Amplified Heart Explained

Amplified Heart
Type:	studio
Artist:	Everything but the Girl
Cover:	Amplified_Heart.jpg
Recorded:	December 1993 – April 1994
Studio:	Livingston, London Strongroom, London Battery, London Mayfair, London Whitfield Street Recording, London
Genre:	Folk-pop^[1]
Length:	36:32
Prev Title:	Home Movies
Prev Year:	1993
Next Title:	Walking Wounded
Next Year:	1996

Amplified Heart is the eighth studio album by English musical duo Everything but the Girl. It was released on 13 June 1994^[2] by Blanco y Negro Records in the U.K. and on 19 July 1994^[3] by Atlantic Records in the United States and Canada. The album was recorded and mixed in London from winter 1993 to 1994.

Primarily an acoustic-driven set, Amplified Heart brought Everything but the Girl to mainstream audiences via the dance remix of the song "Missing". Ultimately peaking at number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in early 1996,^[4] "Missing" spent more than a year gaining airplay and exposing Everything but the Girl to US and worldwide audiences, leading Amplified Heart to sell upwards of 232,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.^[5] It went on to sell over 1,000,000 copies worldwide.^[6]

Amplified Heart was reissued in 2012 by Edsel Records as a two-disc deluxe set.

A 25th anniversary pressing of the album on vinyl was released in 2019. The Todd Terry club mix of "Missing" is not on the vinyl and it was added on to later pressings of the CD as a bonus track.

Track listing

2012 Edsel Records reissue

Personnel

Credits for Amplified Heart adapted from liner notes.^[7]

Everything but the Girl

• Tracey Thorn – vocals, production
• Ben Watt – acoustic and electric guitars, acoustic and electric piano, mini Moog, vocals, mixing, production

Additional musicians

• John Coxon – keyboards and production on "Troubled Mind", "Get Me" and "Missing"
• Martin Ditcham – percussion, strings on "I Don't Understand Anything" and "Two Star"
• Peter King – alto saxophone on "Disenchanted"
• Dave Mattacks – drums
• Harry Robinson – string arrangements, conductor
• Kate St John – Cor Anglais on "Two Star"
• Danny Thompson – double bass
• Richard Thompson – lead electric guitar on "25 December"

Production

• Mads Bjerke – engineering
• Jerry Boys – engineering, mixing
• Bruce Davies – mixing
• Jon Mallison – engineering

Design

• Corinne Day – inner sleeve photography
• Everything but the Girl – design
• Richard Haughton – cover and inner sleeve photography
• The Senate – design
• Ponyboy Wildwood – inner sleeve photography

Charts

Year-end charts

External links

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mIQEO9ZB_BbeULuMpy2PNWIuKrYEDSPG4

Notes and References

1. Review: Tracey Thorn's Synth-Pop 'Record' Delivers Sisterly Passion, Wry Wisdom . . 1 March 2018 . 21 May 2020 . Sheffield . Rob . Rob Sheffield.
2. Ad Focus . Music Week . 1994-06-11 . 23 . 12 . 10 February 2023 . Spotlight Publications . English . London, England . 0265-1548 . Everything But The Girl's Amplified Heart, released next Monday . 17 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210417225751/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-06-11.pdf . bot: unknown .
3. Upcoming Releases . CMJ New Music Report . 1994-07-25 . 30 . 65 . College Media Inc. . Great Neck, New York, USA . English . 0890-0795 . July 19...Everything But The Girl - Amplified Heart - Atlantic.
4. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=everything but the girl|chart=all}} Everything But the Girl ]. . 6 April 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151021181112/http://www.billboard.com/artist/301974/everything-girl/chart . 21 October 2015 . dead.
5. Following Success of Oasis, Everything but the Girl, and Others, Britpop Acts Are on Invasion Alert . . 108 . 6 . 10 February 1996 . 2 September 2017 . Rosen . Craig . 88.
6. Web site: About . EBTG.com . 23 March 2018 . 21 March 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180321031940/http://ebtg.com/about/ . live .
7. Amplified Heart . 1994 . . . liner notes . 4509-96482-2.
8. Book: Ryan, Gavin . Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 . Moonlight Publishing . 2011.
9. Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1996. Billboard. 11 September 2020.