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[@eggsntaters5144]

"I got a fever, and the only remedy...is more cowbell.'

[@therealxunil2]

if you're going to quote it, quote it properly. Don't misquote it. "I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!"

[@AirDOGGe]

I knew I would not get far in the comments before hitting a cowbell comment. Second comment from the top.

[@landonmealer6414]

Hilarious SNL skit

[@billyz5088]

a few years ago - Christopher Walken said a waiter in a restaurant asked him if he'd "like some more cowbell" with his pasta bolognese - the next time he saw Will Ferrell he yelled at him; "y'know you ruined my life with that skit !! "

[@seanfetterly3059]

Cowbell bit sooooo played ya'all

[@jaquestraw1]

One of those tracks I've heard a thousand times on the radio over the years and never switch stations. Turn it up every time

[@teastrainer3604]

A friend of mine thought it was about marijuana and they were singing "Don't Fear the Reefer."

[@chrisjenkins6120]

This was recorded in 1976. It was a hit for those guys. I love the song. Good choice. After all Romeo & Juliet are together in eternity. You thought the song was over, but… the door was open and damn! This song gets my 70 year old skin going goosebumps.

[@mikedo6]

Sixty one and YUP!!!!

[@mattbarbarich3295]

Lots of amazing music was recorded in '76. Rush 2112 is another .

[@davelowell3008]

75 these young ones have no idea what these songs meant to us at the time.

[@steveharris9861]

I'm 67, saw them at Astroworld in the 70s. Still sit in my backyard with tequila and green and ENJOY 😊

[@gasaholic47]

64 and same!

[@karenhelms1918]

I love seeing younger generations discovering iconic bands like BOC and loving it. It just goes to prove great music is timeless.

[@vicprovost2561]

Well said, my feelings exactly!

[@sebastianblack6506]

...and thinking they sound like the Beatles. Said no one ever.

[@glennelfmann3143]

Great music from this era is timeless and made without autotune or pitch correction

[@vicprovost2561]

@@glennelfmann3143 Yes indeed. 70s music was made to last.

[@jill8037]

Same here!!

[@-S.T.P.]

"godzilla" is another classic...

[@TheFoxGod444]

Go Go Gojira 🦖

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Yes!

[@norwegianblue2017]

Career of Evil!

[@ryanmichael1298]

Black Blade

[@Kaylakaze]

I think my second favorite BOC song is Veteran of the Psychic Wars.

[@bradb3248]

Take a look at the Saturday Night Live, More Cowbell sketch which is considered a classic, it’s about the cowbell In Don’t Fear The Reaper

[@susanrombak7959]

Lame. This song is much better than any SNL skit and too much credit is given for it.

[@ControlTouchMaster]

You can’t have too much cowbell.

[@bradb3248]

@@ControlTouchMaster Air, water and cowbell. Life’s essentials!

[@markmccollough1017]

​@@susanrombak7959lol I don't think anyone thinks the SNL skit version was better than the actual song. It's just a funny skit that happens to be about this song.

[@bradb3248]

@@susanrombak7959 it is a great skit, at one time ranked as the 5th best SNL skit and it did give DFTR a lot of attention. Obviously a great song, I saw BOC on the Agents of Fortune tour in 76 with Bob Seeger. The reality though that BOC was in a bit of a low when the sketch was done and it gave them a lot of attention. I was not putting down the song at all. BOC is also coming out with a new album in about a month, songs from maybe 77-83, with some additional guitars and vocals.

[@KennethSavage-nn2vv]

I was a roadie for BOC for a couple years, I was a fan before. They have so many great songs. Fun reaction and review. Enjoy your trip

[@WorldBurial]

Which year did you start?

[@walter_lesaulnier]

I saw Blue Oyster Cult in concert in 1974- they were AWESOME!

[@matthewkirkhart2401]

The music is so strong in this song it is easy to miss the beauty of the poetry of the lyrics.

[@paulrt3]

Dharma, the lead singer wrote the song while thinking of his own mortality after being diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat at a young age and what would happen if someone died at a young age. “I thought I was going to maybe not live that long,” said Dharma in a 2019 interview. “I had been diagnosed with a heart condition, and your mind starts running away with you-especially when you’re young-ish. So, that’s why I wrote the story. It’s imagining you can survive death in terms of your spirit. Your spirit will prevail.” The verse 40,000 men and women every day, was Dharma’s guess of how many people died every day. In 1976, when the song was released, an estimated 140,000 people died each day, worldwide. But then "Another 40,000 coming every day", are born.

