The PopCulteer
January 31, 2025

Sydney Fileen returns with a new episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat devoted the band, Eurythmics, Friday on The AIR.  The AIR is PopCult‘s sister radio station. You can hear our shows on The AIR website, or just click on the embedded player found elsewhere on this page.

Friday at 2 PM on The AIR, we have an encore of a special episode of MIRRORBALL where Mel Larch devoted her hour of Disco to the music of Disco legend, Jimmy “Bo” Horne.   You can scroll down and read the original notes and playlist HERE.

You can hear MIRRORBALL every Friday at 2 PM, with replays Sunday night at 11 PM and throughout the following week Monday at 9 AM and Tuesday at 1 PM plus there’s a mini-marathon that includes the latest episode Saturday nights at 9 PM

At 3 PM, it’s Big Electric Cat time as Sydney Fileen delivers a special NEW mixtape edition of her show that pays tribute to the stunning duo that helped propel New Wave Music into the mainstream.  This week you get two hours of Eurythmics on BEC.

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart formed their band from the ashes of another band, The Tourists, and in 1983, they exploded into international success with the song that opens this episode, “Sweet Dreams are made of These.”

On this week’s Big Electric Cat, Sydney brings you highlights from the six albums Eurythmics released during the New Wave era. In addition to their electronic two-person-band sound, you will hear their later band music and collaborations with major artists like Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Elvis Costello.

Check out this killer playlist…

Big Electric Cat 124

Eurythmics
“Sweet Dreams Are Made of These”

“English Summer”
“Take Me To Your Heart”
“Your Time Will Come”
“Heartbeat Heartbeat”
“Love Is A Stranger”
“Wrap It Up” (With Green Gartside of Scritti Politti)
“I Could Give You (A Mirror)”
“Somebody Told Me”
“Here Comes The Rain Again”
“Right By Your Side”
“Who’s That Girl”
“No Fear, No Hate, No Pain (No Broken Heart)”
“Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)”
“Winston’s Diary”
“Would I Lie To You”
“There Must Be An Angel”
“Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves”
“Adrian”
“It’s Alright (Baby’s Coming Back)”
“Missionary Man”
“Thorn In My Side”
“When Tomorrow Comes”
“The Miracle of Love”
“Beethoven (I Love To Listen To)”
“I Need A Man”
“Shame”
“You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart”
“Hello I Love You”

Sydney’s Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays Saturday afternoon,  Monday at 7 AM, Tuesday at 8 PM, Wednesday at Noon and Thursday at 10 AM, exclusively on The AIR.

That’s it for this week’s PopCulteer, check back for all our regular feature, with fresh content, every day. If all goes well, we will have a video AND a photo essay from last weekend’s GI Joe Winterfest on Sunday.