Great song, and I guess everyone's already seen awesome cover of it.
― Tuomas, Friday, 23 May 2008 11:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked the Eurodance cover version of this song too. Actually, I think there were two Eurodance covers of it back in the nineties, but the first one was better.
― Tuomas, Friday, 23 May 2008 11:29 (fifteen years ago) link
The Hurra Torpedo version is of course classic.
They actually did this as part of a project where they would "slaughter" various not-too-credible songs, mostly Norwegian language ones. But it's this cover version that has stuck and gotten international attention.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 23 May 2008 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link
oulseek must have a conscience after all, electing to spare you from the sonic blight that is the Speedwagon's excretion.
I suppose it's statements like this that get me in trouble.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 23 May 2008 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
"It's a Heartache" is so much of a better song than this wanna-be Meatloaf song.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 23 May 2008 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Just because Ronnie Scott co-wrote it doesn't make it so.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 23 May 2008 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
*yadadadadadadah!IREALLYNEEDYOUTONIGHT!*
It occurs to me that one day Kanye will fully remake the video if not the song. And maybe both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=840B27zYfOk
Then again, Flight of the Conchords has already been there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vQuf49Ya30
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
I'm concerned of what this says about me, but I fell semi-in love with a girl while slow dancing to TEOTH the other night. Jeez.. I've always liked the song, but only in the usaual ironic, waxing 80s nostalgia kind of way. But for a moment that night, all of that was gone, and what was left was the sheer power of that gigantic ballad. I may have been fooled, manipulated, whatever, but it felt pretty fucking great.
Classic.
― Mule, Monday, 16 May 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
so you're trying to say that forever's gonna start tonight
― 2010 = the year of (exactly) 500 Rogers! (La Lechera), Monday, 16 May 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
this song reminds me of my mom
― 2010 = the year of (exactly) 500 Rogers! (La Lechera), Monday, 16 May 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
At this second someone is singing this in a karaoke bar.
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 May 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
Well, it depends on the girl, I suppose
― Mule, Monday, 16 May 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
"the sheer power of that gigantic ballad"
That why this song is freaking awesome and will rule forever. I hear it's out on Rock Band. Must investigate. Classic classic classic.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
wow, don't know what drugs i was on 7 years ago as i re-read my posts and was shocked at how sounded snotty and dismissing i sounded,
love the song,
turn around bright eyes is brilliant and will feed into another post
― H in Addis, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
Hero
39 years on and I still can't explain this pic.twitter.com/y3RY9Z51bz— Bonnie Tyler (@BonnieTOfficial) September 20, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
dud atp
― dyl, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
Madness
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
It is one of the most perfectly overwrought songs ever written and performed. Total classic.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
I love Total Eclipse of the Heart. I had never paid it any attention, until this one time I was trying to get over a rough breakup and it came on the radio in the IHOP I was working at. I had to conceal actual tears while slinging pancakes. Very overwrought and cheesy, but it hit me like a missile.
Haven't knowingly listened to the rest of her music, except in the course of doing research for the Givin' It All You Got thread, when I came across this 1990 song of hers from German action sports film Fire, Ice, and Dynamite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nlWeTL4dtk
― peace, man, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
<3 lovely post
absolute classic btw, especially for drunk karaoke
― nxd, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
When I was in high school a dance troupe came through to perform for the entire school. The lead dancer gracefully danced until one by one, her skills faltered as she shared a dance with different partners. Each partner was dressed completely in black and had a different word written on their back. ALCOHOL. MARIJUANA. COCAINE. HEROIN.
She eventually fell to the ground, at which point the blacked-out dancers lifted her up and placed in a Jesus Christ crucifix pose to the audience.
This entire performance was done to “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
Wish I'd been there!
― bendy, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
lol, that's amazing.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
xxp this isn't the one i witnessed but holy moly they were doing this bit in front of 5 year olds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoRL-xzdlVI
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 17 November 2022 05:43 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl5PLKr-Zcc
― Josefa, Thursday, 17 November 2022 06:06 (one year ago) link