Reviews (page 7 of 8)
2.5/5
having this on in the background was sort of okay but when i was actively listening to it, it sounded like one long song
Everything But The Girl nothing but mediocre songs. Why is this band on here, let alone twice. The female singer's voice is nice, but far from amazing or super interesting. The only track that was somewhat intriguing to me was Single, but only because it reminded me of George Michael's Safe, though even then the latter is a superior song to the former. Just another waste of a spot on this list.
Quite monotonal.
Very uninteresting. Pretty much everything sounded the same to me and could not keep my attention at all. I feel like if I hadn’t distracted myself and tuned out the sound, I probably would’ve been bored out of my mind. 2/5
This was alright, the woman reminded me of the XX
Eh. Bar rock.
This was really boring. How many albums that are exactly like this are going to be on this list? I've always said the 90's had the worst music and this is just confirming that.
I swear the author of this list has the most boring basic electronic picks coming out with only the lukewarmest of beats. The vocals were alright though
Euro club elevator music
Pleasant to listen to, won’t be putting any of those songs on again.
2/5
Ça me fait penser aux coins de rubber qu'on met sur les meubles pour pas que les bébés s'ouvrent le crâne. 2.49 étoiles
Kinda boring but light
ave had listened to this a few times - and whilst its a pleasant and easy listen very little of it stuck with me. Tracey Thorns' vocals are distinctively haunting and really carry the album with the backing mostly trip hop by numbers. Quite telling that its the remixes that tend to bring the EBTG tunes to life. Fav song: Single.
How do they have TWO albums on this list? Admittedly his is the better one but for me, neither has a place
Within 10 seconds I could tell you the year this was made. 2.5/5
I like the title track and "Big Deal" but everything else was just fine. Very good vocals though.
Didn't like them in the 90's and still not a huge fan. But objectively, it's not bad music, just not my thing.
This was better with an EDM beat to it. Didn't need a full album of it.
2+
Kommer nog aldrig spela den igen.
Just fine, not particularly memorable. A bit beige..
This feels like the sixth EBTG album we’ve been served up, but it looks like it’s only the second. Bleh. Not. For. Me.
Coffee shop music
Before Today 2.2 Wrong 2.3 Single 2.3 The Heart Remains a Child 2.7 Walking Wounded 2.2 Flipside 2.4 Big Deal 2 Mirrorball 2.1 Good Cop Bad Cop 2 Wrong (Todd Terry remix) 2.3 Walking Wounded (Omni Trio remix) 2 Score: 2.227272727
Feels like music you'd hear while shopping at the JCPenney in the 90s.
Interesting sound for a bridge album from 90s pop to indie pop
Things that should have stayed in the 90’s: -Furbys -The Clintons -Frosted Tips -Your Boyfriend’s Dallas Cowboy Fandom -Kid Rock -This Album
Dreamy and hypnotic. But nothing that pushes this above every other band that sounds the same. 2/5
Ok album a couple really good tracks (Single, Flipside). But other than Tracey Thorn’s soothing vocals, there is much here that would distinguish this from similar late 90s electro pop
Perfect music for a mid-40s divorcee wanting to feel like she's engaged in soul-searching during a spa day; or for the soundtrack of a movie about a group of mid-40s divorcees wanting to feel like they're engaged in soul-searching during a spa day. (Two stars because, while the songs remain vacuous, the production is considerably better than that of Idlewild.)
I like her voice, and most of the chill music, but there's all this random drum and base thrown in, which I hate, and I think it ruins what could be a really nice and relaxing album.
Another example of the bias towards UK artists. Apparently there is another album from EBTG on the List. Probably the one N. America would be most familiar. This isn't a bad album but it's not the most outstanding electronica around.
Reminds me of something from an action movie soundtrack, but not a good one.
Basically the same as Scritti Polliti, in that it is so inoffensive it's actually offensive. I've had three totally bland albums in a row, and can't really think of much to say about any of them. Come on Project! Do better than this.
Conjures intense memories of early 2000s weekend afternoons when mum was doing chores and had the 80kg CRT tv blasting the music channel
This is nice
This was fine. It got better as it went. I am not sure it needs to be here, but I'm not mad I had to listen to it, at least.
2.5
Liked this as much as I did there other album. Not very much…this one was slightly better
Lovely voice, some catchy tunes but I just don't jive at all with drum and bass. The drums feel so artificial and unnatural sounding it takes me right out of the song.
