Register your thoughts on "Eternal Flame" by the Bangles

It's one of the only pieces of music I've ever heard my dad comment on. He likes it. How do you feel?

Actually a beautiful song, even if it is a bit more obviously "mass produced" than the rest of their output. I've heard worse stuff from Kelly/Steinberg.

As a performance, ok (love the Bangles' harmonies, as usual); as a song, awful. It's odd that their two best singles were covers that both peaked at #2 ("Manic Monday" and "Hazy Shade of Winter") (although maybe I like "If She Knew What She Wants" better).

(uh- not sure what happened with my typing up there... i see all kinds of weird characters)

(oops, ignore that previous post.)

I like this song, but it's a lot schlockier than I remember it being at the age of 10, when I first heard it. it's sort of touching though. I still like it but it's not one of the bangles tunes that I would choose to play if I were going to choose one to put on right now. I actually really like the follow-up single to this, "Be With You". It's a *little* punky and fast, but has an orchestra!

Generally, The Bangles best songs haven't been their biggest hits. And I don't neccessarily mean the first album, which I have never gotten the grip on other than "Going Down To Liverpool". However, later they released several great singles such as "If She Knew What She Wants", "Following", "Walking Down Your Street" and "In My Room", but neither did as well as "Eternal Flame", "Manic Monday" and "Walk Like An Egyptian". The latter is the only Bangles song that I actually dislike.

Quite a nice song although not really one of their best. Hoffs performance is pretty good.

The backing vocals, however, are so weary and half arsed. Were they not getting on by this time?

The backing vocals, however, are so weary and half arsed

probably from them having to record them 500 times for a ridiculously polished production gloss

They don't have to use the 500th version though.

good chord changes.

geir otm, tho i love most of the debut. love the band but don't have all that much time for this song

Alfred, is it really accurate to call "Manic Monday" a cover? Prince wrote it specifically for them, and for the album, no?

Anyway, "Eternal Flame" . . . uh, the melody is pretty enough, can do without the bridge, Susanna Hoffs's vocal ad-libs in the outro are nice. Not their best song by a long shot, not even probably in my top ten favorite Bangles songs.

I guess not.

prince did do a version of "manic monday", and it's floating around on p2p, but I think it was never released. not sure if it predates the bangles version or not. I think it does.

the "say my name, sun shines thru the rain" birdge (?) is godhead.

good chord changes.

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^^^^

C'est magnifique.

prince did do a version of "manic monday",

Who is Prince kissing by a cool, blue, Italian stream?

Eternal Flame is a great song, btw.

I cannot fathom hating this song.

Who is Prince kissing by a cool, blue, Italian stream?

Sheila E.

Who is Prince kissing by a cool, blue, Italian stream?

"Vanity" isn't far off from "Valentino" - ?

I don't hate the song as much as I hate the production.

Kind of weird to see this thread after running into the song twice in fairly quick succession in totally unrelated contexts (a Zach Galifianakis standup special and an episode of Monkey Dust). OOH SYNCHRONICITY SPOOKY

Great song though.

The backing vocals, however, are so weary and half arsed

rong. they're perfect for the song.

unlike my formatting for that post.

I have this one and "The Flame" by Cheap Trick filed together under "Schlocky 'Flame' songs by bands that used to rock out better, but very nicely executed radio hit material nonetheless."

Eternal Flame is the better of the two, winning on chord changes as mentioned above.

Arcadia - The Flame beats Cheap Trick and Bangles Flame submissions.

I love Arcadia's.

This is surprisingly moving live.

say my naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
sun shines through the ra-a-aaaain
a whole life, so lonely
and then you come and ease the paiiiiiiin
I don't wanna lose this feeee-eee-liiiiiin'
ohhhhhhhh