Eurythmics are nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, alongside A Tribe Called Quest, Beck, Pat Benatar, Kate Bush, Devo, Duran Duran, New York Dolls, Rage Against The Machine, and Dionne Warwick, among others. I'm rooting for Eurythmics to get in, it's been cool to see '80s synth groups that were passed over when they first became eligible 10-15 years ago finally get nominated. And I think Annie Lennox has a chance of getting in as a solo artist someday, which would make her one of the few female double inductees (right now Stevie Nicks and Tina Turner are the only ones).
Eurythmics deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. The First Cut
2. Somebody Told Me
3. I Need You
4. Conditioned Soul
5. A Little Of You
6. Take Me To Your Heart
7. Cool Blue
8. I Could Give You (A Mirror)
9. Adrian
10. The Last Time
11. Anything But Strong
12. No Fear, No Hate, No Pain (No Broken Hearts)
13. Savage
14. I Love You Like A Ball And Chain
15. Let's Go!
16. Aqua
17. This City Never Sleeps
18. You Hurt Me (And I Hate You)
Track 6 from In The Garden (1981)
Tracks 2, 8 and 17 from Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (1983)
Tracks 1, 7, 12 and 16 from Touch (1983)
Tracks 4, 9 and 14 from Be Yourself Tonight (1985)
Tracks 5, 10 and 15 from Revenge (1986)
Tracks 3 and 13 from Savage (1987)
Track 18 from We Too Are One (1989)
Track 11 from Peace (1999)
Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart first played together in The Tourists, a guitar-driven new wave quintet that released three albums from 1978 to 1980, before they decided to break off and become a duo. The Tourists had a couple of top 10 hits in the UK, and their biggest original song was a catchy track called "So Good To Be Back Home Again," which is a funnily appropriate song title for a band called The Tourists.
The first Eurythmics album, In The Garden, wasn't successful even at the modest level of The Tourists' biggest records, and they hadn't quite committed as much to the synth-driven sound yet -- the album featured live drums by guests including Blondie's Clem Burke (who also played on the later album Revenge) and Can's Jaki Liebezeit. And Lennox was a great singer from the beginning, but it kind of felt like she didn't find this commanding, theatrical presence she's known for until "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)," and once things clicked there, they were off to the races. But I'll give them credit for not getting too stuck in the sound that made them famous, Be Yourself Tonight leaned in an R&B direction, and Revenge is heavy on guitar and harmonica. "Adrian" has a nice harmony vocal from Elvis Costello.
The deep cuts that Eurythmics have played in concert the most include "I Love You Like A Ball And Chain," "This City Never Sleeps," "I Could Give You (A Mirror)," "Somebody Told Me," "Let's Go!" and "Take Me To Your Heart." One thing that surprised me if that Eurythmics released two albums in 1983, and the second, Touch, actually sold better than the breakthrough with their most iconic single, Sweet Dreams. But Touch genuinely is a better album and I guess it was the moment that cemented they were gonna be around for a while. At the height of their fame, Eurythmics recorded an entire soundtrack album for Nineteen Eighty-Four, a George Orwell adaptation starring John Hurt. But 1984 (For The Love Of Big Brother) is currently unplayable on Spotify, which probably has to do with it being released by a different label than their other albums.
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