It doesn't look like the second has been cut off to get the first, because the font is different. It looks like the second was an attempt to extend the first (also, it kills the joke)

Steinman was a genius. One of the greatest rock composers of all time and he picked his performers brilliantly.

Reminds me of when she was on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and they played a "finish the lyrics" game: https://youtu.be/vl7UfjtLzcQ?t=260

Visual representation is your WORST friend: it will make things LOOK simple even if the real thing required the utter mastery to create.

Look at that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATbMw6X3T40

That's actually a really interesting visualization of a professionally structured verse.

Did he mean on a set of NS10s or on THOSE NS10s?

That is so great. My wife and i love to annoy our teenage kids by getting Alexa to play this song and then singing along very dramatically haha.

Back in 1999, the UK had its first total solar eclipse for several decades and VH1 played the music video (though, not this one ;-)) on loop for an hour while it was happening.

I came here to post this, glad you beat me to it. I pulled a muscle laughing the first time I saw this.

If you like meta-songs, you may be interested in "Title of this song" by Da Vinci's Notebook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgmUgFEFzco&list=RDHgmUgFEFz...

The back story of the writing of Total Eclipse ain't bad either: https://youtu.be/LGqYnj_Y3CI?t=70

There’s also one of A-Ha’s “Take on Me”.

“Haaaand comes out…”

I'm glad this is still on the Internet. It's exactly the sort of thing that almost never is, when I try to find it again several years after seeing it the first time.

I had never seen the music video until the news started playing it. Super funny

Sony tried so hard to kill this when it was new

I like to pretend that was filmed in the Hogwarts sixth form commmon room in the eighties

"Every now and then, I get a little bit nervous That the best of all the years have gone by"

Sadly, Jim Steinman passed away half a decade ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Steinman

I still want to see the dream realized on Broadway of a Native-American inspired musical.

Tears in rain, etc.

Absolute classic. If anyone is interested, the Footloose soundtrack (which has Holding Out For a Hero on it) is probably one of the greatest soundtracks of all time. The movie sucks but damn, this soundtrack is incredible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footloose_(1984_soundtrack)

Featured towards the climax of Short Circuit 2, which was huge in my childhood. What a powerhouse piece of music!

Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?

Jellybean long version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Wq3U86SyQ

Is it wrong that I prefer the Shrek version?

Probably one of those coincidences, like you talked about bouncy houses and now you’re seeing ads for bouncy houses

There, got my upvote.

Before that. Her breakthrough album was 1977 and Total Eclipse of the Heart came out in 1982, so it was more the 8-track era. It remained a staple of radio plays (remember those?) through the 80s and 90s though, and was remade by Nikki French into a chart-topping dance version in 1995.

A lot of HN is folks in their late 30s, 40s, and early 50s (and sometimes even older!), so many folks here would've overlapped with the radio era. A lot of folks here were involved in making YouTube/Instagram/TikTok, not listening to it.

Death notices of famous artists are regularly on HN. If people upvote it, it should be worthy.

Next total eclipse, 2026-08-12.

Total: Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Northeastern Portugal

Partial: Northern North America, Europe, West Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_in_the_...

Nah, occassional non tech stuff is very welcome. It’s interesting to see HN’s perspective on other things

Every now and then an article like this is fine.

It's not even "geek music", to add to your perplexity.

Well, historically, 1983 is:

- 19 Years after the first superscalar CPU, the CDC-6600

- 10 Years after RFC-675, the first TCP version.

- 14 years after the first ARPANET nodes where connected.

- 1 year after Hopfield Networks, paving the way to Boltzman Networks around two years laters, demonstrating how neural networks could learn to solve complex problems.

- The same year Kunihiko Fukushima developed his work on the Neocognitron for visual pattern recognition, a percursor for future work on Convolutional Neural Networks.

- 3 years before first papers on Backpropagation in neural nets.

- First paper on Reinforcement Learning with reward signals (Baron, Sutton and Anderson)

- 3 years after first smalltalk release.

- 2 years after IBM launched the PC.

- 1 year after 3Com launches the first Ethernet board for the PC.

- 1 Year after Sun Microsystems foundation.

- Unix and C 15th anniversary.

- 6 years after the first commercial relational database.

- 11 years after the first vector processor (Cray-1), arguably the great-grandfather of all modern GPUs

- The same year Borland released Turbo Pascal.

- The same year Apple launched Lisa, and one year before the first macintosh.

- 2 years before Intel launched the 80386 cpu.

- 2 years before C++ first commercial release.

Yeah, hardly a relevant year for us to discuss its culture on HN.

Maybe it's not.

Guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, (...) If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Very famous singer, multiple very famous songs, 40 yo song topped the carts during the 2024 Eclipse, was pretty much the theme song for a very small indie movie called Shrek 2.