"Don't Fear the Reaper" : Where the hell is it?
Eiji Hirai
:Does anyone know what CD Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" is on?
It was originally the third song on _Agents of Fortune_, with a running time
of 5:08.
It may also be on other compilation CDs or live CDs, including _Career of
Evil_ and _Some Enchanted Evening_.
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Does anyone know what CD Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" is
while they were rolling the beginning credits and showing the biowarfare
lab.
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David A. Pearlman
)shil...@superdec.uni.uiuc.edu (Necromancer) writes:
):Does anyone know what CD Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" is on?
)
)It was originally the third song on _Agents of Fortune_, with a running time
)of 5:08.
)
)It may also be on other compilation CDs or live CDs, including _Career of
)Evil_ and _Some Enchanted Evening_.
"Career of Evil" (subtitled "The Metal Years") is a lousy compilation
of BOC that favors their "heaviest"--but not necessarily best--material.
"Some Enchanted Evening" is a live album. Better to wait until later
this summer, when Columbia plans to release a 2CD "definitive" BOC
best-of...If you just want "Don't Feat the Reaper", get Agents of Fortune.
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bob erkamp (fuzzy logic)
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>Does anyone know what CD Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" is
>on? This song was the one they played on the first day of _The Stand_
>while they were rolling the beginning credits and showing the biowarfare
>lab.
>
Agents of Fortune (1976)
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Bruno Fernandes
Don't Fear The Reaper done by Lydia Lunch and Clint Rule (sp?) ? It's a
great cover of an already great tune and I'd love to find it on CD.
Bruno.
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Videot1
Most of the stuff on it is live material, including "Reaper." What
makes it worse is that I got the CD at a used store in Boston, only
to rush home and find a Dolly Parton CD inside instead! I went back
the next day, found another copy, which also had the same DP disc
inside! Finally, the third one was the right disc and when I got back
home & played it, it was a *live* recording. Arrgh! Nowhere on the
disc did it say this was a live recording, which - of course - is a
big let-down when you're looking for the original album verson.
My desire to get the song was the same as yours - I heard it on
"The Stand," and remembered it from my childhood & wanted to get it
again. I suppose the $3 I dropped on the CD wasn't all that much, but
I was disappointed nonetheless.
Good luck finding it.
Ken Josenhans
d...@portal.vpharm.com (David A. Pearlman) writes:
).... Better to wait until later
)this summer, when Columbia plans to release a 2CD "definitive" BOC
)best-of...If you just want "Don't Feat the Reaper", get Agents of Fortune.
If you aren't a Blue Oyster Cult fan,
another possibility would be to get one of several compilations
which contain "Reaper" and a number of other 70's-era album-rock hits.
I can't recall which one my SO finally ended up with, but it had about
half a dozen other nostalgic tunes on it which we enjoy far more
than we would have enjoyed more Blue Oyster Cult tracks. It was from
Columbia Special Products, I think.
Check "phonolog" or the MUZE computer databases which are, at least in
Michigan, springing up like weeds at local record shops.
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Gary Milliken
>another possibility would be to get one of several compilations
>which contain "Reaper" and a number of other 70's-era album-rock hits.
In the Bay Area, it is relatively easy to find used copies of a series
of compilations co-sponsored by radio station KOME (each volume had a
different co-sponsor paired with KOME). The series is collectively
titled "KOME Classics" and it is commendable in that it includes full-
length album versions of its selections. I have the volume that is
co-sponsored by Carl's Jr. (it's a pretty weird-looking package...)
and its contents are:
Eight Miles High .................... The Byrds '66
Brown Eyed Girl ..................... Van Morrisson '67
I Got a Line on You ................. Spirit '69
Maggie May .......................... Rod Stewart '71
I Just Want to Celebrate ............ Rare Earth '71
All the Young Dudes ................. Mott the Hoople '72
Conquistador ........................ Procol Harum '72
Hold Your Head Up ................... Argent '72
Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress) .. The Hollies '72
Free Ride ........................... Edgar Winter Group '73
Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo .......... Rick Derringer '74
Don't Fear the Reaper ............... Blue Oyster Cult '76
"Maggie May" includes the mandolin introduction off of the album;
"Hold Your Head Up" is the complete version with the organ solo;
etc. etc. I don't know how readily you could find this outside of
the Bay Area, but it's worth looking for.
Gary
Markus Schoeller
>On a slightly related note, does anyone know where to find a cover of
>Don't Fear The Reaper done by Lydia Lunch and Clint Rule (sp?) ? It's a
>great cover of an already great tune and I'd love to find it on CD.
Speaking of covers - does anyone know where to retrieve the cover-version,
that was played by Big Country?
Markus
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Charles Board
The same disc is available as "sponsored" by stations all over the
place. I've got this exact same track lineup on a disc "put-out"
by WRDU (Raleigh,NC). It's also part of a (probably the same) series.
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> Gary