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Everything But The Girl, Acoustic
Audio CD
Disk ID: 692988
Disk length: 41m 26s (11 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1992
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Love Is Strange | 3:21 |
| 2. Tougher Than The Rest | 4:14 |
| 3. Time After Time | 4:29 |
| 4. Alison | 3:04 |
| 5. Downtown Train | 3:09 |
| 6. Driving | 2:26 |
| 7. One Place | 4:50 |
| 8. Apron Strings (Live) | 2:54 |
| 9. Me And Bobby D | 4:23 |
| 10. Come On Home | 4:12 |
| 11. Fascination (Live) | 4:17 |
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Review
Though they've worked with plenty of accompaniment, the heart of Everything but the Girl's music has always been simple: a voice (usually Tracy Thorn's), a simple melody, and enough emotion to keep Kleenex in business for decades. On Acoustic, Thorn and Ben Watt strip things down to the bone, and the starkness makes the music even more affecting than usual. Of course, it doesn't hurt that the material they've chosen to work with is pretty affecting to begin with. The five covers are fantastic (Mickey and Sylvia's "Love Is Strange," Bruce Springsteen's "Tougher Than the Rest," Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time," Elvis Costello's "Allison," and Tom Waits's "Downtown Train"), but the five originals, all of which appear on other EBTG albums, hold their own; and three of them--"Driving," "Apron Strings," and "Me and Bobby D"--do much more that that. --Randy SilverTaking the unplugged route, this duo is a contemplative mood that will please fans alienated by the overproduced blue-eyed soul they've turned in on earlier releases. Here they augment an EP's worth of contemporary standards ("Time After Time• and "Alison•, included) with spartan versions of their own superb originals. "•Easy listening with an edge. --Jeff Bateman
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