Fantastic tune, I can listen to it 3 times in a row. The album version is 6 minutes long and even better. It's even better than the well known hit "Missing" for me. Timeless tune.
My mum used to have an ebtg tape which never left our car when I was little - 18 years later and they're still one of my favourite bands! Tracey and Ben are still as awesome as ever!
A german music magazine (SPEX) titled in 1996, covering EBTG: "Als Drum 'n' Bass zwei Menschenseelen rettete", which translates into "When drum 'n' bass saved two human souls". How true.
Mortis xx: The sonic reinvention of Everything But The Girl in the 90's was probably the most discussed about subject of the decade within the music industry.
Out amongst the walking wounded, every face on every bus It's you and me and him and her and nothing can replace the us I knew Nothing can replace the us I knew And no, I'm never gonna let you go No, I'm never gonna let you go And now I know I had a choice, though you never made it clear to me I thought you never felt it deeply Now I'm never gonna let you go No I'm never gonna let you go Cause I could have loved you forever I could have loved you forever What do you want from me?, Are you trying to punish me? Punish me for loving you, punish me for giving to you Punish me for nothing I do, punish me for nothing You punish me for nothing, for nothing Out amongst the walking wounded, every face on every bus Is you and me and him and her and nothing can replace the us I knew Nothing can replace the us I knew You know I'm never gonna let you go Now I'm never gonna let you go And now I know I had a choice though you never made it clear to me I thought you never felt it deeply Now I'm never gonna let you go No I'm never gonna let you go Cause I could have loved you forever I could have loved you forever Or I could have left you forever I could have left you forever
becky15707: This song's lyrics are somehow aimed at Everything But The Girl's former label, East West/Warner Bros Group, because they dropped them around 1993/1994, precisely when they reached the top with 1 of their biggest hits, "Missing". They were already shitfting their sound/artistry but the label refused to give them a new chance claiming they were already dead.
Very nice song, EBTG goes Trip Hop. Apparently, Tracey Thorn's collaborations with Massive Attack ("Protection", "Better Things") had a huge impact on her.
Found their album Worldwide in a charity shop a few months ago and have subsequently bought several more of their albums including Walking Wounded. Wish I had discovered them earlier.
Andrew Lee-Hart: They have great gems throughout the years (80's, 90's, 00's) but their albums "Eden" and "Walking Wounded" are definitely their most cohesive, timeless and best ones, each one of them fully representing the spirit of both decades, the 80's and the 90's. Not much acts manage to do that in music.
@@SmartRobot-wc2fb I think their albums are all so different, they never repeated themselves. I like Amplified Heart and Baby, the stars shine bright in particular, but they are all very good.
"Walking Wounded" Released: 1996 [Verse] Out amongst the walking wounded Every face on every bus Is you and me and him and her And nothing can replace the us I knew Nothing can replace the us I knew [Pre-Chorus] And no, I'm never gonna let you go No I'm never gonna let you go And now I know I had a choice Though you never made it clear to me I thought you never felt it deeply Now I'm never gonna let you go No I'm never gonna let you go 'Cause I could have loved you forever I could have loved you forever [Chorus] What do you want from me? You trying to punish me? Punish me for loving you Punish me for giving to you Punish me for nothing I do Punish me for nothing Punish me for nothing, for nothing [Verse] Out amongst the walking wounded Every face on every bus Is you and me and him and her And nothing can replace the us I knew Nothing can replace the us I knew [Pre-Chorus] You know I'm never gonna let you go Now I'm never gonna let you go And now I know I had a choice Though you never made it clear to me I thought you never felt it deeply [Solo] [Bridge] Now I'm never gonna let you go No I'm never gonna let you go 'Cause I could have loved you forever I could have loved you forever Or I could have left you forever I could have left you forever [Chorus] What do you want from me? Are you trying to punish me? Punish me for loving you Punish me for giving to you Punish me for nothing I do Punish me for nothing Punish me for nothing, nothing [Verse] Out amongst the walking wounded Every face on every bus Is you and me and him and her And nothing can replace the us I knew Nothing can replace the us I knew Nothing can replace the us I knew [Outro] Out amongst the walking wounded Every face on every train Is you and me and him and her Some days I think I could go insane Some days I think I could go insane Produced By Spring Heel Jack Written By Ashley Wales, John Coxon & Ben Watt Album WALKING WOUNDED (1996)
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL - WALKING WOUNDED Everything but the Girl are an English musical duo formed in Kingston upon Hull in 1982, consisting of lead singer, songwriter, composer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, producer and singer Ben Watt. The group's early works have been categorized as sophisti-pop with jazz influences before undergoing an electronic turn following the worldwide success of the 1994 hit single "Missing". The duo have achieved four top 10 and 12 top 40 singles in the UK and have received eight gold and two platinum album BPI certifications in the UK as well as one gold album RIAA certification in the US. Their cover of "I Don't Want to Talk About It" reached No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart in 1988, a feat later matched by "Missing", which charted high in several countries and reached No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1995 and spent over seven months on the UK Singles Chart thanks to a popular remix by Todd Terry which led to a Brit Award nomination for Best British Single. Their ninth album Walking Wounded (1996) set a new career best by entering the UK albums chart at No. four, and spawned the top 10 singles "Walking Wounded" and "Wrong". The band went inactive in 2000, with Thorn declaring that she would no longer perform live. Thorn and Watt, who did not publicise their romantic relationship while active, married in 2009, both released solo albums and said it was unlikely Everything but the Girl would be active again. However, in November 2022, Thorn announced an album had been recorded for release in the second quarter of 