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Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Audio CD

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Eurythmics Band: Eurythmics
Title: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
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Release Date: 2005-11-15
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Love Is A Stranger 2: I’ve Got An Angel 3: Wrap It Up 4: I Could Give You (A Mirror) 5: The Walk 6: Sweet Dreams [Are Made Of This] 7: Jennifer 8: This Is The House 9: Somebody Told Me 10: This City Never Sleeps 11: Home Is Where The Heart Is (BONUS TRACK) 12: Monkey Monkey (BONUS TRACK) 13: Baby’s Gone Blue (BONUS TRACK) 14: Sweet (BONUS TRACK) 15: Dreams [Hot Remix] (BONUS TRACK) 16: Love Is A Stranger [Coldcut Remix] (BONUS TRACK) 17: Satellite Of Love – Previously Unreleased (BONUS TRACK)

Annie Lennox is great
The music on this disc is fantastic, Satelite of love is nearly inmpossible to find.


A commercial breakthrough and masterpiece
amazon. Watch Video Here: http://www. amazon. com/review/R2F9LC6S1E2IBC .


Sweet Tunes Is This
Remember the difference between Radioheads 'Pablo Honey' and 'The Bends'? Well, if you do, you get the idea), Sweet Dreams is an astonishing piece of 80's pop history. One of the most abrupt turnarounds in music history (listen to their first album, it's like an entirely different band. I am suprised how little this album has aged or how it has avoided feeling dated. Sure, there are a few sounds and synths here and there that do bring you right there, but Annie sings with such gusto, and the vocals are so upfront. A lot of music from this era have the vocals drowning in production, not so here. The songs are meaty and catchy, the elctronica works, without taking away from the rest, making the record warm and edgy at the same time. There are of course lot of moments anyone aged 11 in 1983 will remember, specialy Love is a stranger and Sweet Dreams, but I never bought this album back then, so discovering all the rest was a real treat in January 2008.

Oh, and I really enjoyed the bonus tracks on this release. The 7'' b-sides are good, even fun, and remembering buying 12'' singles, it's always a treat hearing those remixes again or for the first time!

This album is duly recommended!.


Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Now my tape is almost worn out, and I am so glad to see it on CD!!!!!!!!!!!! Most of the songs never got much air time, but their intracacy of melody and lyrics deserve to be listened to, even now. This was one of my favorites on "tape" back in the mid-80's when I bought it and still is.


Synthpop Masterpiece
The early 1980s saw an explosion of synthesizer-driven sounds and there were other duos too, like OMD and Yazoo, but Eurythmics surpassed them all. Eurythmics followed up the fragile and dream-like In the Garden with this album of pure pop genius. This enhanced album contains 6 additional tracks and a booklet in a fold-out sleeve with historical notes and beautiful full color pics.

Sweet Dreams provided Eurythmics with the commercial breakthrough in its shimmering masterpieces such as Love Is A Stranger and the oneiric title track. The videos of these two songs are superb too. Not all the tracks are flowing pop songs though; there's also the ethereal I've Got An Angel and the enervated experimental Wrap It Up, plus the more soulful outings I Could Give You A Mirror and The Walk with its great trumpet solo.

Besides the aforementioned hits, my favorites include the atmospheric Jennifer and the elegant This Is The House with its Spanish spoken intro, its instrumental flourishes and its melancholy mood. It's true that not every single track on the original remains as memorable as the ones mentioned, but the album certainly deserves five stars for its melodic and lyrical beauty, especially with the added songs.

Of the bonus tracks, the best in my opinion are the lilting Home Is Where The Heart Is, the Hot Remix of Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This), the Coldcut Remix of Love Is A Stranger and this awesome rendition of Lou Reed's Satellite of Love that in its vocal style reminds one somewhat of great atmospheric tracks like Belinda from the debut album. The classic Sweet Dreams album is now even better, revealing more of the greatness of this pioneering synth-pop band. .


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