Eurythmics and Annie Lennox

Medusa is one of my favorite albums of the 90s. Every track is fantastic. No filler. Her song for Bram Stokers Dracula was also amazing

I also adore her performing style. Glamorous and terrifying. Any drag queen worth their salt would do well to study her

Wish she would do a tour. I know she's 70 - but so what?

She was so bold and creative - all of the videos and the different characters and styles. It was sometimes shocking - and way before others who want to claim they did it first.

She went to an awards show as a man. She wore a mouseketeers outfit. She had a man's haircut dyed bright red or white. Then she would be a vestal virgin type in Here Comes the Rain Again.

Such range and so entertaining. She does NOT get the credit she so deserves.

I love how she's just so - fuck it - I'm a mom and grandma - when she's in pics with her daughters.

This woman looks like she used to be a librarian and would like a cuppa - not on stage singing Would I Lie To You in a leather outfit.

I don't know why she didn't have a big acting career. That beautiful face is made for the screen. In "Walking on Broken Glass," she's in the video with Hugh Laurie and John Malkovich and she's the only one you watch.

I love her!

I remember watching her on some talk show (ages ago), she was so reserved (almost shy) but so intelligent. Then you had this larger-than-life persona as a performer. It was so beautiful to see the stark difference in her "real self" and her performer self.

Huge fan here as well. Few singers could write a duet with Aretha and then hold their own right beside the Queen of Soul. Annie and George (Michael) both did that so perfectly.

DIVA is a perfect album and still sounds amazing.

The bassline on this is incredible.

R6 - to be honest, they were doing Aretha a favor. She was trying to extend her popularity after the Freeway of Love hit. Yes of course they were honored to sing with her - but Aretha's team knew what they were doing.

Also Annie is an unflinching activist for women's rights and many other issues.

Annie Lennox ruined Christmas.

R9, not sure on the timing but I think Sisters was recorded with Aretha before Freeway of Love was a hit single. Probably a half-year apart or so. And yeah, at that time Aretha definitely had a few blocks open on her schedule.

R11 - Freeway was first, then Sisters - but they were both on Aretha's album.

Sisters is a great women's anthem.

R12, check again... Sisters came out on Eurythmics' album in April '85 and then on Aretha's album in July. They recorded it the previous winter, half a year before Freeway of Love became a pop hit in Summer '85.

When she came out as a hot sleazy Elvis at the 1984 Grammy Awards, I imagine some gay men and straight girls got some feelings they weren't used to.

She had rehearsed as a woman, so everyone at the Grammys was taken by surprise.

For R14.

It was shocking then - imagine the reactions today. It wouldn't be good.

Unlike today’s “gender fluid,” she did it with wit, style, and powerhouse talent.

No one likes her now. Even the far left progressives make fun of all her charity nonsense. She basically had one hit solo album and became a total insufferable bore.

[quote]This woman looks like she used to be a librarian and would like a cuppa

Gross.

Yeah, I find her underrated, too. She had a great, great voice with lots of talent for performance and extraordinary range. Her wit, fuck-it attitude added to it. Love her.

Annie still sounds fantastic. My best friend and I had a whole dance routine to "Would I lie to you?" that was absolutely hilarious . I will always adore Annie .

That performance wasn't gender fluid, it was transvestism.

R17 is laughably stupid.

Plenty of people love Annie Lennox r17 what are you nattering in about ?

I saw Eurythmics, the first song Annie came on the stage singing Would I Lie to You in a black bra, love her!

Dave Stewart is a musical genius. I saw him tour with Stevie Nicks. His guitar playing was unalike anything I have ever seen live.

R17 is Adele drunk posting.

The late Eurthymics album, Peace is also worthy of mention.

[quote]No one likes her now. Even the far left progressives make fun of all her charity nonsense.

Ah, yes, the nonsense of helping to raise millions of pounds for HIV charities.

Whomever said that Medusa is the perfect album, I agree. In fact, I slightly prefer the early 90s material by Annie.

This guy tried to duplicate the instrumentals using modern technology.

I was obsessed with the Eurythmics and Annie- the only woman who could have a bright orange crewcut and look amazing. Her Elvis performance was hypnotising to me.

Sweet Dreams is one of the most repetitive songs ever produced and the video is quirky for the sake of being quirky. I loved it when I first saw it, but it really does wear out its welcome quickly. There Must Be An Angel is superior in that regard.

I distinctly remember being a kid and seeing Sweet Dreams video for the first time on MTV.

