― james e l, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Geordie Racer, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Eamonn, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dr. C, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I hated them at the time but to my ears they are starting to sound good again - could go classic, though I own nothing and have no plans to do anything about that.
'Sisters are doin' it for themselves' was Aretha's best for 10 years...
― Guy, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nicole, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Omar, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Are Eurythmics the unacceptable face of the 80s?
Were they really so bad? Isn't 'There Must Be Angel (Playing With My Heart)' are joyous pop song?
I think a lot of those famous 12 CD owners we all (sorry pinefox) love owned a Eurythmics album.
Good for them.
CLASSIC
Sticking up for the middlebrow in a patronising way since 1973 (or is it 5 minutes ago?),
Nick x
― Nick, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Then they released the extraordinary "Beethoven" single. After that final flare of not-quite-successful-but-very-odd imagination it was plod all the way to the solo career.
I sympathise with Nick but, ultimately, Dud.
― Tom, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Stevie Nixed, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― stevie, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I think Angel *is* a brilliant pop song which really shows off the range of her voice - those la-la-di-da bits are a bit high, aren't they? Then, there's the added bonus of the blonde wig in the video, covering up Annie's ginger crop, which made her angular features look rather harsh (I know she must have done that on purpose, but it always put me off her a bit).
Sweet Dreams is even better, I think. The beginning still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I find it quite unsettling, almost threatening and it didn't surprise me that Marilyn Manson picked up on that too (although I don't like what he did with it).
I haven't been at all impressed with what she's done since the Eurythmics - it's been more stuff for the 12 CD brigade - and didn't she win the best female solo artist Brit Award several years in a row? Shocking. Still, better than Eddie Reader...
― Madchen, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I think they did enough to be - as Nick D says - classic, though Nick's reasoning seems, as far as I can make it out, to veer too much into the realm of inverted snobbery. Put like that, that sounds very harsh, much harsher than I intend. I just mean that I don't think something's necessarily good cos lots of "office workers" like it, any more than I think it's bad because ditto. Perhaps Nick doesn't either, and I'm taking him the wrong way. Despite classic nomination, I liked Dr C's phrase 'the fishwife Lennox'.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I actually hated Eurythmics until I was on vacation with my family and had only brought my copy of Nevermind, so I was forced to borrow my sister's copy of Eurythmics' Greatest Hits. Granted, there are some clunkers, but I think "Who's That Girl" and "Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This" are still pretty decent singles. I don't know if I'd say classic exactly. How about Not Bad I Guess.
― Dave M., Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I need you to really feel the twist of my back breaking I need someone to listen to the ecstasy I'm faking...
I need you, you, you, etc.
on Savage... Annie Lennox w/acoustic guitar, pulling a Madonna 15 years early....
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Peter, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Just `cos I saw the vid for "Love is a Stranger" on VH1 Classic not too long ago. They were kinda damn cool for a little bit. Then they had to go all crap and clutter everything up with guitars and horns and fucking Aretha Franklin whatnot. Why couldn't they have stayed cool, icy and electronic? (ala Eurythmics - 1984For the Love of Big Brother ), Dammit!
That all said, I did quite like "Missionary Man". Too bad about that reunion record, though. Also, could Annie Lennox possibly have picked a less flattering album cover to return after six or so years with? I think not.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 01:40 (twenty years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 06:01 (twenty years ago) link
i agree w/ Alex ... "sexcrime" was a cool song!
― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 06:04 (twenty years ago) link
well, all their later stuff was a bit shit. apart from 'shame' off savage is amazing. the old stuff is just too good!love is a stranger and sweet dreams, sexcrime, here comes the rain again, whos that girl: all remind me of that disco scene in 'terminator'.
anyway its all for totally personal reasons. ie i listened to them solidly until about 1990 (when the arrested development love was about to hit)
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 08:27 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 08:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 11:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 11:04 (twenty years ago) link
Also search their early b-sides from 'Garden' and 'Sweet Dreams'. Primitive, weird, great.
― jl, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Ess, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 15:36 (twenty years ago) link
If I did I'd buy it.
