Criminally underrated and overlooked band.

20 years later, and I'm (still) not immune, I love this tune.

This entire album is FIRE. Such a great duo.

Going out isn't like that anymore. Take me back, please.

1999 feels like yesterday. I blasted "Tempermental" my whole Senior year of HS. Not a bad song to be found on that CD. 100% GOLD!

Big shoutout to my mom for playing these old school tunes and showing me 80’s/90’s music. Growing up as a Gen Z I can say that this music is actually banging compared to some of the music from my generation!

what a time to be 20. this was the prime of my life, and the music was amazing.

Este track muy subvalorado, es espectacular desde su letra, voz, cadencia, tempo, sintetizadores exquisitos. BRAVO!!

This is channeling pure London

EBTG music is still played in huge clubs in Montreal Canada, the remixes and originals back to back are awesome, can't stop dancing. This group was always one of my favs

See this video in quarantine makes me want to back to the past.

Late 90's London was like 80's NYC. Absolute magic!

Bought this CD when I went to live in Spain on my own for a year in 2000. Was a real signature CD for me. Its an incredible CD about loneliness with some haunting tunes and lyrics. Great CD

Ah, yes, the glorious days when EBTG would actually appear in their videos! Love this song, awesome video. Love the whole Tempermental album - it's underappreciated, for sure.

2020 Did I grow up just to stay home? I'm not immune - I love this tune! (Still one of my all time favorites) 🥰🥰🥰

I nearly died when I heard this song in Hitch. Love that scene just because they played EBTG!

LYRICS: I walk the city late at night Does everyone here do the same? I want to be the things I see Give every face and place my name I cross the street, take a right Pick up the pace, pass a fight Did I grow up just to stay home? I'm not immune, I love this tune I wanna love more I just wanna love more I wanna love more I just wanna love more I wanna love more I just wanna love more I wanna love more I just wanna love more I drag the city late at night It's in my mouth, it's in my hair The people fill the city because The city fills the people, oh yeah I cross the street avoid the freeze A city's warmer by a couple of degrees The smell of food the smell of rain I'm not immune, I love this tune I wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I just wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I just wanna love more I wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I just wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I just wanna love more The only way out is down The only way up is down The day's roll by like thunder Like a storm that's never breaking All my time and space compressed In the low pressure of proceedings And they beat against the sides of my life Like fist against inside, in my life And the roads all lead behind me So I wrap the wheel around me And I go out There's a river in my head There's a river in my head There's a river in my head I'll take you home and make it easy (There's a river in my head) (There's a river in my head) I'll take you home and make it easy (There's a river in my head) Love more Love more Love more Love more

One of the most ICONICs Band ever!

Timeless masterpiece

Their music took so many twists and turns - go back and listen to their first few albums and you will find a whole different sound that was magnificent.

All the young generations needs more EBTG...

Love this song.. Fall of 2000 walking the campus of University of Maryland. Lets go terps!!!! remember this student playing it on his small radio.. 17yrs later.. wow i am getting old..

its the bands unique sound that makes them untouchable, even today in 2017. Love them always. Still played in Montreal clubs and people are still on the speakers dancing when it comes on.

para los que pasamos musica estos temas de etbtg son inmaculados, finisimos por donde se los escuche....excelentes

On dear! 1999 was a GOOD year. Brings me back to my memories of my last year of high school back home in Perú. Can’t believe it’s been that long!

The video is directed by Helen Terry, the backing vocalist of Culture Club

One of the best dance albums of my youth. Thank you for the tremendous memories!

So awesome. Still life affirming in 2023!

This tune so underated then and know

1999 i feel nostalgic, like crying. I love the band.

