Annie Lennox - 'MEDUSA' (+ general Annie chat)

[Cerro de Casa]

The Princess of Christmas' all-covers album really hitting the spot for me on this Boxing Day.

 

[Jark]

I prefer A Christmas Porcupine

 

[Jark]

 

[VoR]

No More I Love You's is obviously an 11, but I find most of the other tracks pretty bland.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I prefer A Christmas Porcupine

For some people Christmas is connected with turkey, family, presents etc.

For me Christmas is connected with the true Princess of Festivities, Ms. Annie Lennox (the Queen of Christmas of course remains Enya - hi @cheap lousy jiva ).

Whether it is A Christmas Porcupine (and yes I own both editions) or Medusa, for me this period represents Princess Annie.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

No More I Love You's is obviously an 11, but I find most of the other tracks pretty bland.

'Don't Let It Bring You Down', 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' and 'Downtown Lights' are all 10/10 moments for me.

'Train In Vain' is a 9er.


'Waiting In Vain' really came to life in the legendary Central Park concert.

The rest is ok... a bit on the bland side, but name one artist that can do bland production as well as Annie?

 

[Cerro de Casa]

La Lennox (solo) Top 10:

1. Walking On Broken Glass
2. Love Song For A Vampire
3. No More 'I Love You's
4. A Thousand Beautiful Things
5. Why?
6. Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves (with MS. Aretha Franklin)
7. Little Bird
8. Whiter Shade Of Pale
9. Precious
10. Pavement Cracks

11. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
12. Money Can't Buy It
13. Coloured BEDSPREAD

 

[straightorbroken]

I'd love to.

It's a fantastic treatment often overlooked.

10 No More "I Love You's"
10 Take Me to the River
10 A Whiter Shade of Pale
10 Don't Let Ot Bring You Down
08 Train in Vain (Stand by Me)
07 I Can't Get Next to You
09 Downtown Lights
07 The Thin Line Between Love and Hate
10 Waiting In Vain
10 Something So Right
10 Heaven

Her seering voice was still a seething thrill (the radio 1 live session of the already gorgeous Waiting In Vain is simply lush). The thwomp and thump of Take Me to the River, like almost all, was my first introduction to the song so I was completely in awe of what I was hearing here especially (I recall it was a song often cited as a miss from the set). I still haven't heard the original Don't Let It Bring You Down, but there's a sensitive build up both here and on Downtown Lights that's rich, intimate and, given her alleged writers block, provide a sense that she's truly seeking refuge inhabiting these songs (probably just my indulgent interpretation of course). Out escapism is her's too.

On a personal note, I got this for Chrisrmas in 1999 along with The Immaculate Collection, Dusty: the Very Best of Dusty Springfield and Around the World in a Day. In the snowglobe of my teenage angst, music was everything to me: Annie may not have erased the originals, but if I ever do hear them (I've heard 3), they'll have stiff, severe and occaisionally unhinged competition. Her Waiting In Vain fade out is dazzling and I've got it on now.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

One of the best concerts of all time.

 

[straightorbroken]

I own that on DVD

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Queen of Covers.

This is how to make an iconic video on a budget.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Many have paid homage to the Angel /Berlin theme but no one else has done it quite like La Lennox.



And that single cover

 

[COB]

Love Song For A Vampire

Honestly one of the greatest songs of all time.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Honestly one of the greatest songs of all time.

And ridiculously forgotten. Although sometimes I like that most people don't remember it anymore because it makes it more special.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Queen needs to give us an upscaled HD version of this iconic classic

 

[funky]

Still one of my favourite artists of all time

I have a Spotify playlist of her best Eurythmics and solo work combined and it’s a staggering run of tunes.

Medusa is great, but Diva is legendary. And I really like SOMD too. I can give or take the Bare album.

 

[krang]

i remember being at an airport moving moving from a country where cds were everywhere to a country where cds were few and far in between and having enough money for one. it came down to medusa or diana king's tougher than love. i got this one at the end (but then queen king's ain't nobody hadn't come out and slayed me decades before it was hip to get slayed yet).

10 No More "I Love You's"
09 Take Me to the River
10 A Whiter Shade of Pale
10 Don't Let It Bring You Down
06 Train in Vain (Stand by Me)
06 I Can't Get Next to You
10 Downtown Lights
07 The Thin Line Between Love and Hate
09 Waiting In Vain
06 Something So Right
?? Heaven

 

[Peekaboo]

Queen needs to give us an upscaled HD version of this iconic classic

I love this video. She fits the INTENSITY of a NIGHT CREATURE like a GLOVE. Also, she's pregnant and this was shot as a double bill with her other 12/10 video (Little Bird) which couldn't be MORE DIFFERENT to this.

Both in my TOP 20 BEST VIDEOS OF ALL TIME.

 

[Peekaboo]

Watching the Love Song for a Vampire video is a better Dracula experience than watching Coppola's Dracula

 

[Diddy]

Queen of Covers.

This is how to make an iconic video on a budget.

This is fabulous, the first time I’ve heard it!
About the only Ash song I really liked too, so sweet

 

[straightorbroken]

Downtown Lights is now a 10. How do you know I feel it? i just do!

 

[straightorbroken]

I'M TIRED OF CRYING ON THE STAIRS

Oh Annie, are you okay?