2023. Fuse, the band's first new material in 24 years, was released on 21 April 2023. The discography of Everything but the Girl consists of eleven studio albums, eight compilation albums, five extended plays, thirty-one singles, and one video album. The band formed in Hull during 1982, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, and singer Ben Watt. ♥️💯‼️And I have the great honor of having in my discography eight CD-albums by Everything But The Girl (or EBTG). Because I have three duplicate CD-albums and the other two CD-albums are just one copy of each. So, I have in my discography AMPLIFIED HEART (1994) two copies of this CD-Album. I also have two copies of the CD-Album WALKING WOUNDED (1996). I still have a single copy of the CD-Album, which is a greatest hits, THE BEST OF EBTG (1996). Also a single unit, also on CD-Album, from TEMPERAMENTAL (1999). And, finally, the most recent record work, released on April 21st of this year, the CD-Album, FUSE. Also two copies. Altogether there are eight CD-albums by Everything But The Girl as I mentioned at the beginning of this comment. Honestly, I've loved this duo since I heard the radio version of "I Don't Want To Talk About It". And, in the mid-nineties, when Todd Terry remixed "Missing", it was a huge commercial success worldwide. On their latest studio album, FUSE (2023), the British duo is to be congratulated for the excellent work. It took them a long time to come back, but the new CD-Album was worth the wait. It's very well done. I love the ten songs! It's worth having an album, in my case, in CD format! I know all the previous works of the EBTG. But after "Missing" and AMPLIFIED HEART, Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn became huge international stars! I simply adore them! ♥️💯‼️Walking Wounded is the ninth studio album by British musical duo Everything but the Girl. It was released on 6 May 1996 by Atlantic Records in the United States and Virgin Records in Europe. The album saw the group adopting a more electronic and dance-based style, following the success of the remixed version of "Missing" from their previous album, Amplified Heart. Four tracks from the album were released as singles, including the drum and bass-influenced "Walking Wounded" and the house-influenced "Wrong", which became top ten hits on the UK Singles Chart, as well as the downtempo track "Single", which set Tracey Thorn's emotionally direct vocal against breakbeats, organ and strings, and "Before Today". According to Pitchfork's Ruth Saxelby, Walking Wounded draws on downtempo, drum and bass and trip hop music, "compressing the wide open space of those then-nascent sounds into a pop format". AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that the album was informed musically by trip hop and techno, albeit eschewing the "free-form song structures" traditionally associated with those genres. Treble writer Adam Blyweiss viewed it as a refinement of Everything but the Girl's earlier sophisti-pop sound that "replaced many of the duo's acoustics with reasonable digital facsimiles". Walking Wounded marked a change in the duo's approach to writing songs. Ben Watt produced various instrumental tracks, while Tracey Thorn wrote lyrics after listening to the completed tracks. In producing the tracks, Watt utilised samples from sources such as Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren" and Stan Tracey's "Starless and Bible Black". Thorn later recalled: "We really believed in ourselves and that comes across in the sound. We'd finally got to the point where we realised what our strength was: the softness and warmth of my voice against urban beats; the warm and cold, the soft and hard contrast. We got it perfect on this record; it was our pop triumph.". Walking Wounded is the duo's highest-charting album to date, reaching number four in the United Kingdom and number 37 in the United States. By February 1997, it had sold 750,000 copies worldwide, according to Billboard. The album went on to sell over 1,300,000 copies worldwide. The album's cover art is unusual in that it features the barcode on both the front and back of the album. Walking Wounded was reissued by Edsel Records as a two-disc deluxe set on 4 September 2015. On 8 November 2019, the album was re-released on vinyl by Buzzin' Fly Records. Certifications: Certifications for Walking Wounded: Region Certification Certified units/sales: Australia (ARIA) Gold 35,000^, New Zealand (RMNZ) Gold 7,500^, United Kingdom (BPI) Platinum 300,000^, ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ♥️💯‼️
"Walking Wounded" Released: 1996 [Verse] Out amongst the walking wounded Every face on every bus Is you and me and him and her And nothing can replace the us I knew Nothing can replace the us I knew [Pre-Chorus] And no, I'm never gonna let you go No I'm never gonna let you go And now I know I had a choice Though you never made it clear to me I thought you never felt it deeply Now I'm never gonna let you go No I'm never gonna let you go 'Cause I could have loved you forever I could have loved you forever [Chorus] What do you want from me? You trying to punish me? Punish me for loving you Punish me for giving to you Punish me for nothing I do Punish me for nothing Punish me for nothing, for nothing [Verse] Out amongst the walking wounded Every face on every bus Is you and me and him and her And nothing can replace the us I knew Nothing can replace the us I knew [Pre-Chorus] You know I'm never gonna let you go Now I'm never gonna let you go And now I know I had a choice Though you never made it clear to me I thought you never felt it deeply [Solo] [Bridge] Now I'm never gonna let you go No I'm never gonna let you go 'Cause I could have loved you forever I could have loved you forever Or I could have left you forever I could have left you forever [Chorus] What do you want from me? Are you trying to punish me? Punish me for loving you Punish me for giving to you Punish me for nothing I do Punish me for nothing Punish me for nothing, nothing [Verse] Out amongst the walking wounded Every face on every bus Is you and me and him and her And nothing can replace the us I knew Nothing can replace the us I knew Nothing can replace the us I knew [Outro] Out amongst the walking wounded Every face on every train Is you and me and him and her Some days I think I could go insane Some days I think I could go insane Produced By Spring Heel Jack Written By Ashley Wales, John Coxon & Ben Watt Album WALKING WOUNDED (1996)
The song the vidéo this band....great new art for me..art contemporain...art moderne....So beautiful!!! This clip est un chef-d'oeuvre.....!!! Un des plus beau jamais tourné.....!!!
