'Eye of the Tiger' by Survivor - classic or cream of the fight?

(Though I would have opted for "The Moment of Truth," myself.)

As such, I'd say it's a certified coolsie classic.

what's the song that an ILMer mentioned once several months ago that falls into this category of music but the lyrics are something like "Im the greatest" or "Im the best" or "Im number one"??? the answer is not ringo star

You got the touch
You got the power

After all is said and done
You've never walked, you've never run,
You're a winner

You got the moves, you know the streets
Break the rules, take the heat
You're nobody's fool

You're at your best when when the goin' gets rough
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough

You got the touch
You got the power

When all hell's breakin' loose
You'll be riding the eye of the storm

You got the heart
You got the motion

You know that when things get too tough
You got the touch

You never bend, you never break
You seem to know just what it takes
You're a fighter

It's in the blood, it's in the will
It's in the mighty hands of steel
When you're standin' your ground

And you never get hit when your back's to the wall
Gonna fight to the end and you're takin' it all

You got the touch
You got the power

When all hell's breakin' loose
You'll be riding the eye of the storm

You got the heart
You got the motion

You know that when things get too tough
You got the touch

You're fightin' fire with fire
You know you got the touch

You're at your best when when the road gets rough
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough

You got the touch
You got the power

You got the touch
You got the power

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2weqGjwbwtw
its not the karate kid song or this song, but I love it

I prefer "Burning Heart."

It's interesting to reconsider this song in retrospect since it doesn't seem to get played as much as a lot of other early 80's tunes, or at least I never seem to come across it much anymore. I remember hearing it in the Rocky movie back in the day and being like "what is that!? I want that now!" so I managed to figure out who it was and bought the single. I still think it's a pretty good song and the vocalist is really fantastic. Too bad he left the band and they got the other one with black hair. I only remember hearing one decent song by them after that, though it seems to me they had several hits.

Of all the cheesy songs to stick in the middle of a comedy in parody of anything, this one still gets a laugh from me just for the song. I still love it.

I fucking hate this song and would like to never hear it again.

LOL! Well that's a valid point of view as well.

it doesn't seem to get played as much as a lot of other early 80's tunes

My experience is pretty far from this but it might be because I was taking kickboxing classes for a while. Seems like a popular karaoke choice too though.

no one ever found the answer to my question :(

DJ Hillside & MC Thick Passage's hipster retro disco night

oh great now both my eyes and ears are bleeding

My high school mascot was the tiger, so they'd play this song every Friday as school let out during football season. :S

Xgau's 80s Guide, on Material's One Down (1982):
Laswell, Beinhorn & Co. have obviously been listening to the radio instead of complaining about the end of the world. The result is a protean disco album that sounds like real New York rock and roll. Chic guitar and planet-rocking vocoders are only the beginning--several of these experiments seem designed to cross over right behind "Eye of the Tiger," and never have electronically processed rhythms throbbed with such life." Gives it an A minus, the minus I guess because "all that's missing is a deeper feeling for vocalists..." That's what I didn't like about "Eye," was the vocal, even thinner and whinier than the guy probably/maybe had to be. (Though xgau does like this Material album's version of Hugh Hopper's "Memories," with Archie Shepp and Whitney Houston! If only they'd been on "Eye.")

I'm sure this is the most other-thoughts-please obvious opinion ever, but seeing as nobody else on this thread has said it yet, I may as well observe that this has the hugest dropoff in quality in the history of recorded music from the awesomeness of the intro to the tinny bleating of the rest of the song.

Just going for my challops badge, like.

the version in Persepolis was just plain wonderful to see in the theater and is still pretty wonderful squashed down on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlIAmCfHzbg

I prefer "The Search Is Over" — particularly, the ritardando right up to "Tell me that you...giiiiiive....aaaaa....daaaaaaamn"

i believe the first tape i bought at like 6yrs old was the Rocky soundtrack because of this song.

i am currently wearing this shirt

http://www.kultic.com/images/product_images/info_images/KFMPDT004_0.JPG

fuck dude where did you get that shirt! want one!

wifee got it for free through work, but they're sold online

http://www.kultic.com/p827-ojo-del-tigre-oil-black.html

This was the official school song of my high school in 1daho Falls. Everyone's fucking favorite, even the kids who were too cool for school (yrs truly included). SURVIVOR once played FOR FREE at a downtown street fest. It was kind of like when Homer watched Bachmann-Turner Overdrive: everyone all forcing Survivor to play Eye of the Tiger. And we got them to play it THREE TIMES. It was better than graduating. Best vibes from an audience ever. We ate that shit up.

My high school mascot was the tiger, so they'd play this song every Friday as school let out during football season. :S

-- Melissa W, Monday, August 11, 2008 4:20 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

It seems as though we had v different relationships with our mascots & their songs.

:D v. :S

This is going to get me ridiculed, but for years I thought Survivor was a Ronnie James Dio side project.

Just last night, I watched a mid '80s action flick with Gary Busey called "Eye of the Tiger." He plays a Vietnam vet released from prison (for a crime he didn't commit), who returns home to face off with a crack-dealing biker gang that is terrorizing his town. At one point, he rams a stick of lit dynamite up a bad guy's butthole (which Busey first sticks in a jar of vaseline). Supporting cast: Seymour Cassell, Yaphet Kotto. In other words: Add it to your Netflix queue.

They play the song about 5 times in the movie.

http://www.rainbowrecord.com/img_0542.jpg

ramboner

That's a much better poster than the cover of the DVD I got. The best thing is that I rented the DVD, came home, watched it, shut off the movie, turned on the TV, and it was playing right then on some upper Sky movie channel called "Movies 4 Men"!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510268C6V8L._SL500_AA240_.jpg