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Perry Holley
03-17-2005, 04:13 PM
Jim Steinman and Bonnie Tyler are both rolling over in their graves... and I don't think either of them are actually dead yet.

plaza.ufl.edu/njh/vids/hurratorpedo.wmv

(note: not a small file, about 7.5 MB)
WSLer
03-17-2005, 07:34 PM
If you ever want me to click/cut and paste a link, you better be damn sure to provide a description of what the link contains.
Perry Holley
03-18-2005, 05:17 PM
It's a rather unique version of Total Eclipse of the Heart.

I can't say much more than that because, honestly, mere words fail to describe this video...
Alex
03-18-2005, 05:58 PM
...since Andrew Wk, The Darkness, and Polyphonic Spree, i can't tell if they are serious.
howyadoin
03-18-2005, 07:15 PM
It's a rather unique version of Total Eclipse of the Heart.Couldn't possibly be much worse than the original song.
JeffreyWKramer
03-18-2005, 09:20 PM
Couldn't possibly be much worse than the original song.

That's what I was thinking. I don't even know if Limp Biskit could do a cover version worse than that particular original.

That is definitely on my "Hell's Jukebox" short list.
Adam Crocker
03-18-2005, 10:00 PM
Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! This is brilliant! Completely brilliant! The pathetic guitar line...the cretinous smashing of the old stove...the ridiculous percussion from banging on the old appliances and slamming the freezer door...the shitty blue hoodies and jogging suits that the performers are wearing and the way that guy's pants are falling down...the sheer deliberate crappiness of it... It's less music than it is some absurd, dadaist performance art!

I WUV IT!
SuperGodGinrai
03-18-2005, 10:28 PM
I think it's pretty funny/cool actually.
I'm sure these guys are goofing off, not taking themselves seriously.
At any rate, anyone that complains about this but loves the blue man group is contradicting him/herself
The Real Nemo
10-08-2005, 01:25 AM
That's what I was thinking. I don't even know if Limp Biskit could do a cover version worse than that particular original.

That is definitely on my "Hell's Jukebox" short list.
What's wrong with Total Eclipse of the Heart? :confused:
howyadoin
10-08-2005, 08:10 PM
What's wrong with Total Eclipse of the Heart? It sucks?

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Sanagi
10-08-2005, 08:35 PM
More specifically, it's extremely repetitive, repetitive, repetitive.
Valmore
10-08-2005, 08:55 PM
That's what I was thinking. I don't even know if Limp Biskit could do a cover version worse than that particular original.

Don't be silly - there's no song in creation that Limp Bizkit can't make worse.
Buried Alien
10-08-2005, 09:01 PM
More specifically, it's extremely repetitive, repetitive, repetitive.

Most pop songs are.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)
The Mirrorball Man
10-09-2005, 03:49 AM
Most pop songs are.
Most pop songs are not seven minutes long.
howyadoin
10-09-2005, 04:01 PM
Most pop songs are. Most pop songs are fortunately not written or produced by Jim Steinman, though.
Chevan
10-09-2005, 05:34 PM
Avril Lavigne's take on "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" might just qualify for this category.

And that video? Kinda funny, but I couldn't make it all the way through.
Shellhead
10-10-2005, 07:50 AM
I guess I was very lucky. Not only did I survive the 80's without ever hearing Total Eclipse of the Heart, I never even heard of the song until last year.
JeffreyWKramer
10-10-2005, 06:49 PM
What's wrong with Total Eclipse of the Heart? :confused:

Repetitive, over-produced, lyrics which make no sense by even the lax standards of pop music...
The Real Nemo
10-12-2005, 08:27 PM
It sucks?

.
*shrugs* I like any song that brings out a lot of emotion when I listen to it, I feel that way about a lot of 80s songs...
JeffreyWKramer
10-12-2005, 08:43 PM
*shrugs* I like any song that brings out a lot of emotion when I listen to it, I feel that way about a lot of 80s songs...

The only thing that particular song brings out in me is nausea, and maybe my most recent meal.
The Real Nemo
10-12-2005, 09:33 PM
The only thing that particular song brings out in me is nausea, and maybe my most recent meal.
Nice, but I guess it's a matter of personal taste...
Pinball
10-12-2005, 11:37 PM
...Einsturzende Neubauten as envisioned by a 5-year-old?

BRILLIANT! :D
Pinball
11-14-2005, 08:41 AM
Yes, they have their own website (http://www.hurratorpedo.com/) now.
howyadoin
11-14-2005, 01:40 PM
*shrugs* I like any song that brings out a lot of emotion when I listen to it, I feel that way about a lot of 80s songs...See, that strikes me as odd, because so many over-produced songs from that era sound cold and devoid of emotion. With shlock like "Total Eclipse", I find it hard to imagine that actual people were even involved in making it.
Adam Crocker
11-14-2005, 02:05 PM
See, that strikes me as odd, because so many over-produced songs from that era sound cold and devoid of emotion. With shlock like "Total Eclipse", I find it hard to imagine that actual people were even involved in making it.

You mean actual people made that song? I thought they made it using an advanced form of the versificator machines that the party used in Nineteen Eighty Four to make popular music.
howyadoin
11-14-2005, 03:50 PM
You mean actual people made that song? I thought they made it using an advanced form of the versificator machines that the party used in Nineteen Eighty Four to make popular music.In retrospect, I should've known that.
The Real Nemo
11-05-2006, 06:47 PM
See, that strikes me as odd, because so many over-produced songs from that era sound cold and devoid of emotion. With shlock like "Total Eclipse", I find it hard to imagine that actual people were even involved in making it.
Well like I said, I guess it must be a personal thing. Bonnie Tyler's version of of "Making Love (Out of Nothing At All)" has seriously been known to make me cry (in a good way).
Valmore
11-05-2006, 07:26 PM
You waited for a year to finally reply? To this?

Yikes. Just yikes.
Ontir
11-05-2006, 07:31 PM
Intentional or not, it's one of the funniest things I've seen recently.
howyadoin
11-05-2006, 09:30 PM
You waited for a year to finally reply? To this?People shouldn't rush into decisions.
Spike-X
11-06-2006, 12:51 AM
Well like I said, I guess it must be a personal thing. Bonnie Tyler's version of of "Making Love (Out of Nothing At All)" has seriously been known to make me cry (in a good way).
*points and laffs*
The Real Nemo
11-06-2006, 03:23 AM
You waited for a year to finally reply? To this?

Yikes. Just yikes.
*shrugs* Hey I don't visit the Music board often, I'd forgotten about this thread until it came up on a search.
Intentional or not, it's one of the funniest things I've seen recently.
I'm not sure what you mean by that, but glad to have amused you I guess... :p