1984: For the Love of Big Brother

This is the sound of a human heart beating inside a cold, digital surveillance apparatus.

While Eurythmics are often celebrated for their chart-topping synth-pop, this soundtrack finds them at their most experimental and atmospheric. Dave Stewart's production is skeletal and rhythmic, utilizing early samplers and drum machines to create a sense of rigid, state-mandated order.

Annie Lennox's vocals, when they appear, are often treated as another layer of the machinery: looped, echoed, and sometimes buried beneath the weight of the electronics.