Remember hearing this for the first time, when it was released (back in 1996!!!) and it blew my mind at how futuristic it sounded. Tracey Thorne's voice really shines on this track, made even more sonically epic by the drum n' bass beats. So underrated,...still after all these years. A modern classic; and btw, it still sounds futuristic!
My god one of the best vidéo ever made and of course this incredible band and song, but the vidéo is so modern art, beautiful, it makes me cry...... EBTH Massive attack ouah the 90's was so good!!!!
no son iguales son drum&bass un genero de la electronica, escucha bien la melodia ay radica la diferencia...ahora busca OLIVE - YOU'RE NOT ALONE ( oakenfold & osbourne remix )
I remember walking into my local record store in 96 and the guy behind the counter calling me over to give me a promo of the album ahead of release. "You'll like this" he said. He was right. Still one of my fave ever albums.
Back in 1994-1996 this music was the future, to me still is... EBTG were ahead of it's time, like Goldie, Blame, Blue Mar Ten, 4Hero, Transglobal Underground, David Bowie (in the mid 90's with 1.Outside & Earthling), Laika, Smoke City, Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Björk, Moloko, DJ Shadow, DJ Krush, Herbaliser, 9 Lazy 9, Funki Porcini, the first three Hooverphonic albums, etc, etc. The sky was the limit on what you can do at that time with the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, a keyboard and some Jazz samplers.
WALKING WOUNDED tretí TOP 10 hit EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL, ktorý bol v rebríčku šesť týždňov od 20. apríla 1996 a obsadil 6.m. Bol titulnou skladbu albumu WALKING WOUNDED, ktorý obsadil 4.m. a získal platinovú platňu. Bol v poradí štvrtým albumom v TOP 10 po LOVE NOT MONEY v roku 1985 na 10.m., THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE v roku 1990 na 10.m. a HOME MOVIES-BEST OF v roku 1993 na 5.m. Dvojica EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL získala v UK za predaj albumov dve platinvé platne a sedem zlatých platní.
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Magical song. Tracey Thorn is one of my favourite voices. She once bumped into me in a record shop. She apologised.
I would've had a panic attack if she bumped into me 😳, I love her so much!!!!!
OMG... how lucky you are! That's an epic thing to tell.
I would bow to her and appologise profusely
Jesus, I would enen pay to her to bump into me...
very british, indeed :)
Damn, I'm getting old and this isn't...
Fantastic tune, I can listen to it 3 times in a row. The album version is 6 minutes long and even better. It's even better than the well known hit "Missing" for me. Timeless tune.
Checked the Spring Heel Jack mixes? Trippy :-)
dude i can listen her 2 months with now any thing which do me uncomfortablle.
EPIC.
This track is fire. The drums, her voice. Pure elegance.
Just heard this song on MTV Classic in the UK. Tracey Thorn is an underrated singer
My mum used to have an ebtg tape which never left our car when I was little - 18 years later and they're still one of my favourite bands! Tracey and Ben are still as awesome as ever!
Ad Astra my mom also did! It's so evocative isn't it!
A german music magazine (SPEX) titled in 1996, covering EBTG: "Als Drum 'n' Bass zwei Menschenseelen rettete", which translates into "When drum 'n' bass saved two human souls". How true.
Wow! I agree
Ganz klar D&B Elemente enthalten.
Ausgeklügelte, Seelen dahinschweifende Produktion von EBTG.
Ein produktives Meisterwerk. Heavy Underrated. 5+
Thilo Bauer: And it actually did save them...and us too...
"Nothing can replace the us I knew" brilliant line.
