear the reefer, but much deeper than that. One path ends as another begins. Fear not.
I put Blue Oyster Cult (BOC) up there with some of the best, just below the Zeppelin and Floyd level. Their early stuff especially is consistently great. Almost anything off their first 4 albums is amazing, as well as a few of their later songs. They are very much an overlooked group in discussions of top tier bands and Buck Dharma is unjustly left out of most greatest guitarists lists. One of their later songs you should check out is Black Blade, along with any of their early songs.
The song was penned by Don Roeser who sings this track and is also the lead guitarist. He was diagnosed with a heart condition and wrote the tune as a reflection on his own mortality. It is a dark haunting, mesmerizing tune in A minor hence the melancholy overtones. The lyric regarding the 40000 is just a symbolic reference to the banality of mortality as people die in their thousands every single day. So Roeser was feeling pretty humble about the whole thing. Amazing how such things provide inspiration for what is an absolutely brilliant and highly revered rock classic. It was also their most successful song commercially.
You know how I can tell I respect you two? By the fact that sometimes I feel *_validated_* when you guys like a song I've been listening to for over 4 decades.
I haven’t been alive for that long, however, these classics they have been listening to, i grew up listening to. I have very high expectations for music lol
Saw BÖC in concert with Molly Hatchett, Riot, and post-Ozzy Black Sabbath. One hell of a show. At the end all of the guitarists in all of the groups were on stage playing Golden Age of Leather. Manomanoman.
"Babies look freaked out when they're born" And as it turns out, they're totally right to be. Babies have no idea how correct they are to be freaked out
I came across you two for the first time today and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I always liked the sound of this song; It sounds so good. So, I looked to see if you had my favorite band on here and you did The Doors. I think you 2 are great and Lex is so cute; You are also, Brad.
I saw their concert when this was a hit, think late 70s in a orchestra hall with all speakers all around us. OMG they were phenomenal. AND the only concert I ever went to where the band played for three hours. Not kidding. One of the best concerts I ever attended. Thanks for reacting.
BOC was the 2nd band that I ever saw in a LIVE concert. 1975, in Fresno, CA at the Warner's Theater. They had lasers and fog machines. It was a great first concert right after graduating from high school. Journey opened for them(Minus Steve Perry).
Blue Oyster Cult is one of those bands that has hidden gems that weren't played on the radio, like: Subhuman, Astronomy, Harvester of Eyes, Wing's Wetted Down, 7 Screaming Diz-Busters, Dominance and Submission, Screams ...🤘🤘🤘
Their song Harvest Moon is similar in tone. It’s a great hidden gem of theirs that’s really haunting. Their song Dancing In The Ruins is another hidden gem. Buck Dharma, the guitarist, is a genius. Oh and the song Black Blade may be their best.
Everytime I hear this song I just want to go work on my car or go to my work shop on work on some flywheels drive lines drums rotors torque arms brake pads and steel and aluminum walking beams cutting and grinding everytime I hear this song I love classic rock
The song is about eternal love and mortality. They used Romeo and Juliet as meaning they had faith in eternal love and the 40,000 represents about the number of people that die everyday.
@@tunguska-1454 Your pretty much right - Buck said the following The line “40,000 men and women every day” was my wild guess about how many people in the world die daily. I didn’t research it - and it turned out that I was about 100,000 out. But I just needed a number I could sing.
@@ericsierra-franco7802 - It's about both according to Buck. He had been told he would probably die young I was 22 and had just been diagnosed with an irregular heart condition, which got me thinking about dying young. Don’t Fear the Reaper is basically a love song that imagines there is something after death and that, once in a while, you can bridge that gap to the other side. I imagined a couple: one of them dies but is able to come back for her lover, and they go to this other place no one knows about. I sang about Romeo and Juliet as an example of a couple who have successfully gone to the other dimension, but I got a lot of grief over it because everyone thought I was promoting suicide. “Romeo and Juliet are together in eternity,” I sang, but I wasn’t suggesting that people kill themselves to find out what it’s like.
