Bright Eyes

Total Eclispe Of The Heart is my all time favorite song. It's starts off as a sad, gentle duet sung with Rory Dodd and then Bonnie Tyler takes it to a high powered ending.

Straight from Her Heart

Bonnie Tyler's most well-known album and not least for the song "Total Eclipse of the Heart". That song is her best one...a very beautiful ballad. This version is that longer one. However, it isn't the only good track in this album...the songs "Faster Than the Speed of Night", "Straight from the Heart", and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" are popular tracks too. "Faster...", "It's a Jungle Out There", and "Going Through the Motion" are very catching tracks...they have the power! The ballads "Tears" and "Take Me Back" are quite simpel and they make this album less good, unfortunately".

Stars: Total Eclipse of the Heart, It's a Jungle Out There, Faster Than the Speed of Night, Have You Ever Seen the Rain?

The voice!

I am a huge BT fan, and I have had the opportunity to meet her twice, which was quite a delight! That voice!!! It is shown off very well on this great album of the 80s, and it does not sound old! As a matter of fact, TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART has been re-released as a duet in Europe, where it has cracked the European top 5, and has held strong atop the charts for 7 weeks in Blegium and 10 weeks in France!!! This has also launched a new album available on the site entitled SIMPLY BELIEVE. Now on to this album!

It is heavy, and the background vocals are simply superb. I agree with most other reviewers; GETTING SO EXCITED has always been my least favorite song on the entire album. Oddly enough, the album title brings out the bombastic Wagnerio-Steinmanesque tone superbly, but I never really LOVED the song as such. Track #1 is absolutely superb, and charged with her powerful voice. Of course, the uncontournable TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART is the must-hear in its extended version of 6:49!!! Ravishing! GETTING THROUGH THE MOTIONS is cute, and not to be taken seriously, while IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE is quite pop. I always like that arrangement. TEARS is a raunching duet by Bonnie and Sctosman extraordinaire Frankie Miller, with whom she collaborated on two subsequent albums. TAKE ME BACK is very powerful as well, while STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART, the Bryan Adams cover is just plain great. Again, that voice alone makes you shiver! A must-have from a great woman, even if you don't like all the songs. For everyone else who is not most familiar with her work, try NOTES FROM AMERICA, my all-time favorite Bonnie Tyler release ever!