I always misheard it as "nothing can replace me, us, and you", which sort of works too.
nothing can replace this music the whole WALKING WOUNDED album rocks!!!!
Amazing tune from one of the most frigging amazing albums ever made
BRAVO!!!
Mortis xx: The sonic reinvention of Everything But The Girl in the 90's was probably the most discussed about subject of the decade within the music industry.
EBTG are awesome! This is just one of their many eclectic tracks, all of which I love! Love the drum programming on this one! Thanks for posting this!
Missing..... classic, walking wounded..... legendary. The 90's was the best decade ever!
Gameboy you're OK!!!!
soooo true . 90's dance music destroys this muggy shite they call music today
@@unionjack-3736 By far! The 90's music scene either in both sides of the atlantic is incomparable to anything we have today!
90s music had the capability of being both badass and beautiful. Especially trip-hop music with DnB beats.
its jungle
@@ant2312 Now we're going to act like there was much difference between DnB and Jungle back in the 90's
I used to think she sang "Nothing can replace the arse on you" 😂
One of my favourite albums from the 90s
Out amongst the walking wounded, every face on every bus
It's you and me and him and her and nothing can replace the us I knew
Nothing can replace the us I knew
And no, I'm never gonna let you go
No, I'm never gonna let you go
And now I know I had a choice, though you never made it clear to me
I thought you never felt it deeply
Now I'm never gonna let you go
No I'm never gonna let you go
Cause I could have loved you forever
I could have loved you forever
What do you want from me?, Are you trying to punish me?
Punish me for loving you, punish me for giving to you
Punish me for nothing I do, punish me for nothing
You punish me for nothing, for nothing
Out amongst the walking wounded, every face on every bus
Is you and me and him and her and nothing can replace the us I knew
Nothing can replace the us I knew
You know I'm never gonna let you go
Now I'm never gonna let you go
And now I know I had a choice though you never made it clear to me
I thought you never felt it deeply
Now I'm never gonna let you go
No I'm never gonna let you go
Cause I could have loved you forever
I could have loved you forever
Or I could have left you forever
I could have left you forever
becky15707: This song's lyrics are somehow aimed at Everything But The Girl's former label, East West/Warner Bros Group, because they dropped them around 1993/1994, precisely when they reached the top with 1 of their biggest hits, "Missing". They were already shitfting their sound/artistry but the label refused to give them a new chance claiming they were already dead.
Amazing track...Tracey's vocals just complement the breakbeats so well. Stunning.
Love it! This song is so underrated.
Very nice song, EBTG goes Trip Hop. Apparently, Tracey Thorn's collaborations with Massive Attack ("Protection", "Better Things") had a huge impact on her.
It was actually Todd Terry that introduced Ben to EDM with his ‘Missing’ remix.
Sick drum programming.
"Nothing can replace the us I knew"
+Mahomed Bamba .. "Is you and me and him and her and nothing can replace the us I knew "
Drum'n Bass finest and classic forever. É muito sofisticado e leve. Adoro!!
it's jungle
Concordo plenamente.
Back in about 2001-2005 i used to play this on the juke box in my local pub as soon as i walked in, Still remember the number, page 160 track 16
While this original version is SPLENDID, I still prefer the Omni Trio Remix.
Love the subtle drum n bass what a tune, good old days 👍🏻
its a jungle tune
the think break in this track fits soooo well. combined with the 808s, the vocals and the orchestral section gives me goosebumps everytime.
That's what I call music!
One of the most amazing songs! It sounds so magical and the drum and bass elements make it perfect
its jungle, not drum and bass. DnB is the rubbish that jungle morphed in to
Why are these very low quality versions on TH-cam and not the official audio? It ruins the listening experience.
loved it love drum and bass long time favourite timeless classic
its jungle
beautiful drive at night with street lights coming through the glass top of the car
Breaks my heart, it was my heart and now song back when I was young, my children were young my husband well the rest is now history .
20 years ago... and timeless.
Fucking great track. Great vocals, great drums. Great pads and melodies...love that bassline..simple but effective!
Most great music if done right is simple 😉
@@yamyite Absolutely!
yep can't beat a good jungle track
Found their album Worldwide in a charity shop a few months ago and have subsequently bought several more of their albums including Walking Wounded. Wish I had discovered them earlier.
Andrew Lee-Hart: They have great gems throughout the years (80's, 90's, 00's) but their albums "Eden" and "Walking Wounded" are definitely their most cohesive, timeless and best ones, each one of them fully representing the spirit of both decades, the 80's and the 90's. Not much acts manage to do that in music.
@@SmartRobot-wc2fb I think their albums are all so different, they never repeated themselves. I like Amplified Heart and Baby, the stars shine bright in particular, but they are all very good.
Always great!! never old ....
Love this tune, brings the memories back... classic
Her voice, this beat....... Gorgeous.
