You may not expect a large, straight guy with a beard to admit this, but I love Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart. I think it’s just a great song, amazingly well-done. First of all, I love Tyler’s voice, for the same reason I like good hardcore, emo, screamo, punk, etc. I just really enjoy raw vocals. From a critic’s perspective, I’d say this has to do with the passion reflected in the voice. Whatever. I just really like it. On top of Tyler’s enjoyable performance, though, you have the video. If you haven’t seen this video, watch it. It’s like a Meatloaf video, only (somehow) more surreal, and with flying choirboys with glowing eyes. And dancing ninjas. Really. Ninjas. Dancing.
You have to be a special kind of cool to have dancing ninjas.
By the way, Guilty pleasure 1(a): the Dan Band cover. First off, in spite of the random obscenity, it actually is a pretty well-done cover. But mostly, I don’t know why but there’s just something really very amusing (on an I-wish-I-was-still-13 kind of level) about semi-random and totally inappropriate swearing (and yes… that’s as opposed to “appropriate swearing”).
