Sobre el álbum
El álbum Savage, de 1987, es una de las obras más personales, artísticas y complejas de la carrera de Eurythmics. Por consiguiente, en este trabajo, el dúo, y en especial Annie Lennox, explora la dualidad de la identidad femenina y la crítica a los roles de género. El álbum fue acompañado por un videoálbum en el que la cantante interpreta a diferentes personajes.
La producción del disco, a cargo de Dave Stewart, es mayormente electrónica y experimental. El sonido es a menudo oscuro y atmosférico, con un uso muy innovador de los sintetizadores y los samplers. La música es un vehículo perfecto para la exploración conceptual del disco.
Las letras de Annie Lennox son particularmente afiladas e inteligentes, con canciones como "Beethoven (I Love to Listen To)" o "I Need a Man" que deconstruyen los estereotipos femeninos. El álbum fue un gran éxito de crítica por su valentía y su profundidad.
'Savage' es una obra de arte total, un trabajo que combina música, imagen y concepto de una manera brillante. Es un testimonio de que Eurythmics era mucho más que una banda de pop; era un proyecto artístico de vanguardia.
Listado de Canciones
- Beethoven (I Love To Listen To)4:48
Letra
Take a girl like that And put her in a natural setting Like a cafe for example. Along comes the boy And he's looking for trouble With a girl like that With a girl like that. Who knows what they'll decide to do. Who knows what they'll get up to. I'd love to know. Wouldn't you? I love to listen to Beethoven... You think you know just what you want But you have used that weapon agianst me. Did I tell you I was lying by the way When I said I wanted a new mink coat. I was just thinking about Something sleek To wrap around my tender throat I was dreaming like a Texan girl A girl who thinks she's got the right to everything. A girl who thinks she should have Something extreme. I love to listen to Beethoven... - I've Got A Lover (Back In Japan)4:25
- Do You Want To Break Up?3:38
Letra
YEA...OH YEA...YEA Do you want to break up? I've got a heavy heart Got heart filled full of lead Pocket full of heartache (CAR CRASH IN MY HEAD) I've got a steady hand Gonna lead me to my home Take me up to heaven (HEAVEN'S WHERE I'M GOIN') YEA...OH YEA...YEA Do you want to break up? I've seen trouble I looked right up to it's face Never tried to turn away. And I've been sad I've been overjoyed So Let me disembrace you now My little trouble boy... YEA...OH YEA...YEA Do you want to break up? You took me to the ocean. Dropped me like a stone. Took me to the deep blue ocean. I don't wanna stay there baby I don't wanna swim alone. YEA...OH YEA...YEA Do you want to break up? - You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart3:50
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Take me to the desert Where there's got to be A whole heap of nothing For you and me Take me to the desert Take me to the sand Show me the colour of your right hand. Love is a temple Love is a shrine Buy some love at the five and dime A little bit of love From the counter store Get it on credit if you need some more. I'll the figure of your disgrace A criss cross pattern upon your face A woman's just too tired to think About the dirty old dishes in the kitchen sink. I wish I was invisible So I could climb through the telephone When it hurts my ear And it hurts my brain And it makes me feel too much Too much too much too much. Don't cut me down When I'm talking to you 'Cause I'm much too tall To feel that small. Love is a temple Love is a shrine Love is pure And love is blind Love is a religious sign I'm gonna leave this love behind. Love is hot and love is cold I've been bought and I've been sold Love is rock and love is roll I just want someone to hold. - Shame4:23
Letra
Now there's a lifestyle With painted lips Now there's a lifestyle Everybody wants it But it don't exist And I said shame... In the dancehalls and the cinema Shame On the TV and the media Shame We loved you Now there's a lifestyle With fashion chic Now there's a lifestyle Everybody in it wants To be elite And I said 'You with yer brand new shoes and You with yer greasy hair and You with yer mother's pride and poetry Don't you want to feel the shame?"... In the dancehalls Can't you feel the shame? And the TV Can't you feel the shame? We loved you... Shame In the dancehalls and the cinema Shame On the TV and the media Shame We loved you At the Lido and the opera Shame At the races And the theatre Shame We loved you. And they said all we need is love All we need is love With the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Day after day Day after day. - Savage4:10
