I have the Annie Lennox Collection (Deluxe) and really enjoy it. Walking on Broken Glass, Why, No More I Love You’s are really well done.
I never was a big Eurythmics fan. I liked a few of their big hits but New Wave just wasn’t my thing.
Can anyone recommend an Annie Lennox album? Something that doesn’t have a lot of filler songs? I’ve thought about buying Diva.
Here’s Annie with Alica Keys Everybody Hurts.
I’d swear Annie is singing better today than she did 30 years ago with the Eurythmics. There’s so much soul in her voice now.
It’s not as if she has been amazingly productive, and she really doesn’t have a whole lot of weak songs on her albums as a result.
Diva is vital. If you own no other Annie Lennox album, this is the one you need. It is amazingly consistent, the only weak song (Keep Young and Beautiful) is right at the very end, after a pause, as a CD extra.
Medusa is an album of covers. Great covers, but that makes it much less vital Get it after you get everything else. You already have the best covers on the Collection.
Bare totally grew on me and now ranks right behind Diva, though it is nowhere near as consistent as Diva.
Songs of Mass Destruction is very inconsistent, with a few stinkers and one that has a lead-in that is so dreadfully earnest that I am reminded that I need to load it into the an audio editing program and cut that intro off. I would rank Medusa above it.
+1000. Diva is one of my all time favorite albums. She is an amazing singer. She does all the background vocals so every song is note perfect. Definitely an album to put on your deserted island list.
I don’t have the Collection, but do have Medusa, Bare, and Songs of Mass Destruction and would rank them in that order.
Then, go out to iTunes and download the song Would I Lie to You.
Definitely Diva. Plus “Into the West” off the LotR: Return of the King soundtrack makes me cry every time I hear it, probably just because it’s over the ending of the last film, but her voice is just so perfect for it.
Great minds.
That’s a great song, but the OP would probably save a few bucks by just getting a good Eurythmics collection. One really nice thing about their relative post-Eurythmics careers is that it blows the idea of Dave Stewart as a Svengali right out of the water.
I adore her version of Take Me to the River on Medusa.,
Is “Into the West” on any of her own albums, or just the soundtrack for ROTK?
“Into the West” is on the 2nd disk of The Deluxe Collection CD.
Be careful that you order the Deluxe. The regular Collection only has disk 1 and you won’t get some really great songs. Everybody Hurts is also on that 2nd CD. Many of my favorites are on that disk.
Co-signing on Diva. I seriously cannot imagine life without it.
Heh. I got lucky when my sister gave me this computer. She had deleted her user account from it, but when I had iTunes search the drive, it pulled in a couple of thousand songs from the old user folder, including 5 Annie Lennox albums: Diva, Medusa, The Annie Lennox Collection, Bare and Songs of Mass Destruction.
Little Bird is currently getting a bit of rotation on my iPad.
She also did a Christmas album, which I really enjoy. It’s called “A Christmas Cornucopia.” I think she really brings her own style to the songs.
Cannot praise “Diva” enough. One of my top CDs of all time and the single “Why” will always send chills down my spine. “Bare” is good; as a poster above said, it’s more of a grower, though the track"Wonderful" jumps right off the CD immediately.
“Live in Central Park” is often available in a 2-CD package with “Medusa”, and she sounds great live. (I was fortunate enough ages ago to see her do an “Intimate and Interactive” concert at the MuchMusic studio in Toronto.) Her live version of “Who’s That Girl?” is amazing.
Not available on an album, check out “Tracks of My Tears” with Smokey Robinson on YouTube.