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. 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.” Australiancharts.com – The Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 December 2021. 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.

Es cierto que los dos mayores hits de este disco son Linger y Dreams, pero otros temas como Sunday, Not sorry, Put me down, Still can't o I will always superan el 9/10 en mi humilde opinión. Los temas menores como Pretty o Wanted también son excelentes, ¡y es que no hay ningún tema que no sea reseñable! Year-end charts [ edit ] 1994 year-end chart performance for Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? Chart (1994)

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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 Forrest, Emma (28 July 1995). " 'The Cranberries have broken the all-important American market. Americans clasped Dolores to their bosom as Sinead O'Connor Lite – soaring Irish vocals without the politics' ". The Independent. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020 . Retrieved 4 September 2021.

Fadele, Dele (27 February 1993). "The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". NME. p.31. There is a two-CD deluxe (disc two is repeated from the box) and a single CD and single vinyl LP edition (at the time of writing there are no links for the vinyl). Presumably, the audio is remastered, although no word as yet on the details. 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. ARIA Top 100 Albums for 1995". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 30 December 2021. Ultratop.be – The Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 July 2020.Weekly charts [ edit ] 1993–1995 weekly chart performance for Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? Chart (1993–1995) With Rough Trade Records boss Geoff Travis taking over managerial duties, and a deal with Island Records in the bag, The Cranberries paired up with producer Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, The Psychedelic Furs) to record their debut album during 1992. 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.” 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.

Today in Music History: Remembering Dolores O'Riordan". The Current. 15 January 2020. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020 . Retrieved 20 June 2020. 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.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. 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.