Despite its title, Amplified Heart is one of Everything but the Girl's more acoustic works. A simple instrumentation of guitars and keyboards, augmented here and there by British folk-rock veterans like Richard Thompson, Danny Thompson, and Dave Mattacks, serves to set up a series of songs of romantic disillusionment. Declaring "my life is just an image of a roller coaster, anyway" and "I don't understand anything," among other things, over and over the songs speak of confusion and disappointment deriving from failed love affairs. The approach is much more introspective than that taken on the group's previous album of new music, Worldwide, but Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt's musical restraint supports it well. This is an album to listen to when you've just broken up with your lover, or even when you're just in the mood to think about lost lovers from long ago -- self-pity set to music.
Following along on the little chain letter type post Mtack and I got going - see her #3 post here:http://mog.com/mktackabery/blog_post/67363I got turned on to Everything But The Girl via The Style Council's "Cafe Bleu" album, on which Tracy guest sings the song "The Paris Match". Great, smoky chanteuse vocals. Soon after, I heard the track "Never Could Have Been Worse" by EBTG, and recognizing ...
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Came across this article at NYdailynews.com. Hard to believe its been 25 years since Tracey Thorn, front woman for the band Everything But the Girl, has done anything solo. Melancholy has no better friend than Tracey Thorn. For years, the singer for Everything But the Girl honed the sound of heartbreak through the dark hues of her downcast voice."People sometimes say, 'Why are all your songs so...
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Bong hits forthcomingDamn rain get on up out yoI needs me some sunI got mad skills, yo.
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Came across this article at NYdailynews.com. Hard to believe its been 25 years since Tracey Thorn, front woman for the band Everything But the Girl, has done anything solo. Melancholy has no better friend than Tracey Thorn. For years, the singer for Everything But the Girl honed the sound of heartbreak through the dark hues of her downcast voice."People sometimes say, 'Why are all your songs so...
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Bong hits forthcomingDamn rain get on up out yoI needs me some sunI got mad skills, yo.
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Following along on the little chain letter type post Mtack and I got going - see her #3 post here:http://mog.com/mktackabery/blog_post/67363I got turned on to Everything But The Girl via The Style Council's "Cafe Bleu" album, on which Tracy guest sings the song "The Paris Match". Great, smoky chanteuse vocals. Soon after, I heard the track "Never Could Have Been Worse" by EBTG, and recognizing ...
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| 1 Rollercoaster |
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| 2 Troubled Mind |
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| 3 I Don't Understand Anything |
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| 4 Walking to You |
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| 5 Get Me |
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| 6 Missing |
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| 7 Two Star |
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| 8 We Walk the Same Line |
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| 9 25th December |
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| 10 Disenchanted |
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| 11 Missing [Remix] |
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