Song · Everything But The Girl
“Driving” by Everything But The Girl
From the album The Language of Life (1990)
“Driving” by Everything But The Girl appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2010 and 2022. It was first released in 1990 on the album The Language of Life. Its best result is #365 on The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #8,193 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Driving" comes from The Language of Life, the fifth Everything but the Girl album, which landed on February 5, 1990 through Atlantic and Blanco y Negro. Ben Watt wrote it alone, words and music, and plays acoustic and electric guitar on it, while Tracey Thorn takes the lead vocal. Tommy LiPuma produced, with Omar Hakim on drums, John Patitucci on bass, Lenny Castro on percussion, Larry Williams on piano and synthesizer, and Michael Brecker blowing tenor sax. Al Schmitt engineered and Bill Schnee mixed.
It's cool, smooth and very adult, like the album around it, which divided the duo's British following. Looking back in 2012, Thorn called the record "slightly slick" and "semi-jazzy", a deliberate change of direction she couldn't quite account for afterward.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 759 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) | 885 |
| 2019 | 1050 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2022 | 365 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
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