"Walking Wounded"
Released: 1996
[Verse]
Out amongst the walking wounded
Every face on every bus
Is you and me and him and her
And nothing can replace the us I knew
Nothing can replace the us I knew
[Pre-Chorus]
And no, I'm never gonna let you go
No I'm never gonna let you go
And now I know I had a choice
Though you never made it clear to me
I thought you never felt it deeply
Now I'm never gonna let you go
No I'm never gonna let you go
'Cause I could have loved you forever
I could have loved you forever
[Chorus]
What do you want from me?
You trying to punish me?
Punish me for loving you
Punish me for giving to you
Punish me for nothing I do
Punish me for nothing
Punish me for nothing, for nothing
[Verse]
Out amongst the walking wounded
Every face on every bus
Is you and me and him and her
And nothing can replace the us I knew
Nothing can replace the us I knew
[Pre-Chorus]
You know I'm never gonna let you go
Now I'm never gonna let you go
And now I know I had a choice
Though you never made it clear to me
I thought you never felt it deeply
[Solo]
[Bridge]
Now I'm never gonna let you go
No I'm never gonna let you go
'Cause I could have loved you forever
I could have loved you forever
Or I could have left you forever
I could have left you forever
[Chorus]
What do you want from me?
Are you trying to punish me?
Punish me for loving you
Punish me for giving to you
Punish me for nothing I do
Punish me for nothing
Punish me for nothing, nothing
[Verse]
Out amongst the walking wounded
Every face on every bus
Is you and me and him and her
And nothing can replace the us I knew
Nothing can replace the us I knew
Nothing can replace the us I knew
[Outro]
Out amongst the walking wounded
Every face on every train
Is you and me and him and her
Some days I think I could go insane
Some days I think I could go insane
Produced By Spring Heel Jack
Written By Ashley Wales, John Coxon & Ben Watt
Album WALKING WOUNDED (1996)
I hold Walking Wounded as one of my top 10 albums of all time
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL - WALKING WOUNDED
Everything but the Girl are an English musical duo formed in Kingston upon Hull in 1982, consisting of lead singer, songwriter, composer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, producer and singer Ben Watt. The group's early works have been categorized as sophisti-pop with jazz influences before undergoing an electronic turn following the worldwide success of the 1994 hit single "Missing". The duo have achieved four top 10 and 12 top 40 singles in the UK and have received eight gold and two platinum album BPI certifications in the UK as well as one gold album RIAA certification in the US. Their cover of "I Don't Want to Talk About It" reached No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart in 1988, a feat later matched by "Missing", which charted high in several countries and reached No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1995 and spent over seven months on the UK Singles Chart thanks to a popular remix by Todd Terry which led to a Brit Award nomination for Best British Single. Their ninth album Walking Wounded (1996) set a new career best by entering the UK albums chart at No. four, and spawned the top 10 singles "Walking Wounded" and "Wrong". The band went inactive in 2000, with Thorn declaring that she would no longer perform live. Thorn and Watt, who did not publicise their romantic relationship while active, married in 2009, both released solo albums and said it was unlikely Everything but the Girl would be active again. However, in November 2022, Thorn announced an album had been recorded for release in the second quarter of 2023. Fuse, the band's first new material in 24 years, was released on 21 April 2023. The discography of Everything but the Girl consists of eleven studio albums, eight compilation albums, five extended plays, thirty-one singles, and one video album. The band formed in Hull during 1982, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, and singer Ben Watt. ♥️💯‼️And I have the great honor of having in my discography eight CD-albums by Everything But The Girl (or EBTG). Because I have three duplicate CD-albums and the other two CD-albums are just one copy of each. So, I have in my discography AMPLIFIED HEART (1994) two copies of this CD-Album. I also have two copies of the CD-Album WALKING WOUNDED (1996). I still have a single copy of the CD-Album, which is a greatest hits, THE BEST OF EBTG (1996). Also a single unit, also on CD-Album, from TEMPERAMENTAL (1999). And, finally, the most recent record work, released on April 21st of this year, the CD-Album, FUSE. Also two copies. Altogether there are eight CD-albums by Everything But The Girl as I mentioned at the beginning of this comment. Honestly, I've loved this duo since I heard the radio version of "I Don't Want To Talk About It". And, in the mid-nineties, when Todd Terry remixed "Missing", it was a huge commercial success worldwide. On their latest studio album, FUSE (2023), the British duo is to be congratulated for the excellent work. It took them a long time to come back, but the new CD-Album was worth the wait. It's very well done. I love the ten songs! It's worth having an album, in my case, in CD format! I know all the previous works of the EBTG. But after "Missing" and AMPLIFIED HEART, Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn became huge international stars! I simply adore them! ♥️💯‼️Walking Wounded is the ninth studio album by British musical duo Everything but the Girl. It was released on 6 May 1996 by Atlantic Records in the United States and Virgin Records in Europe. The album saw the group adopting a more electronic and