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All rights reserved.Amplified Heart - Everything But The Girl (CD 1994)
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Love songs for the romantics
4 of 6 people found this review helpful.
I adore it when albums are aptly titled - as this album is. It's a collection of songs from the heart. I'm a hopeless romantic, I admit, and the songs from this album will remind you of all the feelings that goes along with love. It's another one of those rare albums that you'll want to listen from beginning to end and not skip any tracks.
I love all the songs but my two most favorites would be "I Dont Understand Anything" and "Walking to You". The first song gets to you, it's about not being able to communicate the feelings that you have for someone who you care for. The way it's written and sung, you'll be able to relate to it if you've ever been in a situation where you got frustrated over to someone you love - as the lyrics goes to say: "If I should start to cry and I can't begin to tell you why, and I stumble when I begin it's cause I don't understand anything".
"Walking to You" is a song about past loves and relationships. It sort of poses a question if we've ever been fated to be with someone or just have them around as friends. One line in the song goes: "..the morning was a different place, in every passerby I saw your face. Love leaves a lonely ghost, with one thought uppermost - is this the case in every case? Am I walking to you? In everything I do, am I just walking to you? "
Of course there's their hit song "Missing" that's also in this album - with two versions - the original one and the Todd Terry remix.
If you love to be in love or am a hopeless romantic like me. Pick a copy of this album up - it's really worth a listen to.
I love all the songs but my two most favorites would be "I Dont Understand Anything" and "Walking to You". The first song gets to you, it's about not being able to communicate the feelings that you have for someone who you care for. The way it's written and sung, you'll be able to relate to it if you've ever been in a situation where you got frustrated over to someone you love - as the lyrics goes to say: "If I should start to cry and I can't begin to tell you why, and I stumble when I begin it's cause I don't understand anything".
"Walking to You" is a song about past loves and relationships. It sort of poses a question if we've ever been fated to be with someone or just have them around as friends. One line in the song goes: "..the morning was a different place, in every passerby I saw your face. Love leaves a lonely ghost, with one thought uppermost - is this the case in every case? Am I walking to you? In everything I do, am I just walking to you? "
Of course there's their hit song "Missing" that's also in this album - with two versions - the original one and the Todd Terry remix.
If you love to be in love or am a hopeless romantic like me. Pick a copy of this album up - it's really worth a listen to.
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As Perfect As Can BeOn "Amplified Heart," Everything But The Girl's Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt are at the pinnacle of their extended run together – the lyrics alone can move the senses, flowing like fine poetry; add in the instrumentals and it comes close to musical nirvana. Although it was released in 1994, it has staying power not afforded what some detractors said was just "another" British pop duo – a blip on the music screen from across the pond. Almost every free-standing music store still has a copy or two in its racks. OK, I'll make the analogy oft quoted – a modern day Fleetwood Mac along the lines of their "Rumors" endeavor. MUSICIAN (August 1994, p.90) ". . . merely exquisite ear candy...the modern equivalent to Fleetwood Mac's RUMORS . . ."
"Amplified Heart" is laden with delicate melodies and precise musical passages. Tracey Thorn's vocals gives us a glimpse of both chilling memories and warmest moments. The accompaniment by Ben Watt fills the album with sincere emotions – perfect for Thorn's settled vocals. With the exception of the drum beats in the bonus 11th track "Missing," (a track not listed on the CD sleeve) this achievement beats with heart and soul. I often have "Amplified Heart" playing when reading – and after 12 years of listening, I still get detracted by its lyrics and melodies.
"Amplified Heart" is laden with delicate melodies and precise musical passages. Tracey Thorn's vocals gives us a glimpse of both chilling memories and warmest moments. The accompaniment by Ben Watt fills the album with sincere emotions – perfect for Thorn's settled vocals. With the exception of the drum beats in the bonus 11th track "Missing," (a track not listed on the CD sleeve) this achievement beats with heart and soul. I often have "Amplified Heart" playing when reading – and after 12 years of listening, I still get detracted by its lyrics and melodies.
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Really hard to find and was really cheapReally hard to find cd and was in great condition exactlly why I shop e-bay.Couldnt find it locally and am really happy with this purchase,would recomend shopping e-bay for all your hard to find items.
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Amplified Heart Everything But the Girl CDThis is one of my favorites but I had it on cassette tape and wanted it on CD.
I was happy to find it.
I was happy to find it.
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amplified hearttalk about unemotional blank and boring, and add long winded with nothing to say. give it up you just don't evidently have enough feelings,depth,and emotions to understand Tracey and Ben. I am sure they won't mind if you don't listen to them.
