Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - Love Is a Stranger (Official Video)
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- Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger (Official Video)
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Lyrics
Love is a stranger
In an open car
To tempt you in
And drive you far away
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It's an obsession
Love is a danger
Of a different kind
To take you away
And leave you far behind
And love love love
Is a dangerous drug
You have to receive it
And you still can't
Get enough of the stuff
It's savage and it's cruel
And it shines like destruction
Comes in like the flood
And it seems like religion
It's noble and it's brutal
It distorts and deranges
And it wrenches you up
And you're left like a zombie
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It's an obsession
It's guilt edged
Glamorous and sleek by design
You know it's jealous by nature
False and unkind
It's hard and restrained
And it's totally cool
It touches and it teases
As you stumble in the debris
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It's an obsession
Best Eurythmics song in my opinion.
Agreed.
Absolutely
Who's still listening to this song in 2024? Answer, me!
Me
Eurythmics - good stuff!
All of us
We all do!
Appreciate this more in the present than I did back in the day.
Die schönsten Augen, die wundervolle Stimme, die wundervolle Annie
I like to give credit to Dave Stewart, as he created the surreal feel of the instrumentation that I loved as a child before I paid attention to the lyrics. Eurythmics is the peak of synthpop.
Annie's voice is incredible, and it syncs with the intensity of the electronica, but I also agree that Dave hit it out of the parks with his his skills on this one.
Yes, it's production quality that has never been equaled, and probably never will be. Even with today's technology and auto-tune etc... I think it would be very difficult to re-create the same atmosphere, and very unlikely the singing voice. Only Ultravox could get the same quality and lushness out of synths/rhythm boxes/FX etc...
♡Dave
@@BG-il2ym SO true. What I find amazing is that so many of Eurythmics' songs sound good with some bass or no bass. I sometimes listen to this song with the bass cranked all the way down or turned up to where I can baaarely feel the woofer vibrate. Another example, listen to Thorn in my side with the bass turned down then again turned up. I can't think of any other band where a significant number of their songs sound good with two different bass levels...
Yeah, as a kid Eurythmics songs felt like feelings put to music rather than just songs with words and notes
This is one of their best songs. Still sounds great after all these years.
I'll give u that
Its my personal favorite.
Sarah C.
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Right,,, I had to go thru hell and back to rawk this diddy again!!!
Damn, man. This song is so far ahead of it's time that it still hasn't met itself wherever it exists in the future.
Best comment on TH-cam!
Ahead of its time? There was so much incredible Electronica back then its sickening. Today's synth stuff doesn't hold a candle.
Fuck. That is a great line. I am still searching for its end...
It was perfect t for it's time. Not sure what that even means?
hahahaaaa
There is nothing on earth more beautiful, seductive, and more singularly terrifying than Annie Lennox's eyes in this video. That woman owned the era on a level nobody even understood at the time.
she is a fierce amazon. how I love her being. in concert it was ethereal.
Wow, well said.
🙌
If Blondie's Debbie Harry was the first New Wave Aphrodite then Annie Lennox was the second. She showed the way with "Sweet Dreams," though that had some Marlene Dietrich moves. " Love is a Stranger" Annie just let's all her sexy, insane introspection out and shows the world her dazzling eyes and devastating beauty. I don't think this song could have been written without their personal experience of romantic love. God bless Annie and Dave.
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Congrats to Annie and Dave on being part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2022! So very well deserved.
Thank you for emphasising this 👌🏼
Definitely earned their place with many hits like this 😎
I love this masterpiece from Eurythmics but there are many others. Creative geniuses.
So happy that they are in. The Rock Hall needs Eurythmics, not the other way around!
Totally worthy of this honor.
The many faces of Annie Lennox!❤❤❤
Exactly! Psychos take on many roles because they can be anybody because they are noboy.
The music and the video....ahead of their time much?
I am hypnotized by Annie's eyes. I had a teenage crush on her since the 80s.