dance-based style, following the success of the remixed version of "Missing" from their previous album, Amplified Heart. Four tracks from the album were released as singles, including the drum and bass-influenced "Walking Wounded" and the house-influenced "Wrong", which became top ten hits on the UK Singles Chart, as well as the downtempo track "Single", which set Tracey Thorn's emotionally direct vocal against breakbeats, organ and strings, and "Before Today". According to Pitchfork's Ruth Saxelby, Walking Wounded draws on downtempo, drum and bass and trip hop music, "compressing the wide open space of those then-nascent sounds into a pop format". AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that the album was informed musically by trip hop and techno, albeit eschewing the "free-form song structures" traditionally associated with those genres. Treble writer Adam Blyweiss viewed it as a refinement of Everything but the Girl's earlier sophisti-pop sound that "replaced many of the duo's acoustics with reasonable digital facsimiles". Walking Wounded marked a change in the duo's approach to writing songs. Ben Watt produced various instrumental tracks, while Tracey Thorn wrote lyrics after listening to the completed tracks. In producing the tracks, Watt utilised samples from sources such as Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren" and Stan Tracey's "Starless and Bible Black". Thorn later recalled: "We really believed in ourselves and that comes across in the sound. We'd finally got to the point where we realised what our strength was: the softness and warmth of my voice against urban beats; the warm and cold, the soft and hard contrast. We got it perfect on this record; it was our pop triumph.". Walking Wounded is the duo's highest-charting album to date, reaching number four in the United Kingdom and number 37 in the United States. By February 1997, it had sold 750,000 copies worldwide, according to Billboard. The album went on to sell over 1,300,000 copies worldwide. The album's cover art is unusual in that it features the barcode on both the front and back of the album. Walking Wounded was reissued by Edsel Records as a two-disc deluxe set on 4 September 2015. On 8 November 2019, the album was re-released on vinyl by Buzzin' Fly Records. Certifications: Certifications for Walking Wounded: Region Certification Certified units/sales:
Australia (ARIA) Gold 35,000^,
New Zealand (RMNZ) Gold 7,500^, United Kingdom (BPI) Platinum 300,000^, ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ♥️💯‼️
"Walking Wounded"
Released: 1996
[Verse]
Out amongst the walking wounded
Every face on every bus
Is you and me and him and her
And nothing can replace the us I knew
Nothing can replace the us I knew
[Pre-Chorus]
And no, I'm never gonna let you go
No I'm never gonna let you go
And now I know I had a choice
Though you never made it clear to me
I thought you never felt it deeply
Now I'm never gonna let you go
No I'm never gonna let you go
'Cause I could have loved you forever
I could have loved you forever
[Chorus]
What do you want from me?
You trying to punish me?
Punish me for loving you
Punish me for giving to you
Punish me for nothing I do
Punish me for nothing
Punish me for nothing, for nothing
[Verse]
Out amongst the walking wounded
Every face on every bus
Is you and me and him and her
And nothing can replace the us I knew
Nothing can replace the us I knew
[Pre-Chorus]
You know I'm never gonna let you go
Now I'm never gonna let you go
And now I know I had a choice
Though you never made it clear to me
I thought you never felt it deeply
[Solo]
[Bridge]
Now I'm never gonna let you go
No I'm never gonna let you go
'Cause I could have loved you forever
I could have loved you forever
Or I could have left you forever
I could have left you forever
[Chorus]
What do you want from me?
Are you trying to punish me?
Punish me for loving you
Punish me for giving to you
Punish me for nothing I do
Punish me for nothing
Punish me for nothing, nothing
[Verse]
Out amongst the walking wounded
Every face on every bus
Is you and me and him and her
And nothing can replace the us I knew
Nothing can replace the us I knew
Nothing can replace the us I knew
[Outro]
Out amongst the walking wounded
Every face on every train
Is you and me and him and her
Some days I think I could go insane
Some days I think I could go insane
Produced By Spring Heel Jack
Written By Ashley Wales, John Coxon & Ben Watt
Album WALKING WOUNDED (1996)
I love the soaring violins in this song.
wonderful slightly deep melodic female voice, real female vocals, lovely. One of the best singers
2nd of August, it would have been 16 years of marriage for me, and instead in a few months the divorce will arrive.
The song the vidéo this band....great new art for me..art contemporain...art moderne....So beautiful!!! This clip est un chef-d'oeuvre.....!!! Un des plus beau jamais tourné.....!!!
This is really beautiful. So moving
why does nobody make music like this anymore
Love this such an incredible song ❤🎉😊
Remember listening to this Song with my little brother. A gem! Timeless!
She is by far one of the best female singers Britain has ever produced.
Video directed by Hal Hartley.
My fave song from EBTG ❤❤ ❤❤🥰🥰🥰
Fantastic song + video. I miss EBTG.
🎧▶🎶🖼
best song ever !!!
This is art, so beautiful, love you EBTG 🥺
now I'm back in time, need for speed track on PS1. i feel I'm really old
le groupe reprends les derniers codes électronique avant le passage a l'an 2000.
Gorgeousness, just gorgeousness
Still a tune. Timeless
what an absolutely brilliant record!!
I use to walk wounded with headset on max volume, i live all the meaning of this track in those times.