Not the bin.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 10 July 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
Here comes the rain again, Julia, Sexcrime, I Need a Man, Beethoven, Love is a stranger, Sweet Dreams, Who's that girl... I don't believe anyone who says they don't like at least one Eurythmics single.
Album wise it all went downhillafter 'Touch'.... Be Yourself Tonight was horrible US stadium posturing, far too rocky by half, We Too Are One was wishy washy, only Savage justifies their releasing records after 1984. And Savage was a masterpiece. 'Shame' should have been their biggest hit single (and Lennox looks strikingly beautiful in the video) and 'Beethoven' was a huge gamble for a band who had toed the commercial line for several years and done very well out of it, thank you.
The reunion album, bar the lovely 'I Saved the world today' was a washed up mess, twee and middle aged and horrible.
Let's not forget, too, that Eurythmics almost single handedly invented the fabulous pop video - their early 80s videos for 'Love is a Stranger', 'Sweet Dreams' etc. were all incredible.... and their later ones like Missionary Man, Who's that girl and Shame were all superb and worthy of a mention.
So inbetween classic and dud, really.... I think Stewart's discovery of stadium rock, and rock in general, tainted the band and stripped away what I loved about them - their icy aloofness (well, Lennox's icy aloofness) and made them rawk. Horrible.
And Lennox is a star, even now, one of the few genuine 'stars' we have left. And despite the ropey cover for the new album, she's still looking pretty great.
― russ t, Thursday, 10 July 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link
I recently bought "Sweet Dreams" for $1. I remember listening to it a lot as a kid and being alternately freaked out/turned on by Annie Lennox's weird, flirty S&M/drag schtick. I remember constructing elaborate mental narratives to accompany songs that had maybe three lines of lyrics. Listening to it now a lot of it is tame, but there's an undercurrent - something a little sinister - that still appeals. Plus "Love is a Stranger" and "Sweet Dreams" are just great, dark, minor-key synthpop. I also have "Be Yourself Tonight" which I don't enjoy quite as much - 'tis true the addition of stadium rock gestures and shitty horns did not improve upon their formula.
I say classic just for the early singles/videos, but after 1985 yeah it's pretty much shit.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
i evenm like some of the stuff on "we two are one" ,but not as much as the proper synth pop stuff. its a cliche, but love is a stranger is just totally wicked manipulative obvious desperate stuff, sweet dreams is likewise amazing. i guess they got into coke or something (i dont knwo anythign about drugs) and started playing sax and stuff and being a soul rock band. btu savage is quite. ive never seen a copy of in the garden. might hit slsk now for it tho.
i thought annie lnnox was a man first time my brother played me "savage"
― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
"Be Yourself Tonight" has a number of really good songs on it. "Ball and Chain" is also my wife's fave, oddly.
x-post
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
I heard "Revenge" the other day and, man, that's a dull one. It takes a lot to make Clem Burke sound like a drum machine. I genuinely prefer "Savage," which has "You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart" and "I Need You."
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 24 February 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link
In The Garden”“Belinda ““Never Gonna Cry Again”“Revenge”
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)“Love Is A Stranger”“I Could Give You (A Mirror)”“The Walk”“Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)”“This Is The House”
Touch“Here Comes The Rain Again”“Right By Your Side”“Who's That Girl?”“Paint A Rumour”
Be Yourself Tonight“Would I Lie To You”“Conditioned Soul”“It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)”
Revenge“Thorn In My Side”
― JoB (JoB), Friday, 25 February 2005 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 25 February 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 25 February 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Friday, 25 February 2005 01:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 February 2005 01:19 (nineteen years ago) link
good times!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 25 February 2005 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 February 2005 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Friday, 25 February 2005 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link
I was sitting in the front row, an industry thing. She came up, cooed a line, and, well, fell out of her top.
I A-Bed that with post New Romantic memories of feeling delightfully miserable while listening to the first three records and experioenced a unique, troubling and sassy frisson.
