― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Saturday, 17 June 2006 04:44 (seventeen years ago) link
i think i am the only person who likes this record
ben watt's lazy dog mix cds are pretty great... haven't heard his more recent mix project, whose name escapes me...
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 17 June 2006 07:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 17 June 2006 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Faux?
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 June 2006 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link
His illness?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 17 June 2006 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Not meant judgmentally - more in the sense that I initially assumed "Five Fathoms" was actually produced by Deep Dish but it's Ben Watt saying "I wanna make my own "Future of the Future"."
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 17 June 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link
It was released as 7" and a 12", was included on their first album, Working Nights, the 2LP B/O Pay Day and the CD distillation of that album Pay Check., and yes it is indeed great.
I don't believe any permanent members of Working Week had ever been in YMG 'though, although Simon Booth had worked with Alison Stratton in a post-YMG band called Weekend, which was also where he met Larry Stabbins with whom he subsequently formed Working Week.
Philip Moxham of YMG did play bass for EBTG for a while 'though.
Fwiw Corrine Drewery (later of Swing Out Sister) was WW's vocalist for a while before they recruited Juliet Roberts.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 17 June 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fryin' Berry, Buck Cherry (Bimble...), Saturday, 17 June 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― uh oh (JTS), Sunday, 18 June 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Buzzin' Fly Volume 3 was released last week and like the other two volumes, it is something pretty special. All three volumes heartily recommended.
― iain macdonald (the_article_don), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Does anyone know anything useful (like a tracklisting maybe?) about a "Collector's Edition" of Eden which is apparently coming out in a month's time?
Amazon are listing it as a single disc, with just the same 12 tracks as the original and no indication what would make it so special as to warrant the huge price tag they've put on it; while Play are listing it as a double disc, but not offering a tracklist.
Can't find any details anywhere else - not even a mention of the official EBTG website.
There are plenty of great non-album singles & b-sides available so it could be great: "Night and Day", "Feeling Dizzy", "On My Mind" (although that single was on Cherry Red iirc, so presumably they'd need to licence it?), "English Rose" (recorded for an NME freebie single, so who knows who owns the rights to that one?!), "Laugh You Out the House", "Never Could Have Been Worse", "Mine", "Easy as Sin", "Gun Cupboard Love", "Native Land", "Riverbed Dry", "Don't You Go" (didn't they have a different debut album in the US which ditched half the tracks on Eden in favour of those later singles and some of the B-sides)?
― Stewart Osborne, Friday, 28 September 2007 09:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Now THAT'S a slow burn. (The news is kinda buried in the post but it's there.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Now how about a new EBTG album?
― anagram, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, that's kind of sweet, isn't it.
tracey's working on a new solo album so i doubt we'll see new EBTG stuff for a long while (if we ever will).
― amateurist, Friday, 11 September 2009 03:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Tracey Thorn, annoyed mom.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
tee-hee.
she's working on a new (solo) album. she's implied that at least in part it's a bit of throwback to her indie-pop years, as opposed to the club/electronic-based stuff she's been up to the last decade.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 8 February 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist),
Thank God! Enough is enough...
― iago g., Tuesday, 9 February 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
^ Hmm, I don't know, didn't work out so great for Lou (ex-Lamb) Rhodes.
― Enoki Doki (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, February 8, 2010 11:14 PM (Yesterday)
I love it. This might be the first twitter feed I am actually curious about...
― iago g., Tuesday, 9 February 2010 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Does anyone know anything useful (like a tracklisting maybe?) about a "Collector's Edition" of Eden which is apparently coming out in a month's time?Amazon are listing it as a single disc, with just the same 12 tracks as the original and no indication what would make it so special as to warrant the huge price tag they've put on it; while Play are listing it as a double disc, but not offering a tracklist.Can't find any details anywhere else - not even a mention of the official EBTG website.There are plenty of great non-album singles & b-sides available so it could be great: "Night and Day", "Feeling Dizzy", "On My Mind" (although that single was on Cherry Red iirc, so presumably they'd need to licence it?), "English Rose" (recorded for an NME freebie single, so who knows who owns the rights to that one?!), "Laugh You Out the House", "Never Could Have Been Worse", "Mine", "Easy as Sin", "Gun Cupboard Love", "Native Land", "Riverbed Dry", "Don't You Go" (didn't they have a different debut album in the US which ditched half the tracks on Eden in favour of those later singles and some of the B-sides)?― Stewart Osborne, Friday, September 28, 2007
― Stewart Osborne, Friday, September 28, 2007
Everytime I turn around there's another EBTG rarity I can't find...I wish they would put out a collection of their singles and comps tracks
― iago g., Sunday, 21 March 2010 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
They're like the Katie and Peter of Twitter.
