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

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They had not quite meshed as a band either. O’Riordan was an outsider who preferred to sing alone. This resulted in an unusual dynamic during the recording of Everybody Else. The boys would toil all day in the studio. Then Stephen Street would set up for their singer, who’d arrive as they were exiting. Non-single standouts abound across the expanse of the album, the theme of reconciling love and loss pervasive throughout all of them. The haunting album opener “I Still Do” finds O’Riordan grappling with her conflicted feelings toward her lover. The same disposition resurfaces later on “Sunday” and “Wanted,” each propelled by jangly guitar work reminiscent of The Smiths and The Sundays’ most transcendent moments. It was difficult for us first to break into the Dublin scene which was a good thing,” O’Riordan told Ian Dempsey in December 1993, by which time Everybody Else Is Doing It was selling 80,000 units a week in the US. “People tend to break into the Dublin scene and stay there forever.” 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.

A 25th anniversary edition of The Cranberries‘ debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? will be released in October across a number of formats including a four-disc box set We were dead in the water,” Noel Hogan told me when I interviewed him for the Irish Examiner several years ago. “When our first album came out we had press officers in the UK playing us bands like Slowdive, saying ‘this is in’. And I was like, ‘you can’t hear the vocals’. It had bombed and we were waiting to be dropped.” 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.”

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Dolores had such a lust for life and for meeting new people. She was never ‘starry’ – if people came up to her and said they liked the show, she’d sit down and gab away for hours — Suede's Matt Osman on Dolores O'Riordan Swedishcharts.com – The Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 December 2021. Christgau, Robert (1 March 1994). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 15 August 2013 . Retrieved 7 November 2013. The Cranberries have announced a 25th anniversary edition box set edition of their landmark debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? Originally released on 12th March 1993, the album hit the No.1 spot in both the UK and Ireland and sold over 6 million copies worldwide. Chart History – The Cranberries – Billboard 200". Billboard. n.d. Archived from the original on 14 February 2020 . Retrieved 14 February 2020.

El fracaso comercial de Loveless fue restituido con este disco de otra banda irlandesa, que sí tuvo la oportunidad de dar a conocer al mundo el sonido dreampop. Es cierto que con No need to argue, The Cranberries abandonó este estilo definitivamente, pero bandas como Cocteu twins, The Sundays o Sonic youth deberían estar agradecidos eternamente a The Cranberries por su labor divulgadora del dreampop y shoegaze. 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. European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.11, no.12. 19 March 1994. p.18. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History. All self-professed fans of The Smiths, O’Riordan, Noel Hogan (lead guitar), his brother Mike Hogan (bass guitar), and Fergal Lawler (percussion) upped the ante for their debut album by employing the studio services of Stephen Street. The London-born Street had performed engineer duties for much of their musical heroes’ discography and produced their swan song LP, 1987’s Strangeways, Here We Come, later collaborating with the likes of Morrissey and Blur, among other notable British artists, in addition to overseeing The Cranberries’ subsequent efforts No Need to Argue (1994), Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2001), and Roses (2012).Top 10 Sales in Europe" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.11, no.8. 19 February 1994. p.14. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History. Year-end charts [ edit ] 1994 year-end chart performance for Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? Chart (1994) 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.