The Eurythmics have been on my list of bands for the 80's Sunday Rewind for a while (yes, I have an actual list in one of my various notebooks) and I decided this was the Sunday to feature their videos after my rain post from Wednesday.
You see, it is simply this: the Eurythmics were the 80's. I'll explain. When the Eurythmics released their first U.S. #1 hit, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" in 1984, they were as synth-pop as you get.
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25 years later and I still don't know what the cows were about. I've never had sweet dreams about a cow.
Anyway, around the same time they released a really good song you may not know unless you had the Sweet Dreams album. Here's "Love is a Stranger."
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So, the Eurythmics pretty much cemented themselves as a synth-pop band with those songs and "Here Comes the Rain Again," then they went a reinvented their sound with 1985's Be Yourself Tonight and were straight up rock and roll with an awesome R&B sound. Crazy, right? Yeah, but it worked. The big hit off that album was "Would I Lie to You," which happens to be my favorite Eurythmics song (and convinced me that I needed to be a back-up singer).
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But they didn't stop with that song, no, they went and did a duet with my hero, Aretha Franklin.
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The Eurythmics made a few more albums together before their hiatus and ventures into solo work. It's only fitting that they closed out the decade with their last album (pre-reunion), 1989's We Too Are One, which gave us a glimpse of what to expect from Dave Stewart, Annie Lennox's partner in the band, who is pretty amazing. For more on Stewart, go read my friend Will's blog for some Dave Stewart edumacation. I'll leave you with "Baby's Gonna Cry," in which we hear Stewart sing (imagine that) and look like a cool rock star — shut up, that red suit is awesome.
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