Eurythmics - In the Garden [Bonus Tracks]

Eurythmics' debut album, In the Garden, is the missing link between the work of The Tourists, who included both Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox, and 1983's commercial breakthrough, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). Co-produced by Kraftwerk producer Conny Plank at his studio in Cologne, Germany, it has some of the distant, mechanistic feel of the European electronic music movement, but less of the pop sensibility of later Eurythmics. The chief difference is in Lennox's singing; even when the musical bed is appealing, Lennox floats ethereally over it, and the listener doesn't focus on her. As a result, In the Garden wasn't much of a success, though when Eurythmics streamlined their sound and emphasized Lennox's dominating voice on subsequent releases, they found mass popularity. [The 2005 reissue features remastered sound and bonus tracks that originally appeared on singles.] ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Name Credits Adam Williams Producer Annette "Queenie" Lennox Percussion, Vocals, Flute, Keyboards, Group Member, Synthesizer Annie Lennox Vocals, Various Charlie Stanford Project Manager Clem Burke Drums Conny Plank Audio Production Dave Stewart Synthesizer, Producer, Guitar (Bass), Vocals, Various, Guitar, Group Member, Keyboards, Vocals (Background) Eurythmics Producer, Audio Production Gered Mankowitz Original Photography Ian Cooper Remastering Jackie Leibzeit Drums, Brass Konrad Plank Producer Krista Fast Laughs Laurence Stevens Art Direction, Design Markus Stockhausen Brass Neal Wickens Music Consultant Pete Ashworth Original Photography, Sleeve Photo Phill Savidge Sleeve Notes Roger Pomphrey Shouts, Guitar Simon Fuller Management Sir Timothy Wheater Saxophone