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Agents of Fortune (Music)
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Agents of Fortune is Blue Öyster Cult's fourth studio album, released in 1976. It was also the band's most commercially-successful release, going platinum and spawning the hits "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", "This Ain't the Summer of Love", and "E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)".While it's now regarded as BÖC's Signature Song, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was actually somewhat of a Black Sheep Hit for the band, as it's sung by Buck Dharma rather than regular lead singer Eric Bloom. The song is also Lighter and Softer than their usual hard rock style. To make matters worse, it was (and still is) widely misinterpreted as being a romanticization of suicide, while the band intended it to be a Pep-Talk Song against fear of death. Regardless, it's notorious enough to have named a trope on our site: Don't Fear the Reaper.The LP was preceded by Secret Treaties and followed by Spectres. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Implied in "This Ain't The Summer Of Love". | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: To some extent - while not completely without riff-heavy early Metal and Hard Rock songs, it downplays them in favor of musically lighter Psychedelic Rock and Progressive Rock songs. Notably, this did not make it a bad album by any means, and it's still a well-received album, too. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: The band's collaboration with Patti Smith, "Revenge of Vera Gemini" is built around the ironic echo; Patti Smith's lines, coming in slightly behind Albert Bouchard's, are sardonic echoes that subtly twist the meaning. | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Patti Smith provides backing vocals during "The Revenge of Vera Gemini". | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: A bit ambiguous in "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", where the protagonist is taken away by the Grim Reaper, but it's implied to be a happy occasion. | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman and David Lucas. | |
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Pep-Talk Song | |
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Pep-Talk Song: "(Don''t Fear) The Reaper" was intended as a song against fear of death. As lead singer Buck Dharma explained: | |
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The Cover Changes the Gender | |
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The Cover Changes the Gender: Patti Smith wrote the poem "Debbie Denise" was based on about a lesbian relationship she had been involved in. Albert Bouchard tweaked the lyrics to make it a heterosexual relationship instead. | |
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Anti-Love Song | |
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Anti-Love Song: "Sinful Love" | |
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GrimReaper | |
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Grim Reaper: Appears as a character in "(Don't Fear) The Reaper". | |
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Murder Ballad | |
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Murder Ballad: "Morning Final" | |
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Not Afraid to Die | |
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Not Afraid to Die: The central message of "(Don't Fear) The Reaper". | |
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Spoken Word in Music | |
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Spoken Word in Music: Near the end of "Morning Final" we hear a paper boy trying to sell newspapers. | |
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Rhyming with Itself | |
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Rhyming with Itself: The final verse of the otherwise sublime "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" does this. The final verse of "E.T.I." rhymes "motion" with "motion", "motion", and "fortune". | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
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Our Vampires Are Different: "Tattoo Vampire", where a vampire visits a tattoo madame. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: "E.T.I." | |
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Heavy Meta | |
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Heavy Meta: "True Confessions" | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name and Alliterative Title: "Debbie Denise". | |
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One-Woman Song | |
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One-Woman Song: "Debbie Denise", "The Revenge Of Vera Gemini". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Romeo and Juliet are referenced in "(Don't Fear) The Reaper". "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was famously used in the 1978 slasher film classic Halloween. Stephen King was inspired to write The Stand by "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", and quotes the song's final verse in the novel. It's also memorably featured in the 1994 miniseries adaptation. In 2000 the song got even more pop culture notoriety when Saturday Night Live performed a sketch where the band performs the song and are advised by their producer (played by Christopher Walken) to put "more cowbell" in it. "E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)" refer to the Cthulhu Mythos. The song "Revenge of Vera Gemini" namechecks Patti Smith's Horses album. Not surprising since she sings backing vocals to it. It also inspired the whole "Vera Gemini" story arc in Marvel Comics' The Defenders, published some years after the song. Gleefully picked up by Terry Pratchett as the family motto for the Death family in the Discworld — Non Timetus Messor (Have no timidity towards He who collects the harvest.) When Terry became Sir Terry Pratchett, his official coat of arms as a knight adopted the more correct Latin motto Noli Timere Messorem — Don't Fear The Reaper. Christopher Walken: Yes. There is cowbell in the mix of Don't Fear the Reaper. You have to listen hard for it, though. But you don't forget it once you've clocked it. | |
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I Will Wait for You | |
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I Will Wait for You: "Debbie Denise" | |
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Extra! Extra! Read All About It! | |
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Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: "Morning Final". The track ends on a paperboy calling the murder investigation in classic Extra! Extra! Read all about it! form. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Well, softer, anyways- the album as a whole is less heavy and more atmospheric and textured than their previous work. The lyrics certainly aren't any lighter than previous work, though. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Tenderloin" | |
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Subdued Section | |
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Subdued Section: "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" inverts it — it's a mostly subdued song with a single "loud" section in the middle with a heavy riff, spooky keyboards and some intense soloing. | |
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Album Title Drop | |
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Album Title Drop: The album "Agents of Fortune" is named after a lyric from the included song "E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)". | |
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Don't Fear the Reaper | |
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Don't Fear the Reaper: Trope Namer. | |
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Together in Death | |
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Together in Death: "(Don't Fear) The Reaper". | |
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