Consumer Guide Album

Eurythmics: Greatest Hits [Arista, 1991]
The approximate chronology follows the rough arc of their career, for it was only after establishing "Sweet Dreams" and its follow-ups that Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox dared reveal what a grand hoot they thought pop was. The fabulous disco-rock overstatement of the mid-'80s ensued, climaxing with the 1987 Stones piss-take "I Need a Man." Thereafter they can conceal neither how much they hate each other nor how much they prefer hits to hoots. "I believe in you," Annie intones richly and perfectly on the finale, "Like Elvis Presley singing live from Las Vegas." A-