[@Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on]

I an interview I saw on you tube, Dharma said it was a love song about death. Also when you write a song it has to have matching syllables, so the is why it says 40,000 not some other number Dharma said.

[@johnvaughn2590]

Saw the Blue Cult in 1976 while tripping balls on mescaline that the local Modoc's parceled into capsules. Buck Dharma had a laser on his guitar that slowly proceeded forth and struck a huge mirrored disco ball in the center of the arena causing every person there to flicker in and out of our dimension. It was the last show that such a powerful laser was allow to be used that way. As they say, you can look it up.

[@superfbomb9054]

Blue Oyster Cult is one of the great original rock/metal bands of the 70s.. they have a huge catalog and a lot of awesome songs... Godzilla is maybe their next biggest tune.

[@neptune9]

"Godzilla is maybe their next biggest tune." As determined by who??? The record company? DJ's? You? It's a great song, but they have many that don't get the recognition they deserve.

[@superfbomb9054]

@@neptune9 I said biggest.. lol.. and maybe... ... In my opinion I would probably go with Black Blade or See You in Black... I think Burning for You got a lot of air play too so maybe I'm wrong.. not trying to start an argument here but it's my best guess... They have so many good ones it's hard to know

[@jamezkpal2361]

Last Days of May is my favorite

[@jjflash1645]

A GREAT song by a GREAT group. Listen to ALL of their music. At 79 I still listen when it comes on the radio.

[@drobichaud1000]

Ok - lets count all the "cowbell" comments ...

[@switchflow5405]

Blue Oyster Cult "I Love the Night" is a must

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

Defintely, such a haunting classic too.

[@bugvswindshield]

LOVE that song

[@theemaygoogleme151]

Really the entire Spectres album is good, one of my favorites.

[@jaypercival431]

That ain't no shit.

[@norwegianblue2017]

Yeah, I don't know. I mean the sun can be fun, and the day is okay, but I really just like to see those rays slip away. To each his own.

[@calrowles9790]

Honestly, this sounds like the Byrds, not the Beatles.

[@jamesgodwin868]

Opening music for Stephen King's mini series,THE STAND. I saw this band in the early 70's in San Antonio. It was the first band I had seen with 4 guitarists. Their first 3 albums are my favorites: Blue Oyster Cult 1972 and Secret Treaties 1974 Songs like: Transmaniacon MC,Cities On Flame With Rock and Roll,Before the Kiss A Redcap, Dominance and Submission,Flaming Telepaths

[@vicprovost2561]

She's As Beautiful As A Foot. 🎸

[@almabullion424]

That movie and book are epic and fabulous.

[@warrenbfeagins]

The lead guitar lick at the end is one of the most hauntingly beautiful sounds I've ever heard and it matches the message of the song perfectly which is death being a natural part of life and love transcending our physical lifespan. For nearly 50 years, whenever I play that track, I'll listen to that part over and over again. It's cool seeing kids discover the rich musical landscape we grew up with in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Great reaction!👍🏿

[@theodoreritola7641]

I will not see the reaper I know the Lord Jesus Christ i will not taste death because he redeemed me on the cross with his precious blood and am saved for ever because i have put my trust in him personally so can anybody that puts there trust in him alone HIS PROIMSE God bless you ...

[@warrenbfeagins]

@@theodoreritola7641 👍🏿

[@rintrah40]

One of their lesser known songs is one of my favorite, "Then Came the Last Days of May"

[@stevedahlberg8680]

I'm Burning For You is an incredibly solid pop song. But I really think you would love Godzilla, which I see others have been mentioning as well. It's so creative and it's so addictive and it's so fun. And it actually has a real message, even while it's having lots of fun.

[@mvellis3863]

You should do "Cities On Flame" from their live album On Your Feet Or On Your Knees, it's a classic banger (or "The Subhuman," "Harvester Of Eyes," or their great ballad "Last Days Of May" from that same live album). Another great one from this album Agents of Fortune is called "E.T.I."

[@ericv7720]

7 Screaming Diz-busters!

[@tjerwin1]

It's basically a love song where the love transcends the actual physical existence of the partners." 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.

[@ericv7720]

As a teenager, I was listening to this song while reading a Stephen King story about the reaper appearing in a mirror. That was a bad idea - I couldn't look in the mirror for a week! By the way, King is a big BOC fan, and has quoted their lyrics in his books. This song was playing during the opening sequence of the early 1990s TV miniseries adaptation of "The Stand."

[@georgedolen1486]

My first concert was BOC back in 1976, the Agents of Fortune tour.

