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Bonnie Tyler has died
- auslegung 3mo agoLiteral music video of Total Eclipse, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk RIP Ms Tyler, you will be missed
- funnybeam 3mo agoI like to pretend that was filmed in the Hogwarts sixth form commmon room in the eighties
- amiga386 3mo agoIt pretty much was. It was filmed in a Victorian sanitorium, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holloway_Sanatorium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holloway_Sanatorium (built 1873-1885) which is in keeping with your (and JK Rowling's) vision of public schools, in particular Hogwarts was modelled on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettes_College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettes_College (built 1864-1870) in a similar architectural style.
- pavlov 3mo agoThere’s also one of A-Ha’s “Take on Me”. “Haaaand comes out…”
- loloquwowndueo 3mo agoNowhere near as good though.
- amiga386 3mo agoI think Bad Apple the literal version compares well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReblZ7o7lu4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReblZ7o7lu4
- CamperBob2 3mo agoSafety Dance is up there with the better ones, too.
- nostrademons 3mo agoIf you like meta-songs, you may be interested in "Title of this song" by Da Vinci's Notebook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgmUgFEFzco&list=RDHgmUgFEFzco&start_radio=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgmUgFEFzco&list=RDHgmUgFEFz...
- Decabytes 3mo agoI had never seen the music video until the news started playing it. Super funny
- petercooper 3mo agoBack in 1999, the UK had its first total solar eclipse for several decades and VH1 played the music video (though, not this one ;-)) on loop for an hour while it was happening.
- defrost 3mo agoThe back story of the writing of Total Eclipse ain't bad either: https://youtu.be/LGqYnj_Y3CI?t=70 https://youtu.be/LGqYnj_Y3CI?t=70
- chasd00 3mo agoThat is so great. My wife and i love to annoy our teenage kids by getting Alexa to play this song and then singing along very dramatically haha.
- embedding-shape 3mo agoHow old are you, for curiosities sake? I'm born early 90s, fondly remembering me and a friend shaming all the rest of our group by singing this song (dramatically as well) as a duet whenever we were in (already loud) public spaces.
- chasd00 3mo agoI'm 50, i have two boys ages 16 and 14. My wife was more into music than I was growing up (i grew up in rural areas, she grew up in the city). One of my favorite stories she has is helping Modest Mouse unload their van when playing in Dallas at Club Dada (small local venue) back in the 90s. She also has so many cool rave, hiphop, and sxsw stories from that era since she went to HS in Arlington TX (class of '95), UT for college, and then lived in NYC for a while dating a musician. Austin in the mid/late 90s was a very special place to be a young person.
- imzadi 3mo agoSony tried so hard to kill this when it was new
- CamperBob2 3mo agoI'm glad this is still on the Internet. It's exactly the sort of thing that almost never is, when I try to find it again several years after seeing it the first time.
- pchristensen 3mo agoI came here to post this, glad you beat me to it. I pulled a muscle laughing the first time I saw this.
- SideburnsOfDoom 3mo agoAnd let us not forget "Holding Out For a Hero" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0
- nisiddharth 3mo agoWhere have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?
- AndrewOMartin 3mo agoIs it too much to ask for a Streetwise Hercules?
- senko 3mo ago'fraid so, the odds have risen too high. We might need a white night on a fiery steed. One can dream.
- myself248 3mo agoFeatured towards the climax of Short Circuit 2, which was huge in my childhood. What a powerhouse piece of music!
- misnome 3mo agoYes, I will never fail to associate this music with Short Circuit 2, it is also burned into my childhood memory.
- nly 3mo agoI think of that movie every time I hear the song! That was one badass robot sequence. "Suuuuure. Kidnap the humans, DESTROY THE MACHINE."
- toomuchtodo 3mo agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LABMISLl7Y8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LABMISLl7Y8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTdHPAY7rOE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTdHPAY7rOE
- urbsgpw 3mo agoMy mum had a cassette with some of her songs. We'd have it on for long trips. I loved the long version of Faster than the speed of night. it's basically just "carpe diem" in a different format, but i loved her voice and the slight melancholy and almost call to action that the song brought with it. Also, the video (of the shorter version) is peak 80's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm4CgwRxw3Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm4CgwRxw3Y
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- JodieBenitez 3mo agoThere, got my upvote.
