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. British album certifications – Cranberries – Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 28 July 2021. The ARIA Australian Top 100 Albums 1994". Australian Record Industry Association Ltd. Archived from the original on 2 November 2015 . Retrieved 19 May 2022.

European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.11, no.12. 19 March 1994. p.18. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History. 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. Hauser, Christine (15 January 2018). "Dolores O'Riordan, Lead Singer of the Cranberries, Dies at 46". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018 . Retrieved 28 August 2021. Raggett, Ned. "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? – The Cranberries". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 5 April 2021 . Retrieved 5 January 2012.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. 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. Daly, Rhian (7 March 2018). "The group will also reissue their debut album 'Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?' ". New Musical Express. Archived from the original on 4 June 2020 . Retrieved 21 June 2020.

As a songwriter, O’Riordan paid little attention to poetics and instead focused on firm, recurring questions: How do I feel now, what do I do next, can I learn anything from this? It is selfish songwriting that ends up being remarkably generous: O’Riordan’s recognition of her own emotional depths is affirming. Every matter of the heart is treated like a butterfly pinned under glass, a quietly complex entity deserving of appreciation for simply managing to once exist in this cruel world.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. Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1994". Billboard. Archived from the original on 9 March 2021 . Retrieved 4 September 2021. Cinquemani, Sal (12 October 2003). "Review: The Cranberries, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". Slant Magazine. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021 . Retrieved 29 August 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.

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, which I really liked. Christgau, Robert (1 March 1994). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 15 August 2013 . Retrieved 7 November 2013. The 40 Best Records From Mainstream Alternative's Greatest Year". Rolling Stone. 17 April 2014. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021 . Retrieved 4 September 2021. Canadian album certifications – The Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". Music Canada. 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.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. Munoz, Mario (22 August 1993). "The Cranberries, 'Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We?' Island". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 16 September 2015 . Retrieved 29 August 2021. Of course, things really should be so much different for this release. A quarter of a century under the bridge later, and instead of embarking on a victory lap for its anniversary and priming new material, Dolores O'Riordan is dead. In addition to compiling this box set and unveiling an unreleased song in Irish entitled Íosa, the remaining Cranberries are completing an album featuring vocals from O'Riordan to be released next year. 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.” We were about a month into the European tour and we get a call out of the blue, requesting we come to the States,” Hogan explained to UMusic. “Denny Cordell had been working on [the album’s] first single, Linger, in New York and it had become a hit on college radio, where it had gone to number eight. Suddenly, from thinking we were about to get dropped by Island, we went to play our first American gig in Denver, Colorado, opening for The The. We went onstage and everyone knew the songs and the place just went mental.”

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 e f g h i Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (Super Deluxe) (booklet). The Cranberries. Island. 2018. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) 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! Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (The Complete Sessions 1991–1993) (booklet). The Cranberries. Island. 2002. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) 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.