Annie Lennox - Songs of Mass Destruction
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Free Music Review: Not disappointed
Hit: 4 Stars
At first I wasn't sure I liked Annie's return to us. After listening a few times to it I was absorbed into it. Her depth and growth became clear. She has matured and it shows. Free Music Review: Crushed any competitors to Smithereens!
Hit: 5 Stars
I was just begining to find out who Annie Lennox was around the time "Songs" was coming out, i had seen a snippet of the "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) music video on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 80's and i immediatley had to know everything about this artist. I did my research just in time to see that she had just recentley released a Brand Spankin New Cd entitled "Songs Of Mass Destruction". Well with a name like that, WHO can resist? so i bought the cd and BOY WAS I GLAD!
SOMD is a collection of wonderfully crafted semi-dark ballads that are borderlining sheer perfection. Annie's voice is so pure and heartfelt. Your body feels every note she sings.
MY Top 5 are
1.Big Sky
2.Smithereens
3.Dark road
4.Lost
5.Love Is Blind
Songs of Mass Destruction is a must for every age. don't try to resist it.
You Know you WANT TO. SO BUYITNOW!
LOVE YOU ANNIE!
Free Music Review: Lennox Fan
Hit: 2 Stars
I've been an Annie fan since I first heard her vocals on "Never Gonna Cry Again". Having said that: This LP just doesn't impress me. The overt political title segways into a plethora of utter nonsense of political diatribe set to music. It seems as if Annie is trying to channel Bono on this record. Lennox's music has always come from a dark place, "Savage" being one of my favorite albums to date, but the themes on these songs leaves one feeling melancholy. There's no triumph in the final analysis. "Coloured Bedspread" has a catchy ring and just hearing Annie's vocals gives this a 2 star, beyond that, this LP isn't what an Euryhmic or Lennox fan would appreciate. I know I don't appreciate it, on a musical level. Isn't that what Lennox is about: Music? What happened to poetic politics?Free Music Review: Sing My Sisters....................
Hit: 5 Stars
It seems that Annie has written a lighter album with Songs....when you compare it to Bare. I am a very late Annie lennox fan, but I LOVE THIS GAL!! I really enjoy the new younger girls..Duffy, Coco, Trista Prettyman, BUT I am aging and I can't relate so much with their world experiences so much. I love Annie because I get what she is experiencing. I wish more women writers and singers were as honest as her. I love her writing more than the actual music. I have really enjoyed recently getting all her albums recently and raging with her in the car, in house, and all over. Finally my husband came up to me while I was loudly playing "Sing"...and said..okay not every wants to hear the sisters singing!!!LOL!! Can't wait for her next album!! I am a fan!!!Free Music Review: The diva is back
Hit: 4 Stars
Considering that Annie Lennox released her first solo album Diva shortly after the Eurythmics disbanded, you would think that she wouldn't take so long with subsequent releases. True, the three-year gap before Medusa came out wasn't a HUGE break, but Bare didn't appear until 2003. Now, Annie comes at us with her fourth album, Songs of Mass Destruction.
Although some of the songs on here are a little dark, they aren't as blatant as what was found on much of Bare (which isn't a bad album, by the way). Such songs include "Through the Glass Darkly", "Lost" and "Dark Road". And Annie's activism also has a presence on here, as evidenced by the feministic tracks "Sing" and "Womankind".
Another good selection is the final track, "Fingernail Moon". Speaking of which, as was the case with most of her post-Eurythmics albums, there are mainly ballads on here, and when she shoots for funky tracks, she hits ("Ghosts in My Machine") and misses ("Love is Blind"). Her vocals go a little off-key from time to time too. Oh, well; while Diva remains her best solo album, Songs of Mass Destruction proves that Annie's talent is still going strong.
Anthony Rupert