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 (two months ago) link