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Total Eclipse of The Sun

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of The Sun Audio CD

A fair review of the Bonnie Tyler "Total Eclipse of The Sun" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Bonnie Tyler reviews here, or go back to the Bonnie Tyler tabs.

Band: Bonnie Tyler
Title: Total Eclipse of The Sun
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Release Date: 2009-01-06
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: My My Honeycomb 2: Lost In France 3: Baby I Remember You 4: The World Starts Tonight 5: Heres Monday 6: More Than A Lover 7: Its A Heartache 8: Hey Love (Its A Feeling) 9: Blame Me 10: Here I Am 11: If You Ever Need Me Again 12: My Guns Are Loaded 13: Goodbye To The Island 14: We Danced On The Ceiling 15: Sitting On The Edge Of The Ocean 16: Married Men 17: Hide Your Heart 18: Notes From America 19: Ravishing 20: Streets Of Little Italy 21: Total Eclipse Of The Heart 22: Faster Than The Speed Of Night 23: Have You Ever Seen The Rain 24: Loving You Is A Dirty Job (But Somebody Has Gotta Do It) 25: Holding Out For A Hero 26: Bitterblue 27: You Wont See Me Cry 28: Angel Heart 29: Save Your Love 30: Silhouette In Red 31: Stay 32: I Cant Leave You Alone 33: Whenever You Need Me 34: Limelight 35: Islands 36: Sem Limites Pra Sonhar 37: Say Goodbye

More Than Covers...
There's two CDs full of great songs from the time period 1976-1996, about 20 years! Like usually in 2 CD collections, there's great songs, good songs, and songs that should have been lef off. This is the clipse of the whole carriere Bonnie Tyler has had. The songs in her early carriere all absolutely fastastic "My! My! Honeycomb", "Lost in France", "More Than a Lover", "It's a Heartache" are played in my CD player quite often. There's some songs that have no great value: "The World Starts Tonight", "Here Am I", "Hide Your Heart" which are quite boring material. I think there's much more great songs than basic pop songs but I think Bonnie Tyler would have more to offer. Where are the great songs "It's a Jungle Out There", "Against the WInd", "Where Were You", and "Too Hot"? There's great classics "Total Eclipse of the Heart", "Faster Than the Speed of Night", "Bitterblue", "Sem Limites Pra Sonhar", "Angel Heart" etc in the CD 2. There's also some songs I would have left off ("Save Your Love", "Islands", "You Won't See Me Cry", "Stay") but I think this 37-track collection offers quite great music.
Stars: Total Eclipse of the Heart, Holding Out for a Hero, My! My! Honeycomb, More Than a Lover
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A magnificent anthology
This compilation includes all Bonnie's British and American hits and a selection of her other songs. Bonnie never achieved consistent success in Britain or America, though she has fared better in Germany.

Being a double CD, this anthology explores her career in greater depth than a single CD could ever do. Still, they can all be found elsewhere. As compensation, this collection contains many other excellent songs including My my honeycomb (Bonnie's first single) and several of Bonnie's nineties recordings, as well as Islands (a Mike Oldfield track featuring Bonnie as vocalist).

There were three phases to Bonnie's career. The first phase, her RCA recordings, occupy the first sixteen tracks. Many of them have a country feel to them although the final track (Married men) is very different and shows that Bonnie was already seeking a different musical direction. The biggest hit during this period was It's a heartache, which made the British top ten, the American top ten and also made the top ten in the American country charts. Lost in France also made the British top ten. More than a love and Married men were minor UK hits. Many other singles were released but failed to chart. My favorite among them (Louisiana rain - a Tom Petty cover) is not included but several others are.

The second phase (Bonnie's Columbia recordings) is represented by just nine tracks. This somewhat understates their importance in Bonnie's career, but the label that released this anthology had to license these tracks and that may be the explanation. The British hits during this period were Total eclipse of the heart (a number one hit in Britain and America), Faster than the speed of night, Have you ever seen the rain, A rocking good way (with Shaking Stevens), Holding out for a hero and Loving you is a dirty job. Again, there were several failures, among them The best (a Bonnie Tyler original recording that failed to chart until Tina Turner covered it, when it became a major worldwide hit - you may know it as Simply the best) but although Bonnie's recording of this song is brilliant, it's not included here.

The third phase of Bonnie's career began when she signed to a German record label in the nineties. She continued to record in English (though she has since recorded a few songs in other languages) and I regard her German recordings as being among the finest of her career. You'll find them here on the second CD beginning with Bitterblue, a major hit for Bonnie in Germany and the title track of her first German-recorded album. The title tracks of her next two albums, Angel heart and Silhouette in red, are also included, deservedly so as they are outstanding.

This is a very strong compilation. If (like me) you find one or two tracks not here, they can probably be found on other compilations, but this is a great starting point for a Bonnie Tyler collection.

The Best!

I have lots and lots of music but this has quickly become one of my favorites. The other reviewers pretty well summed it up, but I wanted to add my comments. Every single track is great!

I spend a lot of money on music but consider this the best money I ever spent.

If you are a Bonnie Tyle fan or just enjoy great music, this album is a "must have".

Go for it!!.

An extensive overlook on Bonnie Tyler's career
This one is my favorite. I am a fan of Bonnie Tyler's, and I have a few compilations. It includes songs from all of Bonnie's albums, minus All in One Voice and the recent Heart Strings. You will get a chance to hear all the different styles she has experimented with, and the booklet included has details on her career, and a discography. If you choose to have at least one Bonnie Tyler greatest hits album in your collection, pick this. I will note that this does not have the album version of Total Eclipse of the Heart, but there are many other great songs that you won't find on just any collection.

One very big drawback
This does NOT make me a happy camper. Two CD's worth of material, and they use the DRAMATICALLY EDITED version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart"?????? It was the biggest hit of her career! And they use the FULL-LENGTH version of "Faster Than the Speed of Night," which in my opinion should have been edited instead.

Oh well. . . aside from that, it's a great collection and the most extensive one I've found so far. The sound quality is superb. The lead-off track, "My! My! Honeycomb," was Bonnie's first record and is a great tune.

This collection has extensive liner notes and plenty of Bonnie pics, although some of them leave a bit to be desired as far as quality.

I'm going to keep the songs I want from this disc and then sell it.

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