Eurythmics - Savage
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Artist: EurythmicsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Beethoven (I Love To Listen To)
- I've Got A Lover (Back In Japan)
- Do You Want To Break Up?
- You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart
- Shame
- Savage
- I Need A Man
- Put The Blame On Me
- Heaven
- Wide Eyed Girl
- I Need You
- Brand New Day
Free Music Notes for Savage
Free Music Review: Love Song Psychosis: A Dark Masterpeice
Hit: 5 Stars
Working primarily with synthesizers, Eurythmics was always an edgy band, with dark lyrics and Annie Lennox's rich alto playing off against David Stewart's danceable beats and slick and glittering instrumentals. Although their 1981 IN THE GARDEN was not a success, the 1983 SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS exploded the duo to both critical acclaim and international stardom, and they would remain among the best known and most original musical artists of the 1980s.
For the 1987 SAVAGE, Lennox and Stewart--always experimenters--built their songs from percussion sound loops created by drummer
Olle Romo, and the resulting sound was even edgier than usual. When combined with some of the darkest lyrics and musical attitudes imaginable, SAVAGE proved too extreme for Eurthymics fans and general listeners; it was only mildly successful in England and Europe and even less successful in the United States. It was not Eurythmic's last release, but it did mark a distinct turn in the band's fortunes; Lennox and Stewart would release only one more album before separating for a decade.
In a certain sense, SAVAGE could be called a concept album, for it offers a series of songs that can be read as a portrait of a woman's disintegration in the wake of a sour love affair. Opening with "I Love To Listen To Beethoven," an acid sampling of predatory cocktail conversation, the line up continues with the fantasy-like "I've Got A Lover (Back In Japan)" and then suddenly detonates with "Do You Want to Break Up?" Each of the subsequent songs ravels the thread of frustration, anger, and fury of love and sex gone wrong to the point of insanity.
The most famous song in the collection is "I Need A Man" in which Lennox adopts the persona of man-hungry tease who screams and howls like an animal in heat--and then at the last moment rejects the man she has presumably attracted. But perhaps the most telling song of the set is "I Need You," which (unlike the other cuts) is performed to a simple guitar accompaniment with the sounds of party-chatter in the background: the hunger for love is openly, sharply self-destructive to the point of true psychosis. It is frightening stuff, and although the albums ends with the considerably brighter "Brand New Day," the aura of darkness is never quite overcome.
Many music critics have described SAVAGE as feministic. Well, perhaps; I tend to interpret it as a series of meditations on stereotypes of emotional hysteria--and a supremely effective one at that, poisonous, venomous, desperate, and both hypnotic and hypnotically chilling. SAVAGE is all that the title implies. It will also be as difficult for casual listeners to take today as it was in 1987, for time has not diminished the sense of disquiet it creates. Strongly recommended, but brace yourself for one wild ride.
SAVAGE has recently been released in a remastered edition which includes several bonus cuts: an extended instrumental remix of "Beethoven (I Love To Listen To)," remixes of "Shame" and "I Need A Man," a previously live performance of "I Need You," and a previously unreleased cover of The Beatles' "Come Together." They all have their attractions, and fans will enjoy them, but SAVAGE easily stands on its own, so you shouldn't think of them as part of the package per se.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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