[@natmanprime4295]

epic song, perfection and excellence before god

[@steveowens2505]

Featured in John Carpenters Halloween while it was climbing charts.

[@stormlavway9857]

Also was in the opening for the Stand and the book references it in the opening as well

[@specialed36ify]

So fun watching you both experience/discover this absolutely classic rock track. Don't fear that reaper friends - and rock on!

[@targetshootr]

Great band. Also check out Burnin For You. They came to town in late '76 and I remember being surprised at how short they looked.

[@jj_blizz]

FM radio didn't become until the mid-70s this would be one of the songs that took the radio by storm

[@cathybraun8652]

Hello one of my favorite bands and song. seen them in concert ❤

[@masterjack5720]

Godzilla by them is another great song by them. I also hope you check out some more Pantera and some older Pink Floyd albums.

[@Jerry-sr9kq]

I love this song. I got to see them once in NYC at a venue called the New York Palladium, and again on Long Island at the Nassau Coliseum. I was just 16 years old, but it was just awesome, something that you just can't forget!! The Long Island show had a laser light show in the middle as well, that would 'blow your mind'!! It was history as far as I'm concerned... when we left the show, we found that Long Island looked like a war took place, as a major ice storm happened while we saw the show (completely unaware what was going on outside.) it was an incredible night!!

[@thejoshman3843]

boy does this world need an alivia channel.

[@SilasBaileyReacts]

she has one! i linked it in the description of this video!

[@79BlackRose]

@@SilasBaileyReacts You do not do many reactions these days Silas. Is something wrong mate?

[@gospyro]

This is one of the songs that got all wrapped up and attacked during the 'satanic panic' of the 1970s. Along with Hotel California, Stairway to Heaven and ANYTHING by AC/DC. Great times to be a teenager!!!

[@sourisvoleur4854]

Saw them in concert in 1982(ish) with Black Sabbath, Molly Hatchet, and Riot. What a show!

[@Maurgrym]

That would have ROCKED. I am very jealous.

[@sourisvoleur4854]

@@Maurgrym It definitely rocked! Literally!

[@grahamokeefe9406]

One of my favorite bands! So much good stuff. I never would have compared them to the Beatles, but I can see it. They started in the late 60s around the time the Beatles were huge here in the States. Alivia seems cool. She's a good counter to you.

[@benridge6570]

One of my favorite. Very cool reaction

[@harryhager4128]

F.Y.I. the lead guitarist wrote and sang this one, Buck Dharma (Donald Roeser born November 12, 1947)

[@coltonmyers4945]

All their albums are amazing

[@kennethd7634]

Check out the Saturday Night Live BOC Don't Fear the Reaper "more cowbell" skit with Christopher Walken. One of the most iconic SNL skits EVER!!!

[@marcieharreld286]

Famous song? Incredibly famous...and still is!!🎵🎼🎶💜🎸🎤🎧🥁🎹🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘

[@jaywoolston2851]

SNL did a very famous skit based on this song. That might be where you've heard it.

[@Daniel-415-Ponce]

BURNIN' FOR YOU from the BOC's Fire of Unknown Origin album is another banger - - probably second only to this one you are listening to now - - fantastic guitar work from Mr. Buck Dharma.

[@stuartwiner7920]

Check out the live version of their song, Astronomy.

[@intensetornado]

Burning For You (big hit), Joan Crawford (kinda dark), Godzilla (epic song), and Perfect Water (smooth and melodic) are all great BOC songs

[@mrsleep0000]

Fire of Unknown Origin is a must have album, every song is a banger.

[@TheGuruwan2b]

The song has been in several movies. Halloween and Zombieland to name two.

[@stewpot6998]

Guys. The people. They're gonna want. To hear that cowbell.

[@ChadAdkins-hx5zz]

Hey guys....this song got a big boost when it was used in the original horror movie HALLOWEEN back in the 70's!!!

[@garyking6519]

My very first concert. March 12, 1983. Hill Auditorium Ann Arbor, MI. Obviously unforgettable.

[@snave59]

This song was a huge hit back in 1976.I had this album.

[@marctowersap8018]

love astronomy (live, metallica covered this song as well), burning for you, veterans of psychic wars, and shooting shark. I pretty much love every song off fire of unknown origin, but burning for you was the big single off that disk).

[@ronparsons8786]

Veteran of the psychic wars is another great song by this great band. Especially live.

[@Maurgrym]

From the Heavy Metal soundtrack!