Not big into drum and bass… this one felt pretty forgettable.
🧟
An electronica album with chill two step and bass and drum beats, a genre of music that is not my jam. When I’m in the mood to listen to electronica, I gravitate to more powerful and energetic beats typical of house. This explains why I couldn’t remember ever hearing of Everything but the Girl, despite the band having chart topping hits in the US. This album had beautiful moments and the singer’s voice complimented the underlying music, but for me that did not save the album from being boring. I’m not convinced that this album would be on the list if the author was not British. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with this, but I didn’t hear anything particularly groundbreaking or influential in the album. Although, as mentioned, I’m far from an expert in this genre. Definitely not an album I’ll be revisiting in the future.
Music for a 1990s coffee shop. Mild and inoffensive.
First one I really don't know about & what to expect. Sounds like maybe it was a heavy influence for mainstream pop around the time, but this feels cooler and more sincere. Probably harsh to say a poor imitation massive attack. What's up with the katakana on the album cover? Superdry style?
Pleasant but monotonous; boring
Wat gaan we hier over melden? Hij zit er alweer op. Het was een weinig zeggende, chill-achtige house ervaring met wat triphop en 2-step garage achtige invloeden. Het is niet onaardig om aan te hebben staan tijdens het werk maar dit is wel zo bizar vergeetbaar dat je je echt afvraagt wat de makers van de lijst hadden gesnoven toen ze dit toevoegden. Ik hou het op een 2. Dit is me te mager.
Sounds like Beth Gibbons singing.
second album from these folks and, man, i hate to say it. this really does nothing for me. the best songs on here are fine, i guess. the worst songs are pretty boring. the music is one part subdued techno, one part subdued pop, and is entirely subdued. i just wish one of the facets here was more interesting, it would have held my interest a lot longer. on a pure technical scale, there's nothing wrong here, i guess. it just feels like the music the clothing stores my mom would drag me to when i was a kid. i just don't really appreciate the vibe a whole lot.
I've heard this one many times before. The best I can say is it just exists. It's not exactly bad, but not particularly good either. It's an easy one to ignore when they play it overhead at work.
Eh ...
Совсем слабо и скучно
Found this very boring. Nice voice but minimal instrumentation and all sounds the same to me.
Crap
This felt like the soundtrack to Challengers if it wasn't horny.
Captivating voice but musically less interesting
1. today - 2 2. uurong - 1.5 3. zingle - 1.5 4. heart - 1 5. uualking - 2 6. flipzide - 2 7. deal - 2 8. mirror - 9. cop - 10. uurong - 11. uuounded -
Can’t stand her voice
Yeah one hit and its not on here
Inoffensive. In a bad way. 90s blandness.
Just lounge music
meh
Feels like the inspiration that Dido took to make her biggest hits, but I don't think it worked for EBTG. The remixes were cooler than the earlier tracks. Otherwise this album was not my cup of tea 3/10
Besides "Wrong" for me only 90's background music in a shopping mall.
I don’t have much against the overall sound of the album, but it was so mellow it became wallpaper. Rating: 2.5
Honestly not bad for the 90s but incredibly boring for 2025. I'm not against chill electronic music but chill electronic music now days at least has more depth.
Everything But The Girl sounds like they should be a twee indie band based on the name alone. However they are another electronic Brit band with a female vocalist. Honestly between Goldfrapp, Portishead and EBTG they all blur together.
Music with no soul. I can hear the midi instruments as they beep and click. It's redeeming feature is that it is largely inoffensive and recedes to the background.
# 449 : 02/04/2025 : it's not bad…. It's not good. Nothing special. Very ordinary and quite forgettable. Probs won't go back to this.
It's just a bit for the background.
I kept trying to convince myself that this wasn't that bad until I started to get towards the end. I lost it.
This was not what I was expecting. Slow chill techno popish. Not awful. But just more like background music to me than anything I’d ever choose to listen to. 2.75
Channel 5 midnight casino background music vibes. Place your bets. Big_Les69 is the top virtual roulette earner tonight.
Felt very blah to me.
Very 90’s British.
Flipside was good, but probably just because it sounded a little different than everything else on here. It all just blends together.
This started out somewhat promising but went downhill quickly. I liked this better than Idlewild, but it was a very low bar. It was like the worst parts of Ace of Base and Dido came together to make an album. "Mirrorball" is a good song, but everything else was a struggle to get through.
