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The first Eurythmics album (although actually the 5th time that former Longdancer and Tourist David A Stewart had made an album, whilst it was Annie Lennox's fourth, and the second time they'd been in the studio with legendary 'krautrock' producer Conny Plank...but this was the first time they'd be writing all the material and had creative control) is a rather muted, dreamy, unfocussed, psychedelic affair. That's not to say it's no good - but none of the songs really leap out and arrest you as hit pop tunes the way much of their later work would - instead themore… album tends to cocoon the listener in an uneasy dislocated mood, full of Plank's trademark reverberting sound textures (there's tape flanging on here to match 'Ruckzuck' from the first Kraftwerk album of 1971, and plenty of echoing wierdness from Can's Leibzeit & Czukay). All in all, this is a rather cold clammy mildewed garden, inhabited by a man who'd spent a large part of the 1970s living in squats taking LSD every day, and a woman who would experience two nervous breakdowns in the next 18 months.Anyhow, that's the music, how about this Sony-BMG remastered digipack? Well, the sound has a noticably improved clarity to my old 1980s RCA CD - the late Conny Plank would hopefully be delighted. The B-sides of the two singles from the original album make worthy additions ("HEARTBEAT HEARTBEAT" in particular is a gripping krautrock stomper), as are three live recordings from Eurythmics 1981 tour (performed by three persons and a tape machine) - originally these appeared as tracks on the 12" of their 1982 single, 'This is the House' - however, inexplicably, since the running time of the CD is only 57 minutes, the live version of "Your Time Will Come" from that 12" hasn't been included here - a shame, cos it was probably the best of the four!Another minor gripe - although the digipack/booklet contains plenty of lovely previously unseen photos, the artwork from the two "Belinda" and "Never Gonna Cry Again" singles isn't included (the latter featured a striking photo of Lennox as a gargoyle, well worth seeing!), neither is the listing of musicians from the singles, and also the lyrics aren't included (they were on the original release).

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Music > Albums

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CD

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Title:

Eurythmics - In the Garden (2005) Retail CD

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809 x 800 px

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