As a piece of art, this song is exceptional.
It really is. It's truly timeless.
It is really is... and on all levels.
It doesn't matter how many decades have passed. Listening to Eurythmics is just as fresh and just as powerful as it was in the 1980s! Bravo Annie and Dave. Bravo!
It's mesmerizing. Can't get enough
This 💯 so damn good!! Don't make music like this today...Genius - part of the Golden Age of Music which then died in the early 90's
Didn't know they had I phones in 1980 at around 2.16 into the video the future has been shown?😳
@@allen_pq
@@robertfraser8395 I know you're jesting but just out of interest, this track was released in 1982 (amazingly it didn't do well and was rereleased in '83) and the U.K.'s first mobile network launched in '85. So well ahead of its time. Presumably that was a TV remote.
One of the best '80s songs! ❤
This song continues to mesmerize. One of the few from my youth that does.
Such a magnificent arrangement of traditional and modern instrumentation (e.g. tremelo), coupled with Annie's sweet, haunting voice. Transports me every time I hear it. It's 2022 but in listening to it I'm tripping back 40 years, when I first heard this brilliant tune in Germany.
I love Annie's counter-melodies in the chorus. Shows how tight their songwriting is, and Annie has such a range to pull it off. Genius 💚
2025 and it's still awesome.
Ahead of the curve 😂
One of the best song that had a huge influence in my life. This is Scottish TALENT. Annie Lennox FOREVER
..and Dave Stewart.
One thing that’s overlooked from these 80’s videos is how good Annie’s acting was. She was really good.
@lucky leprechaun
Same
Yes!
@lucky leprechaun 7
@lucky leprechaun 9
I've always wondered why she didn't pursue more acting work, she'd SLAY any role given to her.
Sometimes - just sometimes - I forget how good Stewart and Lennox were.
Bangin'.
Annie Lennox gets almost all the attention, and understandably so. How can anyone *not* look at and listen to her.
But Dave Stewart absolutely hit it out of the park with this one. Somehow, this track epitomizes the music of 1982 while sounding like absolutely nothing else on the radio in 1982.
Still got this on vinyl great days great people 80s
I started listening to Dave and Annie when the entire industry was struggling to transition completely from cassettes to CDs. I couldn't wait for releases and ran to buy the cassettes. Dave and Annie probably should have pressured BMG (their publisher) into ramping up production. I have no idea if it cost them big money by being slow to release the albums on CD format. I'm still frustrated that their Greatest Hits video collection STILL isn't available on Blu Ray...
What makes this one of the best songs ever? I'm glad you asked! 1. The haunting keyboard arrangement is hypnotizing. 2. The pulsing beat is subtle, but perfect. It adds, but doesn't distract. 3. Annie's icy cool, emotional vocals help create a mystique and enchantment. 4. The production has held up; they didn't fall into many of the 80s production traps that now sound dated. 5. And, perhaps most importantly, Annie's biting, acerbic dissection of love. She refused to play the role expected of women in music where they long for love or are lost without it or are complete with it. Nope! Not Annie! If you're still reading, you're truly a fan! 😄
ola! perfect answer! tons of kudos 4 you! 😊
And do not forget a goddess
Smiling ag how great your reasoning is 🙂
And at 2:23 Dave Stewart appears to have an Apple Watch and an iPhone a few decades before anyone else. But I agree such a great song. I love the way she does insanity - the "obsession" just gets more and more extreme as the song goes on.
Well said!
Annie Lennox; one of the coolest woman to have ever lived. Strong. Unique. And unashamed to express. A great role model today as well. A legend.
So true.
Very true
Very well put...
Örn Jónasson best reply ever for this song
@@KimPhilby203 Haha!
This song is very Doorsy.The dark undertones, the poetry,The surrealism.
She was so beautiful.
+tamaji kent when she looked like a girl
+tamaji kent "was"???
Annie IS so beautiful
+Lawrence Bader sorry , she's been so beautiful.
