Eurythmicize the Smiths

Eurythmics
"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" (from "We Too Are One" Legacy Version)
(Arista/Legacy)

This 1989 cover of The Smiths classic was recently included in the reissued version of "We Too Are One" by the Eurythmics. Annie Lennox's operatic vocals lend well to the tune, maybe in a roundabout sort of way, challenging Morrissey's own vocal stylings. Still, whenever anybody does a Smiths cover (myself included), it almost always pales to the original, and this song is no exception. The bleak and sterile sound of the cover is suggestive of the end of what we know as "new wave" as it misses much of the heart and soul captured in the Smiths' version. But had the Eurythmics pumped out the tune before The Smiths, I'm almost certain that the thoughts I've conveyed in this review would be reversed and I would be writing about the irrelevance of guitar rock in the 1980s.