This was the first concert I went to with a friend instead of going to Senior Prom. It was in a 3000 seat Auditorium in Sioux City Iowa with general admission on the floor. I was super baked sitting in above the floor seats right in front of the stage maybe 150 yards away. At the end of this song they dropped the lights for about 10-15 seconds as if the concert was over. Than they hit the first drum beat to Godzilla, with 4 fireballs going off with the thump. Talk about blown away. And the heat and a warm breeze hit us just seconds after the detonation. Wow. This was in 1979. Am a Tom fan but also checking out some of your rock reactions like Lynard Skynard, ZZ Top. A band I will recommend that was my fave, but most of their best were on their first 2 albums...The Cars.
Always loved this song. You're right, people fear death because nobody knows what's next, or fear that there may be no next at all. But logically there's no reason to fear a completely natural change that literally happens to everything that lives (or exists, even). There's no particular reason it would be worse than life as we know it. Probably just different. Or no awareness at all, with our molecules repurposed for other existences. And if there is nothing, well... Then definitely nothing to worry about, in that case, is there.
We are nothing more than energy, and energy does not cease to exist, it just continues on. Maybe in a different form that we don't or can't recognize. But it is still energy and it will go on forever.
Lex says, "What a perfect song to die to!" lol! I've been listening to Don't Fear The Reaper since 1976 and there is always a new way of interpreting this song! Timeless! Thanks, Brad and Lex!
On June 25, 1982, between my junior and senior year in high school, I went to see BOC live at Castle Farms in Charlevoix, Michigan. I went with my brother, his girlfriend, and her best friend, somewhat of a first date for the best friend and I who was also in my high school class. Fast forward to today, September 25, 2021. That same beautiful girl and I now have 3 wonderful sons, 2 grandsons and a granddaughter. From that first date, neither of us has ever dated another person, and Blue Oyster Cult will always have a special place in my heart. Oh, and thanks for another great reaction.
Hopefully someone invents a time machine so she can go back and see a big arena rock show from the late 70s or early 80s. My first arena rock concert was Rush for the Power Windows Tour. April 29, 1986 at Kemper arena in Kansas City, Missouri. The opening band? Blue Öyster Cult!
Great analysis guys! I have been listening to that song for 40 years, and never really listened to the lyrics, because the harmonies are so rich. Well done!👍
I have to pinch myself to remember the music craft involved in this song. These guys were excellent musicians. I'd almost forgotten. Thanks so much for the play.
"Haunting": exactly. When I was a young teen and heard this on the radio (KISW 99.9 Seattle, rock on!), it took a few times for me to realize that it wasn't 2 different songs, haha.
This song shall forever signal the beginning of "The Stand" for me....but we could use more cowbell.....
Always more cowbell
Indeed more cowbell..😊
It was the greatest choice to use this song to begin that movie. It just put you in a perfect mood to absorb what was to come in the story.
🤣🤣🤣 omg I forgot about the dam cowbell. I gotta have more cowbell 🤣🤣🤣
How could you not have more cowbell? Is there ever enough?
this is why we are such a fan of Lex, she is actually judging the song by her feeling, a real Rocker!!!!
"I think newborn babies fear life."
I mean - never have I ever thought this or read it or anything and yet somehow Lex drops this off-the-cuff unintended Socrates level philosopher ish during a rock song review - and I can't stop dwelling on this notion! holy crap!!!
Yes Lex laid one of those brain benders on us. Really deep.
It’s a bald assertion that only sounds deep. Babies are probably freaking out from the first trauma of their life, but the crying is actually beneficial to clear their lungs & would have been selected for during mammalian evolution.
@@chemquests you must be fun at parties.
@@magicpowers BWAHAHAHAHA BWAHAHAHAHA BWAHAHAHAHA 👏👏👏👏😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤘
@@magicpowers I couldn’t ignore comparing her to Socrates…just too much. I bet they say it like Bill & Ted
Maybe the most underrated rock band of all time. They were so great and talented, made so many hits and great songs. Yet they arent ever talked about as one of the greats.
