ah typo it's _acid_, not acid _house_. but very very early deployment of that sound
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
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)
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
great great singles band
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Ohh, "The Walk" -- I forgot about that one.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I listened today to In The Garden for the first time and I liked it a lot. Sweet Dreams totally classic, by the way.
― Marco Damiani, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
based solely on this song: hanging out with conny plank was definitely AGL for them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KLruiHP8U8
― im armond white btw (donna rouge), Saturday, 6 March 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 7 March 2010 04:29 (fourteen years ago) link
This made me wonder what The Walk Part 2 sounds like. And here's the answer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwtOE5G3TYM
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 7 March 2010 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
still probably in my top five favorite anythings ever.
― First and Last and Safeways (jjjusten), Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 7 March 2010 11:37 (fourteen years ago) link
In the Garden is a must have but really, really a major downer. Still like Sweet Dreams the best, popular or no.
― Earth Dye (u s steel), Sunday, 7 March 2010 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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").
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
had never heard In The Garden before a few weeks ago (thx jjj)
had no idea it predicted School of Seven Bells
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Monday, 2 July 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
why did people keep bothering to make music after her e comes rhe rain agian
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 27 July 2013 05:40 (ten years ago) link
no less important a question sober
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 27 July 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
Dud.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Saturday, 27 July 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
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
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 27 July 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
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.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 July 2013 18:13 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Savage sounds enormously produced and polished!
― Charles, hatless (sic), Monday, 31 March 2014 00:47 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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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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