Taking A Step Back

Review Score: (8/10)
This was a minor disappointment. It was the follow up to the fantastic Be Yourself Tonight, one of the best albums of 1986.

The album starts out well enough with Missionary Man. Then it moves on to Thorn in My Side, which is good but not on par with the best of the Eurythmics. After that, the whole album just slows down. It isn't bad, it just doesn't come close to matching the fire or the inventiveness found in Be Yourself Tonight. The songs are just ordinary. The music isn't up to standards either. Some of the guitar and sax solos are just bland and pointless. The CD does pick up with the last two songs. However, I usually get so bored with the middle I usually don't stick around to hear the last two tracks.

This CD has the greatest number of Eurythmic hits on it. It is because of the blandness appealing to the lowest common denominator. It is why white bread is so popular in the US.

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