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They had momentum and kept experimenting to interesting effect. 1987’s Savage, which was sort of their own Berlin Trilogy album, has undergone a critical reappraisal over the years since it flopped commercially in the U.S. But by decade’s end, Eurythmics were effectively done. Canadian album certifications – Eurythmics – Touch". Music Canada. 1 June 1984 . Retrieved 16 October 2018. Scaping, Peter, ed. (1984). "Top 100 LPs: 1983". BPI Year Book 1984. British Phonographic Industry. pp.44–45. ISBN 0-906154-04-9. After the commercial failure of Savage, this is a return to the brassy R&B of Be Yourself Tonight and Revenge but with less success. Despite the far from harmonious circumstances of its creation, flashes of brilliance still remain in places.

The video featured Lennox in a ’60s blonde wig, complete with flip, as Stewart is seen out on the town with various women (and ’80s pop culture blip Marilyn). The last bit of gender-bending appears at the end, with Lennox in male drag “kissing” her femme self in a primitive split-screen effect before she gives a knowing smile at the camera. This is a more androgynous visual portrayal, but it isn’t meant to be butch,” Lennox told Rolling Stone in 1983. “No way. It is very useful in transcending the bum-and-tits thing, though. That’s a very vulgar thing to say, but I have received that kind of abuse onstage, and one has to find a way around it. Of course, you’ll never find a way around it. But this helps.” Top Pop Albums of 1984". Billboard. 31 December 1984. Archived from the original on 31 December 2012 . Retrieved 21 April 2020. Touch (liner notes). Eurythmics. RCA Records. 1983. PL70109. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)

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News" (PDF). Record Mirror. London, England, U.K.: Spotlight Publications Ltd.: 6 29 October 1983. ISSN 0144-5804 . Retrieved 2 November 2023. The Eurythmics release their third album 'Touch' on November 14 Top 100 ( Kent Music Report) peaks to 12 June 1988: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives: Australian Chart Book. p.105. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988. The look wasn’t planned as a way to mess with gender, but as a defense against catcall-spewing, leering men in audiences. Singles: "hitparade.ch > Suchen nach: Eurythmics (Songs)" (in German). Hung Medien . Retrieved 2020-02-27. Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005 (in Japanese). Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.

It worked, as the song remains a quality example of the period’s incorporation of synthesizers into pop and remains one of Lennox’s favorite Eurythmics songs due to how well it incorporated beauty and melancholy. There’s the brusque guitar stomp of Belinda with Lennox’s multi-layered vocals sitting atop some post-punk guitars and heavy riffing of Stewart. It feels like a more refined cousin of Keith Levene’s razorcut riffing on PiL’s Public Image single from three years earlier. Albums: "hitparade.ch > Suchen nach: Eurythmics (Alben)" (in German). Hung Medien . Retrieved 2020-02-27. Video album featuring promo videos, montages and live footage (both on and off stage) from the album We Too Are One.For the Love of Big Brother) was the two being experimental again, mostly full of instrumentals. There was no hit single in the U.S. Radio stations and MTV, apparently having never read the book, thought “Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)” was some sort of filthy song about screwing or even an actual sex crime. It was Top 10 in many other countries and still a dance hit here.

Dance Vault Remixes - Right By Your Side (EP)/03. Right By Your Side (Plus Something Else) (Remix).mp3 Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988-2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. Dutch album certifications – Eurythmics – Touch" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers . Retrieved 9 February 2019. Enter Touch in the "Artiest of titel" box. Select 1984 in the drop-down menu saying "Alle jaargangen". Savage may be the least commercially successful of the albums following their breakthrough, but it remains the favourite of the duo. In recent years it’s been reappraised and lauded for its experimental sense of adventure. “One journalist wrote how it was a masterpiece, and how people never recognised it as the most extraordinary piece of music of its time. It’s certainly our darkest record – that and 1984. They’re the two albums I feel very connected with,” Annie added. That’s when we decided to take even more control by actually getting second hand equipment and stop using traditional studios,” Stewart told Super Deluxe Edition in 2019. “We spent months working on the Sweet Dreams album without the cost hanging over our heads and I think that allowed us to get lost in sound and find our way to what I used to call electro-soul.”

The frantic squall of Caveman Head is a highlight, a dizzying mix of skittering drums, spiralling guitars and a woozy vocal from Lennox. Meanwhile, the French language oddity Sing-Sing’s keyboard refrain is certainly on nodding acquaintance with Gary Numan’s Cars.