Nathan Beckett called it BÖC's "masterpiece" and compared the vocals to the Beach Boys. Denise Sullivan of Allmusic praised the song's "gentle vocals and virtuoso guitar" and "haunting middle break which delivers the listener straight back to the heart of the song once the thunder is finished". However the unedited album version was released as a single (CBS 6333) in May 1978, where it reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart. The single edit was released in the UK in July 1976 (CBS 4483) but failed to chart. "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" charted even higher in Canada, peaking at number 7. song and helped Agents of Fortune reach number 29 on the Billboard 200.
The song was on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 20 weeks, reaching number 12 for the weeks beginning November 6 and November 13 in 1976. It really pulled the track together." However, producer David Lucas says that he played it while bandmember Eric Bloom claims that he was the one to play it. But he put all this tape around a cowbell and played it. Bassist Joe Bouchard remembered the producer requesting his brother, drummer Albert Bouchard, play the cowbell: "Albert thought he was crazy. The song features prominent use of the cowbell percussion instrument, overdubbed on the original recording. What evolved in the studio was the extended solo section it took them nearly as long to edit the five-minute track down to manageable length as it did to record it." 'The legendary once-in-a-lifetime groove!'. Mojo described its creation: "'Guys, this is it!' engineer Shelly Yakus announced at the end of the first take. Sound engineer Shelly Yakus remembers piecing together the separate vocals, guitar and rhythm section into a master track, with the overdubbing occurring in that order. The guitar solo and guitar rhythm sections were recorded in one take, while a four-track tape machine amplified them on the recording. The riff was recorded with Krugman's Gibson ES-175 guitar, which was run through a Music Man 410 combo amplifier, and Dharma's vocals were captured with a Telefunken U47 tube microphone. The song's distinctive guitar riff is built on the "I-bVII-bVI" chord progression, in an A minor scale. "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was written and sung by lead guitarist Buck Dharma and produced by David Lucas, Murray Krugman, and Sandy Pearlman. He guessed that "40,000 men and women" died each day (from all causes), and the figure was used several times in the lyrics but this number was about 100,000 too low. He used Romeo and Juliet to describe a couple who wanted to be together in the afterlife. 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. 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. It's basically a love song where the love transcends the actual physical existence of the partners." It is, like, not to be afraid of (as opposed to actively bring it about). "I felt that I had just achieved some kind of resonance with the psychology of people when I came up with that, I was actually kind of appalled when I first realized that some people were seeing it as an advertisement for suicide or something that was not my intention at all. Critical reception was positive and in December 2003 "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was listed at number 405 on Rolling Stone 's list of the top 500 songs of all time. Released as an edited single (omitting the slow building interlude in the original), the song is Blue Öyster Cult's highest chart success, reaching #7 in Cash Box and #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1976. Dharma wrote the song while picturing an early death for himself. The song, written and sung by lead guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, deals with eternal love and the inevitability of death. " (Don't Fear) The Reaper" is a song by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult from the band's 1976 album Agents of Fortune.
For the album by Witchery, see Don't Fear the Reaper (album). For the EP by Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch, see Don't Fear the Reaper (EP). This article is about the song by Blue Öyster Cult.
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