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Bonnie Tyler has died

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Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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krapp wrote: post #79
toomuchtodo wrote: post #64

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Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by chasd00 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #70
chasd00 wrote: post #42

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That 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.

How 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.

I'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.

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Post by orly01 »

japhyr wrote: post #46

Growing 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...

It doesn't look like the second has been cut off to get the first, because the font is different. It looks like the second was an attempt to extend the first (also, it kills the joke)

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by lightbendover »

petcat wrote: post #73
japhyr wrote: post #46

Growing 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...

Steinman was a genius. One of the greatest rock composers of all time and he picked his performers brilliantly.

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Post by mikestew »

runako wrote: post #27
masfuerte wrote: post #25

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I'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.

I'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?

No one used 8-track for the quality. It was portable, and it would play continuously (it looped), great for sitting with your honey in a secluded area. And the physical quality of 8-tracks weren’t great. Based on the number of 8-track cartridges I saw on the side of the road while out running, the tape would apparently come loose from the cartridge and render it unusable.

By 1980, 8-tracks were relics being displaced by cassette.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by CamperBob2 »

auslegung wrote: post #2

Literal music video of Total Eclipse, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk RIP Ms Tyler, you will be missed

I'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.
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