Life can be trying when your best friend is a goddess, you are a woeful underachiever, and ... more
Ben Jones won't even look your way. 'Girl 15' reveals the agony, ecstasy and embarrassment of being a teenager through Jess, 15 and charming, but most definitely...
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Advantages: Some Good Sounds Disadvantages: Lacks A Sense Of Direction, Dull And Bland In Places
Just four years after the release of their debut Album Eden, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, collectively known as Everything But The Girl released their fourth Album Idlewild in 1988.
The first three Albums had all been completely different. Eden with its Jazz and Soul influences, the follow up Album, Love Not Money, with its songs about Social and Political issues, and the third Album the glitzy, showbiz, Burt Bacharach style songs with their Country influences that found themselves on the Album, Baby The Stars Shine Bright.
It would have been difficult to try and guess what direction the duo would head off into next, but the truth is with Idlewild they went for something a little bit more middle of the road.
The inspiration behind the name of the Album comes from Tracey's long standing fascination with the Kennedy family, taking ...
Advantages: Good Songs, Good Lyrics Disadvantages: Only 10 tracks
Sometimes I can hardly believe that it is seven years since Everything But The Girl released their last and ninth studio Album, Temperamental, but since this Album was released in the September of 1999 then this is a fact.
The release of a re-mixed version of Missing in 1996 by Todd Terry had ensured that Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, the duo that comprise the band, embarked on a much more dance orientated Album with the predecessor to Temperamental, Walking Wounded. It is therefore not surprising that Temperamental takes this experimentation a step further.
The Album contains 10 tracks as below:
Five Fathoms
The Low Tide Of The Night
Blame
Hatfield 1980
Temperamental
Compression
Downhill Racer
Lullaby Of Clubland
No Difference
The Future Of The Future
The Albums opens with Five Fathoms. This song is deceptively upbeat ...
Advantages: Good Songs, Good Lyrics Disadvantages: Some Tracks Are Quite Short
With five Albums already under their belt Everything But The Girl wasted no time in putting out Album number six. Entitled Worldwide this Album was released in 1991 and follows on pretty much from where its predecessor, the Language of Life left off.
The Album contains 11 tracks as below:
Old Friends
Understanding
You Lift Me Up
Talk To Me Like The Sea
British Summertime
Twin Cities
Frozen River
One Place
Politics Aside
Boxing And Pop Music
Feel Allright
The Album opens with Old Friends. This is the only song that was released as a single from the Album. It is a song about former friendships, a theme that re-appears on this Album again and again. This is an Album about looking back on happy times, remembering friends, places that have been visited, relationships and personal memories. "When there was just a gang of us ...
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Product details
EAN
9780747571858
Type
Fiction
Genre
Children's
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Title
Girl 15 Charming But Insane
Author
Sue Limb
ISBN
0747571856
Manufacturer's product description
Girl 15 Charming but Insane huge bum massive ears seeks - well seeks Ben Jones but failing that large Muslim-type burka garment to cover her deformities. Life can be trying when your best friend is a goddess you are a woeful underachiever and Ben Jones won't even look in your direction. Painfully spot on Girl 15" reveals with Technicolor precision the agony and the ecstasy (and the embarrassment) of being a teenager. With razor-sharp observation and deadpan humour we are offered a privileged peek at the life of Jess 15 charming but most definitely insane. This novel has a unique voice and humour that will make you want to read it again and again - if you can bring yourself to put it down in the first place."
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