Truth. But no one is fooling me. They are the greatest band ever in my opinion. Can't go a day without some BOC
I agree 🙌🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🔥❤️
this is the most underrated rock band same as savatage is the most underrated metal band
They only have two songs that are goid
@@robbenmitchell2286 thats like your opinion, man.
music is subjective but man are you wrong.
fear the reaper, godzilla, burning for you, Then Came the Last Days of May, The Red & the Black, Career of Evil, ME 262,
Fire of Unknown Origin, Burnin' for You, Veteran of the Psychic Wars, The Alchemist, are all critically aclaimed and have comercial success.
I can’t listen to this song without the need for more COWBELL!!!
LOL I was literally thinking the same thing. Come on baby we need more cowbell!
I got a fevah, and the only prescription is more COWBELL!! (Bruce Dickenson - 1972)
Excellent !!! 🔥🔥🔥
Word! How about those drums!
*Christopher Walken?*
I always remember what my maternal grandfather said to my mom when he was near death. He died of liver cancer when I was nine. She asked him whether he was scared. He shrugged and said no - if there was an afterlife he'd find himself there, and if there wasn't he'd never know, so there was nothing to worry about either way.
Your Grandfather was an intellegent person.
Ain't that the truth
Never get tired of that stone cold classic.
Same. 🤘🏼
I've listened to this song for literally decades. Lex you've made me see this song in a different light. Holy shit. This is going to be my death bed song if I see it coming. And a new phrase has entered my life. Hard in, hard out. Damn.
@@magnumsolutions It's going to be my death bed also
Blue Oyster Cult are one of those bands that are just amazing..Nobody else sounds like them... You should listen to more stuff by them..
Only BOC could come up with some of the lyrics they did, or songs, even - She's as Beautiful as a Foot!
@@danielsmith5088 Agreed. I saw them in 2019 and they played that track. I never expected to hear that one..
Yes, yes they should.
Not only does no one else sound like them (although Ghost attempts to), they sound like a completely different band from one song to the next.
They helped launch Rush's career by having them as an opening act on Rush's debut album. By the time the mid 80s arrived, Rush was in a position to return the favor and I was able to see two of my favorite bands on the same evening.
@@danielsmith5088 Also, "Then Came the Last Days of May" or "Cities on Flame with Rock 'n Roll," etc. from their first album. There's so much interesting guitar work on it, for one thing. Lex would dig it.
The solo @4:06 is the Reaper’s scythe: it unexpectedly knocks the door down, singles out each person, and viscously removes each soul while engaging them in long, intimate eye contact. Friggin LOVE this solo.
Whow, from now on I will always think of your words when listening to that passage of the song.
reminds me of that actor in supernatural julian richings...intimate eye contact
i like the hum of the guitar as it goes into the verses after the solo. its so cool!
Lex: "I was literally thinking, what a perfect song to die to. A deathbed bumper."
Never ever thought of it that way, but now, I totally want this song playing when I go out... like literally when they are pall barring my a** to the grave site... I want this song playing.
Love your channel guys. Love your banter together, love Lex's unique take on the tracks, and Lex's smile is absolutely to die for. So happy that you are moved by the music I grew up with. Thank you for your channel. So amazing to watch young people experience my youth.
hahaha yeah her saying that made me think oh man i need to put together a playlist of some songs I want to be the last songs i hear when i'm dying. Cuz ya know i might die alone idk. My friends though will know what to play at my funeral. Cuz they're my friends. :)
A perfect love song. It’s especially appropriate around this time of year when it is said that the veil between our world and the next is thin. It describes a love which lasts for all eternity!
One of my favorite things about this channel is Lex letting herself go and bouncing off Brad, and he looks totally focused and doesn’t give notice to her eccentricity. Cracks me up.
lol hes always so confused
I think they work out well.
I love this part to them! I feel we need both “sides” of the brain and heart to complete each other and make whole
Brad seems to concentrate on lyrics and she just goes with the jam! Lol
Brad is far too analytical and wants everything
to make logical sense.
