I have a late start this morning. I feel like listening to and writing about The Eurythmics. I have put theur first album In The Garden on to help me focus. Eurthymics came out of the ashes of the little mourned Tourusts. This kind of thing happened a lot at this point in Pop Music. Kevin Rowland chose to redirect his anger from Punk to Soul. Mick Hucknell from Punk to Pap.
Annie and Dave meanwhile made their way from Aberdeen and Sunderland respectively and set their sights on the stars. In The Garden was their firty Eurythmics gambit and it's slinky and intricate. Experimental. Not destined for daytime Radio One but all the better for it. Like Lab Scientists watching the behaviour of drugged rates. This is a clinical and sparky record drawing from Bowie, Prog, Krautrck and all that Seventies chart action.
Sweet Dreams of course was the song where it all fell in to place for Annie and Dave and they paid off their mortgages and realised they'd be spending a lot more time in America rubbung shoulders wuth Dave, George and Tom from now on. I like those recirds too. A lot of them are just thrilling. Singles and albums.
Eurythmics were one of the few contenders from tht whole wave that actually remained Good.Well done Annie. Well done Dave. It's not easily done. The Eighties is a Foreign Country. They did things differently then.
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