i used to have the VHS tape for the Savage videos! i should really have it on DVD if its not too hard to find.
― scott seward, Friday, 3 November 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
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― scott seward, Friday, 3 November 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
I really need to listen to this again.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
Impossible to choose only. But OK, I did since I really, really had to.I chose 'Heaven'.
― Max Florian, Friday, 3 November 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
used to have the VHS tape for the Savage videos! i should really have it on DVD if its not too hard to find.insanely, it has never been released on DVD. After 25 years of wanting to see it, I finally downloaded a rip of the VHS
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Friday, 3 November 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
"I Need You" was my favorite back in the day, because it was so straightforward and acoustic, unlike any other song they'd done up to that point. Felt so raw.
But may re-listen to the album before voting.
― Eazy, Friday, 3 November 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
is there a bit of Jeanne Dielman is the Beethoven video, Alf? I've never actually watched the whole thing but it seems like a possibility.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 3 November 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
I was thinking this too but have never seen the movie as it doesn't star Jason Statham.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 4 November 2017 01:28 (six years ago) link
Title track for me. At their coldest and most magisterial. A great sad bruise of a song.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 4 November 2017 05:59 (six years ago) link
Oh wow -- never got that connection
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 November 2017 11:17 (six years ago) link
re Akerman
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 November 2017 11:44 (six years ago) link
Between "Beethoven" and "Shame" for me. Hard to choose cause they push completely different buttons for me.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 4 November 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 11 November 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
i was wrong upthread, it's "shame"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 November 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 12 November 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
I was this close to voting for Put The Blame on Me, then chose Heaven instead.
― Max Florian, Sunday, 12 November 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
Seeing the video of 'Beethoven' on the repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four recently got me thinking about this album, so decided to give it another spin this afternoon. I always thought post-Touch Eurythmics mostly sounded a little too American stadium rock for me, but I think I'm beginning to enjoy this more now than I ever did, appreciating its daring mix of beauty ('Shame') and artier moments.
The fact that 'Beethoven' was the first single from this tickles me somewhat.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 12 May 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
nothing stadium rock about this album -- as startling a volte-face from the previous album as any in rock.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
It's often billed as a return to the approach of their early material, and in a way it is, but also in a way it isn't - 'I Need a Man', for example.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 12 May 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
Imagining if they’d gotten Bowie to do the “In the dancehalls and the cinemas” lines...
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 12 May 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
It's definitely less straight ahead than Revenge on the whole, but the big production is still very much there, with one very obvious exception - not that this is in any way a problem! 'Shame' is just a brilliant, brilliant song.
All Music Guide has this down as a two star record. It fucking isn't!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 12 May 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
Easily top 3 Eurythmics for me (I’d put Sweet Dreams and 1984 ahead of it, sue me).
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 12 May 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
Has anyone ever seen the video version of the LP?
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 12 May 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
Yeah - it screened on TV a few times in Australia. I don't remember it in detail but according to fuzzy memory, the clips for the singles are excerpts - it's conceptual videos for each song with short linkages e.g. Annie walking out of the set for Beethoven and out into the street to where the next song's video begins.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 13 May 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
Okay, as someone who has always been a fan of huge, ambitious projects in music, I have to see that.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 13 May 2019 11:27 (four years ago) link
Most of it is in a YouTube playlist which comes up as the first search hit, I found. The housewife / drag dichotomy is pretty cool.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 13 May 2019 11:49 (four years ago) link
Nice one, think I'll watch that tonight!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 13 May 2019 11:57 (four years ago) link
Ooh, it would seem there's two different versions of the 'Beethoven' video...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 01:30 (four years ago) link
she said, everything is fiction-- all cynic to the bone-- so don't ask me to stay with you. don't ask to see me home.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 10 November 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
if Nico fronted Joy Division
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 10 November 2019 03:41 (four years ago) link
This album.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 August 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
"Beethoven", jeez. I used to listen to my cassette of Savage on repeat 30 years ago but had never heard it since then. What a banger (and that video..!). Surprised my local goth/industrial club didn't spin it at the time.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:01 (three years ago) link
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:12 (three years ago) link