Annie Lennox has been making music since what feels like time began. Her first hits were with The Tourists (as seen in the ongoing 1979 series), while her biggest successes came with Eurythmics in the 80s and 90s.
She’s also released six solo albums over the years, but from that particular body of work, all I have in the collection is an (ahem) digitally sourced copy of a cover version:-
mp3: Annie Lennox – (I’m Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear
This dates back to 1995, the year that Annie released Medusa, an album of cover versions. The album wasn’t well received by many critics, but proved to be a hit with the public, as it went on to sell six million copies world-wide. The cover of the Blondie song wasn’t included on the album, but instead used as a b-side to its second single, A Whiter Shade of Pale.
IMHO, it’s really bland. Nay, make that awful. The sort of take on a song that you’d expect to hear from a budding contestant on a TV talent show who doesn’t get past the initial audition stage.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
Despite being partial to significant portions of her Tourists and Eurythmics work, I’m quite happy to ignore her solo music. But I could listen to her speaking voice for hours – that Aberdonian lilt, how is she not narrating everything on BBC Scotland? Somebody get her to do an audiobook of The Highway Code, or anything… my order’s going in, day one.
Léon Macduff
I was all-in on Annie Lennox from the point of seeing the video for The Tourists great New Wave cover of “I Only Want To Be With You!” I was on the US edition of “Reality Effect” like white on rice! The US edition was even better as it substituted two strong cuts from their Conny Plank produced debut [which was not released in America] for the only two weak tracks that were on “Reality Effect” in my opinion: “Summer’s Night” and “Something In The Air Tonight.”
Thrilled by “Reality Effect” I quickly bought “The Tourists” [their other 1979 album] as an expensive import; my first ever such purchase. I loved all three Tourists albums and was gutted when the band split up, but I’d read that Annie and Dave were working on a new project, Eurythmics. I managed to get the fascinating debut single in 1982 as an import but then nothing else showed up in the import bins. Then, a year later, their 6th single broke them wide open and they became worldwide stars.
So I had been buying everything that Annie Lennox had been releasing for a very long time. There were definite ups and downs in the Eurythmics saga. When they were good they were very, very good. And they managed to pull their fat out of the fire late in the game for a classic album in my opinion in “Savage.”
The first solo album was quite excellent. With Blue Nile participation I was quite excited by what Annie might do without Dave pulling in directions that maybe I didn’t like. Surely it was Dave who had injected the lumpen Rock and Soul elements that had drug Eurythmics down in the mid-80s? Until that fateful day when I got a copy of “Medusa.” Surely one of the worst cover albums of the 90s, when there was no shortage of those! It was full of egregiously poor performance decisions.
Then a friend gave me his copy of “Bare” and the cover essay was far more interesting than the actual music within. I was immediately discarded. Inconceivably, I’ve not bothered with Annie Lennox a whit from that point onward. So I’m with you there all the way. I still actually prefer The Tourists to Eurythmics, in spite of their notable triumphs.
Hard to improve on the original.