"Death is more natural than a lotta of things we do when we're alive." Damn. Great reaction and great comment. Probably the quickest understanding of the lyrics I've witnessed. 40,000 refers to births and deaths daily even though it's waaay more than that.
3:04 "It seems like newborn babies fer life." Are we just gonna pretend pretend like Lex didn't just drop this philosophical gold nugget?
I’m gonna be thinking about this for the rest of my life.
Dude she drops these little gems everywhere. It's crazy
Hahahahahahahah as if
I didn't see anyone pretend pretend anything.
I’ve actually thought that. You’ve been sitting in this confined spot in the dark all by yourself for nine months, and then suddenly, someone’s pulling you out of that confined space into the light where all these people are. Yeah, they’re probably scared to death!!
When you said this could be some deathbed music I was surprisingly thinking the same darn thing
per the writer of the song: " I wrote the guitar riff, the first two lines of lyric sprung into my head, then the rest of it came as I formed a story about a love affair that transcends death. I was thinking about my wife, and that maybe we’d get together after I was gone.”
when it come to reaction videos the two of you are a joy to watch when Lex starts to dance on the couch and really getting into the music, you are comical. And at the same time Brad is so deep into the music and absorbing all that is being played on top of her moving around. A real joy to take the time and check the two of you out.. Peace
are you smoking crack??
This song's always had one of my favorite "vibes" of basically anything I've heard. I always felt that middle instrumental was jarring, but then realized it's the part where Death takes you, and then it's over and on the other side there is that same calm, almost hypnotic groove.
Saw these guys three times live...back in the 70's. Great live shows....they did one thing that I have never seen before in their live shows and I believe it was in this song. All five of them were across the front of the stage on guitars...no one on drums....just all on guitars. It was crazy great. Great band!
Lex just invented the concept of a deathbed playlist. And the philosophical conjecture that newborns fear life the same way we fear death. Brilliant. Also her spazzing out at the solo drop is the typical adorableness that we come here for.
A deathbed playlist is not new. I've had mine picked out for years. I'm ill and the end can come at any time or I may last a few more. But my son knows where the playlist is. 🙂
She has an interesting mind.
All your reactions: Brad with a look on his face like he is analyzing the song/lyrics; you can see the wheels spinning in his head. Lex is all about the feeling; she lets the song take her.
Watching Brad's Rock/Metal journey has been difficult at times. Now that you're reacting to more classic rock, instead of hearing terms like "ear bleeder", I've been hearing more comments like "soothing, "calming" and "my speed". It's nice seeing you breakdown lyrics, while feeling the music and with a smile on your face. I think you've found a sound better for your ears.
One of the "problems" with online metal reactors is that the community often pushes for the harshest stuff right away for the immediate shock value.
"Oh youve decided to give this giant ranged genre a chance? Here check out this Slaughter to Prevail!"
Whereas most of us "natural fans" grew into it and trained our ears and brains to listen faster and have a library in our heads to juxtapose and appreciate off of.
Probably no one who considers themselves a metalhead hadnt heard this song DFTR a dozen times and most everything in between, like for example most of the Iron Maiden, Motorhead, and Metallica catalog before listening to Jinjer.
(And im sure anyone about to jump in with random band comments like Slayer or Cannibal Corpse understand what I mean and dont need to waste their time on what defines "standard" or "heaviest")
@@mokane86 Right on point. Brad jumped right into the fire. Whitechapel, Meshuggah, Jinjer can be shocking.
And break down his guardedness.
@@mokane86 Absolutely right! I have had the exact same thought watching reaction videos. Maybe worded slightly differently but same idea. Also the thing is that someone like me who at 54 has been a lifelong metal head still can't and have no desire to wrap my head around a lot of the super hard metal. Honestly some of the metal I have liked a lot over the years has slowly become songs I have to "be in the mood" for and some I almost never am anymore.