As boring as I expected
I never really liked EBTG at the time and a listen through this has reminded me of why. That slightly-jungly beat just batters on for the whole thing and goes nowhere interesting. Tracey Thorn has a decent voice on her but I just remember seeing their music videos on a loop in the old VH1/MTV days and thinking she just looked so miserable all the time. I don't really see the ambient cool trip-hop type connections some people seem to be finding here. Nowhere close to Massive Attack or Portishead levels.
90-s background music. Enige pluspuntje is dat ik de Todd Terry remix van Missing aan de party playlist heb kunnen toevoegen. 5/10 Highlights -
Chill triphop that is well produced and with a great vocalist. And incredibly boring, I might add. Will not listen again unless I decide to spend some time at a posh coffee house
Dance meets slow music. Not my cup of tea
🎧Whoever described this as the soundtrack of “trying on jeans at the Gap or Banana Republic in the late 90s” hit the nail on the head.
Boooooring.
Everything But Unfortunately Their One Good Song
It’s 90s electronica. Shocked how popular this genre got, there’s just not enough for it to stand out for me.
I liked the electronics at points. It was ok
She has a great voice, reminiscent of Sade to a degree, but it seemed at odds with the synth. Those vocals deserve to be supported by strings, a piano, or at least better electronic accompaniment. What she had may have been pretty cool at the time, but certainly hasn’t held up. Instead it was more of a distraction than support. As a point of reference, when this album ended, Spotify played It Could Be Sweet by Portishead. Along the same vibe that I think they were going for, but a totally different outcome. Everything But the Girl is far less emotive and the instrumentation is more generic, lacking any complexity or interest, resulting in an almost boring experience comparatively.
Not really but thing, but not offensive.
Boring and repetitive. Fine for background music, but even then boring. Next. Tracks that sort of caught my attention: Single (I'd almost call this a "favorite track"), Walking Wounded, Flipside.
meh. Commercial synth-pop
Not for me
This album is the exact sound of walking around a fancy department store at the mall in the early 2000's. Now the question is, do I *want* to listen to music that sounds like an early 2000's store? Nope. Not really.
Blah.
Can’t quite decide if I love it, but I sure do like it!
Better than the other album they had on the list but still manages to be dull as ditchwater.
There are (at least) *two* Everything But The Girl albums on this list. LOL
Voice is nice but doesn’t match with the electronic music. Overall not enjoyable.
Weak sauce.
sounds like romy from xx, nice beats
Too long, too 90s, too electronica
I was thinking this is OK, but it became very repetitive and I was relieved when it ended.
Started to lose interest towards the end, but it wasn't totally awful
It made me bored but didn’t make me annoyed.
I don't know this jsut doesn't sound that good to me. It's also a little late to the party. This could've been made in the 80s easily.
报听
generally i like the combination of edm and her voice but on the long run it just annoys me.
Boring
Meh
Found this pretty boring to be honest. Like being on hold at the doctors.
Too long and held on too long to the same things.
Pop. Electronic pop with a bunch of syth. Two things that I don't enjoy. melodies and arrangements are ok. The Heart Remains A Child is good, esprcially the guitar on the left, quite interesting. But overall it's just not so memorable. Well produced, enjoyable when you are in the right mood, but otherwise boring. 2-2.5 i suppose.
Not good. Dated and boring.
It’s okay - I didn’t think I would enjoy it, but here we are, and I think it’s fine. Although I easily get tired of listening to this type of music for too long. That’s also the case here. But in small doses, it’s okay
Not bad but I didn't get it.
When I reviewed Idlewild, I criticized EBtG for writing very similar and boring pop songs. On Walking Wounded they explore a new genre by focusing on downtempo electronica - mainly to prove that they manage to be boring in more than one genre? It’s rather admirable.
Meh
Not my thing but next time I’m on a come down I might give it another spin.
I see what they’re going for here. That whole trip-hop, Zero 7, Groove Armada vibe. And to be honest I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Wouldn’t stick it on again, but I’ve listened to worse albums. Could envision this playing at some beachfront bar on a hungover Sunday, if the holiday was quite lame.
Hard to review this one as I'm not a fan of this type of music. Find it quite boring and one note but don't think it's a bad album. Just not my vibe. Good production and dont mins some of the dnb/triphop beats. Every song sounds the same though. Would go down well at a late 90s dinner party for twats dipping into the beak after the dessert and cafetiere coffee
Insipid and bland
Not too bad. I like her voice. But at the end of the day it's electronica with all its limitations.
