VIDDIE:: EBTG "When All's Well"

VIDEO:: 03:00
EBTG Video for "When All's Well"

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A poor quality video, but I just needed to get this one out there. You just got to love a jangly song with horns that uses "deign" and "dross." You really need the stereo separation to fully appreciate this song.

Hailing from Hull, Tracey Thorn & Ben Watt's Everything But the Girl got the name from a well-known slogan of Turner's Furniture Shop on Beverley Road in Hull, according to WikiPedia. I always wondered about that. In the 1990s, I recall hearing that Ben Watt was ill with a rare disorder. Looking that up, I found that in 1997, he published a book, Patient, chronicling his battle with & recovery from an autoimmune disorder, Churg-Strauss syndrome.

When it's dark baby,
there's a light I'll shine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line

And I don't need reminding
how loud the phone can ring [how lonely refresh can be]
when you're waiting for news

Whoops, wrong lyrics...


We are not true
We are not pure
We are not right

O but still I'll steal to you at night
Too selfish by half
Too ugly by far
But when your songs have been sung, come to me
Rumours are rife
And winter blows cold
Reminds me of such wretched times
And yet all the same
I will never deign
To think ill of you
When all's well
My love is like cathedral bells

Amongst all the dross
The lies and the grief
There are so many things you just wouldn't believe
But amongst all the dross
The lies and the grief
When all's well
My love is like cathedral bells

VIDDIE:: EBTG "Rollercoaster"

VIDEO ONE:: 03:10
EBTG Video for "Rollercoaster"

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A quick post, as I'm swamped & busy keeping others up until all hours. In 1984, I bought My Ever Changing Moods by Paul Weller's Style Council. It featured the vocals of Tracey Thorn on a few tracks & the next year I would discover her collaboration with Ben Watt, Everything but the Girl. In '85, I played to death my import copy of the heavily acoustic Love Not Money. I lost track of EBTG until Amplified Heart, a handful of bittersweet songs with often cool synthwork intertwined with the acoustic arrangements. The big hit with umpteen remixes from AH was "Missing," but I love the sadness of "Rollercoaster" & the fact that Tracy Thorn is riding a bike in the apartment in this video. Sometimes we soundtrack our lives & I recently paired this with another track on the album, since my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway.


I still haven't got over it even now.
I want to spend huge amounts of time on my own.
I don't want to cause any serious damage.
I want to make sure that I can manage,
because I'm not really in your head,
I'm not really in your head.

And I see love and disaffection
and the clouds build up and won't pass over.
This is my road to my redemption.
And my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway.

I still haven't got over it even now.
I want to spend huge amounds of time in my room.
And I'm not coming out until I feel ready,
not running out for a while my heart's unsteady,
and I'm not really in your head.
I'm not really in your head.

When you sky falls to minus zero,
well some things must dissappear.
Oh this is my road to my redemption.

And my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway.
The names may have been changed but the faces are the same
The names may have been changed but as people we're not the same.

And I'm not, no I'm not, no I'm not
really in your head.

And my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway.

Chorus

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