I was a teenager when I first heard this song. At the time, I didn't fear death...after all, I was only 15 or so, and felt like death was so far away that it would actually never happen. Now, in my late 50's, and poor of health, I think about death every day...and I do fear the reaper. I dont want to die, yet at the same know that it is inevitable...I just wake up every day glad that it isn't today. At least not yet.
"We shall meet again, those who have loved." (Anonymous)
There's mounting evidence that consciousness is a non-local phenomenon, and came before matter...so in the end, science is helping us realize to not fear the reaper either.
Hang on bruh. Hang on. 🙏🏿
BLUE OYSTER CULT "GODZILLA",, "BURNING FOR YOU",, "I LOVE THE NIGHT" & "THIS AIN'T THE SUMMER OF LOVE"
Great stuff. I love "Take Me Away " too. Wasnt a hit but it sounds like classic BOC.
Also "then come the last days of may"
I Love the Night is amazing… always hits me as a vampire song… they always had that dark side to their lyrics with mystical, fantasy and monsters.
Godzilla cracks me up. Great song.
E.T.I. is awesome too
You two have always made me smile, I love your connection even when there isn't one. This song is exactly what Lex described, the perfect transitional song.
That song never gets old. Timeless rock classic.
Time to do “Godzilla” by Blue Oyster Cult now
And "Astronomy".
Cities on flame with rock n roll
'Veteran of the Psychic Wars' too!
Joan Crawford
Flaming telepaths will blow your minds.. the entire secret treaties album is an essential listen for any rock fan.
Buck Darhma is thee most underrated guitarist in rock.
The internet was created so humans could watch Brad discover the mathematical equation that will finally explain music to us all.
5:10 to 6:10. Lex you got it! As a hospice nurse I guarantee some people are terrified. However, my grandmother was 99 and ready. She seemed mad she was still here hours before she passed.
And I think we need to encourage people to put these kind of instructions into their advanced directives, or at least make sure someone knows what you would like to hear (and what not to play).
(Edited for spelling)
Great ups.
Buck Dharma is a top 10 guitarist for me. So smooth.
Criminally underrated guitarist
Agreed!
Hes so underrated hes a great guitarists
That sustained note at the end of the solo is everything
Yes, the flat line on a heart monitor
I know you guys do music stuff but following up on this with the SNL more cowbell skit would be amazing if you haven't already seen it.
Epic track...epic skit. Facts!
Agreed, one of the best skits
Ol' Christopher Walken...great actor. I mean back in the days of ol' Farrell, Sandler, Farley, Spade, Shannon, as well as others...there we're so many great skits.
Iwas thinking the same thing.
Do it lol
Amazing song by one of my favorite bands. Groovy, haunting, melodic, epic, with one of the most unique solos ever & that sustained note from the solo all the way through the next verse
One of my favorite songs of all time!
Also, you keep dropping videos so fast I don't think I'll ever catch up! (Not a complaint)
Whenever I hear this song I always think of that opening scene from The Stand.
You're gonna want to hear that COWbell on that track!
Damn! Lex got deep AF on this one dropping low key knowledge on us. Babies fear life?!?! Death-bed bumper?!?! Love it!
"Deathbed Bumper" freakin rollin here.
I think this song needs More Cowbell! I Gotta Have More Cowbell!
hard in hard out NOW THAT WAS PROFOUND!!
'What a perfect song to die too." I love how Lex's mind works! Not the first time she's cracked me up lmfao.
Blue Oyster Cult has a lot of songs about death, the occult, sci-fi/fantasy, ESP, UFOs, etc. One of their more haunting songs is "Then Came the Last Days of May", a song based on a real life event where three young men from New Jersey got gunned down in the desert outside of Tucson in a drug deal gone bad.
First Zombie and now Don’t fear the reaper? Holy sh*t two of my favorit songs
Love your show. Please don't ever change anything. Your so real.
