Little by little, memories of the 1980s fade.
"Every now and then, I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by"
Bonnie Tyler has died
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Very 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.
I think Shrek would be pro open source software and hardware if he knew what it was, so this makes it HN worthy
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#53Re: Bonnie Tyler has died
#54And let us not forget "Holding Out For a Hero" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0
Absolute classic. If anyone is interested, the Footloose soundtrack (which has Holding Out For a Hero on it) is probably one of the greatest soundtracks of all time. The movie sucks but damn, this soundtrack is incredible.
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#55I 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…”
Did he mean on a set of NS10s or on THOSE NS10s?
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#56Growing 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... 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/b182dcc291495c013c98...
That's actually a really interesting visualization of a professionally structured verse.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s also one of A-Ha’s “Take on Me”. “Haaaand comes out…”
Nowhere near as good though.
I think Bad Apple the literal version compares well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReblZ7o7lu4
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#58RIP 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.
Probably one of those coincidences, like you talked about bouncy houses and now you’re seeing ads for bouncy houses
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#59And let us not forget "Holding Out For a Hero" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0
Jellybean long version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Wq3U86SyQ
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Death notices of famous artists are regularly on HN. If people upvote it, it should be worthy.
That's not how it works. If upvotes alone mattered, HN would quickly degenerate into Reddit. The bar is whether "good hackers" would find this interesting. Death notices of famous artists are the definition of off-topic: "most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." If normies care…
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