― iang, Friday, 25 February 2005 06:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sara Sherr, Friday, 25 February 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link
*actually I liked whole albums when I was prepubescent but haven't listened to any since. except for Savage, which I dug out of a box three years ago when I needed to listen to stuff on tape and was happy to discover that my childhood impression of it being a TOTAL UBERCLASSIC was entirely accurate.!
― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 26 February 2005 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― stave dewart, Saturday, 26 February 2005 10:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Has anyone heard the reissues? Much as I dig on these guys I can't say I've been feeling a burning need for remasters, but I am curious about the "Satellite Of Love" and "Last Night I Dreamt..." covers.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link
What are those crap rockist responses up top?
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Tracer Hand was on point - you can never go wrong with "I Need You"
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 06:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Thanks for the link. And, er, yeah. I forced myself to hang in until the chorus, and it did get better, but... ouch. Fun times in the studio, I guess.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 07:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 07:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― lf (lfam), Monday, 22 May 2006 06:56 (seventeen years ago) link
i just picked up Touch just for "Aqua"
― jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 22 June 2006 05:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 22 June 2006 05:28 (seventeen years ago) link
OK, I've learned to love "Missionary Man" after 20 years.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 03:08 (fifteen years ago) link
hellooooo ... "this city never sleeps"
― jaime, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 04:00 (fifteen years ago) link
"Aqua" and "This City Never Sleeps" have both completely blown me away, but right now I've been especially into "Take Me To Your Heart" from In The Garden.
Also, some amazing B-sides to "Love Is A Stranger": "Monkey Monkey" and "Let's Just Close Our Eyes"... http://www.discogs.com/release/383009
― Craig D., Tuesday, 24 June 2008 05:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Listened to a few more covers since the last time. "Come Together" is dire; "Last Night I Dreamt..." points unfortunately toward Annie's solo career.
Nonetheless, still emphatically classic, including a few tracks off PEACE.
― rogermexico., Tuesday, 24 June 2008 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link
“This Is The House” = killer bassline
― moley, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 06:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm surprised by all the love for In The Garden; most of the album reviews I've read call it a misfire.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Only decent album they ever made.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Still haven't heard ITG, but Touch and Be Yourself Tonight sound marvelous.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 12:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Each album is, respectively, a sucker of Satan's cock and the cock itself.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 12:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I can believe that Satan would sport Dave Stewart's hair.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 12:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I was quite into them as a pre-teen, and Love is a Stranger was the only song on their greatest hits I didn't like. Now it's easily my favourite. Sweet Dreams and Here Comes the Rain Again are hard to deny as well.
― chap, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I quite liked the singles off Peace, actually, myself.
― Keaney Tong, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Savage and Be Yourself Tonight hold up as full albums, and all the rest (up 'til 1990) have high highlights.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Once in was in La Coupole in Paris and the waitress said to us: "Look, over there, an eel, an ox." "What?" "An eel, an ox, at the next table." "What, an eel, an ox?" "From Euromix." "Euromix? Some kind of French VH1?" Finally I got it that the dressed down no-makeup blonde lady at the table was Annie Lennox, although I had to stare a little while to make sure it was really her.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
In The Garden still my favorite and I'm going to listen to it right now
weirdest / best early b-side is "Let's Just Close Our Eyes", straight-up 1982 acid house demo version of "I Could Give You (A Mirror)", and someone screwed up royally by leaving that track off the recent reissue of Sweet Dreams -- http://www.discogs.com/release/442615
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
ah typo it's _acid_, not acid _house_. but very very early deployment of that sound
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
ah man look at this, I've got less than a third of these
Eurythmics 'Sweet dreams (are made of this)'
1983A50-this is the house (12inch maxi remix version) 1983A51-your time will come (live from 'this is the house') 1983A52-never gonna cry again (live from 'this is the house') (remastered version) 1983A53-4-4 in leather (live from 'this is the house') (remastered version) 1983A54-take me to your heart (live from 'this is the house') (remastered version) 1983A55-home is where the heart is (remastered version) 1983A60-step on the beast (single the walk version) 1983A61-the walk part two 1983A62-invisible hands (studio version) 1983A63-dr trash 1983A64-the walk (edit version 1) 1983A65-the walk (edit version 2) 1983A70-love is a stranger (7inch mix) 1983A71-monkey monkey (remastered version) 1983A72-let's just close our eyes 1983A73-love is a stranger (live, bbc rock hour) 1983A74-the walk (live, bbc rock hour) 1983A80-sweet dreams (are made of this) (7inch french single remix) 1983A81-i could give you (a mirror) (alternate version) 1983A82-baby's gone blue (remastered version) 1983A90-intro speech (cassette step on the beast) 1983A91-step on the beast (cassette step on the beast version) 1983A92-angel dub 1983A93-satellite of love (cassette step on the beast version) (remastered version)
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
great great singles band
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Ohh, "The Walk" -- I forgot about that one.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
ah I'm sorry yeah "Let's Just Close Our Eyes" is a demo for "The Walk"
I'm regressing right here but the Love Is A Stranger video still takes me out
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I listened today to In The Garden for the first time and I liked it a lot. Sweet Dreams totally classic, by the way.
