Eurythmics – We Too Are One

Despite the irony in the album's title, the album's cover image shows quite clearly where Eurythmics where at the time this album came out - both of them on the cover, but physicallly separate from one another (Annie in the foreground on the front cover with Dave in the back, and Dave in the foreground on the back cover with Annie in the back) - they were still a pair but ready to head their separate ways.

Unfortunately, the album reflects that energy (or lack of?) and Dave and Annie sound like they know the music scene is changing and their ready to let it go. Even on the album's only real saving grace, "Revival" - a gospel flavoured synth-pop number that as good as it is - finds Annie (and Deve) holding back her soul - : Towards the end of the song she as libs as if singing to a potential mate: "Hey Superman... You look so dirty, you look so mean... just like James Brown..." but it comes across as an overly-blatant attempt to infuse the at that time extremely popular use of James Brown's name (in samples elsewhere, here as a reference) to establish 'soul credibility.' But Annie, you and Dave were the only ones who could pull off a duet with Aretha Franklin and walk away from it having performed on par with the Queen Of Soul... you didn't need to prove anything to anybody.