2.18
Not aging well.
If I heard this before the advent of lo-fi glitch hop 24 hr streams I think it would have been a truly unique experience but unfortunately this has become a very played out sound.
The percussion was awful. The tiny high hat in your ear till it hurts forced me to skip almost every song.
Sounds like the type of music you'd hear in the queue for Oblivion at Alton Towers Repetitive, they all sounded the same and too long Not for me, thanks 2 ⭐️
I really like Tracey Thorn's voice and some of EBTG's songwriting over the years but late 90s/early 00s polite electronica is so dull. Let's give it some Aphex acid you...
Had never heard of them. They were OK. 2.5 maybe.
Got a lot of respect for this record. I can really appreciate what they were doing and her vocals are insane! Took a bit of getting into. First listen 2.3. Second listen 2.5. So let’s call it 2.4
Another fine, didn’t dislike, didn’t inspire me to pursue more
Honestly often forget about this variety of 90s trancey club music. Not my favorite but decent as background noise. Very randomly and coincidentally I had heard the song Missing by Everything But the Girl on the radio and I swear it’s one of those songs that I know deep down because it was on so many CD infomercials growing up and I still will mess it up if I hear it in the wild
90s chill electronica to be played at the mall. I liked the beats and music especially at first but I found her vocals off-putting and boring. Close to a 3 but I found my mind wandering by the end which probably slides it down to a 2. When Carly pointed out that this band did the song "Missing" (recognizable 90s song of this vibe that we keep missing in music trivia), it all made sense.
Sad really but can’t be bothered to listen to this - the album cover doesn’t make the top 1000 in terms of artwork. Maybe that’s the intention but it sums up the whole feel of the thing.
Somewhat interesting
Very melancholy and I enjoy the spacey feeling of the synths. Just too one note to be more memorable (2.5/5)
Sorry, but there is zero reason why this should be on this list.
Not for me. I suppose I see a version of the world that is clubbing to this stuff.
Not familiar but enjoyed listening.
I'm no musicologist but I'm confident in saying I didn't need to hear *two* Everything But The Girl albums before I die. I slightly prefer this incarnation to their 80s stuff; the electronics and vocals do 'work' together. It's competently made, but it just doesn't make me feel anything.
Inoffensive and not terribly interesting. Some cool moments, and it was nice to hear some drum and bass that actually has a vocalist. But I feel everything that's drum and bass all sounds exactly the same to me, and is not that pleasant to listen to. Still this was better than most I've heard so far. Top tracks: Flipside, Walking Wounded (Omni Trio Remix)
Pretty dull
Wrong
eh, it’s okay. Foot tapping pop, skilled musicians, but it’s just not my jam.
Background music for me, not unpleasant but not my cup of mead so to speak.
Quite interesting. Like flip side the best so far. Some interesting sounds popping in and out Mirror ball is nice
Tycker inte det här är särskilt märkvärdigt.
Lahmer Trip-Hop-R&B-Smoothpop-Techno **1/2
Dido wannabe
Wonderfully produced, but lyrics are a constant bummer.
This is very late 90s boring pop
I was not familiar at all with their work. Great background music. Vocals are clean and good back beats but nothing jumps out at me. Just a lot of the same. Great chill music but I won’t be looking for them on my own!
She has such a nice voice, it’s a shame she’s singing such dull, uninspired music.
Boring and depressing. Not 1 star bad but this was not a pleasant listen.
✅ this is alright. I can see how it might've been important in the genre at the time, but imo it's been eclipsed by artists who do it better. Glad to know of it.
Not for me
I liked the 'Missing' remix from their previous album, but never liked their folky style. This on the other hand is a cash-in on that remix and they really did try hard to replicate that electro sound themselves. Yes just throw away your folk beliefs and morals and go for the money. I didn't mind the singles when it came out, but I can't say they grabbed me in any way. A 2 star effort.
never bad but pretty dull throughout. if it was 40 minutes i’d give it a 3 but the extra 10 minutes just drags it out too far
Was ok
90s electronica. Like a less arty Massive Attack. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: Walking Wounded Date listened: 08/06/24
I was expecting to hear a song about missing you like the deserts miss the rain. I didn't hear it. I moved on with my life.
