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“Sexcrime 1984” by Eurythmics
“Sexcrime 1984” by Eurythmics appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1984 and 1991. Its best result is #15 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1984. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #18 alternative song of 1984, #6,743 alternative song of all time and #290 of the '80s.
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"Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)" was the first single from Eurythmics' 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother), the album Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart made as the soundtrack to the film of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and its title comes straight from the novel's Newspeak. Stewart produced it, and it's cold, jittery synth-pop: Lennox's voice chopped into samples and stuttered back at you, while Stewart, run through a vocoder, intones the year like a telescreen announcement.
Ironically, it never made it into the movie. Meant for the film, it was dropped before release, surviving as music for the trailer, with its video added to the home video editions. It was the first of the soundtrack's two singles, pressed on 7-inch, 12-inch and a limited 12-inch picture disc.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 15 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1984 | 106 |
| 1984 | 30 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1984 | 91 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 422 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991) | 500 |
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