Works [Import]

Everything But the Girl | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 3, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Import
• Label: Rhino/Wea UK
• ASIN: B000UF9KYC
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189,548 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Each and Every One

2. Mine

3. Native Land

4. Bittersweet

5. Tender Blue

6. Another Bridge

7. Crabwalk

8. Even So

9. I Must Confess

10. When All's Well

See all 20 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. I Don't Want to Talk About It

2. Love Is Here Where I Live

3. Oxford Street

4. Shadow on a Harvest Moon

5. Lonesome for a Place I Know

6. Apron Strings

7. Driving

8. Get Back Together

9. Me and Bobby D

10. The Language of Life

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Par Excellence!, May 31, 2008

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This review is from: Works (Audio CD)

If you are a newcomer to this duo's camp, I cannot recommend this three-disc Rhino collection more highly. Considering that their music is still, more or less, unheard of in these United States save for smooth jazz formats on el radio, this is a very wise investment for the individual who wants to purchase a good taste of them without the hassle of procuring all their albums. I myself only possess three, and one is on vinyl! You get a taste of everything from the mid-80s to the mid-90s, and it's all a pure pleasure to hear.

Ben Watt and Tracey Thorne dabble in gentle new wave flavored pop, 60s soul, and smooth jazz with a stylishly cool flair that only the Brits can pull off. They are sophisticated beatniks, classy slobs, and coolly passionate. Complete with their everyday British life lyrics, they are like the philosophers of lounge music. Their voices are so similar that their harmonies are almost heavenly, and Tracey's voice alone is one that some of the most polished female pop performers couldn't garner with years of training.

Check out great standouts like "Each and Every One," "Are You Trying to Be Funny?," "Cross My Heart," ---well, there are simply too many. I love their casual smoothness mixed with their British reserve and passionate lyrics. If you like Swing Out Sister, Sade, or Spandau Ballet's True album, you need this EBTG collection. I promise that you won't be disappointed. I play mine constantly!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EBTG goodness!, May 14, 2010

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coley-cole (Southaven, MS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Works (Audio CD)

This is such a great collection of old and new tunes. The only thing I would have enjoyed, if one more track could be added or substituted, is the acoustic version of Driving (on Adapt or Die, i think). I can easily listen to all three cds in a row if i'm tidying the house or baking on the weekend. Love, love, love this set!

5.0 out of 5 stars EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL , THE BEST!, October 16, 2010

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Jose Marcos Paulino "MARCOS EBTG" (Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Works (Audio CD)

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL é uma dupla que sigo desde sua criação no começo dos anos 80. E aprecio tudo que fizeram até hoje. Esses 3 cds reunem grandes composições da dupla Tracey e Ben Watt.