In the fifteen years I’ve had MTV & the three years I’ve had VH1, I have never seen them play
the video to Bonnie Tyler’s TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART- not on any 1980s tributes or any history of videos or anything! HELL, they occasionally still play The Buggles’ VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR- but NEVER Tyler’s TOTAL ECLIPSE!
Am I just missing the showings or for some reason did Tyler’s TEOTH never get on MTV’s playlist?
You’ve just missed it. Though I think the last time I saw it was about three years ago on VH1
You’re missing it. I’ve seen it a number of times on VH-1, and a couple of times on MTV in some 80’s retrospective or other. Also, they did play it plenty when the song was big.
The eyes… the eyes…
Still one of the best (and creepiest) music video’s ever made in my opinion.
It’ll pop up on VH1 Classics now and again.
Yeah, watch VH1 Classics during the “We Are the 80s” and “Pop Show” segments. It also always turns up when the channel runs special programming like “Women Who Rock” or “Video A-Z”-type things.
I gotta agree that TEOTH is one of the more disturbing (and one of the sexiest, especially if you’re a hormone-percolating homo-in-training in the 80s) videos ever.
Ditto to Otto’s comment.
It amazes me that it’s eluded me thus far.
I’ve never seen it. Question: does the song bear any relation whatsoever to the DiCaprio artists-in-love movie Total Eclipse? I’ve never seen the movie, but from what I know of the story, it would seem to fit the storyline. Was it, perhaps, used in it?
I’ve heard the song (hell, I downloaded the song), but I’ve never seen the music video. Could someone describe it to me?
I hated that video so much that I always wanted to gouge out my eyes when it came on.
I saw it on Pop Up Video several times.
Okay, what’s so disturbing about it?
(And incidentally, I’ve never seen the “Cherry Pie” video, either.)
I’m trying to remember what was disturbing about it - I do remember thinking it was kinda cool, in a gothic sort of way. Lemme think here… young boys, a schoolmarm-ish Tyler, blowing floor-to-ceiling sheer curtains (rather similar, in fact, to the video made many years later for another Jim Steinman comp, “It’s Call Coming Back To Me Now” by Celine Dion), noticing that one of the boys didn’t have eyeballs, but mirrors where his eyeballs should have been (and even back then I thought they could have done a better job with that effect). That’s all I can remember, I’m afraid.
The boys looked like they had glowing ping pong balls for eyes. This song is an excellent example of Jim Steinman’s flair for the dramatic.
I saw it on Pop-Up Video. I think the “story” of the video is that the woman in the video is a teacher in an all boy’s school and she either has an affair with one of the boys or wants to have an affair with one of the boys.
Yeek.
All the flying around. The weird graphics. And the completely overwrought vocals of Bonnie Tyler.
And my friends in college thought that the song was so deep.
Ok I’m not sure if this is violating copyright law or anything but here’s a link to a copy I found online (I just searched google for it) :
http://gimb.org/~berkelid/pesmce/Tyler,%20Bonnie%20-%20Total%20Eclipse%20Of%20The%20Heart.mpg
Whoa. That is pretty bizarre. Thanks, Skip.
I learned on VH1 recently that the song was either written or produced (something like that, anyway) by Meatloaf. Once you listen to that song while thinking of “Paradise by Dashboard Light” otr “2/3 ain’t bad” it makes perfect sense.
Over the top, over-dramatized epic crap. (crapic? 
)
But anyway, I’ve seen the video several times.
C’MON, MANNN!!! “Forever’s gonna start tonight” – That is deep. You probably just don’t understand it.