Amplified Heart by Everything But the Girl

Pros: Four good tracks, some really great harmonies from Watt and Thorn...
Cons: 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 ...

Pros: Beautiful, tuneful, lovely songs
Cons: 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.

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Pros: 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.

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...

Pros: 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..."

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...

Pros: the greatest album ever recorded
Cons: 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...

Pros: Just an amazing all-round album about love
Cons: Much too short :(

I have to admit to being a late learner when it comes to EBTG's work. It was only 3 years ago that I first heard this album, again from one of my friends. The album at the time was being played on a all-in-one stereo that must have cost 10 pence, so all...

Pros: everything
Cons: ebtg's change of direction since

Quite simply, Amplified Heart is the best "album" of all time. These are not contrived lyrics set to music, but songs of the heart brought to life. This is the collective bag of tricks that fate throws your way, pulled out and examined,...

Pros: Soothing and relaxing
Cons: Can be a bit depressing

Everything But The Girl gave this CD a very fitting title. The music is filled with the emotions of lost love, misunderstandings of love, love in general. A great CD to sit and listen to the words when you are really missing that special someone who...