I should have known better but I trusted you at first

Continuing my trip back through the 1986 album charts

19/10/86 : Revenge - Eurythmics

The first one of the year I owned, but I seem to recall I bought it several years later out of Our Price's bargain bin - it was one that got plenty of listens before it got stolen though, so I'll be pleased to catch up with it again.

Yeah - that was a nice trip down memory lane. I particularly liked "Thorn In My Side" and "When Tomorrow Comes" with "The Miracle Of Love" providing a nice change of pace. All in all, I think this works pretty well as an album but I obviously rarely listened to it until the end because I didn't remember the last two tracks at all!

We're at #5 in the chart this week on their sixteenth week of an impressive 51 week run, with it peaking at #3 in its first, second, eleventh and thirteenth weeks. The rest of the top five were Paul Simon, A-ha, Five Star and Madonna with the highest new entries being the impressive 80s one-two of Ultravox (#9) and Howard Jones (#10).

Wikipedia has remarkably little on the album - it's their fifth and "Missionary Man" won the Grammy for "Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal", which is quite the niche category. The critics were nice enough about it (Smash Hits gave it 8/10) and it did very well commercially, making the top five in quite a few countries and #1 in New Zealand, Norway and Sweden.

"Customers also listened to" Johnny Hates Jazz (really?), Nik Kershaw, Kajagoogoo and Erasure - it turns out Eurythmics fans aren't quite as cool as I thought they were. I liked this though - I think the only other album of theirs I've listened to is Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) but I'm looking forward to catching up with some of their others at some point.

12/10/86 - A most peculiar album
26/10/86 - Very average and bland

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