+tamaji kent Was??
tamaji kent i dont think so
T H I S
I S A
M A S T E R P I E C E
2024 & still one of the best songs of all time.
No doubt! This video used to scare the crap out of me as a kid, but not as an adult 😍
Listening February 22nd
Listening on February 22nd 😊😊
Why do want to be so cliché to make this comment?
correct, i stated this years ago ;-)
OMG! Annie Lennox - one of the hottest female singers of all time
Annie Lennox one of the best voices of the 80's.
remember hearing that as a kid for a first time. Dad played it one sunny weekend. Instantly cemented my love towards New wave, electronica and Eurythmics.
Annie nailed every look, every hairstyle they could dream up. She has an incredible beauty.
she was
Agree. I think should should've been a model as well. BEAUTIFUL!!
She takes my breath away 🤩
@@PoliteTia
Agree
Marilyn, blond was already rare but requested back in these days, what kind of steel is the car made of?
I adore this lady,a perfect vocalist with a piercing gaze !
I live in a remote area in Scotland next to a Loch and 10 miles from the nearest neighbour, this morning i got woken up by this song being played at 2.25am in someones car at full volume who had pulled into the passing place on the road. i just could not get the song out my head.
same
I can't get it out of my head,
San Antonio, Texas
Want a medal?
Do you want a medal
What a great way to be woking up!
Don't be a drip.
This is my favorite Eurythmycs song. September 2019
She is a smooth operator fantastic performance nice one Annie
Released 40 years ago today, November 8, 1982. Still sounds as fresh and cutting edge as it did back then. Sure beats the crap that passes for "music" today.
Ok.
That was totally uncalled for.
😂😂
comments were better back then too
The song was re-released in 1983.
A great and scary video!
Ok boomer
2024 still best 💯💯
This was one of my favourite albums of the 80s!
Dave Stewarts' tennis-grunts add an interesting aspect to the soaring soprano....
doing a Fleetwood Mac kind of thing that they would do a few years later maybe they grab some inspiration from Dave back in the 80s on tango in the night big Love would have lots of grunting too
I’ll never forget watching this late one Saturday night in 1983 with my Mom. She became so uncomfortable watching this video & said they were perverts and degenerates. I’ve loved Annie Lennox ever since.
@Truth Reigns Forever I wonder how he would react to seeing Rockbitch... 😂
I wonder what she would have thought of Duran Duran's "The Chauffeur" LOL
@MaGuffintop I always loved the song, but never saw the video until a couple of years ago. Don't care for it, but heard that MTV here only played it late at night. Can't confirm that, though, I worked nights from 84-89 so I only watched MTV during the day
@MaGuffintop I still have all my Duran Duran CDs. Looking back, they were much more talented than I realized back then. Simon Le Bon's voice held out amazing for decades unlike David Gahan from Depeche Mode. Dave ruined his voice from smoking and drugs. He wrecked his most important asset.
Some MTV videos were definitely known for their shock value but would your mother have felt that way watching and listening to "Here Comes the Rain Again"? Still Eurythmics' most beautiful song. My mother hated Boy George.
What a banger of a tune, timeless classic
Who's listening in 2021? When love really is a stranger!
Best love to have
I am
I am ...I like Eurythmics!
i do!
Seems there is no more love but only lust. Because it is based on sense gratification, therefore there is love between a boy and girl, and as soon as there is a little discrepancy, there is divorce. They are separated. Because the whole principle was on the basis of lust. So there is no love.
She has such classical beauty. And looks great in a fox coat also.
Always goose bumps at 2:04
+Douglas Tucker the drum... boom-boom
Douglas Tucker every time it gets to 2:04 I feel the same!
Douglas Tucker Haha this is amazing i thought i was the only one who got the chills there. That double kick in time to her adjusting her gloves and then back to original tempo. Just a brilliant song and a trick they used on a number of their early hits.
I agree. This is a full on goose bump song!
