I Need A Poll! The Eurythmics Savage!

I was this close to voting for Put The Blame on Me, then chose Heaven instead.

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.

nothing stadium rock about this album -- as startling a volte-face from the previous album as any in rock.

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.

Imagining if they’d gotten Bowie to do the “In the dancehalls and the cinemas” lines...

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!

Easily top 3 Eurythmics for me (I’d put Sweet Dreams and 1984 ahead of it, sue me).

Has anyone ever seen the video version of the LP?

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.

Okay, as someone who has always been a fan of huge, ambitious projects in music, I have to see that.

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.

Nice one, think I'll watch that tonight!

Ooh, it would seem there's two different versions of the 'Beethoven' video...

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.

if Nico fronted Joy Division

This album.

"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.

This album.

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