Everything But the Girl

[tdfwiner]

Anyone like EBTG? Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt are both amazing singers. One of the best covers I've ever heard, The Only Living Boy In New York....



The way the ending is produced almost reminds me of Sara a little bit.

[Pisces Queen]

EBTG is absolutely one of my favorite bands. I love all their body of work and have most of their CD’s. I have been listening to them since 1996 when “Missing” was on the radio. Right now my favorite’s are “Better Things” & “Protection”. This band is not for everyone but I love them ~ their harmonies remind me of FM. Beautiful and intense writing. Lots of Dance tracks that make me groove. Thanks for posting the video ~

[Sarah]

cha.

ebtg has been making amazing records in so many styles since the early days. anyone who is into dance music has to have respect, otherwise, they don't know their ****. so yeah.. i have love.

i would insert a thumbs up, but it really is just a hideously ugly smiley.

[Stew_Matthews]

An underated band certainly. I was always impressed with the way they re-invented themselves by turning to dance music after they had gone as far as they could with their more traditional 80s pop sound.

Interesting that you should pick a track that Ben watt sings lead on as Tracy Thorn was the main singer. He does do it very well.

They produced a wonderful acoustic album, which I think is deleted now. It had covers of Springsteens 'Tougher Than The Rest', Costello's 'Alison' and Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' as well as a load of their own stuff. It is well worth hearing. If you don't have it, let me know and I'll post it.

[Pisces Queen]

Oh please post ~ I don't have it and would love to hear it.

[David]

Is this that song "Let's hear it for the girl/Let's give the girl a cha-ha-ha-hance"?

From way back in the '80s?

[Stew_Matthews]

Originally Posted by Pisces Queen

Oh please post ~ I don't have it and would love to hear it.

OK. There are a couple of things here which you may like. The first is the album I mentioned called Acoustic. It wasn’t a UK release I don’t think as it is on Atlantic Records. There is some background to the release that says -

‘In October 1991 Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn began a series of live shows celebrating what has now become one of the most enduring aspects of their work together as everything but the girl - the unaccompanied performances - they became known simply as the acoustic concerts. For 90 minutes, with no band, just two voices, a guitar and piano, they mixed interpretations of other people’s songs with their own from their ten years together. The popularity of the shows led to the studio recordings of the first four tracks on this album, released in the UK as the covers ep. It was a top 15 hit. Those tracks are gathered here, along with Tom Waits’ downtown train and six originals reflecting the mood and spirit of the acoustic concerts.’

Track Listing

1 - Love is Strange (Everly Brothers cover)
2 - Tougher Than The Rest (Springsteen cover)
3 - Time after Time (Lauper cover)
4 - Alison (Costello Cover)
5 - Downtown Train (Waits Cover)
6 - Driving
7 - One Place
8 - Apron Strings
9 - Me and Bobby D
10 - Come On Home
11 - Fascination

http://www.mediafire.com/?8gqizigewqh

There were a number of tracks left over from the above release and three of them appeared on a limited cd release of ‘Missing’. So here they are mainly because of the Ben Watt cover of my favourite Jackson Brown song - ‘These Days’. It is better than the S&G cover that started this thread I think.

Track Listing

1- Missing
2 - Each and Every One
3 - I Don’t Wanna Talk About It
4 - These Days

http://www.mediafire.com/?d1ldzvxndkr


Mods - note - both releases are not commercially available.