Everything but the Girl Like the Deserts Miss the Rain

The title of Like the Deserts Miss the Rain comes from Missing the first of nine videos on this collection and the bands biggest US hit While all could be described as stylishmuch like Everything But the Girltheyre otherwise quite different Sometimes Tracey Thorne and Ben Watt appear other times actors take center stage Single for instance features a man tumbling across town down the street into a Laundromat in and out of a dryer etc Then theres the populist video for Simon and Garfunkels The Only Living Boy in New York directed by art house favorite Hal Hartley Henry Fool The duo appears to have added a few dozen members The DVD also includes three live performances including a fine version of Massive Attacks Protection featuring Thorne on vocals and three demo tracks that play as photos of the duo pass by A fine career overview of one of the UKs most enduring acts Kathleen C Fennessy