Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger [1982]
Rocky III Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
"Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger" Video
Amateur Video
For '80s cheese, few videos rival Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" (Journey's "Separate Ways" would rank right up there, too!). The image of these five ass clowns marching through the city streets and trying to act all tough and shit is both fuckin' hilarious and extremely pathetic at the same time.
"Eye of the Tiger" rocketed up the charts on the strength of it appearing in Rocky III and before you know it, everybody and their mother was trying to act tough by singing those banal lyrics over and over and over. Apollo Creed was perhaps the most annoying example: "Now, when we fought, you had that eye of the tiger, man - the edge! And now you gotta get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning. You know what I mean?" If Rocky would only get "THE EYE OF THE TIGER" he could climb back in the ring with Mr. T ("Clubber Lang") and beat the living shit out of him!
I don't know what I find more nauseating: The fact that "Eye of the Tiger" won a Grammy Award, that the tune stayed No. 1 on the charts for seven weeks, that Paul Anka recorded a big band version of the song or that Survivor continues to tour even to this day and has recently released a "Best of Survivor" CD. Either way, I DESPISE this song, please I beg of you just make it go away . . .
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dcom - 2008-09-09 12:50:33
"Eye of the tiger" is a great song from a great (the greatest?) period in music -- the 80''s. Simple as that. The fact that the video is poor by today's standards does not diminish the phenomenal quality of the song. Today's music is poor compared to the song in question anyway.
Bruce - 2008-09-09 12:50:10
i think Eye of the tiger rocks. i know that sounds lame but i dont really care who has something bad to say about this song. its the type of song you never get tired of listening to its an 80's classic.