"It's a Heartache" is a very moving song. RIP.
+1 - one of my favorite songs of all time. Rod Stewart-esque than Stewart himself on this one.
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#112Growing 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...
Did you know there's a long version? (Of the song, not the flowchart, though another reply has that too) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svz-W5w2bPM There's a 7-minute version, with two more verses that aren't in the version you always hear on the radio. The one starting at 3:45 in that video is particularly powerful and chilling.
> Every now and then, I know you'll never be the boy
you always wanted to be. But every now and then, I know you'll always be the only boy who wanted me the way that I am. Every now and then, I know there's no one in the universe as magical and wondrous as you. Every now and then, I know there's nothing any better. There's nothing that I just wouldn't do.
Well, I never knew this till now:
> With 'Total Eclipse of the Heart', I was trying to come up with a love song and I remembered I actually wrote that to be a vampire love song. Its original title was 'Vampires in Love' because I was working on a musical of Nosferatu, the other great vampire story. If anyone listens to the lyrics, they're really like vampire lines. It's all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love's place in the dark.
https://genius.com/Bonnie-tyler-total-eclipse-of-the-heart-l...
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Before 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 t…
What does that have to do with whether or not this should be on HN?
By your logic, literally anything from the '80s is appropriate for this site, which is obviously not correct lol.
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#114Growing 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.
I 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.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before 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 t…
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.
https://public.tableau.com/static/images/U_/U_S_RecordedMusi...
In the USA, 8-track was always less than half vinyl singles sales, compact cassette exceeded 8-track's sales by 1980, and 8-track was dead by 1982.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before 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 t…
What does that have to do with whether or not this should be on HN? By your logic, literally anything from the '80s is appropriate for this site, which is obviously not correct lol.
The people in this thread are sundowning. They’ll upvote absolutely anything that reminds them of their distant youth.
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Before 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 t…
> A lot of HN is folks in their late 30s, 40s, and early 50s (and sometimes even older!)
And? Doesn’t make it on topic.
> A lot of folks here were involved in making YouTube/Instagram/TikTok, not listening to it.
I hope they struggle to sleep at night.
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#118I 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?
The exact same NS10s!
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#119RIP 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.
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#120For those into metal: I like this cover by Exit Eden: https://youtu.be/AD6VAZFHWLY