Negative Harmony Cover - Don't Fear the Reaper

[@DouggieDinosaur]

"I've got a fever, and the only prescription is LESS COWBELL!"

[@RootDude68]

"I've got a cold, and the only prescription is LESS COWBELL!"

[@lulairenoroub3869]

You've lost some cold. Or a many descriptions aren't fewer bullsiren

[@KurosakiYukigo]

It goes from a song about accepting the inevitability of death and being at peace with it to a serial killer song...

[@JTWalker563]

This has made me realise how much I'd love to hear you do Horse With No Name for some reason

[@danielom8446]

+1

[@wetbread23]

I would love that

[@arielyemini4221]

That would be amazing

[@ranman7688]

Please, yes

[@sbilldmilk]

This is R.E.M.

[@radred609]

god damn, now i can't unhear it

[@addyd.3140]

Bro, literally was gonna say that

[@sorentalionshintodari745]

The Reaper listening to this while getting a tan on the beach in Santa Monica:

[@yester30]

Elliot Smith joined the Stranglers

[@norai.5826]

It has a great rhythm section! To me the song sounds between A horse with no name or Ventura Highway (or others by America), Scar tissue (or that side of RHCP), Turn turn turn (or any jingle jangle song), I'm on fire, Beach Boys (and people influenced by them), and something proto indie (Joy Division, the indie side of The Cure, even The Smiths)... The Weezer and Elliot Smith are implicit at this point, LoL. Don't why but on more then a couple of the last videos, negative solos remind me of Santana, is it just me?

[@juancaminante8078]

100%

[@xx_kyon]

Don't fear the stork - Red Löbster Society

[@auco5175]

Fear* the Stork

[@sebastiankok5431]

I love Indigo Scallop Sect!

[@hopedieslast97]

This comment gave me such a laugh! Thank youu!

[@sebastiankok5431]

Happy you liked it 😊 ​@@hopedieslast97

[@Panzerwatt]

The solo is so dark and heavy metal -ish

[@w0rmg0rl]

ok the solo is stunning

[@TJTurnage]

Now I’m too happy to fear the reaper

[@jarndrekinn1904]

we spent so much time wondering if we could, and never stopped to ask if we should. jokes aside, really well done, just so...uncanny

[@habadababa31415]

I like it maybe more than the original

[@cadking4554]

Toadies level creepiness, weezer for like every other aspect

[@zkantor8107]

Sounds like the end of a movie where the friend group all gets together one last time to remember the memories before they leave for separate things in life

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

It definitely has that early-2000s film montage feeling

[@jonengel7569]

I have to say that i really dislike this negative harmony version, but I am amazed how negative harmony completely changes the feel of a song and most of the time inverts it to the exact opposite. Once again great work. Please keep on making negative harmony covers. I would really love a song of TOOL. Edit: I have to add that I do not dislike the cover because of the execution, but just how the song is in negative harmony. The work done is excellent

[@jimmyisawkward]

Personally, I really like it. As another commenter pointed out, it completely changes the feel to one that’s somewhat sinister or psychopathic. Different, but good. But it’s fine; to some people, different music just sounds bad or good to them.

[@jonengel7569]

@@jimmyisawkward Very interesting point. I think that in particular makes this negative harmony cover a no for me. For me the song is just connected to these feelings. Without them the song feels strange for me.

[@AiMR]

But if you dislike a negative harmony song, doesn't that mean you really like it?

[@tonybates7870]

​@@AiMR That's a good point . . .

[@jonengel7569]

@@AiMR 😂

[@jimmyisawkward]

Fear The Reaper

[@incog.nyto.]

Don't Love the Creator

[@jimmyisawkward]

@@incog.nyto.Fear The Creator (for it has created this world in which we suffer, I suppose.)

[@adamnoakes2550]

The instrumental 2:25 to 3:20 is so good

[@kimberlygarrison5046]

reminds of marin county fair

[@Arcian]

Do Love the Sower

[@DCNRS90YT]

I’ll happily a hug from the reaper

[@NixityNullt]

Wasn't feeling it at first, but that guitar solo part goes hard.

[@バーンズエリック]

Except for the guitar solo section it sounds a lot like surf music... interesting. It is a song about... you know... not fearing the reaper and about living your life, so we can imagine it's some stoned surfer dude sitting on the beach with the crashing waves and the setting sun waxing pot-hazed philosophical while trying to romance his equally stoned surfer girl girl-friend. The guitar solo? A surfering montage with scenes of wipe outs, underwater point of view shots of the surfer, ending with the surfer making it back to the beach.

[@BalladeMan]

I remeber when i Suggested this song, Its so good

[@norai.5826]

It has a great rhythm section! To me the song sounds between A horse with no name or Ventura Highway (or others by America), Scar tissue (or that side of RHCP), Turn turn turn (or any jingle jangle song), I'm on fire, Beach Boys (and people influenced by them), and something proto indie (Joy Division, the indie side of The Cure, even The Smiths)... The Weezer and Elliot Smith are implicit at this point, LoL. Don't why but on more then a couple of the last videos, negative solos remind me of Santana, is it just me?

[@jimmyisawkward]

I love all but 2 of the bands you mentioned, so you made some good comparisons lol

[@DreamsOfLennox]

80% green album-era weezer, 20% the new abnormal era the strokes

[@adman7784]

Sam and Dean Winchester surfer dimension.

