Legendary singer Annie Lennox sat down with HX’s Trenton Straube for a little pre-album release heart-to-heart. Before the girls ended their chat, Trent had one last, pressing question: You know I really adore Annie, but I thought this was a little off. Download Annie Lennox - Diva (1992) (FLAC) or any other file from Music category. HTTP download also available at fast speeds.
Let me begin by writing that this column is inherently biased. We all have our favorite artists, and Annie Lennox is one of a small handful of mine (I wrote about another last summer).
I am, in no uncertain terms, a fan. This Tuesday, the iconic diva releases, her first solo Greatest Hits collection, which contains 12 classics from her four-album solo career over the past two decades and covers of two new tracks – “Shining Light” (a 2001 song by Ash, and this album’s first single) and “Pattern of My Life” (by Keane). Most successful artists are obligated to release these collections as a part of their label deals. Rarely are the collections worth revisiting. Annie’s is a fine exception. Included with the Collection is a Limited Edition Deluxe DVD, with 11 of her magnificent music videos.
Annie has, after all, always been a visual artist as well as a musician. Revisiting the Dangerous Liaisons-themed “Walking On Broken Glass” video, the intimate “Why,” the androgynous “No More I Love You’s,” the circus-themed “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” the harlequin “Something So Right,” the previous Annie’s of “Little Birds” I’m reminded that Britney and Madonna have borrowed more than a few concepts from La Lennox. Rather than touring in support of this release, Annie is using her publicity tour to hold intelligent and intimate conversations with audiences. She sat down with Jon Pareles of the New York Times earlier last week, has planned an upcoming taped A&E special, and last Friday, I had the chance to hear her at in downtown Los Angeles at L.A. As part of the museum’s archives, Annie spent an hour and a half answering questions about her life and career, oftentimes completely overwhelming her interviewee.
Despite meek audience questions (which felt more like statements from adulating fans, really), Annie appeared much more open about her life than in the past. One particularly fun anecdote from Friday’s event was her story about the formation of her band Eurythmics with partner Dave Stewart. She explained how the duo’s origins from a previous band (The Tourists) stemmed from a trip to Bangkok in which their at-the-time third partner was on a drug-fueled binge. While she and Dave were out searching for him, they found a valuable bracelet on the street and when they couldn’t find the owner, they sold it and with the money Dave bought a video camera. Bored, they played around making films of each other, and their blending of the visual medium with their music began. But retrospection aside, perhaps the reason why Annie seems so open now at this point in her career is her involvement with the; her own personal non-profit effort begun in 2007 to fight the HIV & AIDS pandemic in Africa. With her passion for this cause, Annie the diva is now Annie the humanitarian.
Annie the performer, however, has never been afraid of expressing intense emotion on stage — just not, per se, always her own emotions. But in the past couple of years, she’s started to share more of herself with the world; this has accompanied her efforts to change it.
The Annie Lennox Collection is an excellent introduction for the beginning student of La Lennox. It’s also a great excuse to go back and re-listen to Diva (1992), Medusa (1995), Bare (2003) and Songs of Mass Destruction (2007) and experience the full journey of her solo career. About the meaning of each of these songs to her.
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The original was released in May of 2009. She was one of my earliest inductees. As a personal preference as an artist, vocalist and performer, her music has gotten me through some of the most darkest moments in my life. Since the original set is missing several favorites, I felt it was time to go back and re-visit Ms. There have been several fantastic bootlegs that have since come out honoring her work as a solo singer and as part of the 80’s duo Eurythmics. I couldn’t use everything I wanted and had to leave off fan favorites like the Gabriel & Dresden remix of Pavement Cracks and the.
While the original remix package for Pavement Cracks was stellar in its own right, I went with the Shanghai Surprise version this go around and found a fantastic bootleg of 17 Again that flows better than the Thunderpuss or Peter Rauhofer remixes. I also found a brilliant bootleg of No More I Love You’s that captures the beauty of the original. No offense to Junior Vasquez, but his official remixes for the song were offensive, way off and frankly a hot mess. When Junior is hot, he’s fucking brilliant but other times, he’s all over the fucking map as in this case.
There were also several stellar bootlegs for one my all-time favorite songs Why. However, I decided to take the safer route and went with a 90’s inspired version which retains the essence of the original set to P.M. All of the songs have been remastered to brighten them up while keeping the peaks at a constant, which in this case was necessary considering the age of the songs and in several instances, the sources. It’s with great honor and respect that re-inducts the fabulous Ms.
Annie Lennox into the once again. This podcast has been re-EQ’d to remove extreme highs and hisses in the original release. If you have the original release and it sounds fine to you, then there is no need to re-download this version as they are the same with the exception of the equalization.