― Marco Damiani, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
based solely on this song: hanging out with conny plank was definitely AGL for them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KLruiHP8U8
― im armond white btw (donna rouge), Saturday, 6 March 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, I've always loved the first album and never seen this video. Thanks.
Hadn't ever read "Never Gonna Cry Again" as a suicide message either. Bleak!
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 7 March 2010 04:29 (fourteen years ago) link
This made me wonder what The Walk Part 2 sounds like. And here's the answer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwtOE5G3TYM
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 7 March 2010 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
still probably in my top five favorite anythings ever.
― First and Last and Safeways (jjjusten), Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's a very rare video of "The Walk" that some guy says he made in film school and then lost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQGmgrR5hSE
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 7 March 2010 11:37 (fourteen years ago) link
In the Garden is a must have but really, really a major downer. Still like Sweet Dreams the best, popular or no.
― Earth Dye (u s steel), Sunday, 7 March 2010 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link
It's all about the first 3 albums. There are other good songs after that point, but they were never as potent or consistent after Touch.
I love In the Garden but probably agree on Sweet Dreams being the strongest. It's them producing themselves prior to worldwide fame affecting their songwriting or motives.
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Still haven't heard ITG, but like them very much through Be Yourself Tonight. Revenge is a horror. Savage has a few high points ("You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart").
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
had never heard In The Garden before a few weeks ago (thx jjj)
had no idea it predicted School of Seven Bells
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Monday, 2 July 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
why did people keep bothering to make music after her e comes rhe rain agian
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 27 July 2013 05:40 (ten years ago) link
no less important a question sober
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 27 July 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
Dud.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Saturday, 27 July 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
Nonsense. "Love is a stranger" is one of the greatest songs of all time and would be my favourite First album First track were it not for the over-underrated first album. For that song alone this band achieves sainthood and "Savage" is a great album too
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 27 July 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
Until I heard Sweet Dreams.... a few years ago I thought it'd be the precursor for the realization that's Touch; instead it's the latter that sounds tentative.
I really love Savage too.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 July 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
It's all about the first 3 albums. There are good songs after that, but the whole arc of those first 3 is an amazing collection of music that spans from kraut rock to top of the charts.
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 28 July 2013 10:51 (ten years ago) link
I became a Eurythmics freak after hearing the Sweet Dreams album at 12, it was the first music I really engaged with. There is a lot of interesting stuff there like The Walk and This City Never Sleeps which holds up well now. A decade later I interviewed Dean Garcia from Curve who also played on Sweet Dreams and Touch, which was a little surreal. 1984 is vastly underrated in my book, despite the dated production in places.
― MatthewK, Sunday, 28 July 2013 11:39 (ten years ago) link
"Love is a stranger" is one of the greatest songs of all time
OTM
― kinder, Sunday, 28 July 2013 11:42 (ten years ago) link
Seconded - flamboyant goon tie absolutely OTM.
― Vast Halo, Sunday, 28 July 2013 11:51 (ten years ago) link
I should listen to 1984 more.
