Day 19 - A Song from Your Favorite Album

This entry a part of the 30 Day Song Challenge

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Get Me
Everything but the Girl
Amplified Heart
(Released June 1994)

Well, I love plenty of albums but Everything but the Girl’s Amplified Heart easily takes the cake as my favorite. I also happen to think this is the duo’s best record of the 11 they’ve released. The funny thing is, I didn’t always love Amplified Heart.

I was 12 when I first heard EBTG’s Get Me in the movie Pie in the Sky (one of my favorite movies ever). Anne Heche and Josh Charles played out a beautiful and natural love scene with this music in the background. Check it:

Unfortunately, the track wasn’t in the EBTG albums my dad owned. So I used my Christmas money to buy a cassette tape at the local record store. Looking back, I smile at the idea that this 12-year-old-kid would buy — of all records — one by a two-person English band that formed in the 80s. (Because, y’know, my classmates collected Suede, No Doubt, Blur, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, etc.)

Anyway, so I got the record, listened to it, and realized it wasn’t my cup of tea. I liked just that one song, Get Me. So the next day I headed back to the record store and asked if I could exchange it for another cassette tape. The nice lady was amenable to my request and I happily came home with a copy of…

Now That’s What I Call Music! 3 (Asia)

What can I say, I was really into poprock at the time.

Fast-forward to present and I still don’t have an original copy of EBTG’s Amplified Heart, which is my go-to album when I can’t find anything nice to listen to. This 26-year-old-kid now loves every song in the album. It’s a shame I never got around to getting a CD copy back in the day because this album is quite hard to find now.

To know yourself is to let yourself be loved