[@teethbabe]

the beach boys

[@rafan800]

This is making me wonder what Veteran of the Psychic Wars would have sounded like

[@ForfeMac]

Definitely want to hear that!

[@joelsumpter4753]

I love the SNL skit "Less pighorn" with this song fear the sower in it. Won't tame is so good in it. I wish Johnny Succeedon hadn't ruined it by breaking the whole time

[@Retrotude]

I have a normal temperature, and the only poison is LESS COWBELL.

[@lunarkomet]

I could swear you already did this

[@higgsbosonblues]

Less cowbell?

[@quartzofcourse]

Less horse piano

[@hedy7277]

the guitar solo just turns into beethoven's moonlight sonata

[@juancaminante8078]

This should be a hit

[@joanahkirk338]

I really want the instrumental of this

[@dannyjesse3655]

this is so fuckin cool

[@SidShakal]

idk why but i thought of enter the sandman when i saw this title. wonder how something like that would sound in negative harmony. 🤔😄 edited to add: great work!

[@jorgito93700]

Holy shit the solo section sounds a lot like Peter Gabriel-era Genesis (in fact all the lead guitar parts sound like Steve Hackett) and i love it

[@Habaralol]

Blue Oyster Apostate - (Fear) The Reaper

[@williamshakespeare9424]

This song sounds like the rejected love child of Red Vox and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

Haha

[@williamshakespeare9424]

@@ThinWhiteAxe You may laugh, but this is what it felt like, i swear.

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

@@williamshakespeare9424 I was laughing because you hit on it accurately. It really does sound like that.

[@williamshakespeare9424]

@@ThinWhiteAxe Apologies, I almost thought you were poking fun at me. The internet must have blurred the lines too much.

[@yuletidecheer]

"Vinny Vinesauce guest stars on a song by The Stranglers" is the vibe I get so I feel you dawg

[@CarverLenz]

It turned into a Bob Welch song

[@kimberlygarrison5046]

reminds me of the buckinghams/beatles

[@RaiohTheHunter]

Put these on Spotify man.

[@jimmyisawkward]

Yt music>>> for this reason

[@jimmyisawkward]

I think you can upload your own song if you use a KZbin to mp3 converter tho

[@masonwillis708]

Please do: Well I Wonder by The Smiths 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 I can hear it and I love it!

[@RootDude68]

You should do The Logical Song by Supertramp in negative harmony

[@tumbler9428]

Where's the negative cowbell?

[@akamiguelsanchez9985]

Sounds like Gin Blossoms

[@MrLBDude]

How about forward masking in this one?

[@redrose9330]

Can you do title of Meghan negative, or Red of Taylor

[@pasternakstudios]

Please do "Woman" by John Lennon, please!!! your work is beautiful

[@tobiasj.4199]

If this negative harmony is flipped again back to normal, does it change the original?

[@Zaqinabox]

Baby it'll be fine. /genuine

[@DaviZoka0202]

Sir can you reverse the harmony of "home - resonance" ? It would-be so cool😔🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@Ivan-ze7oz]

Please make Fame by David Bowie

[@catinjar9460]

this is Blue Oyster Cult if they did fear the reaper.

[@Salix.]

Don't fear the angel

[@TeagueChrystie]

why is this gin blossoms

[@gilbertbeilschmidt2111]

Would it ever be possible to stream your covers on Spotify? Or is that illegal to put on there? I love a lot of your songs

[@stevecruickshank5686]

Thanks for listening. From what I understand you have to pay like $12/year to license a cover song for play on spotify, which would add up quickly if I were to upload all these inverted covers. So unfortunately it's not in the works at the moment.

[@Leetz88]

Time to shit your pants, old skelly boy is coming

[@cainagodoi6860]

Can you do Beyond the Realms of Death next, please?

[@JacksonMicheals-hq1ig]

Can the reaper stop breathing down my neck? I’m trying to listen to his song without smelling death

[@connorleno4202]

Dude I wanna have an email convo w u so bad, ur so good at this and I have some questions about how you go about creating these, You should make a bts or something

[@jimmyisawkward]

There’s a video somewhere out there on KZbin explaining what negative harmony is… try looking it up

[@Megawaps]

Do Fear the Reaper

[@iggymcgeek730]

Red Clam Politico Slave to Misfortune

[@iam_crumb]

the singing can put me to sleep

[@jimmyisawkward]

In a good way

[@iam_crumb]

@@jimmyisawkward ofc

[@RH-zk8je]

Reminds me of Pinback. The main riff is pretty good this way, but the vocal melody isn't. The backing track of the solo is the most interesting part.

[@nileprimewastaken]

honestly i kinda like the riff more in this one

[@nunaurora]

it sounds like blink-182 to me 😭😭

[@ZurRuheGelegt]

Anyone else getting reminded of Adam's song by blink182? 😂

[@bert_wert]

I bet this was recorded in reaper

[@1987nightrap]

Oh no

[@ryanlockhart9102]

Do Embrace Your Mother

[@AugustDwight]

Wow, I hate it. I get some real Beatles vibes from this, or maybe something more flower child-ish that I can't place right now. Great job on the arrangement though.

[@ChordyRingler]

I like that the bridge is essentially a toned-down version of the original. I wonder if you could stitch it into the original, and it would sound less weird than what was there.

[@saikanso4340]

Sounds more Emo

[@juanluna9683]

Less cowbell

[@tonybates7870]

Doesn't quite work in NH, this song. Sounds like Elliott Smith's worst record. Moan moan moan . . .