Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight (Reis)
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Artist: EurythmicsEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-11-15
Music Label: Legacy/RCA/Sony BMG
Soundtracks:
- Would I Lie To You?
- There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)
- I Love You Like A Ball And Chain
- Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves
- Conditioned Soul
- Adrian
- It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)
- Here Comes That Sinking Feeling
- Better To Have Lost In Love (Then Never To Have Loved At All)
- Grown Up Girls
- Tous Les Garcons Et Les Filles
- Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves (ET Mix)
- Would I Lie To You? (ET Mix)
- Conditioned Soul (Live)
- Hello I Love You
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Free Music Review: Eurythmics Doin' It For Themselves
Hit: 5 Stars
Since 1983 Eurythmics had been steadily adding more and more care to the heavy pop orientation of their basic sound. It was on this 1985 album that Annie and Dave,as it were really moved on into a new territory. The rock/soul element,always present in a fairly minor way in their music really poped out of it's shell here and asserted itself in a big way. This album features a horn section on some cuts and a unique sense of rhyhthm that actually draws upon all of the Eurythmics' musical influences,from electronica to (then) contemporary dance/R&B/soul. This was the bands biggest hit album overall up to this point and the presense of the Motownish hybrids of the driving rock and soul of "Would I Lie To You" and the emmaculately beautiful "There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)" are a big help in that respect. That latter song is also astonishingly well written and gives Annie a chance to really stretch her vocal range with some excellent harmonies. There are other hits here too such as of source "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves",another rock n soul type tune duetting with Aretha Franklin and the song also appears simultaneously on Aretha's similarly themed Who's Zoomin' Who? album from the same year. "It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)" provides more of a Chicago style soul shuffling rhythm to the affair and is the lesser renouned hit from this album. The intense tapestry of music from electronica,rock and gospel/soul shows up to full effect on some of the album tracks such as the strong electro-funk flavored "I Love You Like A Ball And Chain" and "Here Comes That Sinking Feeling". "Conditioned Heart" basically showcases a mild Native American influence in a similar type of arrangement where the Elvis Costello duet of "Adrian" is pretty much catchy mid 80's soul-pop actually influenced equally by the style of both artists involved. Overall the original album,for something that was such a big hit is actually a somewhat ambitious project that seeks to bleed one genre into another and celebrate the differences between them rather than emphasize them.The bonus tracks here actually illustrate a similar spirit. The moody "Grown Up Girls" and the grooving cover of "Hello I Love You" are the two highlights along with two extended mixes and the presense of the the French sung "Tous Les Garcons Et Les Filles",a mood fully electronica tune that could've easily come off of In the Garden. There's also a live version of "Conditioned Soul",adding little to the original but audience noise. At this point Eurythmics were on the threthold of finding a whole new sound for themselves and while this isn't a complete transition to the new sound they'd develope but it's important step along the way as well as being one of the Eurythmics most overall potent musical experiences.
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Casting off their rep for digital iciness, the Eurythmics got Be Yourself Tonight over on electric fire and the fluttering warmth of Annie Lennox's voice; the first two seconds of "There Must Be an Angel" are the prettiest seconds ever recorded. In fact, it's essentially a deep soul album in white-English-geek drag, from the Stax horns of "Would I Lie to You" to the guest shots by Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder to Lennox and Elvis Costello doing their best Marvin and Tammi impression on "Adrian." But the style points wouldn't matter without great songs and this disc has some of the band's finest: the best feminist anthem ever written, rockers that dig their heels in deep, and love songs fueled by real longing and joy. --Douglas WolkThis edition has been digitally re-mastered from the original analog master tapes by Eurythmics mastermind Dave Stewart, with input from collaborator Annie Lennox. In addition, there are six bonus tracks: a mixture of b-sides, remixes, and previously unreleased material (notably a cover of the Doors' "Hello I Love You"). The packaging is a redesign orchestrated by Laurence Stevens Design, the firm who art-directed all of the original releases, while the thick booklets contain rare photos and insightful, new sleeve notes.
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