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
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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
Savage sounds enormously produced and polished!
― Charles, hatless (sic), Monday, 31 March 2014 00:47 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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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― 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
― 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 (three weeks ago) link