[@pattymckitrick7436]

Yes, our music was GROOVY back then. That's why we're STILL jamming to it now ! We love watching your generation discover it too. Kudos ! 🏆

[@LadyIarConnacht]

Your reaction reminds me of mine when I first heard this at 14 years old. Those haunting guitar riffs! However, I must say that you need more cowbell.

[@42Mrgreenman]

0:30 She actually got it right, that little mark is an umlaut, it basically turns a short letter into a long letter, so it would be Blue OOOyster Cult...

[@dab_family9405]

I'm jonesing for more cow bell!

[@mattharrell6880]

I'm so old I saw them when this song came out. They opened for 38 Special and the Allman Brothers. 😜😝

[@edwinmartinez1574]

I am a native Long Islander who in the 70's went with some friends to a club in Oyster Bay, Long Island and saw them before they got famous Rock On

[@-S.T.P.]

"tattoo vampire" is the best song on this album...

[@kevinsmith4429]

Their name came from when they were stoned out at 3 in the morning & we're trying to find a name for themselves. A horrible Japanese sci - fi film was on called Starman vs. the Cult of the Blue Oyster. Hence,B.O.C.

[@Maurgrym]

The name of the band prior to this was Soft White Underbelly. Sandy Pearlman's lyrics are iconic.

[@valeriemoore2762]

Theme song for great mini series The Stand.

[@flyingardilla143]

The breakdown for the guitar solo is permanently imprinted on my brain.

[@TheTussman]

Subbed! I'm 68, so your content is right in my swingzone. You show rock emotions _and_ lyrics, which is a great touch! I'm re-learming lyrics lol.

[@izzonj]

If it sounds familiar maybe you heard it in the originating Halloween, if you are into classic horror movies

[@Oldschoolnana]

Saw them many years ago at Stoney Brook University. They're from Long Island, NY This song is iconic.❤

[@Prone2Thrill]

Godzilla was awesome live at the Rose Bowl....Aldo Nova, Triumph, BOC then Journey! What a concert

[@norwegianblue2017]

BOC is such an underrated band. This is one of their few songs that really did get a lot of radio play. If you like this song, be sure to check out 'Last Days of May'. It has a similarly haunting beauty to it. Based on a true story of some east coast college kids who scraped up all their money and came out to the southwest to make a drug buy in the desert. It doesn't go well.

[@jeffreythaw3333]

This song was used to great effect in the HBO series "Six Feet Under".

[@mrnosaj71]

I love watching kids hear real music!

[@robertg7396]

Great reaction but, it needs more cowbell! 😄🐮🔔

[@Nrgheal]

I saw Blue Ősyter Cult open for Uriah Heep on Orange Sunshine 😮 I shall never forget that night and could hear my ears ring three days! BOC were still amateurs w that 1st LP, it was free bc Heep’s bassist was electrocuted on stage the year before while I stood right in front of him. RIP Gary ❤

[@zenclover8468]

Hope you have a nice trip! I remember the first time i heard this song in the car on the radio, it blew my mind how it transitioned and built. I was young so it was the late 80s when i heard it.

[@sheryldalton8965]

This song always makes me think of the movie "the stand" which was adapted from an early Stephen King novel about a virus which kills almost everyone in the world.

[@robertfunk1757]

Was in the soundtrack of the original "Halloween" movie!

[@vicprovost2561]

Nice to see you both again, always a thrill for us old hippies and metal heads seeing younger generations getting off on this timeless music. You were not ready for that instrumental break, eh? They have tons of surprises like that waiting for you. BOC is awesome, they have an amazing catalog and their album covers are always interesting. Another great song on this album is E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence). Live they were fantastic, saw them 19 times from 1972 to 2003, they always delivered but the original band in the 70s were hard rock/metal pioneers and always went out with the best bands to form unreal co headline bills like the Black and Blue tour with Black Sabbath, you had to be good to play on the same stage or BOC would blow you away! (Hello REO and Styx). Buck Dharma on lead guitar, saw them several times in the front row or standing next to the stage, Hot Rails to Hell from 3 feet away! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎸🎤🎸🎹🎶

[@danwilliams5867]

Blue Oyster Cult was a dark metal before it was called metal. Some of their songs were very dark , Don't Fear the Reaper was written when one of the band members thought he was terminally ill. Some of there other songs, The Subhuman, Cities on Flame, Golden Age of Leather are awesome also. A ballad is Last Days of May, they stirred my teenage soul

[@vicprovost2561]

Golden Age of Leather shows how great that Specters album was, solid gold album for me, BOC rules!