R̸̡̳̭̹͕͉͍̻͍͓̗͓̤̜̘̬͊͂E̶͓̠̗̒̄̈J̴̛̥͖͙̙̜̒̽͒̏̅̐̎O̸̼̩͚̰̬̱̝͓̙̺͉̯͈̐́̌́͊͜ͅĮ̵̠̠̗̼̼͇̼̩̩͙̳̩̂C̷̢̨͎͙͚̜͚͓͉̤̲̫̅̽̃̋̈́̈́̐̓̾͊̂͐͑É̸̢̧̢̛͉̞̮̹͕̲̣͋̄̽̏̐̋̽͗͂͊̔͘̚͘͜ ̶̡̳͈̯͇̮̦̩̖̩̪͓̙̳̗̪̅͠ͅR̶̟̄̓̊͊̈́̾̋͋͑͒̀͌̅̚͘̚E̷͓̱̖͋̆̋̇̉͐̕J̷̗͈͔͉͇̖̩̺͕̺̜͐̌Ǭ̵̖̜̦̗̦̟͕̝I̵̺͍͙͕̥̰͍̬̪̱̝̍̚C̸͇̝͇͓͉̑̑͐̿̋̎͐̈́̆͂̏̿̉̕͝Ę̶̢̛͇̘̲̫̟̤͍͎͔͒̌̋̆͆͘͝͝ ̴̢̞̬̳̩̼̥̪̏̍̒̋͊̀̈̌̿̋̕͝A̷̹̗͕̱̭̤̙͙̬̣̒̓̽́͆̓͒̌̾̒͝͝͝ͅḠ̵̡̛͔̪͍̥̘͉̱̹̜̯̮̤̥͎̥̗͐̋̍́͌͋̊̀̎̐̉Ạ̶̝̪̣͙̳̗̲̥̊̿̃̈́̆͋͒̕Ȋ̴̡̦̜̥̮̜̞̘͖̑Ń̵̫͍̺̃̄͆͒̉̈́̍̋̐̅͝͝͝S̷̢̧̛̼̰͙̪̯̝̠͈͉̤͛̆̾́͌̈̍͌̾ͅT̵̢̢̜̤̼̱͎̝̣̩̩̩̦̀̈͜͜ ̵̥̦̣̼̲̭͈̯̃͑̅̄͝T̶̢̢̢̥̮̹̼͇͔̪̙̟̯́̏̀͐́͝H̵̨̛̺̠͉̙͕͎͈̠̔̋͛̿̂̈́͐̃̔̈́̑̎͜Ȅ̸̤̜̗̈́̍̓̀̾͂ ̵̡̨̲̱͇̠̺̱̲̟̼͉̃̃ͅĘ̴̦̳̦̘̻̫̳̀̔͒͆̋̈̈̋̎̒͗̔̀̃́̾͜͠Ş̵̘͓̺͓͖̪̺̦̰̞̖̥̫̻̏̒̀̋͋̀͜S̴̢̧̧̪̰̜͍͙̼̼͓̖̋̊̈̚Ȩ̶̼̝̓̎̀͋̅̈́́̄͑̐̇̉͝N̵̨̺͕͉͙̼͈͕͗͆͒̇̎͒̉͛͊̿̉͘ͅC̵̡͙͕̜͕͉̺̦͚̰̜̪̳̹̺͙̪̊̏̇̉͊͒̅̈́Ĕ̸͙̠̻̱̬͕͇̥̣̰̬͗̈̒̽̐̊͂͗̅͌͠ ̸͉̲̣̣͖̭̮̖͍͛͜O̶̞̩̻̗̦̮̣̜͋̏̅̎͋̈̐̃̔͌̍̚͝͝ͅF̴̼̟̠̪͕̙͕̗̖̺̘͈̍̍͂̅͜͜͜ͅ ̵̨̗̜͙̞͈̰͓̯̬̬͕͖̹͂̿T̸̢͇̜̮̮̯͕̩̦̣̔͆̆̾̊̓͐H̷̛͉͑̆̓̇̍̇̓̊̍̾͋͝͝Ě̸̢̪̹̫̫̕ ̸̢̞͉̲̱͇̼̩͈͖͔̭͋̊V̶̛͚͔̎͒͒̇͒͋̌̚Ö̶̢͕̹̟͙͔̖̗̪̞̂̂̃͗̌͌̄͌̊͐̕͝͠͝I̸̪̹̖̮̊Ċ̵̨̹̪̩͖̳̞̫̯̳̠̞̱̫͜Ȩ̵̢͕͇͕̰̙͇̺̜͓͛̎͌̾͊̆̈́͜͠ͅS̶͍̜̙̱̪̐́̈́͜͜ ̵̢̡̡̹̞͚͍͔̝͖͍̭͂̆͗̽̽̎̈͆͋͘ͅT̴̨̬̺̪̜͎͍̖͕̅͂̄̑͐ͅḨ̴͚̫͈͕̭̰̀̋̉̊͑̈̆̓̀̒̋̔͝͝A̴̤̲͉̦̞̹̠̫̙̭͖͚̳͗͊̌̅̓̂̇̂̅̈̏͘͝Ţ̷̙̬̖̞̝̳̜̪̙͎̖̜̣͓͈̅̇̒͗̾̆͊͐̔͒̄̀͂̀̃͘̕ ̸̡̢̧̟͓͉̳̳̤̮͉͂̂P̶̡̺̰̼̬͓̱̪̈́̑̇̽̽̍̉͆̋̍͗͜͝ͅƠ̶̡̛͓͙̲͖͍̼͎̥̌̈̾́͋͘͜I̵̧͍̺̹̋̃̓́ͅŞ̵̡̭̣͈̜̾͒ͅO̵̜̞̤͙̠̹̞̳̺̒̂̃̓̆̈̈́̅̋͒̓͘͜͜͝N̵̻̫̼̿ ̶͖̖̖̯̣̞͍̑͂̈́͌̄̊̂̕Ủ̵̡̧͍̥̗̬̤̮̖̭̰̤̳̹̤̥̀̃̏̀̿͌́̉̎̊̇̓̄͋̏͠ͅŞ̶̠̰̣̮̓̽͑̔̒̾͊̋͆͋͐̽̕̕͝
Most underrated song of all times!
