Tone it down a little, for the love of god! Nearly everything is unbelievably dangerous while listening to "Eye of the Tiger." Here s a little exercise that illustrates perfectly what this song is capable of. If life is Goliath, "Eye of the Tiger" is its David. When anything insurmountable occurs, from massive corporate takeovers to pie-eating contests, "Eye of the Tiger" may be faintly heard, wafting distantly in the wind. Its opening chords have entered the cultural subconscious as the theme music for facing impossible odds. Continue Reading BelowĪs a consequence of this, it has been universally appropriated as the definitive anthem of the triumphant underdog.
But in all fairness to the men of the '80s, Bonnie went on to specify that the man she wanted was "a white knight on a fiery steed," who was "racing with the thunder and rising with the heat," from a place "up where the mountains meet the heavens above, out where the lightning splits the sea." Going on these rough descriptions, the only men capable of banging Bonnie Tyler were the Justice League of America. It is all well and good to insist that your men stop leaving the cap off of your mascara. In response to this heart-wrenching plea for masculinity, men of the '80s commenced to wear white loafers without socks, purchased hair mousse in bulk and turned up their Wham! albums until Bonnie Tyler's screams for help were drowned out. Bonnie Tyler cried out in futility and frustration, lamenting "Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods?" She begged for rescue, singing that she was "Holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night!" This song debuted in 1984 on the Footloose soundtrack, and called for a resurgence of heroic chivalry among men of the era. Those too young to remember the Cold War, in fact, tend to laugh upon hearing it. That distinctly '80s synthesizer sound didn't exactly age well. Just be grateful it's not about scat fetishes and exceedingly thin cigarettes.Īlso, let's face it. If a remix were to come out that consists only of that synthesizer riff and the cry of "It's the final countdown!," it would doubtlessly rank higher on this list. "The Final Countdown" needs some serious trimming. The song takes a sharp decline after the chorus, when it slips from the vaguely threatening line "It's the final countdown!" into sci-fi-gibberish wails like "we're heading for Venus, and still we'll stand tall!" If we were wrestlers and it was 1986 again, we'd totally have this as our intro music. We're not clear on what he's counting down to, but somebody's about to get their ass kicked. The synthesizer riff in this 1986 track is as fist-pumping as music gets without involving an actual instrument.
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