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If you remember the eighties, you’ll love this: via Del.Icio.Us, The Ten Most Terrifyingly Inspirational Eighties Songs.  From the discussion of Bonnie Tyler’s Holding Out For A Hero:

It is all well and good to insist that your men stop leaving the cap off of your mascara. But in all fairness to the men of the ’80s, Bonnie went on to specify that the man she wanted was “a white knight on a fiery steed,” who was “racing with the thunder and rising with the heat,” from a place “up where the mountains meet the heavens above, out where the lightning splits the sea.” Going on these rough descriptions, the only men capable of banging Bonnie Tyler were the Justice League of America.

It scares me, how many of these songs I have on my hard disk (oo-er!).  Especially considering that much of my collection came from Iarnulfr.

Crossposted from fLog.


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Bwahahahahah*choke*gasp*laughs*.

Anthraxia has a disturbing amount of 80's stuff (just ask her about Ah-Ha)

What an odd mix... Out of the ten songs, seven of them I have almost all of the lyrics burned into my memory to the point of never being able to escape singing the song when i see the title, the other three I'd never heard of. I figure they must have been earlier in the 80's since I was only born in '78 :-P

I was a teenager in the 80s - of the 10 mentioned, I can sing 7 just from mention of the band and title. The other 3 I've never heard of and not even watching the utube can generate any shred of memory.

Over-Thirties? Maybe Under-Forties. Of those ten songs, I had only shreds of recall of five, and only one on my hard drive ("Eye of the Tiger") which I loathe but ripped the Survivor CD in its entirety. "Holding Out for a Hero" I only know from the climactic scene in Shrek 2, during which a giant gingerbread man is storming the castle in Far Far Away. (I wonder if this is what Ms. Tyler had in mind.)

I think I only know "Another One Bites the Dust" because Weird Al did a filk of it.

I guess I really am as old as I think I am.

Having valiantly avoided commercial radio during the 1980s is something to be proud of. Well done! I expect you were entirely too busy writing spectacularly good Turbo Pascal manuals and starting superb computer magazines in those years, so you definitely made the right choice.

And yes, I think Jennifer "Fairy Godmother" Saunders had the definitive version of that song.

For the Australian readers - you probably won't know "Jukebox Hero" or "You're the Best" or the "Don't stop believing" as I don't believe that any of them were released in Australia as singles. Having said that, if you've seen the Karate Kid, you would have heard "You're the best" as it's the song that they use in the tournament at the end. Also, they use it in "futureama" when Bender trains with a master chef. "Jukebox Hero" is on the "Foreigner" album "4", and I've heard the album, but the song was never a single as far as I know. And I've never heard of anything by "Journey".

I just wonder what an Australia version of the list would look like. "Khe Sahn" perhaps?

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