Pretty bland and boring throughout. Standout song: Wrong
Better than the other one on the list but both are of questionable inclusion. Another reminder that overall, this list is not a very good one.
Yeesh. It wasn’t bad per se, but it was super boring. Like most of it sounded like background music to a video game with uninspired vocals. I was waiting for it to be over
Electro jazz pop vibes, enjoyable and set me on an electronic day but didn’t love
I like EBTG but this is a bit dull…
1. Weird that this pops up immediately after Idlewild 2. I’ve always had the impression that EBTG did a hard pivot to mellow dance after the unexpected success of the ‘Missing’ remix by Todd Terry 3. I had no factual information in support of this presumption other than the stark difference between that and the Rod Stewart cover on Idlewild. I’d never consciously listened to anything else they did 4. There is a chronological gap between Idlewild and Walking Wounded. Still, one can see a common thread linking the two. 5. Music enthusiasts are condition to listen in genres. This is unfortunate, and takes a lot of effort to overcome. All that said. I didn’t really like this. It’s ok for what it is etc, but I don’t think I’d actively seek out a listen to this album again. Ironically (or not) the Todd Terry remix of ‘Walking Wounded’ is (I think) the best thing on the album.
Fine, I probably won't listen to again
Grandad, what did the background sound like in the 90’s?
Nothing special
Sounded like the same song the whole album.
Solid production, great sounds but I couldn't really get excited about any of the songs.
I don’t typically like music like this, but I listened to the whole album. Probably will be a one-time listen for me though. Something about the singers voice is annoying to me.
Too boring.
Pish, the sound of an indie band trying to make dance music because of a hit remix - the same reason moloko failed after sing it back. A couple of decent songs, and they seem like nice people, but there is absolutely no need for this to be included on the list.
It's a bit of a sad album overall. Not particularly fun in any way.
It's the bed confined wounded that worry me.
This doesn't do a whole lot for me. I like Tracy Thorn's voice, and the music is alright, but nothing that really wows me or holds my interest much.
Here's one that is just ok. It was trip hop-adjacent but not enough thst I liked it very much. There's better versions of this. Too milquetoast, not brave enough. 2.25/5
2/5 Ok
molto generico
I don't know if the maker of this list a particular fan of this genre or is it just me. It doesn't click. It's a bunch of organized noise. In some cases, some artists put it in nice tunes. Here is a standard "banging on all of electronics" and nice female vocal. Not for me.
Bland store pop. Felt like I was sitting through a 90’s teen romcom. “She’s all that”/“Ten things I hate about you” vibes
I don’t know what it is about EBTG but I just can’t warm to them. Partly it’s the music - it’s just not my thing (doesn’t mean it’s not good) and partly Tracy Thorn’s voice which again is not my thing (and again doesn’t mean it’s not good). Having said that, check out their version of The Only Living Boy In New York - stunning.
Overall just not very interesting
Not really my thing, though not terrible. 2/5
I was haunted by Missing for what seemed like half of my teens as it was not just everywhere, but also repeatedly stuck on the clothes shop hour-long mixtape I worked in over and over again. So I hate the song which propelled them to fame. Though I do understand they were indie darlings before a dance remix made them briefly chart botherers, and I recognise Tracey Thorn has a fantastic voice, and love Protection. I stuck the non dance version of Missing on in the middle of this and it's quite obviously a good song, this version was tolerable, much of the emotional clout was stripped out of the original by Todd Terry it seems, I just have bad associations with it's enormous overplay. Not particularly looking forward to the album after they found success with dance however. 'Wrong' is exactly the sort of diminishing returns song I imagined would come after Missing, and I recognise it but it didn't haunt me so I merely have no feelings about it. It's just kind of downbeat depressive dance music. I like dance music, and I like downbeat music, so why am I so unmoved? Nobody knows. The song Walking Wounded is easily the standout. I definitely always misheard the lyric as "nothing can replace the ass on you". Obviously this lead on to stuff like Dido (oops) and EBTG disappeared. Also, melancholy vocals were littered through trance stuff, but that worked for me because of the soaring euphoric backing. Melancholia over minimalist beats doesn't click for me. See also The XX, probably the most obvious spiritual successors to this group. Aside from 3-4 songs I can take or leave them.
Chill cocktail hour electronica
Eh. It just kinda kept going.