Annie looks stunning in that video
Annie has the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen
Músicas de um tempo q éramos felizes e não sabíamos......q saudades...
verdade !!
amazing!! this song is over 30 years old and still has this current sound! Annie is amazing in this one!
Timeless music
For over all those years now, I´m still loving this fantastic song. Annie at her best! Still have the single, bought in 1983, in my collection.
I couldn't agree more Jimmy... however, I would propose, that the current sound is still trying to sound like The Eurythmics! ;)
Always actually liked this one more than Sweet Dreams. Wasn't nearly as big a hit, though...........................go figure.
Genius pop song writers. They knew exactly what they were doing even with the arrangement and presentation. True entertainers.
I was so totally captured by this song in the early eighties….Annie Lenox is in a league of her own…
What an artist!!!👌🏼
Lennox
I love Annie and her songs, especially this song
whos still loving and listening in 2020 ?
True CLASS❤️❤️❤️
October 2020 one of my favorite songs
Yup still here. Every song from this generation, my generation, was made to sing really loud while driving.
So true about an obsessive love? affair. Probably wouldn't call it love, but LUST!
i have ear all those songs since m 10 years in 1983 and listen it today not like the stinkt bull shit musics of today ,made on the corner of a table with in 10 minutes without any harmony,any inteligence,any color,any texture,any chord progression ...just make me vomit...
"Love Was No Stranger" when it came to this song/video and when it came to the Eurythmics four decades ago! This European duo really rocked the globe with their unique rhythm in the early 80s!
I wish I could give this a 10000 thumbs up. Better than anything today
I can only give one thumbs up sadly. Yes bloody fantastic voice has Annie😀
Just want to get up and disco dance the night away but arthritis won't let me ha ha ha :0) it's savage and it's cruel getting old!!!
Awesome music a 80s bomb
I am 69 years old.Those were the days .
rewatch they are time travelers...
59 here and they were indeed wonderful days!
You just listen to Annie 'n' Dave and you (pretend to) are young again...
62 here. And yasss, those were the days...
I'm 65. And I agree.
I'm 54 and I agree!❤
I always preferred this track over 'sweet dreams'
So did I and also Never Gonna Cry Again
Dave was so ahead of his time in videos making He's a genius Bet they took the idea of the Matrix agents from this video
Just a fucking masterpiece. Enough said.
Agreed..Annie is fascinating..
Here, here! Wow, this song was towards the end of their relationship 😥
fuckingright therepal.
Amen!!!!!
so true !
Whos still listening this song in "2021"?? :D :D
Poland
I’m listening.
I am
Came from The Crown...
Just noticed the comment who's watching in 2020 has a like from me
Iconic ...Beautiful xxx
Great great Song ❤i Love the 80's so much 👍🏻
Has to be one of the most underrated electronic tracks ever. So cool and unique. No other recording sounds like this :)
how is this underrated??
It is not underrated
Sorry just because it's not played now does not mean it was underrated. Was a huge song at the time. Loved it then and still love it now.
goodbye horses by q lazzaruz has a similar vibe
Dude! This song was a massive global hit back in the day!
This song will be listened to and appreciated 100 years from now.
Sure hope so...
Forever
i agree. timeless.
SChweden zu nobelpreis zeiten scheint doch nicht so schlecht zu sein
It’s an absolute masterpiece
Quel son , magnifique , j'adore , envoutant , belle femme..
Listening to this song in 2023, it hasn't lost its magic yet! Will resonate forever 🤗
Great song!!
What a song...they don’t make them like this anymore.
Meaning in music is no more
Another classic. I am 67 but this still brings life out of me !
Amo Annie Lennox e este clip e suas interpretações.
Eu amo
Eu também.
way way ahead of their time....
It's a shame this doesn't get airplay anymore while radio burns "Sweet Dreams" to a crisp.
