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Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by Starman_Jones »

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.

I just learned earlier this week that he produced “In The Dark of the Night” from Anastasia!

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Post by gib444 »

I 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

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Post by gib444 »

gwbas1c wrote: post #66

This 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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Post by epihelix »

cramer4next wrote: post #11

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There are a lot of HN users for whom this song (and its covers) was an integral part of our childhood. The Nikki French cover was one of the very first MP3s I ripped. The song is just part of growing up with the early personal computers and teaching ourselves how to code. Its kinda cannon.

If you're younger and you missed out on this, then I'm sorry. The older I get, the more I realise that the best of all the years really have gone by.

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Post by tanseydavid »

mikestew wrote: post #86
runako wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The heads on 8-track players would move physically to access the 4 pairs of stereo and inevitably would mis-track as they aged.

This was more awful than just the marginal fidelity of a perfectly aligned 8-track machine.

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Post by kbelder »

MontgomeryPy wrote: post #41
runako wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

A big driver of cassettes then was the write ability, unlike 8 tracks. You could borrow your friend's new vinyl album, pop in a new cassette tape on your hi-fi, and record a copy of the album to the tape. Of course the Walkman then made listening to your new album fully portable.

There were consumer 8-track writers, and you could buy blank 8-tracks. But it was more expensive and less common; just never caught on.
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