Eurythmics for Prog-Related
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Topic: Eurythmics for Prog-Related
Posted By: zdunne
Subject: Eurythmics for Prog-Related
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 10:04
| I know I might get some heat for suggesting them though using the search I was surprised they were not before. The reason I am suggesting them is because their first album In The Garden, tends to have a bit more krautrock, psychadelic feel to it than their later more commercial works and was produced by legendary Krautrock producer Conny Plank and featured contributions from Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit of Can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Czukay" rel="nofollow - |
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 10:17
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no comment ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 11:00
You got the wrong Dave Stewart.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 11:01
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Please no. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 11:05
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album is labeld Krautrock and progressive pop on Wikipedia -------------  
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 11:17
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be careful with labels on wikipedia... ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 11:25
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Just when I though nothing can surprise me. I'm tolerant guy by nature, but Eurythmics ? No way.
------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu  Even my |
Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 12:35
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Roughly half of the 'artsy' 80s bands were influenced by Kraut but none of them is in any way Prog or related. Well, at least not until we lift the lid of that can  |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 14:26
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In The Garden is an anomaly in the Eurythmics discography and features Clem Burke of Blondie, Holger Czukay and Markus Stockhausen (son of Karlheinz).
As Karl says, half the artsy bands in the 80s were Krautrock (and specifically Can) influenced and the first Eurythmics album is no exception, however only one track is stand-out Krautrock influenced, and that was a B-Side.
I don't think being influenced by Kraut is enough in the case of the Eurythmics - In The Garden is a great album and far better from my perspective than anything they ever did after, but it's no more Prog related than any of their later albums.
Probably the most "famous" track from the album (featuring a familiar face on French Horn):
it also features the best track Stewart and Lenox ever recorded IMO:
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 14:36
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If they get on, I will show my ar*e in the High Street. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 14:42
That's terribly sporting of you Steve.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 14:47
Dean - it's not a pretty sight!  ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Dean wrote:Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 14:55
One may also argue that Annie Lennox is prog-related because Peter-John Vittese (Jethro Tull, Kazumi Watanabe) is featured on her first solo album.  ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 15:01
I didn't know that. Actually, I really enjoyed the last big Eurythmics single, I Saved The World (I think that was it's title). Cheesy, but very good cheesy. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 15:04
| One Krautrock-influenced album is not enough considering they were pretty much a pop band after that. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 18:17
| I like the band a lot - Have most singles, but no way can they be placed in PR. It is not that type of music at all. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 01:40
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Eurythmics was my first love, great band. But not remotely prog. Their best song ever: ------------- |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 02:19
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Cool blue...the color suits you.... ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 02:52
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Personally I am biased against inclusion as I really cannot stand to listen to a minute of their music. I hate them. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 04:53
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Brilliant band, Dave Stewart is one of my unsung music heroes. However, there isn't a speck of material that would justify inclusion. ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 06:37
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Oh no! I think I'm gonna *bjork*! ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 07:53
Don't sit on the fence Ian.
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 08:20
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Very talented songwriter/studio boffin (Stewart) wedded to a charlatan quine whose wardrobe contained most of her creative output. The Eurythmics were better than the Tourists though. They once made a video in Orkney when I lived there - Here Comes the Rain Again? However, there have been even more tenuous inclusions.... ------------- 
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: March 15 2011 at 01:15
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While I like the band they don't belong here , that's for sure. No way to be included not even to related, they are a pop band
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Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: March 15 2011 at 01:36
| My future ex-wife likes them, and that's baaaad news. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 15 2011 at 10:03
Are we going to consider Billy Idol next ?  ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 15 2011 at 10:07
 ------------- What? |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 15 2011 at 10:08
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Sorry, I didn't want to be offensive. (to be honest I like Billy Idol) ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 01:56
 ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 06:25
 But Dave Stewart is in the band. Oh wait, wrong Dave Stewart.  I think their soundtrack for the movie 1984 was proggy, but other than that I only am familiar with their hits. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 20:13
I didn't know the album, but can hear where you're coming from with that album based on the tracks that Dean posted from it, and disagree with those who seem to think there are no merits for Prog Related (wonder if they all are reasonably familiar with the album you suggested the Eurythmics for -- would hope so) -- getting into Prog Related is quite an involved process, though, so I'm not saying the album SHOULD render the Euryhtmics includible.. It's quite reminscent in part to me of David Bowie's Krautrock influenced albums (Berlin trilogy). Good stuff, and glad to hear music off it. I like Eurythymics later work (group i alwys enjoyed), but music from this album really appeals to me. Thanks. I do plan to get the album at some time. By the way, I've been listening a bit to The Tourists (the pre Eurythmics group), and since I've heard In the Garden called a link between the two groups, I hoped for something more interesting with The Tourists. |
Posted By: russellk
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 23:45
| Eurythmics' first album is krautrock influenced, but to my ear a long way short of prog-related. Like so many post-76 bands they absorbed good ideas from everywhere, and thus they are tinged with prog but no more. And far less after their first album. |