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL - TEMPERAMENTAL 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! ♥️💯‼️I add these additional words to close my personal comment: as well as having a high regard for this wonderful and very talented British duo, I consider myself a huge fan of them! God bless you and may you continue to work on your songs that I love and that are great artistic records both national and international! Thank you very much for your music! ♥️💯‼️ Temperamental is the tenth studio album by British musical duo Everything but the Girl. It was released on 27 September 1999 by Atlantic Records in the United States and Virgin Records in Europe. By the end of 1999, Temperamental had sold 115,000 copies in the United States, according to Billboard. It sold over 500,000 copies worldwide, and was met with success in the dance market. "The Future of the Future (Stay Gold)" (US Dance No. 1, UK No. 31), "Five Fathoms" (US Dance No. 1, No. UK No. 27), "Blame", "Temperamental" (US Dance No. 1, UK No. 72) and "Lullaby of Clubland" (US Dance No. 3) were released as singles. Temperamental was reissued by Edsel Records as a two-disc deluxe set on 4 September 2015. Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt recorded Temperamental in the immediate period following the birth of their twin daughters in 1998. Due to Thorn's preoccupation with motherhood, her level of involvement in the creation of the album was scaled back, with Watt taking on a more prominent role in writing lyrics and music. Thorn recorded most of her vocals during late-night studio sessions, after the twins had gone to sleep. In her autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen (2013), she remarked that "in a sense, [she] ended up being guest vocalist on someone else's album". It has also been claimed that much of the material also deals with the duo's feelings towards that fame they had attained, following the success of Todd Terry’s remix of their 1994 track, "Missing" and the achievements of their previous album Walking Wounded. According to Pitchfork's Laura Snapes, tracks like the final song “The Future of the Future (Stay Gold)” deal with, "pessimistic lyrics [that] spoke of alienation not just from other people, but from any sense of the past or the future." According to AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Temperamental was a continuation of the musical direction pursued by Everything but the Girl on their previous album Walking Wounded (1996), merging electronica with elements of folk, jazz and pop. He described the musical style of Temperamental as a minor refinement of that of Walking Wounded, eschewing its drum and bass and trip hop influences in favour of a more house-driven sound. Salon writer Amanda Nowinski wrote that Temperamental retained drum and bass breakbeats but was mostly informed by "old-school" garage house, while NME characterised the album as "a left-turn into deep house ambience and trip-hop grooves" that is "punctuated by vulnerable lyrics and vocal performances" from Tracey Thorn. Michael White of The Quietus viewed it as "an aesthetic continuation of [Walking Wounded], synthesizing the most recent developments of clubland with the duo's intrinsic song-based approach". Ben Watt incorporated production techniques that he had learned from his three years as a resident DJ at Bar Rumba and Notting Hill Arts Club into the album's songs, including cross-fading, back spinning, and filtering. This reliance on dance music is notable on the album's first single, "The Future of the Future (Stay Gold)", that features Deep Dish and is composed upon a sample of the band's 1996 single "Stay Gold". Stephen Thomas Erlewine observed that the songs on Temperamental "are essentially in the singer/songwriter vein" and described the album as a whole as "more of a meditative, reflective piece", while also observing a relative lack of pop hooks compared to Walking Wounded. Michael White noted the contrast between the "swaggering urban rhythms" of the music and the deeply introspective nature of the lyrics. "It's not as poppy as Walking Wounded," Tracey Thorn would later remark, while attributing the album's darker and less accessible nature to the circumstances surrounding its creation: "It's like going back to Amplified Heart: you can tell it's made by people who are in a stage of turmoil and change again." Thorn, composing lyrics for Temperamental, found herself unable to articulate her feelings about motherhood and other significant changes occurring in her life at the time, and as a result she instead opted to write from a non-autobiographical standpoint. Everything but the Girl: Tracey Thorn - vocals, Ben Watt - bass, guitars, keyboards, strings, beats, scratching, sound editing and programming, mixing, production, Production: Andy Bradfield - mixing, vocal production, on "The Future of the Future (Stay Gold)", Ricky Graham - assistant mixing, Geoff Pesche - mastering, J Majik - additional production on "Blame", Danny Jay - additional production on "Blame", Deep Dish - mixing, programming, production on "The Future of the Future (Stay Gold)", Design: Dolphin Trax - design, CJ Field - artwork coordination, Graham Rounthwaite - cover illustration, Charts: Chart (1999) Peak position: Australian Albums (ARIA) 3, Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) 48, Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM) 29, French Albums (SNEP) 18, German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) 65, New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) 17, Scottish Albums (OCC) 45, Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) 14, UK Albums (OCC) 16, US Billboard 200 65, Chart (2023) Peak position: UK Dance Albums (OCC) 28 ♥️💯‼️

Essential electronic-era Ben Watt: Walking Wounded (Drum + Bass, House, Breakbeat, Downtempo) Temperamental (Deep House, downtempo) Lazy Dog Vol. 1 and 2 (Deep House, Brit House) Buzzin' Fly recordings (See above)

Love this version!!

