When Susanna hits that high note, i get chills.

Nothing can beat those 80s ballads!

It is always satisfying/gratifying when someone has exactly the reaction to a thing that you feel they should have, and you just being mesmerized by Susanna Hoffs for four minutes is completely correct.

This song is a study into simplicity - it has just exactly what it needs and nothing that it doesn't. Early Beatles music is like that, too.

Eternal Flame is synonymous with Susanna Hoffs. She was the heartthrob of many in the 80’s with an unmatchable beauty, and a voice to match.

Hazy Shade of Winter is another favorite from The Bangles.

When The Bangles came on the scene, it was very unique to have an all female group hit it big at that time. I remember wondering how long they would last. The ability to survive such a cut throat business like the recording industry was difficult for any band, let alone groups trying to pave the way for others who were different from the norm.

She is still absolutely gorgeous today.

Loved this song, and Susanna Hoffs was so hot !

i LOVED this when i was a kid

You look at Susanna like I look at my beer 😂😂

I love this song! It came out when my husband and I were dating so it brings back a lot of good memories.

It was such a classic back then. My teen years were in 90’s and it was the power ballad in every disco etc. I loved it so much. It’s my favourite song of theirs.

This song cemented The Bangles as an extraordinary band. They are so underrated and so excellent in their songs and their delivery of their songs 🎵. Just love this song. It gets me emotional.

What a voice and dare I say it, what an absolutely beautiful woman..

The amount of views on this video is a drop in the bucket. Keep in mind how long that came out before KZfaq even existed😉 The internet wasn't even a thing yet

Beautiful beautiful reacction 💪

It makes you want to start crying in both joy and sadness... It is so faultless and beautiful, powerful yet fragile. Like Love and Life itself. A masterpiece. "I'm not crying, you're crying! " From your reaction, you GET THIS SONG!

Miss Hoffs was my first celeb crush

I didn't recognize the title at first, but I remembered this song and is one of my favorites from that era

In 1989 I was a full on 15 year old Heavy Metal Maniac but, this song was always a bit of a guilty pleasure. I’ve always loved it and I’ve been a Bangles fan since their first album. Lots of great songs by them.

I can see you were deeply moved by the song. It is a beautiful piece of music.

The weekly charts represent how the song performed in sales/airplay relative to all the songs in a given week. The year-end charts evaluate the performance of a song in sales/airplay relative to all songs' performance during the given year. Songs may peak at #1 for a given week, but then not persist on the charts as long as those that peak lower in a given week and result in a song with a very high weekly chart position having a relatively low year-end chart performance.

Great timeless song from my Teens . Still love to hear it The legend goes that Susanna recorded the song naked . 😎

The Bangles were great with many top ten hits and were big on MTV in the 80’s. Prince was instrumental in their early years in helping them with songwriting. I believe Manic Monday may have been written by him, but I may be off a tad. Susanna Hoffs is the whole package. Every girl wanted to be her, and every guy wanted to be with her. I feel that both The Bangles & The Go-Gos were the pinnacle of awesome female rock/pop bands during that era.

Hoffs side glare will forever be burned into my mind

You can see the moment that he becomes mesmerized by Susanna Hoffs. (as all of us - man and women- did in the day)

The song is inspired by the Eternal Flame at Elvis Presley's mansion Graceland. But for me this song is about the undying shared love of a couple. React to their songs Walking Down Your Street, If She Knew What She Wants, Manic Monday and In Your Room please.

You make me reinvent the songs I grew up with. Thank you for that!! ❤️

gorgeous song~

It was also in Ramona and Beezus, Bedtime Stories, and many tv shows and other films!

Wow, Mr. G, I know this was 6 months ago, but I wanted to comment anyway on how I've never seen you so genuinely flustered from a song. I guess it's fitting.

Do yourself a favor and listen to this entire album.

A wedding song as good as leds “thank you” 🤘❤️

A word about this particular video. In the previous videos the lead singer Susanna Hoffs was featured prominently and she was without doubt the best looking one of the bunch. But in this video they purposely obscured her. My guess is that the other girls were jealous.

Love this song, and yes different.

I just listened to your reaction remembering my crush in HS. And JUST as I was listening he responded on some rando post of mine... (we reconnected in a friendly way years ago) and now I feel like it's just hilarious!! This song is just... IT!!

Total ABBA vibes, a Disney Princess anthem before there were those. Very showtunes, but that strange reedy vocal is not something you hear anymore in pop. At the time it sounded raw and emotional and vulnerable and honest, because women did not let their voices break like that unless they were singing hard blues or rock. Singers were like out to prove their voice wouldn't break, so this was cool to hear it done intentionally. I can't help but hear "The Morning After (1972)" in the melody like they modeled the song after that mega hit.

Year end chart is it's final position for the year end rankings. Weekly chart is it's chart peak on the weekly charts.

I was 15 or 16 years old when this song was released , after so many years it's still one of my favorites power ballads.

They told me to stop liking the song in high school, BUT I DIDN'T LISTEN!!!

I like being able to read the Wikipedia with you.

I like the screen size adjusting.