Thoughts before listening: I don't know a ton about these guys other than that I believe they are electro Euro-pop and that they had a few hits in the 90s. They definitely were bigger in Europe than the US. Review: I saw another review that said this is the sound of trying on clothes at Gap in the 90s...and yeah thats about right. Slow, soulful singing over non-descript techno beats. Its pleasant music I guess but not for me. I am giving this 2-stars cause its not offensive, but also pretty boring.
Jävligt tydligt 90-tals sound. Dessvärre inte det sound jag föredrar. Rätt trist rakt igenom. Det är deras nio(!) album. Hur vanligt är det att ett bands nionde album är asbra? Känns märkligt. Förstår inte alls hur denna skiva platsar. Den sticker inte ut alls.
Her voice is very nice but this album was booooooring
Warbly synths and trip-hop beats can't make up for the absence of good songs or melodies. I've heard better from EBTG. 2/5
Ultimately, this was a chill, ambient easy pop album. Nothing about it was particularly exciting, though, and again, it didn't feel revolutionary in any way. I would say I enjoyed this at about a 2.5, but the lack of anything substantial is causing me not to really want to round it up.
I thought it was Sade most of the time but then sometimes it put me in mind of Annie Lennox. I didn’t have strong feelings about it but it was listenable.
Just felt like a Diet Coke version of Thievery Corporation. And yes, I know that's unfair since I know Thorn's voice from her work with TC. But I'm standing by it. It just feels watered down and safe and that's boring to me.
meh
OK, easy to listen to, but I don't really understand why it is on this list.
I was nice to work with it in the background, but not my 'cup of tea'.
A bit too "background music" for me. It's not bad, just not terribly interesting
Mediocre at best. I didn't hate it, but I'll never listen again
Meh
A solid meh.
There is nothing wrong with this music, it just doesn't do anything for me. Definitely not my wheel house and maybe because of those things it feels a bit too overrepresented on this list. Will not ever revisit this.
Not sure why EBTG gets two entries on this list. Similar to the first, this was completely average (maybe even slightly below). 2/5
I do not understand the appeal of this kind of music. You might as well not listen to anything, it's so bland.
Nice harmonies, but nothing amazing here
Was such a boring listen. I guess I could see how someone might like it but it just didn't hit any spots for me. 2/5
2/5. This is quite a generous rating in my opinion. Just a wholly boring soft melodic album that didn’t hit me the right way I suppose.
totally unremarkable
The Sade knockoff nobody asked for
neat, but ended up becoming background noise
Better than the last one, but still didnt get me. Very much of its time: screams 90s. It just doesnt hit anything for me, it’s neither something or nothing. Just a bland, electronic album. Not sure how it made the list, but then I’m sure there’ll be plenty who love this
More interesting than the other album we had by these (why are there 2 EBTG albums on this list), some of the sampling feels forward thinking for the time. The singing style sucks all of the energy out of every song, everything is a laid back lounge track. For the slower songs it works (though I don't really enjoy it) but it kills the slightly more exciting ones. Kept expecting it to pick up for a song or two but it didn't. No need to hear this again, 1.5.
Completely different to their previous album, Idlewild, that we've we had here. Unfortunately, not really my thing either..... Not a big fan of electronic music. I imagine at the right time and place, (probably about 15 years ago) the chilled drum and bass would be quite appealing. But alas, not now. Not sure when they changed their style, probably after the success of missing, but I think I preferred the former! I still think she has a good voice. "Wrong" sounds like an effort to recreate missing to me Didn't hate it, but didn't do much for me and won't be back
Immediately transported back to 1996 and my mom has me at the hair salon she goes to. I am looking through random hair style magazines. Smart phones don't exist and I feel like I will sit here for all of eternity while my mom gets her hair done. Similar vibe to this album. Sitting here bored for what seems like an eternity.
Drum and Bass, EDM, or club music. Vocals have a reverb effect on them to make it sounds airy. She has a great voice. But the songs all sounded very similar, I could hardly differentiate them from one another. The melodies were all similar. The only song I had ever heard from this group was "Missing". Which is interesting since it was missing from this album, being on the previous one. I guess they had so much success with the club remix of that song, they decided to put out an entire album that sounded exactly like it.
Mediocre trip hop
I really liked the singers voice, but that was about it.
Not for me
Budget enya
Im sorry but mid-90s British electronica is just not my bag.
