Tracy Thorn's smoky alto voice, coupled with her plaintive style, sets the mood for the entire set. Ben Watt's arrangements and lyrics are the perfect fit for her and their talents have always well served each other.

If you're looking for some retro/lounge sounds for your next social gathering, be it an all-out party or just sipping martinis, this is the album to be played.

An 80s classic for the 21st century!


There's nothing like it!   July 6, 2001
10 out of 11 found this review helpful

Wanna-be dance duo EBTG's debut CD is NOTHING what you expect! This collection of well-crafted tunes range from slow lounge, nightclub jazz to breezy neo-acoustic with silky smooth vocals. Thorn and Watt are, at times, synonymous with the vocals making it quite difficult to them apart. You can picture the 50's smoky jazz bar and these two characters conservatively attired with the spacy and enigmatic-looking drummer (wire brushes in hands) with the shiny silvery curtains in the backdrop while you sit and savour this dish! I first heard EBTG on the Style Council's "Ever Changing Moods" release (2 superb cuts). If it wasn't for that, I might have never come across this gem!


The Ultimate ETBG album...   March 21, 2001
flimflam man (california)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

This was the album that started it all for me. I had read about EBTG in a magazine and I knew I had to get my hands on their album. When I finally got the cassette of this, it never left my player. I took it everywhere. This was the kind of music I wanted to hear all the time. since then I've explored Style Council's many albums, early albums from Ben Watt and everything from Brazilian Bossa Nova to Lounge music looking for the feeling that this album gave me some 20 years ago. Most people know EBTG from Driving or the big dance hit Missing, but if you haven't heard this album you don't know what ETBG is. Enjoy.


Love And Emotion   August 8, 2004
ceejazz (NJ, United States)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful

I can remember walking into a mens store along Kilburn High Road in 1984 and meeting the most beautiful woman in the world (inside & out). I asked her out and she did me the honour of saying "Yes". As I made my way home with the biggest and most joyous smile I have ever had in my life, "Each & Everyone" was playing out of Ourprice. Pretty soon I loved 'Everyhing About The Girl'.
Get all their albums, some will instantly grab you - while others will rapidly creep up on your soft, romantic underside. If you like that smooth sound of Sade and her band Sweetback, with a sometimes edgy sound, (their lead vocalist Miss Thorn and the band have their own sound and style)with ever changing musical shades their albums are for you. Enjoy!


In the Beginning...   February 5, 2000
William Fricke (St. Paul, MN United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

The first time I heard this record, I was immediately impressed by the style (smokey jazz) and the songs. Although the lyrics can get a bit depressing at times, each song evokes a mood and strikes an emotional chord. The marriage of words and music on this record is near-perfect. Ironic (to me at least), since most of the material deals with relationships that have gone stale or awry.

Tender Blue is a gut-wrenching song, and I can always picture the couple involved in this loveless marriage, with a child neither one wanted. Crabwalk is a nice little jazz combo piece, that, had I had the songbook years before, would have become a staple w/ my jazz combo days in college.

For me, this is the ETBG that I'll always remember and cherish. I had purchased others, including Walking Wounded, but, I guess I'm too old fashioned. I do, however, applaud them for continually moving forward and for finding new sounds.