Artist Toto Year 1986 AlbumBat Out of Hell Music & Lyrics Steve Lukather, Randy Goodrum US 11 US AC 1 US Radio 11 | 1986: 105 Netherlands 31 Poland 11 Sweden 10 RateYourMusic.com 3.02| 1986: 748 My Rating 9.09/10
Eighties band sings ballad about getting over lost love. Songs hits #130 on Toastie’s countdown. Big surprise.
Artist Eric Carmen Year 1975 AlbumBat Out of Hell Music & Lyrics Eric Carmen, Sergei Rachmaninoff US 2 | 1976: 40 US AC 6 US Radio 2 | 1976: 41 UK 12 Belgium-Flanders 10 Belgium-Wallonia 15 Brazil 1976: 16 Canada 3 France 1 Italy 1976: 54 Netherlands 7 New Zealand 6 RateYourMusic.com 3.19| 1975: 155 My Rating 9.09/10
Let me get this countdown down. Sure, the lyrics about never needing anyone when I was young and love was just for fun, those don’t apply. But the gist of the song is I don’t want to be all by myself anymore and that gist has held true for a couple of decades now. Perhaps there will come a day when this song is meaningless to me. Not quite yet.
I shall confess that, back in the 1990s, I knew Celine Dion’s version better, but I can’t ignore Eric Carmen and the extended use of Rachmaninoff.
Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
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Artist Louis Armstrong Year 1968 AlbumWhat A Wonderful World Music & Lyrics Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer My Rating 9.09/10
There’s only 8 lines in the whole song. Sue me…I’ll print them all.
Moon river, wider than a mile
I’m crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you’re goin’, I’m goin’ your way
Two drifters, off to see the world
There’s such a lot of world to see
We’re after the same rainbow’s end, waitin’ ’round the bend
My huckleberry friend, moon river, and me
I could’ve gone with Andy Williams, who made it his signature song. I could’ve gone with Audrey Hepburn herself direct from Breakfast At Tiffany’s. (It was the Oscar for Best Original Song). And there are hundreds of other covers out there, many of which I probably like even more than Louis Armstrong’s. But Armstrong’s version is probably the first one I ever heard years before I ever saw the movie. Great song.
Andy Williams:
Audrey Hepburn:
Elton John. This one’s new to me:
Blog Note
It’s been a month-and-a-half. Life’s gotten in the way. I’ve got to finish this. And even if my taste in music has taken a turn over the past year-and-a-half, I imagine I should still be somewhat fond of the top 132.
Like a sinner before the gates of heaven, I'll come crawling on back to you...
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Artist Meat Loaf Year 1977 AlbumBat Out of Hell Music & Lyrics Jim Steinman UK 15 (1979) | 8 (1993) RateYourMusic.com 3.33 | 1977: 226 My Rating 9.09/10
Not a heartwarming message. I’ll be gone when you wake up. But we’ll do it again.
See, I can like stuff that’s not all-syrupy and what-not like Air Supply.
I’m sure I had not idea what this song was about 20 years ago. Or 5 years ago. But it’s a sweeping bombastic lengthy epic, and it builds to this amazing crescendo And the last thing I see is my heart…still beating…
Oh, damn…apparently, it’s a literal beating heart after the protagonist has his body literally torn and twisted after a motorcycle crash. As has been well-established in my write-ups of the previous 246 songs, I don’t pay too much attention to lyrics.
I listen to some slow depressing sh*t while I’m driving, but this gets the blood racing. 10 minutes of awesome. (11 or 12 minutes if it’s a live version. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that vintage live performance above until just now. Damn.)
Ooh, another nugget from Wikipedia: This song placed third of Top Gear’s Top 5 Ultimate Driving Songs, as voted by the audience of the show. It was ranked below Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now” and Golden Earring’s “Radar Love”.
This is the *fifth* song in the countdown off the Bat Out of Hell album. I can’t imagine there is another non-compilation album that has produced this many countdown songs. Spoiler: I think this is pretty much it.
After discovering their Greatest Hits CD in the early 1990s, I was thrilled when Air Supply came out with a new album, The Vanishing Race, back in 1993, which was right about the time I started college. I bought it right away, which, of course, all college freshmen did that year…
Etc.
My zeal for Air Supply was a little over-inflated when I was rating songs. Not sure what I was thinking here. #261 was definitely the better song.
