Eurythmics - Savage
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Free Music Review: Horrible.
Hit: 2 Stars
"Savage" was the album that put me off Eurythmics for a long time until a friend convinced me that "We Too Are One" wasn't nearly as bad. Yes, they're back to their electronica but it's nowhere near as interesting as it used to be. "She was a wide eyed girl in a purple dress, she coulda been good, she coulda been the best"? "I've got a lover back in Japan, he's got tattoos, he's my Superman"? It sounds like Annie lowered her IQ points by about 90 to come up with the lyrics to some of this drivel. The production is boring, too. The three better songs on here are "You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart" which has a good electronic backbeat coupled with some nice vocalese, "Savage", the definitive Annie "ice queen" performance, and the capper "Brand New Day" which, at the end of it all, proves that Annie can send shivers down your spine just singing A CAPELLA. Other than that I'd like to forget this album ever happened.Free Music Review: Annie's "art therapy"
Hit: 5 Stars
Yes, this IS a concept album, but I do not think that too many people understand what the concept really is. Annie Lennox is a Buddhist. Buddhism is all about trying to balance out dual extremes (dual opposites) by trying to find the middle ground. The middle ground (once you get there) is what is called "Nirvana." So, my perspective is that Annie is trying to say that many women, including herself, feel trapped into having to be either one of two extremes: a boring housewife or a wild oversexual "savage." This shows in the video for "You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart" where she is right in the middle of these two extremes and blows them away to show that she is perfectly content to just be "herself."Aside from the philosophy, the music in this album is their best. It is immensely disappointing that this album did not receive better attention from the public. "I Need a Man" is sexier and more powerful than anything Madonna could ever have done (and with better taste). At the end of thier "Revenge" days, people were thinking that Eurythmics had lost their uniqueness and avant-garde approach. Savage was a pleasant renewal of their great weirdness that made them known as true artists in the first place. "Beethoven" sets the stage perfectly for the character sketch of a tortured woman grappling with which identity to *choose* so that she will feel more worthy and alive. Personality #1 seems jealous of "a girl like THAT...in a natural setting....like a cafe for example"......while subconscious memories of childhood desires (as symbolized by the little girl in the video) lurk in the fabric.
I have always loved Eurythmics for their edginess and humanity. "Savage" is just brilliant.
Free Music Review: Eurythmics without the sparkle
Hit: 3 Stars
What I like most about Eurythmics is the way they play with submelodies through the main melody of their songs. In this album they undressed their music. It is simple, sometimes bombastic but not at all suprising. That this would be their last album for a long time did not suprise me at all. In Peace the "old" Eurythmics has arisen from the dust. Savage is nice to complete your collection. Nothing more.Free Music Review: ODD/DIFFERENT ...but well done
Hit: 5 Stars
I guess this was a concept album for annie and dave about a woman battling a midlife crisis or is just a completely bored housewife...anyway the songs rock hard...beginning with beethoven...other great songs are YOU HAVE PLACED A CHILL IN MY HEART...and God that song gives me chills everytime...and also SHAME is great song...I NEED A MAN has become a staple in the music industry...better than most Eurythmics efforts as a whole...definately beats PEACE which was such a wash out.Free Music Review: Quintessentially Eurythmics
Hit: 5 Stars
Thirteen years after it came out, this album still sounds great. Every facet of it is superb. The melodies are strong and still pull you into their hypnotic electro undertow. The lyrics are full of irony and deep subtexts. For instance, songs like I Need You and I Need A Man have more disturbing subtexts than the surface meaning of their titles. In the videos, Annie Lennox put a new twist on androgyny with an exaggerated feminity that suggested a man in drag (if you're a guy, the effect was amusing or disturbing depending on whether you were turned on by it). Dave Stewart's production was top notch, giving the album a stunning aural quality. There is a familiar sonic intensity to the album, thanks to the involvement of Alan Moulder, who went on to helm production on 90s alt rock masterpieces by Nine Inch Nails, Curve, and The Smashing Pumpkins. This album is Eurythmics in their natural (electronic) element. It's weird, dark, androgynous, ruminative, and vaguely threatening. It other words, it is quintessentially Eurythmics. It doesn't get any better than this.