iPlay: Blue Öyster Cult

I’m a child of the 80′s. Born in the 70′s with little left to remember of the disco age before Reaganomics, I lived whatever time I’d missed vicariously through music, old movies and television shows. (Pop culture is my friend. I heart him.) Tony Manero was introduced the year I was born, and when I looked into the icy blue eyes and cleft chin of John Travolta, I knew those 70′s must have been something else. Momma loves a brunette. I was later justified in my thinking with old reruns of Welcome Back, Kotter. Oh, swoon, Vinnie Barbarino. Suh-woon.

No one in my family listened to Blue Öyster Cult. I don’t remember how or when I was first introduced to them, nor do I ever remember hearing them and thinking, “Yeah! That’s the goodness!”, or “DY-NO-MITE!” because I’m reliving the 70′s and imagine this is what I’m supposed to say. OK? Can you dig it?

Don’t judge me.

Until Saturday Night Live and the infamous “MORE COWBELL”/Behind The Music sketch with Christopher Walken, I don’t think I ever paid attention to the cowbells in this song. Now, it’s all I can do NOT to hear them. Thanks a lot, SNL.

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Artist: Blue Öyster Cult
Song: (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
Album: Agents of Fortune (May 1976)
FEAR Says: MORE COWBELL! (You knew it was coming.)