(Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

[metalman]

Re: (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

Having spent my high school years during the mid 80's, this particular tune came roaring back into my head about a year or so ago.

i miss sapiens.

[Diarmuid]

Re: (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

i miss sapiens.

A statement I think that resonates with many here

[metalman]

Re: (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

A statement I think that resonates with many here

here's to hoping one of his offspring picks up the torch & carries it forward...

[KGW]

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That's actually "antediluvian," my good man. My wife wanted a definition of the word, so I looked it up and discovered the spelling. . ."Before the Flood," ancient, archaic, etc.

I tried to, but my hearing is not too good anymore. I could not understand most of the lyrics.

My record collection mostly ends in the late 1960's or early 1970's. Most anything since then sounds like noise to my ears.

May you too live long and prosper and get to have fun annoying the young ones with your anti-diluvian tastes in music .

[ThePythonicCow]

Re: (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

That's actually "antediluvian," my good man.

Right you are - thanks.

[peakishmael]

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Sapiens, you're freaking me out. I can handle reading data and opinions and watching the horror of charts but that song by Blue Oyster Cult is terrifying me at the soul level... that place where we look at all that once was and all the dreams and all the potential and all that humanity has collectively been passionate for to become replaced by fear and survival and scampering in the ruins... One of the best songs ever done of course but jeez... have we reached this point? If you play "Dust in the Wind" I don't know what I'll do...

Olive - why all this fear, survival and scampering stuff? The topic of the song of course (and of DITW) is not tragedy or despair or suicide, but that death is part of life. We haven't "reached" that point... we've always been there, although we sometimes refuse to see. It doesn't diminish the meaning of our lives. And if it's TEOTWAWKI you are worried about, try to remember that eternal economic and population growth was never possible on a finite planet, and beyond securing our basic needs, money doesn't make us happier anyway. You know all this, I hope... Most of us here want to ensure that our loved ones' basic needs are taken care of in an uncertain future, but let's not forget to love the ones we're with, and live our lives now.

Words from one "doomer" to another, I suspect.

[nitroglycol]

Re: (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

I seem to recall Stephen King citing "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" as one of the things that inspired him to write The Stand.