POLL: Bonnie Tyler’s "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" v. Kim Carnes’s "Bette Davis Eyes"

Total Eclipse of the Heart, by Bonnie Tyler.

I remember wanking to those guys in the shower in Total Eclipse of the Heart as a teen.

If I were going to wank to guys in a Total Eclipse video, it would be Finn and Jesse.

Total Eclipse of the Heart. Not even close.

R3, well, since Cory Monteith was like 1 and Groff wasn't even born when the song came out I just had to do with the hot shirtless guys and their speedo bulges.

Total Eclipse of the Heart - was one of those played to death songs. I'll never like it.

Bette Davis Eyes - lots of jive and sass in it. Great song.

Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Interesting song but such a downer, like a funeral dirge. Doesn't make you feel better after you hear it. Bette Davis Eyes for the win - and songwriter/singer Jackie DeShannon co-wrote it.

Bette Davis Eyes was #1 for 9 weeks on Billboard's Top 100 singles and ended up being the #1 best selling single of 1981. I remember buying it in the exact record sleeve shown in the photo. Super popular song.

Bette Davis Eyes.

Total Eclipse is a power ballad. Bette Davis is simply a pop song.

I would compare T.E. to "The Power of Love". Or even Cher's "I Found Someone".

Total Eclipse Of The Heart wins for the cougar schoolteacher/teenage vampire video.

Bette Davis Eyes for me, and it's not even close.

I didn't even realize until recently that Kim Carnes' version was a remake. But she sings the hell out of it, and I like it better than the original.

Bette Davis Eyes--a little novelty. Total Eclipse--one of those songs I never want to hear again.

Kim Carnes "singing" is painful. The lyrics are fucking awful.

What about Endless Love?

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" was written and produced by Jim Steinman, the same guy who wrote those overblown rock-opera ballads for Meatloaf ("I'd Do Anything for Love [But I Won't Do That]") and Celine Dion (It's All Coming Back to Me Now), songs that I never want to hear again.

I could not stop listening to BDE. I had the opposite reaction to TE.

BDE is one of my all-time favorites. Fun fact: The recording is a live performance in studio, with no post-production. She and her band rehearsed for two days and recordrd it on the first take, which is what was released.

I like TEOTH also, even the 90s dance remake by Niki French.

Bump

The bitch who sang the remake of TEOTH should have her tongue ripped out and her teeth kicked in.

This bitch, Chloe Kohanski is going to be the first winner of the voice to become a STAR. She just has it. Her voice is ruff and raspy and full of vocal pockets but has this gorgeous resonance. She sang Blondie and Bette Davis Eyes and Landslide too.

Landslide.

[quote] Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Interesting song but such a downer, like a funeral dirge. Doesn't make you feel better after you hear it.

Depends on which version you hear. More of an upper.

Eighties pop rock needs a revival. She's hot stuff. Can't wait to see what her original music will be like.

Total Eclipse Of The Heart has been restored to 4K. Not that it matters much since the source material is so dark and blurry. Still, a great reason to watch the video once again. I can't even remember how many times I wanked to the guys in speedos bit when I was 12. I assume kids these days with their endless supply of hardcore porn don't realize how hot a simple furry chest and a speedo bulge was to us.

BTW, I love the video, especially the pre-chorus part. There's something so deliciously dark and weird about it all. And yes, it's a very male video which is probably the reason Bonnie Tyler apparently hates it herself.

[quote]Eighties pop rock needs a revival.

Why don't you have your own little revival on Spotify.

Bette Davis Eyes by a country mile. Total Eclipse is fine, but it's not one I reach for unless I'm in a mood.

Terrific version by Brandon Flowers. I wish he'd have released it commercially.

In my early-'80s gay-teen wannabe-video-producer's eye, I envisioned TEOTH as a remake of the end of [italic]Sunset Boulevard,[/italic] during Norma's descent into madness when she kills Joe.

More than two years have passed, R22, and we're still waiting for this marginally talented "Chloe" person to become a STAH.

Total Eclipse of the Heart is incredibly popular on spotify and youtube. Kind of surprising to me.

It was played TO DEATH back in the day. TO DEATH.

"She's pure as New York snow" is just such a great lyric.

^^^ Even better is the naughty-naughty original lyric Jackie DeShannon and Donna Weiss wrote that Carnes changed, to be sure her version of BDE got radio airplay:

"She'll expose you

When she BLOWS you

Off your feet with the crumbs she throws you . . ."

How about neither tune, OP?