The Tourists - Tourists - Greatest Hits

CD debut for 20 track collection of pre-Eurythmics gems.Includes the hit singles 'I Only Want To Be With You', 'SoGood To Be Back Home', 'Blind Amoung The Flowers' and 'TheLoneliest Man In The World'. 1997 Camden release. Album Description

Pre-Eurythmics Annie Lennox/ Dave Stewart collaboration

Worth the $$ for any fan of the Eurythmics. "So good to be back home again" is the highlight, featuring a Hohner keyboard device that I think only ever appeared on this album. February 17, 2008

Time Is On The Side Of This Excellent Band!

I have always felt that the true merit and talent of a band can be seen with the passage of time after the Hype has died down. The Bay City Rollers are in the Graveyard of Music Obscurity but Free and Bachman Turner Overdrive remain Immortal. I actually remember seeing Annie Lennox singing "I Only Wanna Be With You" on a video clip and I felt that she was destined for greater things which she attained in The Eurythmics. This band's sound is catchy with a slight overtone of Punk which is quite an accomplishment since most Punk influenced bands did not write such commercial music.My favourite track would have to be "Deadly Kiss". The Tourists may no longer be with us but their music is not forgotten. And Annnie Lennox is HOT! June 9, 2006

Good selection but...

This is actually a pretty good collection of the best of The Tourists but I was really disappointed in the sound quality. No effort was made in remastering these tracks, which for CDs made in the last 8 or 9 years is inexcusable. Sounds like they used 10th-generation master tapes. My old Tourists CD called "Should've Been Hits" sounds just as good as this one, and its almost 20(!) years old.
Yep, buy this one for the songs but don't expect excellent sound quality. May 19, 2006

Where are the great songs?

This half-hearted nod was obviously slapped together by some worthless hack who was put on assignment when Eurythmics broke big. The Tourists, who were a far better band in every way than what climbed out of their breakup, deserve a decent retrospective instead of the two lousy comps that exist, neither of which contain "Walls & Foundations" fom The Tourists terrific "Luminous Basement" album. This crappy comp only gets three stars because it contains four gems, "It Doesn't Have To Be This Way", "The Loneliest Man In The World", "Blind Among The Flowers " and "All Life's Tragedies". April 2, 2006

One Hit Wonder, yeah that's true....

Like 99% of the people who are going to seek out this cd -- I started out as a Eurythmics fan and began working backwards. By the time I obtained my first Tourists album, Eurythmics had released 'Touch' which was a little too bubblegum for my sensibilities. The Tourists, on the other hand, made some really good music.

The peculiar thing about the Tourists, though, is that the music and the vocals seem at times to be at odds with each other. Most of the music is straight-forward rock, or even prog-rock, and then in the other hand you have this AMAZING voice that needs to be shown off, needs to wail, scream, whisper -- instead it's belting out rock lyrics.

Nonetheless some really good tunes came out of this band.... some of which are on this cd. If you're a fan of Annie Lennox, this cd is worth owning for "One Step Nearer the Edge."

The other Toursits import available on Amazon has a few more of the pop tracks on it, as well as an alternate version of "The Lonliest Man in the World." I prefer the version on this disc, however. February 2, 2006

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