Eurythmics Touch Rar

25-03-2021

Eurythmics Touch Rar

Eurythmics Touch Rarely

Touch Dance: Eurythmics: 5: Album + Soundtrack. Year Title Artist Rating Releases; 1984: 1984: For the Love of Big Brother: Eurythmics: 3: 8: 2016: 1984: For the Love. Touch is Eurythmics' third studio album, released on November 26, 1983. By this time, the duo had achieved international success with their hit single 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).' The follow-up, Touch, was reputedly recorded and mixed in only about three weeks at Eurythmics' own London studio facility, The Church. Touch is the third studio album by the British new wave duo Eurythmics. It was released on 14 November 1983 by RCA Records, just ten months after their breakthrough album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). Touch became the duo's first number-one album on the UK Albums Chart, and also reached the top 10 of the US Billboard 200.

Two chords on the synthesiser and everything is said! More than enough to recognise the singular sound of Eurythmics, the emblematic band from the 1980s. The tandem of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart symbolises perfectly this new synth-pop wave (pop in essence, futuristic in form) so typical of this decade during which guitars had almost become personae non-gratae… And while the British duo topped the charts during the entire decade, Sweet Dreams remains their greatest work. On the partition, Dave Stewart dabbled in a darker new wave, a-la Bowie (Love Is A Stranger) and dared venturing into “krautrock” light (Sweet Dreams). He could go funky (I’ve Got An Angel) or even disco (Wrap It Up). On vocals, Annie Lennox is impressive, as always, switching from soul to a bleak singing voice at will. A true classic!

Tracklist:
1. Love Is a Stranger 03:43
2. I’ve Got an Angel 02:44
3. Wrap It Up 03:33
4. I Could Give You (A Mirror) 03:51
5. The Walk 04:40
6. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) 03:36
7. Jennifer 05:05
8. This Is the House 05:00
9. Somebody Told Me 03:29
10. This City Never Sleeps 06:20

Personnel:
Annie Lennox, vocals, keyboards
David Stewart, guitar, keyboards
Additional musicians:
Vic Martin, keyboards
Dean Garcia, bass
Pete Phipps, drums
Maggie Ryder, background vocals
Gill O’Donovan, background vocals
Susie O’List, background vocals
Green Gartside, vocals

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The Eurythmics debut for the first time on HighResAudio! The British duo Eurythmics were a force on the Billboard charts throughout the ’80s, as their quirky electro-pop resonated with music fans. Now, the music of Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox takes a new spin on turntables all over the world, thanks to the global re-release of the duo’s eight studio albums on vinyl. Spanning their entire career, the albums will be released by RCA/Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment starting with In The Garden (1981), Sweet Dreams (1983) and Touch (1983), followed by Be Yourself Tonight (1985), Revenge (1986) and Savage (1987) then We Too Are One (1989) and Peace (1999).

“Eurythmics’ debut album, In the Garden, is the missing link between the work of the Tourists, who included both Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox, and 1983’s commercial breakthrough, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). Co-produced by Kraftwerk producer Conny Plank at his studio in Cologne, Germany, it has some of the distant, mechanistic feel of the European electronic music movement, but less of the pop sensibility of later Eurythmics. The chief difference is in Lennox’s singing; even when the musical bed is appealing, Lennox floats ethereally over it, and the listener doesn’t focus on her. As a result, In the Garden wasn’t much of a success, though when Eurythmics streamlined their sound and emphasized Lennox’s dominating voice on subsequent releases, they found mass popularity.” (William Ruhlmann, AMG)

Tracklist:
1. English Summer 04:00
2. Belinda 03:58
3. Take Me to Your Heart 03:32
4. She’s Invisible Now 03:27
5. Your Time Will Come 04:30
6. Caveman Head 03:56
7. Never Gonna Cry Again 03:02
8. All the Young (People of Today) 04:11
9. Sing-Sing 04:03
10. Revenge 04:31

Personnel:
Annie Lennox, vocals, keyboards, synthesizer, percussion, flute
Dave Stewart, guitar, bass, keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals
Additional musicians:
Clem Burke, drums
Holger Czukay, French horn, brass, thai stringed instrument, walking
Krista Fast, background vocals, laughs
Robert Görl, drums
Jaki Liebezeit, drums, horn, brass
Roger Pomphrey, guitar, background vocals, shouts
Markus Stockhausen, horn, brass
Tim Wheater, saxophone

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Recorded between February and June 1981 at Conny’s studio, Cologne, Germany
Produced by Conny Plank, Eurythmics

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