Maybe In the U.S, But not In other countries
IKR..I love Sweet Dreams..or I did before radio killed it. Still recall our High School bus had a hifi stereo system with 9 speakers in it. Our driver was cool. Heard a lot of Eurythmics in those mornings.
The only place I remember this song was actually on one of the very first episodes of Beavis and Butthead, and they absolutely destroyed this video/song (made fun of it). The past 17 years though I have been living in Athens, listening to the radio more often than not and visiting clubs enough, and the only place I have heard this is here. So this song has been forgotten by the media and popular culture. What the world's media and pop culture never seem to forget though is their anti-trump fascism (cause fascism is exactly that: narrow mindedness until the point of stupidity). What did you expect from a world that is so stubborn it refuses to see Trump's accomplishments, and the one's he has are credited to anyone/anything but Trump???
Played here all the time
Elias you voted him in lol
Game changer absolutely electric , Eurythmics, I am 53yrs and still listen to the phenomenally produced music by Dave Stewart and the vocal supremacy of Annie Lennox weekly. So many outrageously perfect tunes , Here comes the rain again , Miracle of love and so many more that blended and shaped the mould of the early and mid eighties sound.❤️🎹🥁🎼🎤🎼🥁🎹❤️
I had no idea how truly talented these people were until I got a bit older.Timeless music 😎
1983.....he's calling her on a cellphone with video...25 years ahead of it's time
I noticed that! I'm old and was watching MTV when it first came out. I passed that part by thinking we'd never have that kind of tech.
Yes!! I just noticed that!! Brilliant. Didn’t give it much thought in the 80s. Lol
Psychic tv
@@mimma6191 There was a video watch being marketed at the time, so there's that. And cell phones are older than you might think. :)
Outstanding lyrics:
It's savage and it's cruel
And it shines like destruction
Comes in like the flood
And it seems like religion
It's noble and it's brutal
It distorts and deranges
And it wrenches you up
And you're left like a zombie
Outstanding 😎
I'm a prisioner of an impossible love. This song is my reality.
This video still gives me goosebumps. It's so good it feels like the video existed first, & then they wrote the song to make sure we understood just how good the video is.
1983 sent us all into orbit around planet Annie.💖
I love the men's vocals in this song. It adds the perfect compliment to her desire.
Weird song but cool..I remember this song way back in the 80s.it was in every club..those were the best times music really had a meaning
Teresa Roberts omg so cool to listen to this in a club back then
Those hypnotic eyes, voice and the music, which could be said, ahead of its time.
A pop music masterpiece, is all I have to say. The 1980's were a golden age for pop art.
Yes the 80s music is still kicking it far better than the crud being made today
Oh come on. The 70's had TONS more good shit. In face, it gave birth to the "80's". Everything was already there: electronica, "new wave", progRock, disco, metal, etc. People are saying 80's 80's 80's because it's kewl to say. But take a long look -or listen I should say- to 70's music talent and you'll be blown away. I love the 80's stuff too, of course.
I didn't think that at the time, but now, boy the music was good in those days :)
Definitely, it was a real art back then.
michael wentworth .... Agreed ...SO glad I was " there " !!!!
I feel like it was a '60's do- over ... but " classier "
Great tune
To me the greatest aspect of all the Annie Lennox videos and songs is that no two are the same. Each one stands on its own as a masterpiece in my non-musical opinion. I don't claim to have a great ear for music but if anyone says I don't like the Eurythmics or more specifically Annie Lennox then you're just not listening to the full body of work. She re-creates herself with every song and every note. She is amazing in my opinion. Her and Stevie Nicks have probably saved my life more than once. Amazing women, amazing voices, amazing messages!
