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CatholicSpirit
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Back with some contemporary songs, from some “artists” that may have not been noticed. Has anyone checked this song out? I think it’s pretty good.
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Crusaderbear
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Mid 80’s, catchy, don’t think it made it too high on the charts…Annie Lennox’s voice was so powerful she could sing the alphabet and it would be catchy!
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randomuser
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Respectfully, not quite sure that counts as “contemporary,” as that song’s a staple on oldies stations at this point (1986 according to Wikipedia: over twenty years old.) Annie Lennox has had a solo career for so long she has already done a ‘standards’ album or two. To the issue at hand, IIRC a lot of folks found that song blasphemous.Back with some contemporary songs, from some “artists” that may have not been noticed. Has anyone checked this song out? I think it’s pretty good.
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edwest2
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The song was offensive. Annie Lennox is a great singer and the instrumentals in that song were great, but the lyrics, no. It was released in 1986 as the 50% good/50% bad period was occurring across different media, and continuing its slide to the bad. After she went solo, I lost interest.
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Crusaderbear
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Funny, I thought of it as saying, “don’t even try messing with a man of God…” But I never spent much time analyzing music…
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edwest2
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It did well on the charts.
“Missionary Man” is a song by the British pop music duo Eurythmics. It was taken from their sixth album, Revenge, and continued the band’s rock/R&B musical style of the time and featured Jimmy Zavala on harmonica.
"In the band’s native UK, it was the fourth single to be taken from the album and peaked at number 31. It was more successful in the United States, where it was the first single to be taken from the album and peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 (becoming their last main US Top 20 hit to date). It also made the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart, and it received extensive airplay on American rock radio, reaching number 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks, Eurythmics’ only song to top this chart. The single was also a top ten hit in Australia, where it was released as the second single from the album.
“Missionary Man” earned Eurythmics a Grammy Award for “Best Rock Vocal Performance - Group”.
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“Missionary Man” is a song by the British pop music duo Eurythmics. It was taken from their sixth album, Revenge, and continued the band’s rock/R&B musical style of the time and featured Jimmy Zavala on harmonica.
"In the band’s native UK, it was the fourth single to be taken from the album and peaked at number 31. It was more successful in the United States, where it was the first single to be taken from the album and peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 (becoming their last main US Top 20 hit to date). It also made the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart, and it received extensive airplay on American rock radio, reaching number 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks, Eurythmics’ only song to top this chart. The single was also a top ten hit in Australia, where it was released as the second single from the album.
“Missionary Man” earned Eurythmics a Grammy Award for “Best Rock Vocal Performance - Group”.
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CatholicSpirit
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Crusaderbear: I’m with you on that. I thought that’s what the song was saying as well… and it certainly is true!Funny, I thought of it as saying, “don’t even try messing with a man of God…” But I never spent much time analyzing music…
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TheAmazingGrace
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Love their sound. Nothing beats “Sweet Dreams” though.
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Luvz2travel
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I always liked it not as well as others the group did but it’s catchy.
“Don’t mess with a missionary Man”
“Don’t mess with a missionary Man”
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Sarcelle
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In what way was it offensive?The song was offensive. Annie Lennox is a great singer and the instrumentals in that song were great, but the lyrics, no. It was released in 1986 as the 50% good/50% bad period was occurring across different media, and continuing its slide to the bad. After she went solo, I lost interest.
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