That's old stomping grounds for me. We lived At Barcelona East on the other side of 435

I walked to that store every Saturday morning.

MsBlow gonna kill you dead if you beat her stove to ****.

Karla DeVito, yes please.

STOP RIGHT THERE!

IIRC, she's married to Robbie "Billy Joe" Benson

Affirmative. Saw Pirates of Penzance in theaters as a kid as well.

I legitimately think it might be the best video on the Internet.

Several years ago, my company did a lunch activity where we shared youtube videos that we enjoyed. I commented about this and said that everyone has probably seen it so I wouldn't share, and I was shocked that no one knew what I was talking about. So I shared it, and it was the hit of the party.

Funny when you learn who writes a song. Now that it's in your mind, if you compare the Meat Loaf stuff to Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" to Air Supply's "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All", they all sound very similar.

It's like Neil Diamond, who wrote "I'm a Believer" but The Monkees made it popular... but you can hear Neil Diamond singing it in your mind.

So many great songwriters who never really made it that big singing their own stuff. Like this dude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...Burt_Bacharach

When I think of him, Dionne Warwick immediately comes to mind.

I had a weird grudge against Warwick back in 80s, mostly from me liking 70s Stevie Wonder and hating 80s sappy ballad SW in comparison. That's What Friends are For and Kenny/Dolly's Islands in the Stream were my most hated songs in that time period.

My turnaround on ballad Stevie



Re: Bacharach, I knew 'who' he was, but not a whole lot, until I saw Best Friend's Wedding. Which is basically a thinly-disguised Bacharach musical. That's what I think of when I hear his name these days.

I don't know what I like better. The cheezy $200 guitar sound, the 1970s kitchen appliances being beat to shit; the matching track suits or their bare asses hanging out. Somehow it all fits together perfectly.

It gets weird when Meatloaf sings it's all coming back to me now.

I really can't figure out why it's so good. It just is. I think a key part is that they took a serious song and pulled it off really well with appliances and weirdness. But the juxtaposition of the three guys - one professional and deadpan, one basically Animal on percussion, and one who seems like he's on meth - also works perfectly. And I love the drama before that first hammer hit, which may be the best single moment of the video.

I laugh every single time I watch this thing.

My fave version of Total Eclipse of the Heart


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I know i saw that movie, but i couldn't tell you a thing about it .... Other than i was expecting it to be kinda wild and crazy, but it was mostly just crazy.

Rip whoever you were