- avazhi 3mo agoNor is this a post that should be on HN, but here we are.
- parkersweb 3mo agoI once worked with a guy mixing TV programmes and live DVDs; I knew he’d been a studio engineer at one point in his career. We were re-arranging our studios one day and as I picked up a pair of NS-10s he casually said “I mixed ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ on those…”
- IAmGraydon 3mo agoDid he mean on a set of NS10s or on THOSE NS10s?
- parkersweb 3mo agoThe exact same NS10s!
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- tekla 3mo agoVery famous singer, multiple very famous songs, 40 yo song topped the carts during the 2024 Eclipse, was pretty much the theme song for a very small indie movie called Shrek 2.
- asimovDev 3mo agoI think Shrek would be pro open source software and hardware if he knew what it was, so this makes it HN worthy
- nostrademons 3mo agoBefore that. Her breakthrough album was 1977 and Total Eclipse of the Heart came out in 1982, so it was more the 8-track era. It remained a staple of radio plays (remember those?) through the 80s and 90s though, and was remade by Nikki French into a chart-topping dance version in 1995. A lot of HN is folks in their late 30s, 40s, and early 50s (and sometimes even older!), so many folks here would've overlapped with the radio era. A lot of folks here were involved in making YouTube/Instagram/TikTok, not listening to it.
- masfuerte 3mo agoI'm old enough to remember Walkmans coming out in 1979, which was the start of the end of the boombox era. Approximately no-one was using 8-track at that point.
- runako 3mo agoI'm not quite that old, but didn't people look down on cassettes due to their lower audio quality? Weren't most home systems (hi-fis) still vinyl or 8-track for a while longer?
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- PurpleRamen 3mo agoRIP legend. I'm curious now when this was announced. Yesterday, out of nowhere, TikTok showed me a video about someone praising "Total Eclipse of the Heart", despite not having this bubble in my profile. Kinda spooky to see the news now.
- derwiki 3mo agoProbably one of those coincidences, like you talked about bouncy houses and now you’re seeing ads for bouncy houses
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- al_borland 3mo agoThe version from the wedding band in Old School will forever be in my mind. https://youtu.be/FfUU1wJKXDc https://youtu.be/FfUU1wJKXDc
- stackghost 3mo ago...every nah'n'then I get a little bit terrified, I see the fuckin look in your eyes
- vardump 3mo agoLittle by little, memories of the 1980s fade.
- WillAdams 3mo agoSadly, Jim Steinman passed away half a decade ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Steinman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Steinman I still want to see the dream realized on Broadway of a Native-American inspired musical.
- goda90 3mo ago"Every now and then, I get a little bit nervous That the best of all the years have gone by"
- CamperBob2 3mo agoTears in rain, etc.
- deadbabe 3mo agoToo soon, she could have had a lot more life left to live these days, but a bad surgery ended it. Sucks. Try to avoid needing surgery as much as you can.
- codelikeawolf 3mo agoUgh, what a bummer. I'll be listening to Holding Out for a Hero on repeat today. Nothing gold can stay.
- petcat 3mo agoJim Steinman, Meat Loaf, and now Bonnie Tyler. It truly all has come to an end. I think Celine Dion is the last one still carrying on Steinman's legacy.
- geraldcombs 3mo agoHer, and the dude from Sisters of Mercy.
- japhyr 3mo agoGrowing up in the 80s, I've known (and sung) this song all my life. But I just saw this flowchart for the first time today: https://jeannr.tumblr.com/post/165291081/i-made-a-flow-chart-that-we-might-better https://jeannr.tumblr.com/post/165291081/i-made-a-flow-chart... I believe that's the original source, but it looks cut off. Here's a full version: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/82/dc/b182dcc291495c013c9820abef8c087a.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/82/dc/b182dcc291495c013c98...
- IAmGraydon 3mo agoThat's actually a really interesting visualization of a professionally structured verse.
- chasd00 3mo agoNot sure why you were downvoted, it is super interesting. I know nothing of songwriting but it seems like that could be read by a singing performer in similarly to how sheet music is read by an instrument performer. In the graph, there's additional information than just the words that a singer would need to perform the song accurately. /re-iterate i know almost nothing of music except what i like which i've been informed over and over is incorrect hah.