Runway music with lyrics
When you go to the dance club but it's "Geriatric Easy Listening Super Softees" night
Average album. Nothing special but not bad
Groovy. Repetitive.
While I enjoyed the album, within an hour of listening to it I had forgotten everything about it.
Pleasant but for me, a little dull
Tulee olo, että Sneaker pimps tekee saman paremmin. Haluisin tykätä, mutta nukuttaa.
Käyttävät aikansa soinnillista todellisuutta hyvään, eivät pahaan. Sisältää pari hauskaa radiobiisiä, mutta levynä menee pitkäveteiseksi.
Hyggeligt men ikke rigtigt min stil
Pivoting your entire act to a different genre just because a remix of one of your tracks got super popular using it is pretty pathetic, but that’s on brand for this band.
Some cool stuff, reminiscent of some of the more well-known triphop groups. And other stuff that was just kind of... boring electropop.
Songs to listen to while walking down a rainy street thinking about your ex. God god this is a boring album. It feels like listening to slight variations of the same song.
and I miss you.... like I missed this song from this album!
I'm a huge fan of house and techno, but this brand of 90s electronica just doesn't do it for me for some reason.
Very meh album for me, low energy and all of the songs just kinda drag through, sounds very 90s
Not impressed
Unremarkable
Pues me ha gustado mucho como suena de calidad y del sonido trip-hop al que viraron tras su comienzo más tipo cantautor (en formato dúo). Sin embargo, solo me he guardado "Before Today" y creo que su otro disco más famoso sería mejor candidato a estar en esta lista.
It's alright. Nothing to write home about.
Triphop vibes all over, maar dan wel met een 80s saus erover, van al die mislukte vage en gare Britse bandjes die we al te veel hebben gehad. De zangeres drukt ook een (te) zware stempel op de muziek. Gelukkig staat die verschrikkelijke oorwurm van een "Missing" niet op dit album, maar de meeste nummers ademen wel hetzelfde idee. Ik kan dit album best 1x luisteren, maar haar stem gaat meer en meer irriteren naarmate je het vaker luistert. Uiteindelijk redt de triphop het album wel van de ondergang.
yawn, meh, bloodless drum and bass under warbling wallpaper
I feel like this is the equivalent of AC DC or CCR. All the songs sound identical. The one exception is she has a great voice. I wouldn't mind hearing a song on the radio, but not a whole album.
Not offensively terrible, just trite and boring.
This is what you hear in cool cafes in the 90s
Meh. It's okay, nothing spectacular. 2/5
Trip pop.
EBTG goes trip hop. What is the obsession with this mediocre genre? 4/10
A couple of nice tracks but a lot of fluff
"Single" is a great song, but that's about it. I've never got EBTG - too one dimensional.
Dido style music with really cheesy 90s production. Not into this at all.
The idea of this band is much better than the actual music of this band. Downtempo electronic beats and music with a very talented singer, collaborations with Massive Attack and other successful bands, hit single from nineties, that is still ingrained in my memories - it all points in the right direction. Unfortunately, after listening to "Walking Wounded" the hype was very slowly dissipating, leaving me really puzzled. I didn't like any of the songs, I didn't buy the atmosphere of the album, somehow nothing was working for me. It's not a bad record by any means, but I certainly didn't feel like it deserves to be on this list. At least I still have Massive Attack to listen to.
Album you must hear before you fall asleep
You could say it was feisty, but that would only be true if you meant it sounded like what you might get if you fed Feist a fistful of sedatives.
They’re trying to recapture the magic of Missing but just don’t have it in them
pretty meh on this one but not for any specific reason
Fun Facts: 1. You don't need to hear 2 freaking albums from this band (or any album at all), before you die 2. Using Japanese kana for no reason is cringe. 3. If you hear this right after it was released (1996), it would still feel outdated for at least a decade.
At first I thought this might have a bit of a Portishead vibe but I just didn't get there. Not bad but it didn't really do it for me
This was pretty chill, but I did not find it particular engaging. It’s just not for me.
Sounds like any soulless 2020s pop radio hit. Truly ahead of its time.
Pop / trip-hop album van Brits muziekduo Everything But The Girl. Tracklist leunt het meest richting Britse trip-hop en dance. Net zoals meer albums binnen deze niche is Walking Wounded te saai en kleurloos. leukste nummer: Mirrorball Door het megasucces van hun eerdere elektronica remix van "Missing" besloot EBTG een vergelijkbare sound te creëren voor Walking Wounded.
better than expected
This was just.. not interesting
Oh piss off
Just OK, nothing in here really stood out for me.
