hello

i feel strongly that ebtg belongs to n.y. in their song！
but i really confuse，they formed in england，
and then， how they going on？？

can somebody tell me the history？？？？？ please

他们官方站有biography，我的fansite里也有比较简单的中文biography

Everything But The Girl formed in 1982. They released their debut album, 'Eden' in 1984, and their most recent album 'Temperamental' in 1999. There have been nine studio albums over the years, the most successful of which came in the mid-nineties - the million-sellers, 'Amplified Heart' (1994) featuring the worldwide No. 1, Missing, and 'Walking Wounded' (1996) which spawned four UK hits. They have had one platinum and eight gold UK albums, plus one gold US album and single. There have been thirteen UK Top 40 hit singles, and one American No. 1.

EBTG's mid-nineties peak followed Ben's year-long recovery from a near fatal illness in 1992. He wrote an account of his experience in his acclaimed 1996 biography ?'Patient: The True Story Of A Rare Illness' (A Sunday Times Book Of The Year, Finalist for the Esquire-Waterstones (UK) Best Non-Fiction Award, A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, A New York Newsday Favorite Book of the Year, A Village Voice Literary Supplement Favorite Book of the Year). Originally published by Viking/Penguin in the UK, it has seen publication in Australia, North America and in Spanish translation.

Mid-nineties highlights also included Tracey's memorable 1994 Massive Attack collaborations. As guest vocalist and writer on their second album, she brought melody and lyrics (and ultimately the subsequent album title) to the stand-out track, 'Protection'. She and Ben also co-wrote 'Better Things' for the project.

In the past five years, Ben has launched a lateral career as a club DJ and promoter, establishing his west London Sunday night, Lazy Dog (with DJ partner Jay Hannan), as one of London's most successful and popular club nights - a venture that has almost singlehandedly invented modern Sunday day-night clubbing in the capital. Lazy Dog is now a worldwide phenonemon with sell-out dates across Europe and North America. It has also inspired Ben's string of acclaimed dance remixes (Sade, Maxwell, Sunshine Anderson, Meshell Ndegeocello) and the making of 'Tracey In My Room' included on the new EBTG retrospective.

In 2002 Ben launched his own intimate west London club-bar, Cherry Jam. Both a social hub and an outlet for new talent, it offers regular music nights, exclusive events, art exhibitions and spoken word. Underground DJs and emergent indie bands play weekly. Beth Orton and Barry Adamson have launched recent albums there.

关于这张CD的background

'Every greatest hits collection seems the same: over-familiar tunes reheated and assembled in the boardroom and generally thrown at the public on a cold plate, so we thought we'd try something different,' says Tracey. 'If there was going to be a retrospective we wanted it to be a personal view. We wanted to look back on some of the stuff we've been proudest of over the past twenty years. Some of them happen to be famous hits, some are obscure B-sides. It's just our take on things, and we hope it throws a fresh light on these songs and what they mean.'

'Like The Deserts Miss The Rain' is an alternative 'best of' collection: sixteen tracks over seventy minutes culled from twenty years, selected and compiled by Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn themselves. The choices range from EBTG's breakthrough jazz-inflected hit of 1984, 'Each And Every One', through rare B-sides like Tracey's beautiful 'A Piece Of My Mind' to cornerstone album tracks such as the million-selling Amplified Heart's opener 'Rollercoaster' and big hitters like 1995's US Number 1, 'Missing'. There are limited edition remixes and Tracey singing in Portuguese!

'It is not trying to be comprehensive, it is not even trying to represent every album we have ever released,' says Ben. 'In each case it is simply a track we look back on and think, yes, that's what we meant, and it still seems to have resonance. We've also drawn a non-chronological line from the past through to the present. It is an attempt to offer a compass and a map for our journey through so many different styles and genres over the years.' Hence the latin sounds of the early eighties ('Each and Every One') rub shoulders with the futuristic drum 'n' bass bossa nova of the mid-nineties ('Corcovado' and Chicane's rerub of 'Before Today'). The still-life beauty and sexual politics of 1984's 'Mine' slide moodily into Tracey's seminal woman's-eye-view Massive Attack collaboration, 'Protection', whilst 1996's Top 10 hit, 'Wrong', is presented here in its Y2K bootleg incarnation, the floor-rocking 'Tracey In My Room'.

An accompanying retrospective DVD will also be released. Again compiled by Ben and Tracey, it features the duo's favourite EBTG video promos including the MTV-nominated 'Missing', and two clips shot by cult New York film-maker, Hal Hartley. There is also live performance footage from EBTG's 1999 London concerts (the first ever live concert footage released by the band), and an interactive chance to 'make your own EBTG video' using 20 minutes of rare documentary film shot exclusively for EBTG's most recent tour by west London imagists, Your Mum Visuals. The DVD also includes a photo gallery stretching all the way back to Ben and Tracey's early days, and for die-hards, a clutch of rare home demos.

thank u very much!!

but i just wanna ask where they are from . the place they were born.
and i wonder where they success?
in my opinion, their songs sounds like American, do u agree with me??

can u give me their short info to me , for my poor English , Chinese is ok-better^^

他们来自英国的Hull市，Ben&Tracey是在大学里认识并迅速投趣且成立了EBTG这个乐队，之前他们均是当时的独立厂牌Cherry Red的旗下歌手。他们的成功我觉得是worldwide的，基本上全球都有非常多他们的歌迷，但US是否非常受欢迎我就不敢确定，再说US向来颇为排外，就像UK的一些大红歌手如Robbie William就在US吃不香，Blur同样如此。EBTG的音乐倒不觉得有太多美式的味道，反而觉得是很地道的英式独立流行音风范。

in my opinion, their songs full of the smell of NY's late night feeling!!
i mean in their last 3 albums!!

and i often pay big attention about the background music when i watch a film,
i know some films of NY's stories  appare ebtg's songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and i feel very fit 4 the movies!!^^

他们后三张转电子的，Walking Wounded则很明显是英式的多愁善感型electro-folk作品呀，Temperamental是夜店音乐，但很europ那边的夜店音乐颇为贴近，只有Back To Mine是EBTG他们选择自己平日常听的artist集成的合辑，里面也是以欧洲那边的artist居多。至于你说soundtrack里选了他们的歌，那也不出奇，剧情需要或者director喜欢他们吧，不过现在音乐也走全球统一了，很多aritst都希望自己的音乐风格可以国际化点，不过你觉得EBTG美式也没问题呀，同样的音乐带给人不同的感觉，不同的联想才有意思嘛

我不是很喜欢back to mine
so 我给人拉，当然是决对喜欢的人