Old Enough to Forget

Oh, look what the dollar bin puked up. Bonnie Tyler's 1983 Jim Steinman-produced and directed mega, over-the-top opus Faster Than The Speed Of Night . I brought the album home, which was in surprisingly good shape, and even the liner was decent. This would be fun. Everything about this release screamed cheese, especially the cover. I'm not sure if it was a deliberate nod to Steve Martin, but it sure does look like she's got an arrow through her head. Was she letting us know she was a wild and crazy gal? Of course, you'd have had to live under a rock not to have heard "Total Eclipse of the Heart," and I will admit I like the song. Heck, after almost forty years, the song is part of the fabric of pop culture. Still, I was expecting very little from the rest of the album and was prepared for a lot of bloated filler. The first cut is a cover song, an interesting (in a good way) interpretation of John Fogerty's "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" If you...