Walking Wounded (1996) ( )

Artist: Everything But The Girl
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Label: Wea/atlantic
UPC: 00075678291227
Release Date: 5/21/1996
Buy.com Sku: 60148687
Item#: MHV75F
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Before Today ~ Everything But The Girl
2. Wrong ~ Everything But The Girl
3. Single ~ Everything But The Girl
4. Heart Remains A Child, The ~ Everything But The Girl
5. Walking Wounded ~ Everything But The Girl
6. Flipside ~ Everything But The Girl
7. Big Deal ~ Everything But The Girl
8. Mirrorball ~ Everything But The Girl
9. Good Cop Bad Cop ~ Everything But The Girl
10. Wrong - (Todd Terry Remix) ~ Everything But The Girl
11. Walking Wounded - (Omni Trio Remix) ~ Everything But The Girl



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Everything But The Girl: Ben Watt (vocals, acoustic guitar, synthesizers, programming); Tracey Thorn (vocals).
Additional personnel: Howie B (programming, scratches); Spring Heel Jack (programming).
Producers: Ben Watt, Spring Heel Jack, Howie B, Todd Terry, Omni Trio.
Engineers include: Ben Watt, Mads Bjerke, Matthius H.
Recorded at Little Joey's, Milo and The Strongroom, London, England in 1995.
Personnel: Ben Watt (vocals, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, programming, sound effects); Tracey Thorn (vocals); Howie B (programming, scratches); Jeremy Shaw, Johnny Rockstar, Spring Heel Jack (programming).
Audio Mixers: Andy Bradfield; Spring Heel Jack.
Audio Remasterers: Omni Trio; Todd Terry.
Audio Remixers: Omni Trio; Todd Terry.
Recording information: Little Joey's (1995); London, England (1995); Milo (1995); Milo, London, England (1995); STrongroom (1995).
Photographers: Marcelo Krasilcic; Jim Friedman.
Unknown Contributor Role: Ben Watt.
Ben and Tracey went clubbing last night and decided to go straight from the dance floor to the studio. They emerge with WALKING WOUNDED, an album that features Tracey's plaintive vocals backed by layers of electronic percussion. Tracey's soul-baring singing pulls you into the songs--we ride with her atop waves of drum beats and dreamy orchestrations in dance styles that vary from jungle to hip-hop to house. The combination brings about an interesting sensation: The beats move your feet while her wistful voice eases you into a state of relaxation. Melody and melancholy are wrapped together in these dance-sized pieces. So are crossover and hit: In Europe, a remix of the title song was the first true pop/jungle hit. (Simultaneously in the U.S., a remix of "Missing," a track from the band's previous album, AMPLIFIED HEART, stayed on the Billboard pop chart for more than a year, longer than any single in Billboard history.)

 
Artist Overview
British duo Everything But the Girl has always consisted of singer Tracey Thorn and instrumentalist Ben Watt, but the pair's sound radically transformed over the years. They began in the early 1980s as purveyors of quiet, jazzy folk-pop. By the mid-'90s, they had fully embraced dance music and electronica, incorporating drum-and-bass and trip-hop into their moody style. Watt's recovery from a rare, life-threatening illness gave the group itself a new lease on life, and they ended the '90s as relevant as they were at the beginning of their career.

Artist Influences
Antonio Carlos Jobim | Astrud Gilberto | Billie Holiday | Crazy Horse | Ella Fitzgerald | Joao Gilberto | John Martyn | Joni Mitchell | Nick Drake | Richard & Linda Thompson | Robert Wyatt | Simon & Garfunkel | Stan Getz | Steely Dan | The Beatles

Artist Contemporaries
Aztec Camera | Cocteau Twins | Eyeless in Gaza | Felt | It's Immaterial | Prefab Sprout | Sade | Shelleyan Orphan | The Blue Nile | The Dream Academy | The Go-Betweens | The Style Council | The Woodentops | This Mortal Coil | Throwing Muses