A fantastic tune and Tracy Thorn's voice sounding as beautiful and melodic as ever. She is an angel.
Sublime💖💖💖
Ame está canción 🔥
Remember hearing this for the first time, when it was released (back in 1996!!!) and it blew my mind at how futuristic it sounded.
Tracey Thorne's voice really shines on this track, made even more sonically epic by the drum n' bass beats. So underrated,...still after all these years. A modern classic; and btw, it still sounds futuristic!
by the way, this is jungle, not drum & bass and it's making a comeback
Never went anywhere
Awesome song. Amazing DnB tune. Reminds me a little bit of of Rom di Prisco tunes in Need for Speed II.
its jungle, not DnB
My god one of the best vidéo ever made and of course this incredible band and song, but the vidéo is so modern art, beautiful, it makes me cry...... EBTH Massive attack ouah the 90's was so good!!!!
Erm, hate to be the one to say it... 2020 anyone?
DnB masterpiece!
*jungle
wot'a song !
Still so impressed, so espressive set from '90 so creative years and Sound !
Brilliant.
The 90s were lit and I was there
King off Kings trip hop
Just love too much to hear it at 0.5 of speed.. sslooowwwieeee..
leaves me astonished, all goes very very slow till to keep me almost asleep
Tenia rato que no escuchaba y veia este video.Excelente
40 yrs on and i still love this 💕
great video. my first time seeing it.
0:18 is my favourite part
no son iguales son drum&bass un genero de la electronica, escucha bien la melodia ay radica la diferencia...ahora busca OLIVE - YOU'RE NOT ALONE ( oakenfold & osbourne remix )
ALEX MONDRAGON me da la impresión de qué hay más de un género en este track, fascinante!
Love these two they were so talented.
Are .
are
I remember Olive. it came right after this single of EBTG. and yes, interesting remixes.
I remember walking into my local record store in 96 and the guy behind the counter calling me over to give me a promo of the album ahead of release. "You'll like this" he said. He was right. Still one of my fave ever albums.
Back in 1994-1996 this music was the future, to me still is...
EBTG were ahead of it's time, like Goldie, Blame, Blue Mar Ten, 4Hero, Transglobal Underground, David Bowie (in the mid 90's with 1.Outside & Earthling), Laika, Smoke City, Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Björk, Moloko, DJ Shadow, DJ Krush, Herbaliser, 9 Lazy 9, Funki Porcini, the first three Hooverphonic albums, etc, etc. The sky was the limit on what you can do at that time with the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, a keyboard and some Jazz samplers.
Could have come out last week
beautiful song
Moody walking wounded for all bereaved.
listen to "Fase - Nadie" and you might find a surprise
:)
Está canción siempre está en mi mente
Happy new year 2017
This song deserves more views than all the garbage music of today
This song recalls Goldie, Inner city life
ashens is a cool guy. id be friends with him
Es UNA de las mejores canciones del Universo ♥
Spring Heel Jack was it not on this production? - a total masterpiece.
This brought drum and bass alive for me a perfect marriage
its jungle
What does this video mean to you?
WALKING WOUNDED tretí TOP 10 hit EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL, ktorý bol v rebríčku šesť týždňov od 20. apríla 1996 a obsadil 6.m. Bol titulnou skladbu albumu WALKING WOUNDED, ktorý obsadil 4.m. a získal platinovú platňu. Bol v poradí štvrtým albumom v TOP 10 po LOVE NOT MONEY v roku 1985 na 10.m., THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE v roku 1990 na 10.m. a HOME MOVIES-BEST OF v roku 1993 na 5.m. Dvojica EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL získala v UK za predaj albumov dve platinvé platne a sedem zlatých platní.
Timeless hits.