Eurythmics: Classic or Dud?

What are those crap rockist responses up top?

Tracer Hand was on point - you can never go wrong with "I Need You"

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.

i just picked up Touch just for "Aqua"

OK, I've learned to love "Missionary Man" after 20 years.

hellooooo ... "this city never sleeps"

"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

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.

“This Is The House” = killer bassline

I'm surprised by all the love for In The Garden; most of the album reviews I've read call it a misfire.

Only decent album they ever made.

Still haven't heard ITG, but Touch and Be Yourself Tonight sound marvelous.

Each album is, respectively, a sucker of Satan's cock and the cock itself.

I can believe that Satan would sport Dave Stewart's hair.

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.

I quite liked the singles off Peace, actually, myself.

Savage and Be Yourself Tonight hold up as full albums, and all the rest (up 'til 1990) have high highlights.

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.

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

ah typo it's _acid_, not acid _house_. but very very early deployment of that sound

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)

great great singles band

Ohh, "The Walk" -- I forgot about that one.

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

I listened today to In The Garden for the first time and I liked it a lot. Sweet Dreams totally classic, by the way.

based solely on this song: hanging out with conny plank was definitely AGL for them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KLruiHP8U8

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!

This made me wonder what The Walk Part 2 sounds like. And here's the answer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwtOE5G3TYM

still probably in my top five favorite anythings ever.

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

In the Garden is a must have but really, really a major downer. Still like Sweet Dreams the best, popular or no.

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.

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").

had never heard In The Garden before a few weeks ago (thx jjj)

had no idea it predicted School of Seven Bells

why did people keep bothering to make music after her e comes rhe rain agian

no less important a question sober

Dud.

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

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.

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.

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.

"Love is a stranger" is one of the greatest songs of all time

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