It was hypnotizing. And it was like who is that? A woman?

Bare is her best album. My least favorite is Songs of Mass Destruction (stupid title).

I've never sung karaoke, but if I'm ever drunk enough to do it, I would pick Sweet Dreams. It only uses 4 notes and they are in a narrow vocal range.

Unmentioned here, Right By Your Side is one of my all time favorites....Delightful. Makes me happy every time I play it.

I love George singing along from the wings.

Be Yourself Tonight is their best album. Wish they had done better in the US. So many great songs on all their albums.

Diva is a masterpiece. Not a clunker. Medusa is great with the exception of Something So Right. Wish she would've kept Heaven and made Something So Right a Japan bonus track.

r16, 100%. Well said (written).

So many great songs, and I love her smooth voice

R38 Be Yourself Tonight and Revenge are awful.

They were much better being arty and weird with In The Garden, Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) and, especially, Savage.

R30, he’s hip

R41, I actually really like Revenge and the like for background 80s music playlist purposes. The songs are... nice. But yeah, Touch and Savage were more interesting.

Man Bowie is so effortlessly cool in r37's link. Not bagging on Annie, but it shows you the power and range of Freddie's voice.

r37 that is a great clip. God, Bowie was so talented. Too bad he died relatively young. Fucking cigarettes.

Some great covers I discovered of the band just the other day...

Who's That Girl...

Thorn In My Side

Why

Love Is A Stranger

I Saved The World Today

Love Song For A Vampire

Love is a Stranger was the one that got my attention

I have a fondness for her album 'Nostalgia,' a collection of covers of classic jazz songs.

[quote] Be Yourself Tonight and Revenge are awful.

I completely disagree. It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back), There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart), Would I Lie To You? Adrian, Conditioned Soul , The Last Time, A Little of You, Take Your Pain Away, When Tomorrow Comes, Let's Go, The Miracle of Love are all great

The dog I had back then loved There Must be an Angel.

I love Who’s That Girl. Annie in the blonde wig looks a lot like Carly Simon

To be honest - Sweet Dreams Are Made of This is their weakest song in my opinion. So repetitive and not much to it - except that it did have some great and new sound effects for the time.

They did so many different sounds. And I love when she did the combo I Love to Listen to Beethoven/

R58 - sorry - here's the video about a mad housewife losing control. Then in the video album it goes right into I Need a Man.

I think they may have been among the first to record a video album. I can't think of anyone else who has done that (?).

It was nominated for awards for best short film.

We had a friend who would only listen to black female singers. So we told him “Sweet Dreams” was the first release from a new black singer named Anita Cleveland.

This is one of my favorite live songs from her - she brings the fucking. house. down!

This is just a gem - please watch it if you haven't.

River Deep Mountain High

Not to put down her performance, but from my pure amateurish perspective I don't feel like River Deep Mountain High is a very demanding song. It's a great drunk-karaoke song. As long as you're expressive you can go as wild as you want with the song and get the audience easily with you. It's a great song for that.

I have always loved this song, the melancholic mood, blending synth and strings...

Man, music WAS better back then.

Eurythmics were great, jumped the cool shark with Revenge, but jumped back with Savage, and then Clive got his hooks in and it was We Too Are One, which was an odd one to go out on. Peace had two great songs, and a lot of squandered opportunities.

Her early 90s solo career has Clive's fingers all over it. Great singles though.

[QUOTE]I think they may have been among the first to record a video album. I can't think of anyone else who has done that (?).

R59 - Blondie did it first with Eat To The Beat in 1979.

R51 Fuck me, that cover was horrendous.

Love Is A Stranger is a masterpiece.

[quote]and then Clive got his hooks in and it was We Too Are One, which was an odd one to go out on.

[quote]Her early 90s solo career has Clive's fingers all over it.

So true. Every goddamn artist on Clive's label had to do the power ballad MOR shit because of Whitney. There wasn't much diversity because all Clive wanted was other artists to emulate Whitney becuase she was so successful at it.

I think Annie Lennox went the adult contemporary/covers route too early in her solo career.

I agree. While it was good, her second solo album shouldn't have been covers.

I think she said at the time of Diva she was finding it hard to write because she was happy. Writers block might account for Medusa.

Stay By Me (on Diva) is absolutely transcendent.

That insufferable brat in R59 looks strangely familiar

Little Bird is the perfect pop song.

Side note: River Deep Mountain High was written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and latter day murderer, Phil Spector.