Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

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Somewhat surprisingly considering the album’s critical and commercial success, first stateside and subsequently in the UK, only two official singles were released. But each of these songs is damn near flawless. Unveiled five months before the album launch, lead single “Dreams” is an uplifting love song that finds O’Riordan reveling in new love, her sweet—yet never saccharine—vocals gliding seamlessly atop the lush, propulsive arrangement. a b c d "The Cranberries' 'Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?' 2nd Anniversary Box Set To be Released October 19 by Island /UMe". UMG Catalog. 30 August 2018. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020 . Retrieved 20 June 2020. Sinclair, Tom (4 June 1993). "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 20 September 2020 . Retrieved 29 August 2021. Year-end charts [ edit ] 1994 year-end chart performance for Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? Chart (1994) Fadele, Dele (27 February 1993). "The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". NME. p.31.

So I listened to this in full for the first time when I was tripping and I swear to God I've never had synesthesia hit me so profoundly. An insanely beautiful and vivid album - one that MUST be listened to on headphones - the sound design and the arrangements are too stunning to deny them of yer full focus. Obviously the reason most of these tunes are elevated to brilliance is Dolores - she's probably one of my favourite singers EVER. As a teenager in the mid-90s here in the UK, you'd have struggled to have remained ignorant of the music of The Cranberries. Arguably the biggest band to come out of Ireland since U2, The Cranberries rose to prominence at around the same time that the music press fully embraced BritPop, yet they remained resolutely separate from that rather only cultural juggernaut. Despite early comparisons to The Sundays, The Cranberries simply didn't sound like anyone else in the mid 90s, and like the majority of the BritPop hordes, they managed to make a sizeable impact on the other side of the Atlantic too. a b Abjorensen, Norman (2017). Historical Dictionary of Popular Music. Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Australia: Rowman & Littlefield. pp.118–119. ISBN 978-1-5381-0215-2.

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Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? was a slow burn. In the UK it failed to breach the top five in the month of its release – even as another Irish outfit, The Hothouse Flowers, reached number two on March 20th with their LP Songs from the Rain.

Christgau, Robert (1 March 1994). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 15 August 2013 . Retrieved 7 November 2013. Dolores O’Riordan with The Cranberries at the Troubadour, Los Angeles on July 15th, 1993. Photograph: Donna Santisi/Redferns Behind her introversion, O’Riordan had demons. She didn’t get into these on that first record, which is dominated by lyrics about young love and loss. Only later, on songs such as Fee Fi Fo from 1999′s Bury The Hatchet, would she delve into the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of a family friend between the ages of eight and 12. Suede nonetheless had warm memories of their time, as their bassist Matt Osman explained to me when I spoke to him for Hot Press.

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The “It” The Cranberries refer to in the title was commercial success: they saw other bands doing well and felt that they, too, deserved to see their name in lights. In one of the great self-fulfilling prophecies in Irish music, The Cranberries would indeed soon conquer the world – thanks to their empathically jangly songs and O’Riordan’s incredible voice. Everyone Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We? captured a fledgling band at their best, refreshingly free of the bombast, bluster and harshness of some of their later work, and weaving soft and subtle sonic spells. Of course, The Cranberries achieved so much more after their debut, with No Need to Argue in 1994 selling millions more copies. The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". Tower Records. n.d. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020 . Retrieved 20 June 2020. Swedishcharts.com – The Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 December 2021.

Everybody Else is an album about relationships and the ways that a pair of people can love and hurt each other with equal intensity. Unfortunately, O’Riordan is consistently the one whose heart is getting broken. (“I was always one for the tears,” she once said.) Across 12 songs, the wind that once swept O’Riordan up into a gust of romantic euphoria has disappeared, leaving her desperate to understand where she—or her lover—faltered and everything fell apart. “Sunday” examines the dissolution from both sides, beginning with the other person’s unhurried romantic indecision, which is conveyed atop a gentle string arrangement. As if to express how destabilizing this waffling makes her feel, when it’s O’Riordan’s turn to vocalize her own perspective, the song shifts into a tighter, more upbeat melody. “You’re spinning me around/My feet are off the ground/I don’t know where I stand/Do you have to hold my hand?,” she tells her aloof lover. “You mystify me.” Chart History – The Cranberries – Billboard 200". Billboard. n.d. Archived from the original on 14 February 2020 . Retrieved 14 February 2020. In 1992 the Cranberries took on a new manager in the form of the iconic Geoff Travis of Rough Trade and began recording their debut album with producer Stephen Street. Street brought with him a vast production resume as both engineer and producer (the Smiths, Morrissey, Blur) as well as expertise as a songwriter having co-written Morrissey’s first solo album Viva Hate (1988). For the Cranberries to be working with the producer of Strangeways Here We Come was a dream come true. Certificaciones" (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas . Retrieved 27 February 2019. Type The Cranberries in the box under the ARTISTA column headingand Everybody Else os Do in the box under the TÍTULO column heading.

Release

Island wisely chose the record’s twin artistic peaks, the slow-burning “Dreams” and the seductive “Linger,” as the album’s trailer singles, yet despite the favorable critical notices, neither caught fire the first time round. However, after The Cranberries embarked on a lengthy tour with Suede, they came to the attention of MTV, who duly granted the “Dreams” and “Linger” videos heavy rotation. I really liked what I heard,” she mused. “I thought they were very nice and tight. It was a lovely potential band but they needed a singer – and direction.” Everything changed because of America,” Hogan told me. That autumn, the group set out on a US tour as support to Suede, floppy-haired wunderkinds beloved of the London music scene. However, what worked in Camden didn’t necessarily come off in Colorado. Out there in the American heartland, it was O’Riordan’s fragility that people took to rather than Suede singer Brett Anderson’s performative androgyny. Canadian album certifications – The Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". Music Canada.

French album certifications – The Cranberries – Everyone Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. The ARIA Australian Top 100 Albums 1994". Australian Record Industry Association Ltd. Archived from the original on 2 November 2015 . Retrieved 19 May 2022. Clark, Tyler (3 March 2018). "The Cranberries' Stunning Debut Does More Than Just Linger 25 Years Later". Consequence. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020 . Retrieved 4 September 2021. Last year, the four members of the Cranberries – Dolores O’Riordan, Noel Hogan, Mike Hogan and Fergal Lawler – came together to plan this 25th-anniversary release. Everything was put on hold following O’Riordan’s untimely death in January this year, but now the remaining band members have decided to go ahead with the 25th-anniversary edition, which is released on 19 October on UMG, as a 4CD super deluxe box set and also a limited clear vinyl edition, among other formats. The music and O’Riordan’s lyrics assume a noticeably more sullen tone on the brooding “Pretty,” in which she takes a condescending lover to task, and “I Will Always,” a lovelorn, lullaby-like lament about setting her partner free to explore his independence.That tour gets reported quite weirdly because they blew up while we were there,” he said. “They [The Cranberries] were so much fun. We were much less worldly than we probably made out. They were certainly not very worldly. It was kind of an adventure. We spent a lot of the time just drinking after the shows. a b Sweeney, Eamon (19 October 2018). "The Cranberries: 'Everyone Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We?' – Still spellbinding after all these years". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 19 October 2018 . Retrieved 28 October 2018. ARIA Top 100 Albums for 1995". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 30 December 2021.