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Everything But The Girl
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Idlewild
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| Label: |
Sire |
| Date: |
1988 |
| Length: |
0:00 |
| Format: |
CA |
| Genre: |
Rock; Alternative |
| Category: |
rock |
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I Don't Want to Talk About It
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Love Is Here Where I Live
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These Early Days
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I Always Was Your Girl
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Oxford Street
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Night I Heard Caruso Sing
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Goodbye Sunday
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Shadow on a Harvest Moon
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Blue Moon Rose
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Tears All over Town
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Lonesome for a Place I Know
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Apron Strings
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Everything but the Girl have always taken a languid approach to their music, but they were at their most sublime on Idlewild. Produced by the duo's own Ben Watt, the music is stripped down to the bare minimum--a rhythm, a melody and Tracy Thorn's divine voice--yet somehow they make it feel lush. Some of EBTG's most affecting songs are on Idlewild: Thorn's adolescent reminiscence in "Oxford Street"; "The Night I Heard Caruso Sing", Watt's ode to father and (someday) son in which he explains that the great tenor is "almost as good as Presley"; the tale of friendship in "Blue Moon Rose" and "Apron Strings", a song of love and loss. EBTG are just as touching on Amplified Heart and the US-only Acoustic but Idlewild is a classic in its own right. -- Randy Silver
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