Hitch... I never did the research to find out who this group was till today .. Pretty amazing song.. 👍🏿👍🏿

Charmed sent me here 🦋

London has changed sooooo much!! It used to be alive and pumping back then and now its changed! So sad to see the difference. Im glad I enjoyed myself falling over on a sunday morning!

This song is eternal. And after 2:53 it moves to a different level!

still after all these years i feel like dancing when i hear them, love it.

Absolutely love this track

I love this tune... I love this video...I love Soho...I love the Nineties. I do NOT like here and now - can we go home soon, please?

Let’s go back and live life with that enthusiasm.

Real summer tune.

A ICONIC DANCE CLASSIC REMIX - HERE IN NEW YORK CITY 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

"and the people fill the city - cuz the city fills the people, oh yeah"

Old School Bemani

im here because of the movie hitch with will smith. this song slaps... no pun.

back when it was ok to have fun ugh this generation ugh 🙄

Fantastic sound, still in vibe aged 65.

Esta si es musica!!!! Me encanta su voz

"Five Fathoms" Released: 1999 [Verse 1] Walk the city late at night Does everyone here do the same? I want to be the things I see Give every face and place my name [Pre-Chorus] I cross the street, take a right Pick up the pace, pass a fight Did I grow up just to stay home? I'm not immune, I love this tune [Chorus] I wanna love more I just wanna love more I wanna love more I just wanna love more I wanna love more I just wanna love more I wanna love more I just wanna love more [Verse 2] I drag the city late at night It's in my mouth, it's in my hair The people fill the city because the city fills the people, oh yeah [Pre-Chorus] I cross the street, avoid the freeze A city's warmer by a couple degrees The smell of food, The smell of rain I'm not immune, I love this tune [Chorus] I wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I just wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I just wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I just wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I just wanna love more (There's a river in my head) [Breakdown] The only way out is down The only way up is down [Bridge] The days roll by like thunder like a storm that's never breaking All my time and space compressed in the low pressure of the proceedings And they beat against the sides of my life, like fists against the sides of my life And the roads all lead behind me So I wrap the wheel around me and I go out [Outro] There's a river in my head There's a river in my head There's a river in my head I'll take you home and make it easy There's a river in my head There's a river in my head I'll take you home and make it easy There's a river in my head Love more, love more Love more, love more Produced By Ben Watt Written By Ben Watt Album TEMPERAMENTAL (1999)

I walk the city late at night Does everyone here do the same? I want to be the things I see Give every face and place my name I cross the street, take a right Pick up the pace, pass a fight Did I grow up just to stay home? I'm not immune, I love this tune I wanna love more I just wanna love more I wanna love more I just wanna love more I wanna love more I just wanna love more I wanna love more I just wanna love more I drag the city late at night It's in my mouth, it's in my hair And the people fill the city Because the city fills the people, oh yeah I cross the street avoid the freeze A city's warmer by a couple of degrees The smell of food the smell of rain I'm not immune, I love this tune I wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I just wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I just wanna love more I wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I just wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I wanna love more (There's a river in my head) I just wanna love more Only way out is down Only way up is down The day's roll by like thunder Like a storm that's never breaking All my time and space compressed In the low pressure of proceedings And they beat against the sides of my life Like fist against inside, in my life And the roads all lead behind me So I wrap the wheel around me And I go out There's a river in my head There's a river in my head There's a river in my head I'll take you home There's a river in my head And make it easy There's a river in my head I'll take you home There's a river in my head And make it easy love ittttt😍😍

Dear Atlantic Records, this amazing song is not from the album “Amplified Heart” from 1994, but from the album “Temperamental” from 1999! Kisses

Had to come for a little nostalgic moment in 2024.

Beatmania!

