i had the misfortune to have to listen to the best of the eurythmics today , time has not treated them well at all i mean they where crap in the 80s but they sound even worse now

so whats the appeal ?

Saying Annie Lennox looks like a dog with a smacked arse would be too complimentary to dogs IMO.

I normally like red heads as well.... :gag:

To be fair though some of their 80s tracks were decent such as that one about Angels, and I didn't mind some of her songs when she went solo.

i dont know why i dislike them so much maybe its because they started off as a dodgy pop band the jumped on the 80s synth boom but what annoys me more is that annie lennox won all those brit awards for bugger all

and theres dave stewarts dress sense or lack of it

Cant be any worse than busted, mcfly and all that teeny shiity stuff can it, and im not even a fan of the eurythmics??:suspect:

They had a few decent tunes, such as 'There must be an Angel (Playing with my Heart)' and, er...

Originally posted by panda79
what annoys me more is that annie lennox won all those brit awards for bugger all

and theres dave stewarts dress sense or lack of it

No argument there!

Some of their music might not have aged well (not an awful lot of synth-pop has) but at the time, 1983-1986 they were considered quite ground breaking (honest, and I'm not on about Annie's luverlee orange hair).

But there are some good tracks which I think still sound great. You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart, Thorn In My Side, When Tomorrow Comes and I always liked Sexcrime (1984).

However, I don't like any of Annie's solo stuff. Yawn indeedy.

Missionary Man
Would I lie to you
It's all right
Love is a stranger
I need a man

It's all good, and has aged a great deal better than contemporary pop of the same era.

Hear them regularly on PhanFM

I used to work for them.

Did anyone see them live?

Fantastic shows.

Originally posted by Ousetunes
Some of their music might not have aged well (not an awful lot of synth-pop has) but at the time, 1983-1986 they were considered quite ground breaking (honest, and I'm not on about Annie's luverlee orange hair).

But there are some good tracks which I think still sound great. You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart, Thorn In My Side, When Tomorrow Comes and I always liked Sexcrime (1984).

However, I don't like any of Annie's solo stuff. Yawn indeedy.

i liked 1984 i think ive still got that on 12inch single but even that songs not on the greatest hits for some strange reason

only annie lennox song ive liked is the one she did for one of the lord of the rings soundtracks :)

Much of the synth pop sounds terrible because of the basic nature of synths {FM synths} they used in those days and the production methods, especially the drums.
In the 80s lots of music sounds terrible because drums were always recorded heavily gated, and then too much nasty reverb was added.

If you compare this to the recordings of the late 1960s made by George Martin and the Beatles. The only thing which you could improve would be the bass guitar sound, which sounds a little old fashioned and wooly and a more modern one would sound a little better to my ears.
However if you listen to Abbey Road, Let it Be, White Album etc.. they could have been recorded yeasterday the production is astonishing.

I don't think the Eurythmics were all that bad. But I was busy listening exclusively to rock music then. Whenever I see them on the TV It seems to me that Dave stewart would be better sat down or at least calmed down, he looks stupid wandering about carving the strings on his acoustic guitar and getting in the way of the camera.
He looks like he's in a mardy strop because the cameras are pointed at the singer and not the "It's my band I'm important and write all the music and most of the lyrics" rhythm guitar player.

Originally posted by muddycoffee


If you compare this to the recordings of the late 1960s made by George Martin and the Beatles. The only thing which you could improve would be the bass guitar sound, which sounds a little old fashioned and wooly and a more modern one would sound a little better to my ears.
However if you listen to Abbey Road, Let it Be, White Album etc.. they could have been recorded yeasterday the production is astonishing.




Careful Muddy, I've been told off for getting too technical about music on here before so mentioning things like gates will leave a good number of forumers looking totally baffled!

Abbey Road was without question the smoothest daddy of a production in the Beatles' catalogue. The Beatles (aka Double White) had its moments, particularly on songs like John's 'I'm so Tired' where - can you believe this? - the Beatles finally made it onto 8 track!! Wahoo! Let It Be is however a ragged affair and Phil Spector's supposed tidying up of the tapes was a bit of a hash job (although as has been said, at least he made SOMETHING of those tapes).

On Abbey Road we can hear Ringo's bass drum ('Come Together' still sounds so fresh) and the bass is deep, the harmonies rich and smooth. George plays some lead guitar with a flourish, the highlight of the otherwise forgettable 'Octopus's Garden' being his shimmering solo. His slide work on his own 'Something' was note perfect and on 'Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End' you can tell who the REAL guitarist is. George's final section sounds incredibly like Clapton in its feel (a wonderful case of string bending. Each guitaring Beatle played two bars each in sequence and it is George that closes the solo section).

Finally, did you know that Paul's 'Her Majesty' was cut from the 'Mean Mr Mustard'/'Polythene Pam' section? You'll note it comes in with a crash. That crash is the last sound of John's 'Mean Mr Mustard' and 'Her Majesty's' clipped final note (D) is the opening note/chord to 'Polythene Pam'.

Edit them back together and this little medley sounds wonderful.

Eurythmics were one of the bands that were 'the sound of the 80's' . . . like the pet shop boys, they had their own style and music ( mainly synthesiser ) but they were ok.

Annie Lennox's solo album 'Diva' is great, she has a top voice, songs like 'walking on broken glass' - 'little bird' - 'precious' - 'love song for a vampire' etc . . . great music.:thumbsup:

I have to agree with the dress sense of Dave Stewart - always been abit of a tosser. Do you remember the Brit Awards performance when he wore those large silver headphones . . . .WTF! . . . who told him they were cool!! :gag:

Originally posted by muddycoffee

In the 80s lots of music sounds terrible because drums were always recorded heavily gated, and then too much nasty reverb was added.


Phil Collins drum sound, starting with Intruder and No Self Contol on Peter Gabrial I, was created with heavy gating and reverse reverb. You can't say that is rubbish, no matter what you think of Collins;)

But also 1970's

Originally posted by GabbleRatcht
Phil Collins drum sound, starting with Intruder and No Self Contol on Peter Gabrial I, was created with heavy gating and reverse reverb. You can't say that is rubbish, no matter what you think of Collins;)

But also 1970's

I was mainly talking about the tendency for producers with normal drum sounds to do this. My main example was lots of rock and heavy metal bands who went through a phase of doing this and the sound of these albums sounds extremely dated, whereas conventionally recorded drums which some of them had done before, still sounds ok today.

In addition drum kits of the 1980s used in rock music, and lots of other music had very heavy shells, which made them loud and boxy sounding but it didn't always sound good recorded which could be why this method of production predominated.

Nowadays I've noticed rock drums are lighter again in a more fusion style. Their shells are thinner and their sound is much nicer and technology has moved on to such an extent that we can get this much better sound with volume too.