- Included among the Record Descriptions of Favorite Albums (Part 1).
- Tracey Thorn of the Marine Girls became half of Everything but the Girl; the male half, Ben Watt was the photographer for the album cover.
Marine Girls – Lazy Ways (1983): One day, I worked for probably 30 minutes cleaning up a fairly stout album cover (particularly for a European release) that did not look to be in too bad a shape despite having gone through Hurricane Katrina; but I couldn’t get all of the dirt off, and there was no way I could get an album in it once it dried. I still decided to frame the album cover, and it is on our office wall today: Lazy Ways, the second and last album by a British post-punk band called Marine Girls, from the early 1980’s. I don’t have another album in my collection quite like it: three talented women singing their own songs, mostly together, whose voices don’t always quite mesh, backed by acoustic guitars that sometimes seem to be just slightly out of sync – but the album is absolutely captivating.
One of the Marine Girls, Tracey Thorn became the female half of one of my very favorite bands, Everything but the Girl; the male half, Ben Watt was the photographer for the album cover.