2021 and this song still rocks ❤️

I walk the city late at night

Recuerdo haber escuchado esta joya de canción del grupo EBTG en un canal de cable el ya desaparecido MUSIC21 gracias a ese canal conosi buenos grupos que se volvieron mi adicción que tiempos por Dios cuando todavía se podía apreciar la buena música

Que temazos , los de esta y otras bandas similares !!!! Extraño los 90’ !!!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏

The groove, the words, the images... It's our sweet and safe place. But I'm still waiting for the one who tells me she will take me Home and make it easy...

Everytime I get off work, I put this song on as I'm walking the through the city and waiting at the bus stop.

The best music of the soundtrack of beatmania IIDX 3rd Style. This is unbelievable! Venezuela loves you so very much! This musbe the beatmania II super version. In VH1, i was watching all of the arcade are the international games.

Great song💜

London and soho in the 90s - nostalgia overload

Los 90s se despedía alo grande se iba está hermosa década serrando con broche de oro. Que viva por siempre en nuestros recuerdos los 90s maravillosa decada

....EBTG were literally on the cusp of the shift in Dance Music (towards the end of 1999), leaving progressive House, & leaning to the Electro / Body & Soul French House sounds of Cassius, Daft Punk, Ananda Project, Bob Sinclar, etc., in the new millenium (2000- onwards) (cont.) ....this # 1 Dance tune kept the balance in the shift, w. the Club 69 "Big Room" remixes, & the Kevin Yost 'Side Room' remixes....then, Ben Watt became a name, with his "Lazy Dog" moniker...THIS, is how a Band updates, and EDUCATES.....

Que hermoso! Todo con el tema de Dance Dance Revolution(DDR) I m player DDR 🙋‍♀️💗 greetings from Perú

This song was featured in the movie Hitch. The scene where Will Smith AKA Hitch meets Eva Mendes for the first time. Cool dance song.

I'm here now thank you universe for the gifts and for the incoming gifts

This was one of the first songs I played in Beatmania IIDX 3rd Style back in 2000. Getting used to 7-key play took some time, and I started (and stayed!) on the 2P side since it felt so strange having the turntable on the left. But man, it was so cool seeing actual videos playing vs. the more basic graphics of the 5-key games, and the IIDX arcade machines just looked so amazing. I'll forever associate this song with that game and era of my life.

Best voice ever!

Still listening, Glad the movie Hitch brought me to this!!!

Beatmania iidx bring me here, i just wanna love more!

her appearance is so cool in itself

ES UNA LASTIMA QUE YA NO ESTEN JUNTOS Y SEGUIR DELEITANDO CON SU MÚSICA 😔

Uma das musicas q toca no filme Hitch - Conselheiro amoroso. ❤️

que bien suena aparte todo el vídeo es la noche nocturna de Londres tiene buen ritmo saludos desde argentina 🇦🇷🙏 bendiciones

I remember going to Tokyo in 1999 and finding out what DDR was, there were people lined up around the block wanting to play it, what an amazing phenomenon.

2024 & WE ARE HERE ❤ 🎧😎

Pure house classic

Temperamental was the last record I bought in the 20th Century

Cuando los videos eran buenos … Como se extraña MTV de los 90s.

Tracey I absofuckinlutely love your voice.

Hitch 😍😍😍

Esto era música de verdad... Y no la puta mierda de reggaeton q tenemos hoy. Canciones sin sentido diciendo el nombre del cantante 1000 veces y con sonidos ridículos bbbrrrrr; brrooom y mierdas así.... Suerte de esos 80' - 90' q pudimos escuchar esta música.

Good Morning Cubs

Every tune they did is cool.

This album turns twenty years old this year.

Nostalgia can sure be HARD! I miss being young.

I'm here for Hitch scene 🍸

HOLY SHIT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS SONG SICNE I SAW IT IN HITCH IN 2005 AND I FUCKING FINALLY FOUND IT

This is house…. Historic song

I became a fan when "Missing" was playing in the radio way back when. I'm obsessed!

Happy Birthday Tracy 🎂❤✨ 26/ 09 / 2022

Dance dance revolution and beatmania! My childhood!

Hitch brought me here

I have the vinyls in import

I remember welcoming 2000 with this song at the disco 3 am 1-1-2000 still playing on October 2020

Cuando la música electrónica era muy buena

UK, France, Italie: On a quand même les meilleurs et TOUTE L'HISTOIRE DE L'EUROPE:)!

This makes me miss Chicago and Detroit