Letra
Words of power are killing me While the sun displays its teeth. All mockery is laughing All violence is cheap. She said... "These are my guns These are my furs This is my living room." "You can play with me there sometimes If you catch me in the mood." Savage Savage Savage You savage... She said... "I have this unhappiness To wear around my neck." "It's a pretty piece of jewellery To show what I protect." She said... "Everything is fiction All cynic to the bone." "So don't ask me to stay with you Don't ask to see me home." Savage Savage Savage You savage... - I Need A Man4:21
Letra
I don't care if you won't Talk to me You know I'm not that kind of girl. And I don't care if you won't Walk with me It don't give me such a thrill. And I don't care about the way you look You should know I'm not impressed 'Cause there's just one thing That I'm looking for And he don't wear a dress. I need a man... I need a man... Baby baby baby Don't you shave your legs Don't you double comb your hair Don't powder puff Just leave it rough I like your fingers bare. When the night comes down I can turn it round I can take you anywhere. I don't need love Forget that stuff You know that I don't care I need a man... I need a man... I don't need a heartbreaker Fifty-faced trouble maker Two timing time taker Dirty little money maker Muscle bound cheap skate Low down woman hater Triple crossing double dater Yella bellied alligator... I don't care if you won't Talk to me You know I'm not that kind of girl. And I don't care if you won't Walk with me It don't give me such a thrill. And I don't care about the way you look You should know I'm not impressed 'Cause there's just one thing That I'm looking for And he don't wear a dress. - Put The Blame On Me3:44
Letra
Take me to a dark room And hug me to bits I just wanna be kissed so badly Right there On my lips... Put the blame on me Put the blame on me Why did you close your eyes When I'm the one that's blind? Why did you close your eyes? That was too unkind... Where are you tonight? Are you sleeping on your own? I need to know Where you are tonight? Are you sleeping on your very own? Tell the one that's lying with you To get right up and go back home. Put the blame on me Put the blame on me... - Heaven3:28
Letra
That's right... That's right... Heaven I love to Just what you need Heaven Takes a little time - Wide Eyed Girl3:29
Letra
She was a wide eyed girl In a purple dress She could have been good She could have been the best Shy little girl When it came to the test Wow oh... She was a cut above the rest. She was a wide eyed girl With teased up hair She could have had money But she didn't care She was looking for you daddy ...Never there Looking for you daddy oh yea yea Wide eyed girl She was a wide eyed girl Of a tender age. Just moving out of her sensitive phase. She said "I love you baby it's for always And I don't care what the teacher says." When she walked out Through the streets of Rome. All of the Italians wanna take her home All the brown little babies With the slicked back hair Sayin' "Prima amore... wow!" "I'm sayin' something Are ya listening to me?" "Don't you walk away when I'm Communicating with you!" "She's goin' clickin' clackin' Down the road in them high heeled shoes"! "Mona Lisa!!!" - I Need You3:22
Letra
I need you to pin me down Just for one frosen moment. I need someone to pin me down So I can live in torment. I need you to really feel The twist of my back breaking I need someone to listen To the ecstacy I'm faking. I need you you you I need you to catch each breath That issues from my lips I need someone to crack my skull I need someone to kiss. So hold me now And make pretend That I won't ever fall Oh hold me down I'm gonna be your baby doll I need you you you... Is it you I really need? I do I do I do I really do I need you... - Brand New Day3:42
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Six o'clock in the morning And I'm stepping through the streets The pavement's cold and empty Got the blues beneath my feet. Big old sun is rising up So elegant and thin Another day is over So a new day will begin And the word said hey... It's a brand new day Oh baby baby baby I dreamed about you Please tell me tell me tell me What I've seen could not be true You have taken my existance You have filled it full of stones You have turned into a stranger Now I need to walk alone But I won't be sad But I won't be destroyed... And the word said Hey... it's a brand new day. - Beethoven (Extended Philharmonic Version)
- Shame (Dance Mix)
- I Need A Man (Macho Mix)
- I Need You (Live)
- Come Together