Godzilla (Blue Öyster Cult song)

"Godzilla"
Japan single picture sleeve
Single by Blue Öyster Cult
from the album Spectres
B-side"Nosferatu"
Released
  • November 1977 (1977-11) (album)
  • February 1978 (single)
Recorded1977
Genre
Length3:41
LabelColumbia
SongwriterDonald Roeser a.k.a. Buck Dharma
Producers
Blue Öyster Cult singles chronology
"Goin' Through the Motions"
(1977)
"Godzilla"
(1977)
"We Gotta Get out of This Place"
(1978)

"Godzilla" is a single by U.S. hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, the first track on the band's fifth studio album Spectres. The lyrics are a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the popular movie monster of the same name. The single release had a picture sleeve featuring a promotional still from the movie Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. Despite its failure to chart, the song received significant airplay on rock radio stations and soon became a sleeper hit. The song, along with "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" and "Burnin' for You," is one of the band's best-known songs and has become a staple of its live performances. It has been covered by bands such as moe., Racer X, Fu Manchu, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sebastian Bach, Double Experience and Fighting Gravity.