Love is a stranger
In an open car
To tempt you in
And drive you far away
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It's an obsession
Love is a danger
Of a different kind
To take you away
And leave you far behind
And love love love
Is a dangerous drug
You have to receive it
And you still can't
Get enough of the stuff
It's savage and it's cruel
And it shines like destruction
Comes in like the flood
And it seems like religion
It's noble and it's brutal
It distorts and deranges
And it wrenches you up
And you're left like a zombie
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It's an obsession
It's guilt edged
Glamorous and sleek by design
You know it's jealous by nature
False and unkind
It's hard and restrained
And it's totally cool
It touches and it teases
As you stumble in the debris
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It's an obsession
Thanks! ❤️
Those lyrics........awesomeness
This Muse is from a different Planet.
WOW. Hits even harder when you read the lyrics
Gilt-edged. And it can also be guilt-edged. Genius!
Genius really. Holds up so damned well after all these years. This is their best track.
So true
It's their best track and their other tracks are unbelievable, you mean
It most certainly is!
So interesting.. I love the movie Victor Victoria. Not sure who influenced who with the wig and androgynous look?
@@berry.morgan you're right - their best track
This song is still phenomenal! 35 plus years. The video is so timeless. I Never get sick of it and Annie's eyes are gorgeous. True one of a kind artist!
It is timeless, such a clean sound & her stunning voice. Not many artists come close. Discovered Onuka (Ukrainian singer) produces very similar music. She is the Ukraine equivalent of Annie without a doubt. th-cam.com/video/VIMo1UVEbMo/w-d-xo.html
her look from 2:28 and onward is so damn amazing, still loooooove it. the slicked back hair and suit and those eyes!
Annie Lennox was always ahead of her time. A very powerful figure to us young girls at the time.
The American bible belt thought she was a man, goes to show how people can be brainwashed into what others want them to think.
Yes
Yep
And she sure looks so gosh darn cute in those wigs.
Powerful to us boys at the time also
The voice of an angel.
But she's a vampire 😂💕💘
2024 and it's still rocking, after 41 years unbelievable song
Still remember the frst time, like all great love affairs.
FFS 41 YEARS?!!! it still has all of its power.
Annie has always been a powerhouse of a woman. Even at the time, I will never forget the impression she left on me with that cropped red hair. Simply no-one else was brave enough for that look, especially combined with the suit. Dave is a legend, always produces these timeless songs, so clever so original.
Oh my god!!! When I first saw the Sweet Dreams video on MTV as a 12 year old kid back in the 80’s my mind was absolutely BLOWN.
1000% agree with EVERYTHING! Cheers
@@rubygirl214
Same
Before red hair was a thing..
Well I think some of the Punks would say otherwise.
I heard this song yesterday for the first time and I haven’t stopped, since. What a masterpiece!
No longer a stranger to you :)
@@galwaytribesman9289 haha good joke
You have no idea what more you missed from that time
@@galwaytribesman9289 haha right!
@@jlinkels it’s a shame, but glad that I’m catching up on that.
Great song, and Annie looked absolutely terrific back then.
1982. This song stills packs the dance floor late night on '80s nights in 2015...
+Cedric Herrera Still sounds as punchy as the day I first heard it. Utter class!
+Cedric Herrera packs the dance floor anywhere
+Cedric Herrera That's cool!!
Absolute unadulterated art... Ladies and gentlemen they don't make em like this anymore. Pure sensuality No boundaries. Pushing the limits. Got to be one of the sexiest videos ever. Great time period
in music by far 👌
Absolutely….
Amen!!
This song was so ahead of its time Dave has to stop watching a TH-cam video to answer a call on his cell phone in the 1980s.
This Woman is The Best ! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😇😇She is Beauty
What a duo!!! The amazing tune aside, she's absolutely stunning, no matter what. 😍
She’s breathtakingly beautiful
I REALY LOVE THIS SONG,
@@GeraldVanvledder Me too. It's sooooo good!
aha så er du een blandt maaaaange, det er guf for øregangene
I just heard this song playing over the music speakers at a Leaf Tea Coffee shop. Man, my friend's sister and her friends used to listen to music in the back porch and I hung around my friend Ernie just to gaze at his sister in awe and amaze. I was 12 years old when this song was released. The 80's and 90's were the greatest.