Posted on Sunday, November 06, 2005 11:59 AM
Add this to your "Dear Santa" letter. Tons of bonus tracks on all eight Eurythmics studio albums, which will be also available as a deluxe boxed set:
Eurythmics
Boxed - The Collectors Deluxe Boxed Set
Release Date : November 14, 2005
- In The Garden [1981]
- Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) [1983]
- Touch [1983]
- Be Yourself Tonight [1985]
- Revenge [1986]
- Savage [1988]
- We Too Are One [1989]
- Peace [1999]
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# re: Eurythmics in a box
12/7/2005 10:13 AM by
Well, for all it's worth, Eurythmics 'Boxed' is an obvious cash in although more economical unlike buying each remaster separately.... HOWEVER, I am more than sad seeing every album messing with bonus tracks in terms of 'a couple of B-sides, a couple of remixes and a couple of cover versions'... Instead of adopting chronologically fair choice of official material for the era (particularly the first three albums, which have loads of interesting b-sides to pull - 'Invisible Hands', 'Dr. Trash' or 'Step On the Beast' to name a few more), 'Boxed' is an excuse there will be more to come in terms of possible 'Rare and Unreleased' compilations... Here the only album serving logical judgement is 'In the Garden' - although its bonus also suggests 1981 became 1982 before it even started (the four live tracks originally from the 12" version of 'This Is the House')...
Another thing worth noting is Eurythmics were also forced to master bonus from vynil or cassette in the wake of the original master tapes possibly being lost - check 'Monkey Monkey' and 'Satellite of Love' from 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)'...
Here, the worst thing is putting 1991 remixes alongside 1983 albums... The good thing is Coldcut & Co. don't differ much from the originals which only proves how much Eurythmics were informing their investigators... As a die-hard fan of the duo and no matter how bad they got in some specific moments, their work deserves any such study although the music industry should finally try and organise projects like this in much more common sense...
As Eurythmics grew with each album, more sense would have been a sole de luxe package than throwing away the money for an incomplete box set with so many excellent experiments still floating in a vacuum...