Artist Followers
Beth Orton | Dot Allison | Elysian Fields | Faithless | Frente! | Hooverphonic | It's Jo and Danny | Low | Mark Eitzel | Mazzy Star | Mono | Morcheeba | Portishead | Savage Garden | The Corrs


 
Compilation Appearances
She's Having A Baby
Out Loud-A Benefit For The Human Rights Of Lesbians And Gays
Vol. 5-Dance Mix U.S.A.
Pure Listening Pleasure
The Saint
Vol. 1-Best Of Dance Mix Usa
Vol. 1-2-Best Of Dance Hits Su
Ambition Vol 1 & 2:history Of Cherry
Vol. 1-Orbiting
Modern Acoustic
Secret Art Of Science
New York Drum Sessions
Classic Club Anthems
Tunesmith The Songs Of Jimmy Webb
Frequent Flyer: rio De Janiero
Women & Songs
Our Brilliant Careers / Various
Dance Hits Party Pack
House Nation: Ultimate Collection House & Dan
Essential Lounge
Sound Of The Underground
Original 90s Album
Original Chillout Album
First Of May
Open Space:classic Chillout Album
Thrivemix Presents Dance Classics
Greatest Hits And Remixes(w/ Bonus DVD)
Greatest Hits And Remixes
Top Hits Of The Nineties:absolute Hit
100 Anthems:funky House
Atlantic Records: Time Capsule (Limited Edition)
Pacha Classics

 
Associated Artists and Works
Back to Mine ~ Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 05/21/1996
Original Release Date : 1996
Catalog ID : 82912
Label : Atlantic (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00075678291227

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (6/13/96, pp.85-86)
- 4 Stars (out of 5)
- "...a hair away from being flawless....The aural jaggedness of contemporary clubland not only perfectly complements EBTG's piercing words and aching vocals but it also burns away any residual preciousness. What's left is raw, pure and absolutely gorgeous."

Spin (9/99, p.164)
- Ranked #87 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."

Spin (1/97, p.59)
- Ranked #15 on Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums of '96.'

Spin (7/96, p.88)
- 9 (out of 10)
- "...Though [Thorn's] restraint runs counter to current diva acrobatics, she's still incredibly mannered, gently nudging songs along with a personalized assortment of heys and yeahs. It's the grain of her voice...rather than her range, that is special..."

Entertainment Weekly (12/27/96-1/3/97, pp.144-146)
- Ranked #2 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the "Top 10 Albums And Singles Of 1996."

Entertainment Weekly (5/24/96, pp.93-94)
- "...provide modern pop's first corollary to the weird sounds cooked up by the early '60s' most avant-garde lounge stylists: Esquivel and Martin Denny....[EBTG] offer an ideal conduit between today's chic underground and pop fans everywhere." - Rating: A

Vibe (8/96, p.132)
- "...Everything But The Girl continue to explore new territory...and deeper into house, jungle and trip hop..."

Melody Maker (5/4/96, p.59)
- Recommended - "...Personally, I always found Ben and Tracey's continual love-affair-turned-sour laments a little too drippy, too sappy for my taste, but...oh, what a little laid back drum'n'bass can do!..."

Village Voice (2/25/97)
- Ranked #12 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.

Mojo (Publisher)
(6/96, p.117)
- "...A certain lyrical introspection on the title track...infuses deep Jungle waves and breaks with resonance and sensitivity....[WALKING WOUNDED] is a testimony to the strength of collaboration, the possibility of rejuvenation..."

NME (Magazine)
(5/4/96, p.56)
- 6 (out of 10)
- "...isn't quite the all-out conversion to gutsy house, drum'n'bass and trip-hop we had hoped for....the songs are...well-crafted and no doubt spectacularly meaningful, and Thorn's vocals as finely elegiac and deeply emotive as ever..."

  
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