Very mellow pop
Gillade dem mer när de var omoderna. Inte dåligt men, njae.
I find it weird that Spotify says that fans of this band like prefab sprout as this is nothing like that, this album is boring clubby trash but inoffensive boring clubby trash.
How does this band get 2 albums on this list? It was ok. Different than the other one I had by them. Chill late 90s indie pop
The music is too mellow for me, tonally and sonically it doesn't give the listener much variation throughout. The vocals are beautiful and calming to listen to, but overall it just doesn't excite me. And the moments it veers hard into the electronic sound are what ultimately push me away. Not for me.
also not really my thing
The answer to the question „What would Dido sound like with a House backdrop?“
Really chill, but also everything blends in together. I didn't find anything special about this besides the quirky little instrumentals in the last few tracks. Overall okay, but forgettable. Fave track(s): The Heart Remains A Child
meh
I don't get exactly why this album is more important to be on this list than any other late 90s electronic album. Still, I assume that at the end of my listening session, I was considering it kind of modern for 1996 since it already captured this spirit of modern times that privileged the nostalgia and some reverence to previous idyllic times. As I said, I'm unsure if this is something exclusive from this album or if it was generalized into the electronic scene at that time, but I'll consider it an extra point. 2 stars
Not for me
favorite - before today, flipside least favorite - wrong, walking wounded smooth (almost too smooth, need more bite), drippy 2/5
An album that has a sound perfect for the decade it came from. It was an okay album. A boppy casual listen. It was lyrical enough to not be electronic but the beats made it feel like it was trying to be something else. Overall it was okay to listen to but nothing worth revisiting. 5.6/10
Wow this is really not for me. I feel like all of these songs way overstay their welcome. Every single song is so extremely repetitive -- they are all around 4:30 but could end before the 2 minute mark in my opinion...
Well this seemed truly iconic of the 90s, like unbelievably so but I did not rate it. Boring and a bit wailey. Not my bag
Not a real thriller.... 2.5
Sappy, simplistic lyrics about love and heart break. Music is hit in miss between runway sounds and complex bleeps and bloops. Too sappy for me.
Acceptable lo-fi electronic.
meh
Whilst I have a lot of time for Tracey Thorn, she seems like a genuine good person. The music is not for me, too clean, and polished. Give me Th Marine Girls any day.
Ich hasse auch Alles aber die Mädchen.
It's alright, just doesn't stand out to me in any way and grab me. Fine background music, not something I'll ever listen to again. Preferred the remix tracks at the end tbh.
Not a lot for me here, it's gentle 90s electro / D&B with a haunting female vocal over the top. Nothing really grabs me, it's all a bit bland tune-wise, the lyrics are pretty miserable in general. 2/5
Only 1 or 2 tracks that I like
It was OK.
Bog standard mid-nineties' trip-hop-pop. Music for dinner parties. A tin of white emulsion has more soul than this. Best Tracks: Before Today; Wrong; Walking Wounded
Meh
Didn't finish. OK production, reeeaally boring dry middle aged woman cruise ship vocals
Basically department store music.
I don’t know why I really don’t like Everything But The Girl. It’s adjacent to stuff I like. With “Walking Wounded” they moved to a more electronic sound, incorporating elements of deep house, trip-hop, and drum and bass. Things I like many elements of. But they’re really none of those things. They’re “sophisti-pop.” An evolution of their earlier “jazzy folk-pop” sound. And somehow they’re still jazzy while being so electronic. I think that’s the problem. Tracey Thorn has a great rich voice. But it’s a loungy jazzy voice, not the one I want used in this way in trip-hop or drum and bass. “Good Cop, Bad Cop” gets closest for me, with a nice bit of a drum and bass going on, but it doesn’t hit hard enough or build to something. The breaks are consistently let downs. I want to like Everything But The Girl (well, I want to like that girl, too), but it just doesn’t click for me.
This sounds like a jankier version of todays drum and bass and I also don't like her voice.
-Every song is just computer beat + whisper singing and it's not bad, it is just boring. Just 50 minutes of the same track it feels like, and the track isn't very compelling -"Flipside" and "Big Deal" were the most interesting, cuz they had like a "beat drop" -This sort of non-offensive but boring album gets 2 stars now