“Missing” by Everything But The Girl

"Missing" came out twice, and the second time around it turned Everything but the Girl in a new direction. Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt wrote it for Amplified Heart, their eighth album, in 1994, with Thorn supplying the words, and the pair produced it with John Coxon, who shares the keyboard credit with Watt. Issued as the album's second single that August, sold as an EP, the low-tempo original barely registered.

Then Todd Terry got hold of it. His remix, re-released in 1995, sped it up into dance-pop and carried it to the top, or close to it, all over the world, and it hinted at the electronic dance music the duo would chase on later albums. Critics count it among the high points of Amplified Heart, and in 2022 and 2025 Rolling Stone and Billboard put it on their lists of the greatest dance songs ever.

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