Bonnie Tyler has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5pd9z2487o

340 84 14 days ago

auslegung• 14 days ago

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

funnybeam• 14 days ago

I like to pretend that was filmed in the Hogwarts sixth form commmon room in the eighties

amiga3863• 14 days ago

It pretty much was. It was filmed in a Victorian sanitorium, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holloway_Sanatorium (built 1873-1885) which is in keeping with your (and JK Rowling's) vision of public schools, in particular Hogwarts was modelled on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettes_College (built 1864-1870) in a similar architectural style.

pavlov• 14 days ago

There’s also one of A-Ha’s “Take on Me”.

“Haaaand comes out…”

loloquwowndueo• 13 days ago

Nowhere near as good though.

CamperBob23• 13 days ago

Safety Dance is up there with the better ones, too.

nostrademons• 14 days ago

If you like meta-songs, you may be interested in "Title of this song" by Da Vinci's Notebook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgmUgFEFzco&list=RDHgmUgFEFz...

Decabytes• 14 days ago

I had never seen the music video until the news started playing it. Super funny

petercooper• 13 days ago

Back in 1999, the UK had its first total solar eclipse for several decades and VH1 played the music video (though, not this one ;-)) on loop for an hour while it was happening.

defrost• 13 days ago

The back story of the writing of Total Eclipse ain't bad either: https://youtu.be/LGqYnj_Y3CI?t=70

chasd003• 13 days ago

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.

embedding-shape• 13 days ago

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.

imzadi• 13 days ago

Sony tried so hard to kill this when it was new

CamperBob23• 13 days ago

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.

pchristensen2• 13 days ago

I came here to post this, glad you beat me to it. I pulled a muscle laughing the first time I saw this.

SideburnsOfDoom• 14 days ago

And let us not forget "Holding Out For a Hero"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0

nisiddharth• 14 days ago

Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?

AndrewOMartin• 14 days ago

Is it too much to ask for a Streetwise Hercules?

myself248• 14 days ago

Featured towards the climax of Short Circuit 2, which was huge in my childhood. What a powerhouse piece of music!

misnome• 13 days ago

Yes, I will never fail to associate this music with Short Circuit 2, it is also burned into my childhood memory.

nly• 13 days ago

I think of that movie every time I hear the song! That was one badass robot sequence.

"Suuuuure. Kidnap the humans, DESTROY THE MACHINE."

biofox• 13 days ago

"Number 5 is alive!"

pchristensen2• 13 days ago

I love this. So many more people associate it with Shrek these days, so all the Johnny 5 comments warm my heart!

limbicsystem• 14 days ago

Is it wrong that I prefer the Shrek version?

amiga3863• 13 days ago

It's not. I prefer the bardcore version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-x_1lIXh4

Rayhem• 13 days ago

Fun fact: the original was only produced in English but the Shrek remix (which is a *BOP*) got translated into every language the movie did.

slowin• 13 days ago

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footloose_(1984_soundtrack)

sdoering• 13 days ago

Agree and disagree. Love the movie. Hate the remake. But the OST is really great. We can agree on that.

JodieBenitez• 13 days ago

Jellybean long version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Wq3U86SyQ

petcat4• 13 days ago

Another brilliant Jim Steinman song

urbsgpw• 14 days ago

My mum had a cassette with some of her songs. We'd have it on for long trips. I loved the long version of Faster than the speed of night. it's basically just "carpe diem" in a different format, but i loved her voice and the slight melancholy and almost call to action that the song brought with it. Also, the video (of the shorter version) is peak 80's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm4CgwRxw3Y

parkersweb2• 14 days ago

I 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…”

IAmGraydon3• 13 days ago

Did he mean on a set of NS10s or on THOSE NS10s?

parkersweb2• 13 days ago

The exact same NS10s!

PurpleRamen• 14 days ago

RIP 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.

derwiki• 13 days ago

Probably one of those coincidences, like you talked about bouncy houses and now you’re seeing ads for bouncy houses

al_borland• 14 days ago

The version from the wedding band in Old School will forever be in my mind.

https://youtu.be/FfUU1wJKXDc

stackghost• 13 days ago

...every nah'n'then I get a little bit terrified, I see the fuckin look in your eyes

vardump• 14 days ago

Little by little, memories of the 1980s fade.

WillAdams• 13 days ago

Sadly, Jim Steinman passed away half a decade ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Steinman

I still want to see the dream realized on Broadway of a Native-American inspired musical.

goda90• 13 days ago

"Every now and then, I get a little bit nervous That the best of all the years have gone by"

CamperBob23• 13 days ago

Tears in rain, etc.

deadbabe• 13 days ago

Too soon, she could have had a lot more life left to live these days, but a bad surgery ended it. Sucks. Try to avoid needing surgery as much as you can.

codelikeawolf• 13 days ago

Ugh, what a bummer. I'll be listening to Holding Out for a Hero on repeat today. Nothing gold can stay.

petcat4• 13 days ago

Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf, and now Bonnie Tyler. It truly all has come to an end. I think Celine Dion is the last one still carrying on Steinman's legacy.

geraldcombs• 13 days ago

Her, and the dude from Sisters of Mercy.

japhyr• 13 days ago

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...

IAmGraydon3• 13 days ago

That's actually a really interesting visualization of a professionally structured verse.

chasd003• 13 days ago

Not sure why you were downvoted, it is super interesting. I know nothing of songwriting but it seems like that could be read by a singing performer in similarly to how sheet music is read by an instrument performer. In the graph, there's additional information than just the words that a singer would need to perform the song accurately.

/re-iterate i know almost nothing of music except what i like which i've been informed over and over is incorrect hah.

js8• 13 days ago

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.

petcat4• 13 days ago

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

dreamcompiler• 13 days ago

TIL Bonnie Tyler was the female Meat Loaf.

Starman_Jones• 13 days ago

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

orly01• 13 days ago

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)

burkaman• 13 days ago

Reminds me of when she was on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and they played a "finish the lyrics" game: https://youtu.be/vl7UfjtLzcQ?t=260

lolive• 13 days ago

Visual representation is your WORST friend: it will make things LOOK simple even if the real thing required the utter mastery to create.

Look at that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATbMw6X3T40

(or that: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1500354675104013)

vikingerik• 13 days ago

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.

js2• 13 days ago

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...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Eclipse_of_the_Heart

MollyRealized• 9 days ago

Table for what Meatloaf would and wouldn't do:

https://imgur.com/gallery/ZAQXJdY

Timetable of One Week:

https://imgur.com/gallery/rsvhp2z

wigster• 13 days ago

I went to the Reading Rock Festival back in the 80s. she was viewed very much as middle of the road and when she came on, got roundly booed and many bottles of nefarious liquids were tossed at her and the band.

she and they were total pros, shrugged it off, she hurled some abuse back and within a couple of songs had the crowd eating out of the palm of her hand.

RIP Bonnie. A class act.

madcaptenor• 13 days ago

"Strong Songs" podcast breaking down Total Eclipse of The Heart: https://strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episodes/s07e06-total-e...

toomuchtodo2• 13 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Tyler

gwbas1c• 13 days ago

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.

throw7• 13 days ago

This isn't hacker news... but whatever i guess.

falkuall• 13 days ago

I saw her around this time last year in munich... it was a great show and even tough i didn't grow up in the 80's im a fan! Rest in Peace Bonnie!

auto• 13 days ago

Just as good a time as ever to post one of my favorite classic deep YouTube video's, Hurra Torpedo's cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Slightly NSFW, some plumber's crack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUjYAi0WcQ

shevy-java• 13 days ago

That's sad. She had such a distinct, unique voice.

paulirwin• 13 days ago

My two-year-old son had started saying "turn around" in a sing-song kind of way several months back, and thus my wife and I, both babies of the 80s, had to start singing the song whenever he would do it. It became a fun thing that my son enjoys more than we do. That turned into regularly playing this song (and its covers) in the living room. We just did this again a few nights ago because he loves the song so much and requests it now.

RIP Bonnie.

xhkkffbf• 13 days ago

And this is another good time to remember Jim Steinman, the genius who brought us "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and many of Meatloaf's greatest hits.

https://jimsteinman.com/charts.htm

petcat4• 13 days ago

Celine Dion, Air Supply.

Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out for a Hero. This list goes on. The guy was a prolific rock composer genius.

nephihaha• 13 days ago

"It's a Heartache" is a very moving song. RIP.

mavelikara• 13 days ago

+1 - one of my favorite songs of all time. Rod Stewart-esque than Stewart himself on this one.

TuringNYC• 13 days ago

her hit song, along with the nikki french dance remix have been on my coding playlist for 30yrs!

buo• 13 days ago

For those into metal: I like this cover by Exit Eden: https://youtu.be/AD6VAZFHWLY

gib444• 13 days ago

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

SCPlayz7000• 13 days ago

That sucks, man. I actually liked her music. Especially "holding out for a hero".

danicriss• 13 days ago

It seems to be a little known fact that she was... The Best: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LKV5YAxwv3Q

While she didn't compose the song, she was the one to originally release it. Tina Turner's version came one year later with a sax and an iconic video, but otherwise Bonnie's version is pretty similar and not much worse imo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_(song)#Bonnie_Tyler_v...

trog• 8 days ago

Also can highly recommend the Dan Band version of Total Eclipse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIRiZsDObrU

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