Spike ,'Sleeper'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
With Total Eclipse we have the literal video. Paradise I have seen performed live, with staging, in Dallas with a hometown crowd.
I am unable to consider either one with any objectivity.
Edit: Hmm, Bat Out Of Hell was on the charts for nine YEARS. That has to count for something.
Meanwhile...would Buffistarawk happen to be harbouring any Voltaire?
There should be. Jilli sent me some and I think it went through Buffistarawk. (Which prompted me to go buy his albums so....just good marketing!)
If you just search for Voltaire it should come up. It might be in 2, though.
(Or, you know, all three for the total karaoke lose, only topped by motherfucking "Love Shack".)
Lose?? Total Eclipse KILLS at karaoke! HILARIOUS!!
Wikipedia is a menace. I was unaware that not only did it chart for nearly a decade, Bat Out of Hell was on an indie label.
Bat Out of Hell was on an indie label.
semi-indie. Cleveland International was started by an Epic exec and was under Epic's umbrella.
Posers!
I mailed "Screw the Okampa" by Voltaire to Buffistarawk.
Huh-- I did NOT know that Voltaire is Cuban-American!
(birth name: Aurelio Voltaire Hernandez)
Thanks, guys!
Interview with Leonard Cohen in the Guardian. [link]
Best bit at the end:
Let me ask you about Hallelujah, because it's been an interesting year for Hallelujah - it took on a new energy. A song that you wrote in 1984, and it appeared at No 1 and No 2 on the UK charts, and your version was also in the top 40. What did you make of that?
LC: I was happy that the song was being used, of course. There were certain ironic and amusing sidebars, because the record that it came from which was called Various Positions - [a] record Sony wouldn't put out. They didn't think it was good enough. It had songs like Dancing to the End of Love, Hallelujah, If It Be Your Will. So there was a mild sense of revenge that arose in my heart. But I was just reading a review of a movie called Watchmen that uses it, and the reviewer said "Can we please have a moratorium on Hallelujah in movies and television shows?" And I kind of feel the same way. I think it's a good song, but I think too many people sing it.