This is the cowbell song from SNL with Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken. "More Cowbell"
Hi Brad and Lex. I'm so glad to see you've done a review of this song by Blue Oyster Cult, especially as I'll be seeing them perform live in Glasgow this Saturday, as the support act for Deep Purple. Tonight, I watched Halloween Ends in Scotland's best cinema screen, in IMAX with Laser quality. This '(Don't Fear) The Reaper' song was used at the end credits of the movie and it was great to hear. I remember being really creaped out by this song when it was used as the opening credits song for the Stephen King TV series called The Stand in 1994, while the camera panned around a catastrophic scene, with dead bodies all over the place. It certainly worked well then too. A creapy, but classic song. Æx 🙏
Classic track, one of the greats
lex is a find for me. love her. love her enthusiasm her passion her insights. so cool.
Lex is just such a joy to watch! The second I saw this I couldn't wait for you guys to get to the bridge to see your reactions!! It's so cool watching people discover my favorites for the first time :)
Even better are the spooky songs of The Alan Parson project. Great, great songs!
LEX, you look so fun !! I wish you were around when I was young I would have taken you to every party I ever went to. From your beautiful smile to your happy face when you hear music you like. You look like a fun kind sincere and a real party girl that makes everyone around you have fun. Thx for the great reaction I really enjoyed it. I finally subscribed to your channel. I have watched many of your videos but wasnt sure you were worthy. The more I watched and the more you enjoy gives me no reason not to. So keep the songs coming and I will turn you on to a few in the near future !!!
Years back, I did a bunch of ecstasy at their show and shit my pants. Good times!
Lmao nice
This made me laugh out loud, fr.
Lol
That's some funny shit!
That sounds like a "running gag" :-)
Brad thank god your jamming ....Yes!! Great band...Saw in concert...one of the best
Sickest guitar solo ever recorded, in my humble opinion.
I discovered the song when my old brother purchased the LP in 1975. It is still one of my favourite songs from one of my favorite groups.
You two are definitely a match made in heaven. Brad is very methodical and dissecting the lyrics and Lex just goes with it and enjoys it for what it is... Awesome!!
I wish all couples were like them. Just watching them can make anyone feel good. 😍 Really don't care what their relation is like off camera. They provide real *FEEL GOOD* reactions whatever they react to. They should have millions of subscribers. This is what this world needs!
I love watching y’all’s reaction to songs I heard back when they came out.Better late than never.😄😄😄
My brother passed away in bed at home the day I was playing this song in the basement. That is the memeory I have of this song.
Very sorry to hear that. I hope this song brings you comfort and solace, not pain.
Wow. That just gave me huge chills. Hope it's not a bad memory for you.
Great Review of a timeless
Rock Classic
" More cowbell!!! " SNL classic.
They should DEF watch that skit!
Back when they were still actually funny !!
I always forget what amazing musicians Blue Oyster Cult were, until I hear this song again. The musicianship and feeling of harmony here is out of this world.
BOC is fucking amazing!! I want this played at my funeral 🤟
Second that.❤
The guitar solo/breakdown/rise up in this song is my favorite of all time.
Great band, more reactions needed. "I Love the Night" (about a vampire), "Astronomy", "Last Days of May" and "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" (especially live) are great songs to check out.
Yes to all, also my favorite BOC song: Perfect Water.
63 here, remember (in H.S.) with crystal clarity when this was hot on the airwaves. A song of hope, not despair. Kind of funny, some thought it was saying don't fear the reefer, but much deeper than that. One path ends as another begins. Fear not.
I put Blue Oyster Cult (BOC) up there with some of the best, just below the Zeppelin and Floyd level. Their early stuff especially is consistently great. Almost anything off their first 4 albums is amazing, as well as a few of their later songs. They are very much an overlooked group in discussions of top tier bands and Buck Dharma is unjustly left out of most greatest guitarists lists. One of their later songs you should check out is Black Blade, along with any of their early songs.
Black Blade is a great mention, and I'm gonna throw The Vigil in there as well.
