# Annie Lennox fans - best albums to buy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-lennox-fans-best-albums-to-buy/643539 "2012-12-09T22:41:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-lennox-fans-best-albums-to-buy/643539/1 "2012-12-09T22:41:06Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-lennox-fans-best-albums-to-buy/643539/2 "2012-12-09T23:04:37Z")
Here’s Annie with Alica Keys [Everybody Hurts.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw81JJEQM-s) 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. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-lennox-fans-best-albums-to-buy/643539/3 "2012-12-09T23:19:45Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > 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_. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Mattie\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@Mattie\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mattie_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-lennox-fans-best-albums-to-buy/643539/4 "2012-12-09T23:44:43Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > _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. +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_. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-lennox-fans-best-albums-to-buy/643539/5 "2012-12-10T00:03:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-lennox-fans-best-albums-to-buy/643539/6 "2012-12-10T00:13:00Z")
> [@Mattie\_Blue](#): > > +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. Great minds. > [@](#): > > 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_. 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. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-lennox-fans-best-albums-to-buy/643539/7 "2012-12-10T00:42:37Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > _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. I adore her version of _Take Me to the River_ on Medusa., ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-lennox-fans-best-albums-to-buy/643539/8 "2012-12-10T01:02:05Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > 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. Is “Into the West” on any of her own albums, or just the soundtrack for ROTK? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-lennox-fans-best-albums-to-buy/643539/9 "2012-12-10T01:38:55Z")
“Into the West” is on the 2nd disk of The Deluxe Collection CD. > **[Amazon.com: Annie Lennox Collection: CDs & Vinyl](https://www.amazon.com/Annie-Lennox-Collection-Deluxe-Incl/dp/B001DZ9GRE)** > > Product Description This long-awaited greatest hits compilation from one of Scotland's best-known and best-loved stars follows her triumphant 2007 comeback album 'Songs Of Mass Destruction'. Songs from that album are included here, as well... 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. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-lennox-fans-best-albums-to-buy/643539/10 "2012-12-10T01:45:16Z")
Co-signing on Diva. I seriously cannot imagine life without it. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-lennox-fans-best-albums-to-buy/643539/11 "2012-12-10T01:49:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Postariti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Postariti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Postariti)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-lennox-fans-best-albums-to-buy/643539/12 "2012-12-10T07:34:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![coolbyrne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@coolbyrne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coolbyrne)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-lennox-fans-best-albums-to-buy/643539/13 "2012-12-11T01:03:50Z")
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.