- IAmGraydon 3mo agoI've been a musician for nearly 3 decades and this diagram is how really good songwriters think about structuring popular music. They just usually don't write it down like this. It's not only useful for lyrics, but for harmonic progression as well. As for the downvotes, it's probably because most here don't understand songwriting and think the diagram was nothing more than a joke.
- js8 3mo agoI think there should be "An Infinite Literature Contest", where the contestants would submit a formal grammar and the texts in the language would be judged for literary and other qualities.
- wigster 3mo agoI went to the Reading Rock Festival back in the 80s. she was viewed very much as middle of the road and when she came on, got roundly booed and many bottles of nefarious liquids were tossed at her and the band. she and they were total pros, shrugged it off, she hurled some abuse back and within a couple of songs had the crowd eating out of the palm of her hand. RIP Bonnie. A class act.
- madcaptenor 3mo ago"Strong Songs" podcast breaking down Total Eclipse of The Heart: https://strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episodes/s07e06-total-eclipse-of-the-heart-by-jim-steinman-and-bonnie-tyler https://strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episodes/s07e06-total-e...
- toomuchtodo 3mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Tyler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Tyler
- gwbas1c 3mo agoThis broke my heart: > Despite coming from a big, musical family, Tyler and Sullivan never had children. > I absolutely adore children. > I did have a miscarriage when I was 40, I left it too late, you know? I feel like, if you get into that situation, try to adopt or become a foster parent.
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- throw7 3mo agoThis isn't hacker news... but whatever i guess.
- falkuall 3mo agoI saw her around this time last year in munich... it was a great show and even tough i didn't grow up in the 80's im a fan! Rest in Peace Bonnie!
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- auto 3mo agoJust as good a time as ever to post one of my favorite classic deep YouTube video's, Hurra Torpedo's cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart. Slightly NSFW, some plumber's crack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUjYAi0WcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUjYAi0WcQ
- shevy-java 3mo agoThat's sad. She had such a distinct, unique voice.
- paulirwin 3mo agoMy two-year-old son had started saying "turn around" in a sing-song kind of way several months back, and thus my wife and I, both babies of the 80s, had to start singing the song whenever he would do it. It became a fun thing that my son enjoys more than we do. That turned into regularly playing this song (and its covers) in the living room. We just did this again a few nights ago because he loves the song so much and requests it now. RIP Bonnie.
- xhkkffbf 3mo agoAnd this is another good time to remember Jim Steinman, the genius who brought us "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and many of Meatloaf's greatest hits. https://jimsteinman.com/charts.htm https://jimsteinman.com/charts.htm
- petcat 3mo agoCeline Dion, Air Supply. Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out for a Hero. This list goes on. The guy was a prolific rock composer genius.
- nephihaha 3mo ago"It's a Heartache" is a very moving song. RIP.
- mavelikara 3mo ago+1 - one of my favorite songs of all time. Rod Stewart-esque than Stewart himself on this one.
- TuringNYC 3mo agoher hit song, along with the nikki french dance remix have been on my coding playlist for 30yrs!
- buo 3mo agoFor those into metal: I like this cover by Exit Eden: https://youtu.be/AD6VAZFHWLY https://youtu.be/AD6VAZFHWLY
- gib444 3mo agoI discovered her wider music during the early days of COVID. I played her album Faster Than The Speed of Night on repeat. No world-class lyrics but she had such a beautiful unique voice, I got hooked. I can't listen to her music now without being taken straight back to the hours and days lying alone on the sofa hoping for better days. RIP you Welsh beaut
- SCPlayz7000 3mo agoThat sucks, man. I actually liked her music. Especially "holding out for a hero".
- danicriss 3mo agoIt seems to be a little known fact that she was... The Best: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LKV5YAxwv3Q https://youtube.com/watch?v=LKV5YAxwv3Q While she didn't compose the song, she was the one to originally release it. Tina Turner's version came one year later with a sax and an iconic video, but otherwise Bonnie's version is pretty similar and not much worse imo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_(song)#Bonnie_Tyler_version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_(song)#Bonnie_Tyler_v...
- trog 3mo agoAlso can highly recommend the Dan Band version of Total Eclipse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIRiZsDObrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIRiZsDObrU