Rate the random hit song: Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

[Texas King]

 

Love it. 5 stars!

[Lorraine]

I have to give it a fresh listen before I rate it. It was played so much on the radio in the eighties, that I lost interest in it back then.

 

 

Edit: I give it ***.

Edited October 6, 2017 by Lorraine

[Narps]

I actually heard it for the first time in a while a couple days ago. It's a good song in my view...

[Steevo]

I can't lie...guilty pleasure perhaps, whatever, I don't care.

[prolix]

1 star. Not a fan.

[bluefox4000]

Solid 3. not my fav but not bad.

 

Mick

[goose]

Top notch campy cheese that is lots of fun to lip-sync/karaoke/flash mob to these days.

[J2112YYZ]

3 stars.

 

But if Meat Loaf sang it like he should have, it would be 5 stars.

[toymaker]

Who wrote it? It does sound like a song by Mr. Loaf. Or Steinman or whoever wrote that stuff.

 

NM. Just looked it up. Now I understand the Meatloaf comment.

Edited October 6, 2017 by toymaker

[Lorraine]

"Mr. Loaf"

[toymaker]

It's about vampires.

[Lorraine]

That takes all the romance out of the song. :(

[J2112YYZ]

That takes all the romance out of the song. :(

 

Nah, Bonnie Tyler's crappy voice already did that.

[HemiBeers]

sappy song sang by a one-hit wonder who sounds like a two pack a day habit.

 

but i gave it two stars for being popular. even a red-headed stepchild deserves some credit now and then.

[toymaker]

That takes all the romance out of the song. :(

 

Vampires are extremely romantic.

[Lucas]

I like a lot of cheese, but this ain't one

 

To make matters worse, it has that female / male counterpart thing going on that I usually hate

 

one star

[driventotheedge]

Zzzzzzzzzzz..........

[ReRushed]

It's campy. It's over the top. It's ostentatious. I like it for all the reasons it's a bad song.

[Steevo]

It's campy. It's over the top. It's ostentatious. I like it for all the reasons it's a bad song.

 

Exactly! It's a helluva lot of cheese but in a good way! I HATE power ballads with a vengeance but this THIS song, that husky voice, that arrangement, the epicness...arggghhh...

[The K Man]

Gotta love the 80s, when something this melodic and epic AND cheesy was considered a pop song. I dig it.

[EagleMoon]

Too grandiose and no substance. Gave it a 1.

[vaportrailer]

This is pretty funny, if you haven't already seen it before:

 

[vaportrailer]

I was going to be generous and give it 4 stars but there doesn't appear to be a 4-star option!

Should I give it a high 3, or a low 3? Can't make up my mind...damn! May's well go for the high 3 then.

Edited October 8, 2017 by vaportrailer

[Rushian King]

Very good song. And she's not a one-hit wonder in the US. The album this song was on made it to #4 and she had an earlier album reach #16. Besides this song which made it to #1 she also had It's A Heartache reach #3 and Holding Out For A Hero at #34. Edited October 8, 2017 by Rushian King

[librarian]

Makes me want to mail Bonnie some Robitussin and a vaporizer.