I NEED A GOOD WOMAN, BUT ANNIE LENNOX NEEDS A MAN

Someone keeps pestering me to put a chick artist on here for once, the problem for me, and I am not being sexist now, is that most girl musicians I know of have made or do make good `pop` music, and most of that wouldn`t qualify as being a lost treasure because it`s well known and recieves plenty of airplay on the radio.

There are a heap of songs which might qualify as being my absolute favourite pop song of all time, but if the criteria was that the song had to be both a great song but obscure at the same time, then one that comes to mind is an experimental and lush pop song driven by a great drum machine groove by the Eurythmics called `I Need A Man` from 1989.

Of course the Eurythmics are a bisexual band, well you know what i mean, a boy and a girl are in it, sounds like mum didn`t tell me about the birds and the bees hey.

Seriously, Annie Lennox was the distinctive sounding and melodramatic diva out front who could sing like an angel, but when she wanted to she could grunt, spit, chew and howl out the vocals like a woman possessed by a demon.

Dave Stewart, who at least for a time was her Stevie Wonder (aka part-time lover), was the art rock influenced pop rocker who married the bands experimental grooves and drum sequencing to startling effect with Lennox`s sophisticated and all too often warped vocal assault.

The Eurythmics in the early to mid 80`s were huge, and for an english act, were at the apex of pop. Tough, muscular, innovative and never content to make one song after the after that sounded the same.

That is the best way to sum up the Lennox/Stewart partnership. I don't like a lot of Eurythmic songs, maybe 10 are what i call above average pop or pop/rock songs, but `I Want That Man` brought out the wild woman in Lennox better than any other song.

She`s an absolute maniac singing it. Apart from that fact, it really is one of the heaviest pop songs ever recorded, it is virtually bulging at the seams thanks to some of the best bass you`ll ever hear.