The song was penned by Don Roeser who sings this track and is also the lead guitarist. He was diagnosed with a heart condition and wrote the tune as a reflection on his own mortality. It is a dark haunting, mesmerizing tune in A minor hence the melancholy overtones. The lyric regarding the 40000 is just a symbolic reference to the banality of mortality as people die in their thousands every single day. So Roeser was feeling pretty humble about the whole thing. Amazing how such things provide inspiration for what is an absolutely brilliant and highly revered rock classic. It was also their most successful song commercially.
Where the lyrics and music compliment each other in a masterful way.
One of my all-time favorite bands and this is certainly representative of that mysterious aura they always had. That's some great Rock!!!
You know how I can tell I respect you two? By the fact that sometimes I feel *_validated_* when you guys like a song I've been listening to for over 4 decades.
Right ?
I haven’t been alive for that long, however, these classics they have been listening to, i grew up listening to. I have very high expectations for music lol
classic parasocial relationship
I've viewed several of your videos and I love the way Lex rocks out no matter what the song!
I love the Night is a chill song. The last days of May is a great tune too.
My two absolute FAVORITES! Nice call.
Saw BÖC in concert with Molly Hatchett, Riot, and post-Ozzy Black Sabbath. One hell of a show. At the end all of the guitarists in all of the groups were on stage playing Golden Age of Leather. Manomanoman.
"Babies look freaked out when they're born"
And as it turns out, they're totally right to be. Babies have no idea how correct they are to be freaked out
After they come out of the womb of course they look freak out, coming out of the womb I'm sure you looked freaked out coming out of the little space
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As I said, they're totally right to be
I came across you two for the first time today and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I always liked the sound of this song; It sounds so good. So, I looked to see if you had my favorite band on here and you did The Doors. I think you 2 are great and Lex is so cute; You are also, Brad.
Much better rock music in the 70's than what is being produced today....period!
I saw their concert when this was a hit, think late 70s in a orchestra hall with all speakers all around us. OMG they were phenomenal. AND the only concert I ever went to where the band played for three hours. Not kidding. One of the best concerts I ever attended. Thanks for reacting.
"I need more Cowbell"
Ok Bruce Dickinson
@@jacklewis5452 old school SNL rocks.
I got a fever
BOC was the 2nd band that I ever saw in a LIVE concert. 1975, in Fresno, CA at the Warner's Theater. They had lasers and fog machines. It was a great first concert right after graduating from high school. Journey opened for them(Minus Steve Perry).
Binging on y'alls 🎶 reactions and dealing with this Hurricane
Good luck man. Be safe
I love you guys perspective. Thanks.
Blue Oyster Cult is one of those bands that has hidden gems that weren't played on the radio, like: Subhuman, Astronomy, Harvester of Eyes, Wing's Wetted Down, 7 Screaming Diz-Busters, Dominance and Submission, Screams ...🤘🤘🤘
Black Blade
And “Then Came the Last Days of May” my favorite
Veterans of the Psychic War!
Their cover of Kick Out The Jams
@@EvelyntMild Their Kick Out the Jams live version is absolutely the definitive version, imo
Lexi sez: "Wow, what a perfect song to die to...." That's what Buck Dharma, the writer of this song said, too. She's scary good.
Their song Harvest Moon is similar in tone. It’s a great hidden gem of theirs that’s really haunting. Their song Dancing In The Ruins is another hidden gem. Buck Dharma, the guitarist, is a genius. Oh and the song Black Blade may be their best.
Everytime I hear this song I just want to go work on my car or go to my work shop on work on some flywheels drive lines drums rotors torque arms brake pads and steel and aluminum walking beams cutting and grinding everytime I hear this song I love classic rock
The song is about eternal love and mortality. They used Romeo and Juliet as meaning they had faith in eternal love and the 40,000 represents about the number of people that die everyday.
@@cirtapseven3742 - the number was a guess and was always incorrect
@@alphaomega7191 Probably not even a guess so much as just a sizeable number that sounds assonant enough for the lyrics.
@@tunguska-1454 Your pretty much right - Buck said the following
The line “40,000 men and women every day” was my wild guess about how many people in the world die daily. I didn’t research it - and it turned out that I was about 100,000 out. But I just needed a number I could sing.