― djh, Sunday, 21 March 2010 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
So, got inspired to check them out because of Matos' jj review in Paste (which I wandered into while lol'ing at the Sleigh Bells review) -- anyway! This is pretty awesome. I'm listening to Walking Wounded. Super gorgeous, like proto-IDM? Anyway, what else by them should I listen to?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
(Maybe proto is the wrong word, actually)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
When is the Tracey Thorn album coming out?
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
It's out, I think.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
it's leaked, anyway. it's real good, at first listen not as good as the last maybe?
glad to hear there's been another EBTG convert. the 'like the deserts miss the rain' comp is highly recommended.
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
We can make amends over our favorite EBTG tracks, am.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
― iago g., Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:05 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark
there's a great comp floating around the internets. whatsitcalled. ah yes, kitchen sink treasures.
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I wanted everything for a little whileWhy shouldn't I?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
So far only a few songs into Eden, but I don't like it as much as Walking Wounded.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 02:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Check Temperamental. It's closer to WW but definitely more house beats than you'll find on WW.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 03:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Even tho I'm not in love with Eden, I do love that this band clearly moved through a bunch of different sounds throughout their career. It's cool when some kind of trajectory is apparent.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
there are a few tracks on the new tracey album that are quite underwhelming. it may be that some of the thinner tunes on her last record (or even the last few ebtg records) were disguised by involving arrangements. but anyway "singles bar" is pretty boring, and one or two others.
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link
SFJ has a review of the new Tracey Thorn album over at the NYorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2010/05/17/100517crmu_music_frerejones?currentPage=all
― H in Addis, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Ben Watt interview at Resident Advisor is long, but worth listening to - didn't know that Language of Life was Stan Getz's last outing, or that Amplified Heart was produced by one of the guys from Spring Heel Jack.
― with hidden noise, Thursday, 12 May 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
FYI
http://theseconddisc.com/2012/04/11/nothing-but-everything-but-the-girl-u-k-pop-duo-expands-first-four-albums/#more-12730
― piscesx, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
Buzzin' Fly rather than EBTG but this is very good:
http://soundcloud.com/buzzinfly/towards-green-pathfinding-a
― djh, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
excellent news
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
cracking piece this http://thequietus.com/articles/09091-everything-but-the-girl-interview
― piscesx, Monday, 25 June 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
aw:
There are some amazing songs on there. One thing that has surprised me that - apart from occasional bludgeoning of 'Missing' on The Voice - is that hasn't been more covers of your work. I'm sure you wouldn't be averse to someone like Adele or Jessie Ware asking to cover something like 'Come On Home'.
TT: Yeah. I'd love it. I do think it's a shame. We've nagged our publishers over the years saying, 'Isn't it worth sending some of these songs out?' I don't know. I think perhaps people don't dig deep enough when they're looking for covers, so you get the same things covered over and over again and there are ‘go-to' songwriters that people choose. We've slipped through the net a bit I think, and it's a shame. I think there's a lot of songs out there. Come on guys. [laughs]
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 June 2012 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
I do wonder before "Driving" how big their US audience was.
so has anyone else been listening to the new (!!!!) ben watt solo record? seems like it's been royally ignored.
― espring (amateurist), Saturday, 10 May 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
I have been following the developments with the release pretty closely. Soundcloud dj mixes, live radio appearances etc. I think it's a great album but I'm rarely in the mood for that type of music these days. Some of the tracks he performed either solo and with Bernard Butler before the album came out were great.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 10 May 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
I follow both he and Tracey on Twitter. Apparently Joe Moss ex-Culture Club is their neighbor and currently hosting jam sessions where they're working on 70s rock standards.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 10 May 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
I didn't even know he had a new record. Definitely want to check it out.
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 10 May 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
it's a very pretty record, lots of obvious (but not remotely annoying) borrowings from john martyn and joni mitchell (one song sounds a lot like hejira)
― espring (amateurist), Saturday, 10 May 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
the lyrics in the one about gun control is a little nagl
this album is beautifully recorded
― display name changed. (amateurist), Monday, 2 June 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link