Track Listing

1. Love Is A Stranger
2. I've Got An Angel
3. Wrap It Up
4. I Could Give You (A Mirror) - Y (1)
5. Walk
6. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
7. Jennifer
8. This Is The House
9. Somebody Told Me
10. This City Never Sleeps

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75235 in Music
• Released on: 1995-08-22
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) was Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox's debut offering as the Eurythmics, following their departure from The Tourists. The partnership went on to be one of the most successful UK songwriting collaborations of the 80s, going on to win 1998's special Brit Award for lifetime achievement as well as being involved in numerous acclaimed solo projects. While Sweet Dreams is not the duo's finest hour, it certainly sets the premise for what was to come from this long and enduring partnership--Lennox with her hypnotic vocals and deliberately androgynous style and Stewart's experimental and yet essentially mature pop melodies. --Ronita Dutta

Customer Reviews

woohoo, go Annie-it's your Birthday!!!
this is the best song! it's the song of germany! she gave a good performance at live 8, living up to our expectations and more... yes! annie lives on!! the barmy brummies xx

Heavenly synth sound
Eurythmics followed up the fragile and ethereal but somewhat inaccessible In The Garden with this album of pure pop genius. The early 1980's saw an explosion of synthesizer-driven sounds and there were other duo's too, like OMD and Yaz(oo), but Eurythmics outlasted them all. Sweet Dreams provided Eurythmics with the commercial breakthrough in its shimmering masterpieces such as Love Is A Stranger and the dreamy title track. The video's of these two are superb too. Not all of these are flowing pop songs though; there's also the ethereal I've Got An Angel and the enervated experimental Wrap It Up, plus the more soulful outings I Could Give You A Mirror and The Walk with its great trumpet solo. Besides the aforementioned hits, my favorites also include the atmospheric Jennifer (reminiscent of Belinda on In The Garden) and the elegant This Is The House with its Spanish spoken intro, its instrumental flourishes and its mood of sadness. It's true that not every single track here remains as memorable as the ones mentioned, but this album certainly deserves five stars for its melodic and lyrical greatness.

A perfect example of how music should be done...
Type in "Sweet Dreams" on any search engine, look it up in any music journal or even refer to it during a conversation and (more often than not) the word Eurythmics will appear alongside it. This was the song and album title that became synonomous with the duo, perhaps because it represents an artistic high for them. The song content, despite one or two songs sounding slightly dated, is wonderful; a combination of witty lyrics ("Love is a Stranger"), synthetic dance ("I've Got An Angel"), a beautiful voice ("This is the House") and (most importantly)- pure originality (one cannot help but think of the title track). Younger listeners may be distracted by the bizarre cover or the coldness of songs like "Jennifer", but for me, this collection of songs should be in the top 10 of any list of best 80's albums and in the top 100 greatest albums of all time. I felt that there were only 2 problems with this album; firstly, the albums' cover photo could've been slightly larger, and secondly some more-dance orientated material wouldn't have gone amiss. Dave and Annie had done it: top 10 singles, a number 1 album and fame and fortune. Then they did it all again- only this time it was better...