I have seen them 5 times in concert, a small club in Orlando and I think their music is timeless and more talented than most anyone. Tracey rocks the house without even trying. They are both so in tune to one another and to their music I guess if you don't know how to appreciate them it really is your loss.
I have loved them since the early 80's and don't forsee that changing.
I have seen them 5 times in concert, a small club in Orlando and I think their music is timeless and more talented than most anyone. Tracey rocks the house without even trying. They are both so in tune to one another and to their music I guess if you don't know how to appreciate them it really is your loss.
I have loved them since the early 80's and don't forsee that changing.
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There's Something Missing from Amplified HeartReview created: 06/09/04
by: lambchops-- a member of Epinions and Lead in Music
Pros:
Four good tracks, some really great harmonies from Watt and Thorn...
Four good tracks, some really great harmonies from Watt and Thorn...
Cons:
Largely unemotional, blank, and boring...
Largely unemotional, blank, and boring...
There s been a great deal of hype surrounding Everything but the Girl over the course of the last fifteen years. I must be honest here I didn t discover them until the release of the hit single Missing. It didn t impress me particularly, but it did make me curious as to what the duo was all about. So what did I do? I picked up three of their albums beginning with Walking Wounded (1996) followed by Idlewild (1988) and finally (as a last ditch effort to find something special about the band) Amplified Heart (1994). I chose those albums in that order for a reason. First off, they were all well...
Review ID: 10000000000239242
Everything but the Girl's Amplified Heart: Your happily depressed self's musicReview created: 07/16/01
by: pageclot -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Beautiful, tuneful, lovely songs
Beautiful, tuneful, lovely songs
Cons:
Occasionally too quiet.
Occasionally too quiet.
Epinions writer urbanist wrote a very funny review of San Francisco, looked at from the view of someone who suffered from depression. It was a "How To" guide offering helpful hints to those who wanted to be depressed in San Francisco. I like to think that such a person would have Amplified Heart running through their walkman headphones while they walked around, to spur their depression. There's much here for those who have failed at love, or who never got that far because of a misunderstanding. There are also songs here for those who have loved and have good and happy memories of that love....
Review ID: 10000000000239247
This is an album about strength and perseverance.Review created: 11/25/02
by: lady_celestine -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Music and vocals that compliment each other and blend well.
Music and vocals that compliment each other and blend well.
Cons:
Not one I can think of, except that they need more albums like this one.
Not one I can think of, except that they need more albums like this one.
I'm not a musician. I can't break it down by score vs. lyrics, or anything like that. But I can tell you that I like this album, and that I have a totally different perspective on it from the reviewers who think it's depressing. I love this album. It was my first introduction to EBTG, and I was instantly hooked. It's folksy, guitar rock with melodic vocals. This is a duo who actually understand music, and you can tell just by listening. Melody and harmony are important aspects for setting the mood of each song, and Tracy Thorn's vocals communicate how she feels on each and every line. Ben...
Review ID: 10000000000239250
undeniably sublimeReview created: 11/09/00
by: romaczech75 -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
the greatest album ever recorded
the greatest album ever recorded
Cons:
not one
not one
The first time I heard this disc I was immediately engulfed in a monsoon of musical perfection. I listened to it 5 times in a row, that good. Tracey Thorn arguably posseses the greatest voice in music today and Ben Watt is an instrumental mastermind. I can't help but get goosebumps every time I listen to this album. There isn't one song that isn't anything less than magnificent. This is obviously my FAVORITE album of all time. I am proud to say, that being a late bloomer to the EBTG fan base, this is the album that started it for me. I have just moved to New York and my first night here (it...
Review ID: 10000000000239249
Amplified Heart and Magnified Soul!Review created: 09/09/99
by: Leah -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Perfect lyrics, perfect tempo, perfect voices, perfect instruments!
Perfect lyrics, perfect tempo, perfect voices, perfect instruments!
Cons:
Visualizing Chris Kattan shirtless when I hear: "and I miss you,like the deserts miss the rain..."
Visualizing Chris Kattan shirtless when I hear: "and I miss you,like the deserts miss the rain..."
At last count, I had 7 Everything But The Girl CDs, and this is the first one to spend money on! I don't even know how to express in English words the affect this CD has had on me since I first heard it 3 years ago. It is one of those compilations that is seamless, from the first notes to the last. It feels to be one long, weaving, winding, story song. These are some of my very favorite walking tunes, driving tunes, house cleaning tunes, being depressed tunes, being jubilant tunes, in love tunes, wishing to be in love tunes, glad to be out of love tunes...well, you get the point. I can not...
Review ID: 10000000000239246
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