Amplified Heart

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Amplified Heart
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Studio album by
Released13 June 1994 (1994-06-13)
RecordedDecember 1993 – April 1994
Studio
Genre Folk-pop [1]
Length36:32
Label
Producer
Everything but the Girl chronology
Home Movies
(1993)
Amplified Heart
(1994)
Walking Wounded
(1996)
Singles from Amplified Heart
  1. "Rollercoaster"
    Released: 23 May 1994 (EP)
  2. "Missing"
    Released: 8 August 1994
  3. "Missing (Todd Terry Remix)"
    Released: 16 October 1995
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [4]
Knoxville News Sentinel Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Pitchfork 8.6/10 [7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 9/10 [9]

Amplified Heart is the eighth studio album by English musical duo Everything but the Girl. It was released on 13 June 1994 [10] by Blanco y Negro Records in the U.K. and on 19 July 1994 [11] by Atlantic Records in the United States and Canada. The album was recorded and mixed in London from winter 1993 to 1994.

Contents

Primarily an acoustic-driven set, [2] 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, [12] "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. [13] It went on to sell over 1,000,000 copies worldwide. [14]

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

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Rollercoaster" Ben Watt Watt3:14
2."Troubled Mind" Tracey Thorn Watt3:34
3."I Don't Understand Anything"ThornThorn4:25
4."Walking to You"WattWatt3:30
5."Get Me"WattWatt3:34
6."Missing"ThornWatt4:06
7."Two Star"WattWatt4:06
8."We Walk the Same Line"ThornThorn4:00
9."25 December"WattWatt4:04
10."Disenchanted"ThornWatt2:03
Bonus track on later editions
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
11."Missing" (Todd Terry club mix)ThornWatt4:55

2012 Edsel Records reissue

Disc 1
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Rollercoaster"WattWatt3:14
2."Troubled Mind"ThornWatt3:34
3."I Don't Understand Anything"ThornThorn4:25
4."Walking to You"WattWatt3:30
5."Get Me"WattWatt3:34
6."Missing"ThornWatt4:06
7."Two Star"WattWatt4:06
8."We Walk the Same Line"ThornThorn4:00
9."25 December"WattWatt4:04
10."Disenchanted"ThornWatt2:03
11."Straight Back to You"WattWatt4:38
12."Lights of Te Touan" Stephen Ryan Ryan2:29
13."These Days" (live) Jackson Browne Browne3:24
14."Each and Every One" (live)WattThorn3:57
15."I Don't Want to Talk About It" (live) Danny Whitten Whitten3:13
Disc 2
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."I Don't Understand Anything" (home demo)ThornThorn4:17
2."Rollercoaster" (home demo)WattWatt3:13
3."Two Star" (home demo)WattWatt2:57
4."Troubled Mind" (home demo)ThornWatt3:48
5."We Walk the Same Line" (home demo)ThornThorn3:46
6."Richard Says" (home demo)ThornThorn2:24
7."Back at Square One" (home demo)ThornWatt3:31
8."Two Star" (Harry Robinson's string arrangement demo)WattWatt4:06
9."Missing" (live)ThornWatt7:41
10."Troubled Mind" (live)ThornWatt4:42
11."Two Star" (live)ThornWatt5:23
12."Walking to You" (live)WattWatt3:35
13."25 December" (live)WattWatt4:37
14."Missing" (Chris & James Full On club mix)ThornWatt8:35
15."Missing" (Little Joey remix)ThornWatt5:03
16."Missing" (Ultramarine remix)ThornWatt5:27
17."Missing" (Todd Terry club mix, Ben Watt's 'Blanco-Eternal' radio edit)ThornWatt3:54

Personnel

Credits for Amplified Heart adapted from liner notes. [15]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [25] Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA) [26] Gold500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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