You should hear their version Of Simon & Garfunkel's "Hazy Shade Of Winter". It's phenominal

Please react to Wilson Phillips "Hold on"

Nice job SalvoG, and I agree. The Bangles were interesting. This is so far away from what they started out as that it's no shock they broke up almost immediately after it was a hit. They were actually a nice little indie garage rock band when they started, but the record company totally changed them on their second record. The only hit they ever had that was truly done in their own style was the Simon and Garfunkel cover Hazy Shade of Winter. This song Eternal Flame is such contrived pop material, like cotton candy that is totally sweet and is great the first time but gets old quickly. The Bangles members apparently thought so too. And it's not even a 'power ballad' -- there's no power to it. A power ballad would be like Motley Crue "Home Sweet Home", or Metallica "Fade to Black", or Heart "Alone". This is just a ballad ballad with some sweet harmonies. It's not horrible, it's just kinda blah. It's a shame they were never able to be themselves once the record company got hold of them. Their early video with Leonard Nimoy called "Going Down to Liverpool" as well as "Hero Takes a Fall" were money, and that's the type of music they were really good at and wanted to play. This professional manufactured stuff wastes their creative talents.

I liked the new format of your video.

Your diplomacy is noted and appreciated, it’s ok to admit song doesn’t hit for you. Tastes vary. I remember listening to this on the radio as a kid. First few listens it was meh, once when I was in the right mood it was perfect, but after the 9th or 10th iteration it became nails on chalkboard for me. But I still enjoy their “Manic Monday”.

If you haven't already, you should absolutely check out their cover of Simon and Garfunkel's Hazy Shade Of Winter. It's even BETTER than the original. I'll just say it surprises a LOT of people who only know them for their more iconic pop-oriented hits like this, Walk Like An Egyptian, and Manic Monday. Most of their music is harder, with a post-punk edge and a strong influence from the harmonic rock groups of the mid and late 60s.

Susanna has a great soprano voice

Beautiful song

It's a thing that happens with many musical acts, one person starts getting most of the attention and begins to be perceived as the "star" and friction arises.

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Chick-flick or not, I fall in love with Susanna Hoff every time I see this video.

The weekly charts list the highest number a song peaked at on the charts, the yearly chart gives you where the song ranked overall out of all the songs that year.

Sadly, Local radio stations in the UK over rotated this one down the years and somehow managed to make it become relatively underappreciated by the masses. This did the band(s) and song no favours. For the record it IS a truly great song, from great musicians. Can't think of many which could match it. The world was a somewhat more feeling place back then, and today it's not really appreciated because either it can not reach people, or it really can and that is what scares them. I'm sure you'll all have a view on which of those is more likely. It has touched me in good times and bad, I still revisit it regularly. Glad you got to listen to it, Try "Manic Monday", totally different feel on that one, I suspect you will like it. Be well.😉

Weekly charts are standings during the week against songs that were also popular during those weeks. Yearly charts are the standing for the entire year compared to all songs that came out in that year.

The Bangles started as a pretty good indie band. They went down the road or commercialism, capped by this song. In no way is that a criticism.

Has visto giras recientes de las chicas, si, aún siguen girando 3 de ellas... tienen menos voz pero una belleza a prueba del tiempo...

You should listen to the acoustic version of this. It's mesmerising.

Try some Steven Wilson.... Notably "Drive home", to discover Guthrie Govan's amazing ad-libbed guitar solo. Keep up the amazing channel. :-)

I know just what you mean about this song hitting differently depending on where you are at. I honestly don't know how I feel about this song! At times it comes across extremely corny--a truly sappy, basic love song. Other times it brings tears to my eyes--perhaps due to the emotion of the words sung in her soulful voice and the way she hits those notes, along with the harmonies at the end...or maybe because I am truly sad that I can't relate. But if I had ever had an "eternal flame" kind of love, I would probably feel the same way about it each time. I got the feeling from your reaction that you were caught off guard emotionally & reacting out of personal experience as well.

Of all my childhood crushes, she is the one that I still have hard 😂 She never aged!

the live version from Lilith Fair is even better.

I can tell you didn't like it but it really is a beautiful, romantic and intimate power ballad by an all-female band (one of two really successful ones, the other being the Go-Go's, also in the 1980s). I was working in music and I heard this track a lot on a promo even before the album was released and it wasn't a single yet (the first single off it was "In Your Room") but I called it and said "This will be their next single and it will hit #1". It has pop hit and radio airplay written all over it. To be fair I like a lot of their singles where one of the other ladies takes lead or when they share lead, but they marketed Susanna and her lead vocal singles the most. Jealousy, in-fighting and resentment of the lead singer broke up both the Go-Go's (in 1985) and the Bangles (in 1989), although Belinda Carlisle's solo career skyrocketed throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, whereas Susanna had only one real solo hit after the group.

The Bangles were a little bit more rockers than pop singers but the label tried hard to made them pop but they're good live performers. They wanted Susanna to be a solo act so they broke them up thinking she was the key member but her solo career didn't take off. Perhaps you should react to songs from the other vocalists. Be with You kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7xxmMKYqKionX0.html

Please react to Michael McDonald's "Our Love" 1986 remix version (them song for the movie No Mercy)

Despite being a gay man, i once had a crush on Debbie Peterson. She's a great drummer and singer. Try "Be With You" or "Going Down To Liverpool". I don't think Columbia got behind "Be With You" since the label (and management) were already pushing Sue as the breakout star. And I love "Watching The Sky" which features Vickie.

she said in an interview that she reCorded this song in naked

Did it hit home for you? 😓

Didn't Cheap Trick do this song too ?

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Oi…….sugary, schmaltzy AM pop radio. Reminds me of some early 60’s stuff. Somehow, I never thought I’d hear something like this on your channel.

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The Byrds and the Beatles?! lmao yeah, thats a bit much, but it is a good song.

I like the song. Her voice, though? Too little girlish for a love ballad, imo. Can you imagine if Stevie Nicks sang this?

Dude just so you didn’t like it for gosh sake‘s

What a disappointing reaction.

Bad review. At least be articulate about your disdain.

Boring babble