Don't fear the reaper...damn song is everywhere.

[The Nameless]

I keep hearing different versions of Dont fear the reaper, on adverts, on the football (soccer), and it's making want to read the stand. I have not read it yet, and I still have alot of Dark Tower to go (although I'm not against the idea of reading other books between them). I just checked out a video on youtube, it was the intro to the mini series with the song playing whilst the camera swept over hordes of dead bodies, that made me want to watch The Stand, but I want to read it 1st so the book isn't spoilt.

Also, I recently looked in depth into a video game in the making called the Last Of Us, it has a simmilar apocolyptic pandemic theme, and that made me want to read/watch it too.

Argh, very frustrating.

[not_nadine]

I'm guessing Blue Oyster Cult's copyright ran out. Too bad.

[~Ally~]

There's only one thing for it...read The Stand already!
I'd definitely recommend reading it before watching the mini-series, the book is far superior. :cool2:

[GNTLGNT]

http://favim.com/orig/201109/05/awesome-funny-grim-reaper-lol-ocean-Favim.com-138359.jpg...don't look that dang fearsome to me!...

[franette]

Funny....I saw your thread at work yesterday and when I left for home the song started playing on the radio. You should go ahead and read The Stand, one of my favorites.

[carrie's younger brother]

I'm guessing Blue Oyster Cult's copyright ran out. Too bad.

Band's rarely own their songs, their publishing companies do and license them as they see fit.

[Becks19]

They also play this song in one of the episodes of Supernatural! ( Nope, you can't escape it can ya!)

[fushingfeef]

I'm thinking Halloween/Day of the Dead has something to do with it, should die down shortly.

[carrie's younger brother]

Band's rarely own their songs, their publishing companies do and license them as they see fit.

AAAAARRRRGGGHHH!!! I did not mean to use an apostrophe when spelling the word "bands" in my first response. I am so embarrassed! :blush:

[not_nadine]

AAAAARRRRGGGHHH!!! I did not mean to use an apostrophe when spelling the word "bands" in my first response. I am so embarrassed! :blush:

We's all understood ya. :wink2:

[LEELEEBG]

Ya got to read the book then...don't you hear it calling you. ..oh and Don't fear the reaper while you read it

[Todash]

Really? Nobody posted this yet?

http://www.laughness.com/snl-gotta-have-more-cowbell-original-skit.1126

[Hteraj Siredog]

Its a great song and you should definitely read the book first some of the characters are portrayed a little differently and manynparts that i feel were key parts were left out of the miniseries

[Sepia and Dust]

One of the Supernatural DVDs has commentary about how all of the old 70s and 80s rock music they use is dirt cheap to license.

[GNTLGNT]

all of the old 70s and 80s rock music

...the very thing I used to spin, during my "on-air" days...wow, do I feel like Methuselah now...

[Sepia and Dust]

...the very thing I used to spin, during my "on-air" days...wow, do I feel like Methuselah now...

Don't feel bad. My own brief and shining "on-air" days consisted mostly of spinning New Kids on the Block and Milli Vanilli.

[unclelouie]

I never hear the song anywhere..... but I never watch tv either.

However, in the early 90s, this was one of the songs me and my cousin used to listen to in the car, when driving around, looking for "chicks" after school and on the weekend. We never found any. But we listened to alot of cool music.

[GNTLGNT]

Don't feel bad. My own brief and shining "on-air" days consisted mostly of spinning New Kids on the Block and Milli Vanilli.

..yeah, not only did I have to spin Disco, I had to suffer through those that you mentioned...and dozens of other pieces of vinyl dreck...

[Sepia and Dust]

..yeah, not only did I have to spin Disco, I had to suffer through those that you mentioned...and dozens of other pieces of vinyl dreck...

Oh. Disco.

Whyyyyyyyyy Em See Ay.... Sorry. I need to go lie down now.

[GNTLGNT]

Oh. Disco.

Whyyyyyyyyy Em See Ay.... Sorry. I need to go lie down now.

...I need a 'Lude...

[Chumpchange]

You should read it. It's been like my life for the past few weeks.