― Nate Carson, Monday, 29 July 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
hard to pick a greatest between "love is a stranger" and "sweet dreams". not hard to pick between those two and most everything else under the sun.
― IIIrd Datekeeper (contenderizer), Monday, 29 July 2013 23:21 (ten years ago) link
Hearing "Right By Your Side" for the first time in probably 20 years, and it sounds better than 80s calypso should. Nice.
― only dogg forgives (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 00:49 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Eurythmics_RBYS.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WLgMgiQPRI
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 01:11 (ten years ago) link
TPL gets to 1984 with a 1983 album: they don't know what love is - or do they? http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/eurythmics-touch.html
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Sunday, 30 March 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
thinking about the eurythmics just makes me think of the smell of charity shops
― online hardman, Sunday, 30 March 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
Remarkably, I now prefer its predecessor. Still, it's amazing that the American public took the album into the top ten despite the presence of the harsh effects-laden songs on the B.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 March 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
never heard savage before today, holy shit what a record
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 31 March 2014 00:25 (ten years ago) link
isn't it something? Revenge was their biggest worldwide hit and their worst album to date: they went for a mullet-and-guitar-wank arena sound. Suddenly at the peak of their power they returned to what sounds like demos.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 March 2014 00:26 (ten years ago) link
Savage sounds enormously produced and polished!
― Charles, hatless (sic), Monday, 31 March 2014 00:47 (ten years ago) link
Not to my ears. Take "I Need You" or "I've Got a Lover" -- Eury is back to Lennox-Stewart and no sidemen.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 March 2014 00:53 (ten years ago) link
I Need You is a deliberate anomaly on an album that opens with Beethoven setting the tone
― Charles, hatless (sic), Monday, 31 March 2014 01:21 (ten years ago) link
ever heard savage before today, holy shit what a record
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, March 30
sort of envious of this, like I get when people say "oh i think i'm going to start The Wire."
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 31 March 2014 02:31 (ten years ago) link
Savage really is immense.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 June 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
Title track kills me every time. I just realised the percussion is the same drone-and-thwack I love in Björk's "All is Full of Love" video mix.
― MatthewK, Monday, 20 June 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
Heard a couple of tracks from their debut today, pretty good! I could go for a proper anthology but it appears all their comps are just the singles. Boo...
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
Ha, I bought the debut recentlty, still plucking up the courage to actually play it!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 07:27 (seven years ago) link
no courage necessary, the debut is great.
probably seen this already, but this is an early OGWT performance with holger czukay and clem burke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7VqGt5dzQc
― coygbiv (NickB), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 08:39 (seven years ago) link
"here comes the rain again" has got to be one of history's most underrated songs
― Treeship, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
History loves this song.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
for a band whose strengths seemed to lie in icy cold synthpop, there sure are a lot of shitty sounds on these records, especially when they try to incorporate more "exotic" or "world music" touches
― legislative fanboy halfwit (Οὖτις), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
shittier or less shitty than the coral sitar on "don't come around here no more?"
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link
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angelus novus, what's on yr ipod
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
I admit I like the fake sitar on the Petty tune :)
― legislative fanboy halfwit (Οὖτις), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
I do my best
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:28 (five years ago) link
To clarify: the theatrical rights belong to Warner, not me. The people making this musical have been working with Warner, and there are no copyright infringement issues here! I was just taken by surprise; I think they all thought someone else was in charge of letting me know?— Audrey Niffenegger (@AANiffenegger) March 5, 2021
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Saturday, 6 March 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link
dangit, meant to link yesterday's original tweet:
Should I know about this? https://t.co/BRrpxTofSj— Audrey Niffenegger (@AANiffenegger) March 4, 2021
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Saturday, 6 March 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
maybe they already told her in the future
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 6 March 2021 15:01 (three years ago) link
Just saw that Stewart is touring the "Eurythmics Songbook" at the moment. Shame Lennox isn't on board for this, as she doesn't seem to be doing much these days.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Friday, 8 March 2024 09:07 (one month ago) link