The song is about mortality. Not love. Death is as natural as life. You cannot have one without the other.
@@ericsierra-franco7802 - It's about both according to Buck. He had been told he would probably die young
I was 22 and had just been diagnosed with an irregular heart condition, which got me thinking about dying young. Don’t Fear the Reaper is basically a love song that imagines there is something after death and that, once in a while, you can bridge that gap to the other side.
I imagined a couple: one of them dies but is able to come back for her lover, and they go to this other place no one knows about. I sang about Romeo and Juliet as an example of a couple who have successfully gone to the other dimension, but I got a lot of grief over it because everyone thought I was promoting suicide. “Romeo and Juliet are together in eternity,” I sang, but I wasn’t suggesting that people kill themselves to find out what it’s like.
This was the first concert I went to with a friend instead of going to Senior Prom. It was in a 3000 seat Auditorium in Sioux City Iowa with general admission on the floor. I was super baked sitting in above the floor seats right in front of the stage maybe 150 yards away. At the end of this song they dropped the lights for about 10-15 seconds as if the concert was over. Than they hit the first drum beat to Godzilla, with 4 fireballs going off with the thump. Talk about blown away. And the heat and a warm breeze hit us just seconds after the detonation. Wow. This was in 1979. Am a Tom fan but also checking out some of your rock reactions like Lynard Skynard, ZZ Top. A band I will recommend that was my fave, but most of their best were on their first 2 albums...The Cars.
Always loved this song. You're right, people fear death because nobody knows what's next, or fear that there may be no next at all. But logically there's no reason to fear a completely natural change that literally happens to everything that lives (or exists, even). There's no particular reason it would be worse than life as we know it. Probably just different. Or no awareness at all, with our molecules repurposed for other existences. And if there is nothing, well... Then definitely nothing to worry about, in that case, is there.
Well said .....and so true
We are nothing more than energy, and energy does not cease to exist, it just continues on. Maybe in a different form that we don't or can't recognize. But it is still energy and it will go on forever.
Lex says, "What a perfect song to die to!" lol! I've been listening to Don't Fear The Reaper since 1976 and there is always a new way of interpreting this song! Timeless! Thanks, Brad and Lex!
I got a fever, and the only prescription is MORE cowbell!
If Bruce Dickinson wants more cowbell, I think we should give him MORE COWBELL.
On June 25, 1982, between my junior and senior year in high school, I went to see BOC live at Castle Farms in Charlevoix, Michigan. I went with my brother, his girlfriend, and her best friend, somewhat of a first date for the best friend and I who was also in my high school class. Fast forward to today, September 25, 2021. That same beautiful girl and I now have 3 wonderful sons, 2 grandsons and a granddaughter. From that first date, neither of us has ever dated another person, and Blue Oyster Cult will always have a special place in my heart. Oh, and thanks for another great reaction.
“I got a fever and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL!”
You two are awesome-love this & you both!
We need a whole video of Lex when you go to your first "rock concert"!
Hopefully someone invents a time machine so she can go back and see a big arena rock show from the late 70s or early 80s. My first arena rock concert was Rush for the Power Windows Tour. April 29, 1986 at Kemper arena in Kansas City, Missouri. The opening band? Blue Öyster Cult!
Great analysis guys! I have been listening to that song for 40 years, and never really listened to the lyrics, because the harmonies are so rich. Well done!👍
Classic song, one of the best ever.
you just gotta love Lex's reactions 😂😂🤣🤣👍👍
You have to do Godzilla by them it’s another favorite of mine! Thanks guys this is one of my fav songs by them🙏🏼🌹
History shows again and again
I have to pinch myself to remember the music craft involved in this song. These guys were excellent musicians. I'd almost forgotten. Thanks so much for the play.
Now you have to do SNL's 'cowbell' sketch
"Haunting": exactly. When I was a young teen and heard this on the radio (KISW 99.9 Seattle, rock on!), it took a few times for me to realize that it wasn't 2 different songs, haha.