Eurythmics: Classic or Dud?

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

OTM

Seconded - flamboyant goon tie absolutely OTM.

I should listen to 1984 more.

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.

Hearing "Right By Your Side" for the first time in probably 20 years, and it sounds better than 80s calypso should. Nice.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Eurythmics_RBYS.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WLgMgiQPRI

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

thinking about the eurythmics just makes me think of the smell of charity shops

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.

never heard savage before today, holy shit what a record

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.

Savage sounds enormously produced and polished!

Not to my ears. Take "I Need You" or "I've Got a Lover" -- Eury is back to Lennox-Stewart and no sidemen.

I Need You is a deliberate anomaly on an album that opens with Beethoven setting the tone

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."

Savage really is immense.

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.

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...

Ha, I bought the debut recentlty, still plucking up the courage to actually play it!

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

"here comes the rain again" has got to be one of history's most underrated songs

History loves this song.

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

shittier or less shitty than the coral sitar on "don't come around here no more?"

"here comes the rain again" has got to be one of history's most underrated songs

― Treeship, Tuesday, July 26, 2016 6:39 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

History loves this song.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, July 26, 2016 7:04 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

angelus novus, what's on yr ipod

I admit I like the fake sitar on the Petty tune :)

I do my best

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

dangit, meant to link yesterday's original tweet:

Should I know about this? https://t.co/BRrpxTofSj

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maybe they already told her in the future

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.