Everything But the Girl

Initially influenced by '60s Easy Listening, EBTG try a more modern variety on this failed bid for U.S. stardom. Dig past the gleaming Smooth Jazz surfaces (including solos by Stan Getz and Joe Sample) to find such caustic numbers as the title track and "Me and Bobby D," which bluntly states that women have to repair the damage when famous rebels break the rules.

Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt were tykes in 1964, when Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto set the
world swaying with "The Girl From Ipanema." By 1984, the two Brits, barely out of their
teens, had released their first album as Everything but the Girl, fashioning heartfelt and
troubled – if somewhat naive – love songs inspired by Getz's bossa nova and other breezy
Sixties pop. Now Thorn and Watt have made their first grown-up album – with G... More >