[@mikebunner3498]

Silas you and your lady are going to enjoy this one!!!! Way back in the day I saw them perform. Safe travels!!!! I don't remember if they did this classic song. It was too long ago! I do remember that near the end two of the guitar players held their guitars up in the air and put them neck to neck AND racked them across each other. What a sound!! It was one fine concert!! Back then very many groups performed often to promote their albums. This was way before the internet and KZbin. So concerts and being on the road is how that did it!!! Good times................. Silas you had air-guitar & air-drums going!!!! Good job young man!!!!!!! Safe travels!!.....

[@AndrewCourt-bv5zk]

Used in the film Halloween the 40,000 reference was the number of suicides in 1976

[@karidennis6154]

This song is in the first scream movie, its just a slowed down version, even more eerie sounding

[@quinny6920]

I’m so happy you look into the music I grew up with! Some great great music!! Great job

[@ricenglish4556]

I remember riding to work at WRIG Radio in Wausau, Wi back in 1976 and our drive time guy played this song. The album had just arrived to the station that morning and he needed a longer cut to make it to news time. I couldn't believe what I had just heard. I've been a BOC fan for year. You guys make a good team and Olivia, you're cute. Listen to the album right before this one, "Secret Treaties," not a bum tune on it. Boc has tons of great albums. Rock On!!!!!

[@davidberesford7009]

This song is a classic. It is about lovers and death, sort of gothy before that was a thing. Don't worry about being young. you'll grow out of it. Keep Reacting!

[@roydownes2458]

probably their biggest hit. they pulled out all the stops on ths one.

[@steveker5084]

One of the coolest songs out of the 70's. Weird, but cool. Great sound.

[@myrdozer]

the first album is killer. Then Came The Last Days of May is very cool. Stairway to The Stars also.

[@bugvswindshield]

last days of may.....probabbly my fav song of theirs. Golden age of Leather is up there too.

[@kvoltti]

Good songs to go along with this. Dust in the Wind by Kansas, Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum and Touch of Grey by the Grateful Dead

[@NoLegalPlunder]

Buck’s guitar fills are gold.

[@bobbyverne9714]

Awesome reaction!! Silas, you are the BEST!!! My first concert back in 1979 was Blue Oyster Cult. They were amazing!! Ive subscribed to your channel and love it!!!

[@Maurgrym]

Oh, the joy I got seeing your faces while you were watching. The birth of a couple of new Oysterheads!! I never got the Beatles vibe, even after all these years. BOC has another big hit in Burning For You. Then, start digging in--many other treasures to discover.

[@jodytollefson7187]

Great reaction I love seeing younger people get in to older music and this 48 year old gem is a classic. I use to do this at karaoke.

[@chrishancock42]

So, I was born in 1964 and grew up with 2 brothers and 1 sister. My brothers inspired my appreciation of music 🎶 They were polar opposites…oldest brother loved what was considered hard rock (BOC, Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath, etc). Other brother was into The Beatles, George Benson, and Steely Dan, amongst many others. At the time, they were considered opposites in music tastes. It’s like comparing Metallica to John Legend, or Pearl Jam to Taylor Swift, Nirvana to Tina Turner. Still love your reaction!

[@wompa70]

Music is meant to take the listener on a journey. Great songs like this can take you on a few.

[@herbiesnerd]

It sounds nothing like the Beatles kids. This song went from being a great classic rock song, to an iconic joke. It was played on a SNL skit with Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken. “Fellas, I gotta have more cowbell”. I saw them live in Hawaii in 1978. They just returned from Japan. They said to the audience, “Do you know what we missed most about the USA? Large American Breasts”!

[@geob3963]

One of the great guitarists of rock. Dark and moody leads that rock.

[@suzanneprock7286]

This was a very big hit in the 70's, it's probably been used in several movies "Halloween" for one. It was in a SNL skit and it gets alot of play and reaction.

[@jam1870utube]

This song makes me think about vampires in love, and all their supernatural drama n' shit. I wonder if they wrote this song as if it were intended for a movie soundtrack.

[@manjisaipoe517]

Young ones, if you get the opportunity to see them live, don't pass it up. One of my old favorites, been to 5 shows, and I know many that have seen them 10 to 12 times, and still want more. Peace from Nebraska, and check out Vetran of the Psychic Wars, Black Blade and Dancing in the Ruins for some of their different sounds!😊❤❤

[@rayhutchinson640]

I love Blue Oyster Cult's rocking powerhouse jamming but their cerebral use of sci-fi, surrealism, and the macabre in their lyrics always keeps me coming back. Maybe consider reacting to their song "Nosferatu" around Halloween season?

[@wendyshaw688]

SHE GET's it!!! OMG!!! Amazing!