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. Swedishcharts.com – The Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 December 2021. Dolores O’Riordan. 'I wondered how and why she wasn’t already in a band,' said Noel Hogan of his initial encounter with the singer. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons New Zealand album certifications – The Cranberries – Everybody Else os Doing It So Why Can't We?". Recorded Music NZ . Retrieved 27 March 2017. Christgau, Robert (1 March 1994). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 15 August 2013 . Retrieved 7 November 2013.

European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.11, no.12. 19 March 1994. p.18. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History. 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. 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. Moreland, Quinn (29 August 2021). "The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021 . Retrieved 29 August 2021. On 7 March 2018, the band’s three surviving members announced they were releasing a special 25th anniversary newly remastered anniversary edition of the album, with previously unreleased material as well as other bonus material from the era of the album. However, it was delayed until late 2018, following the death of O'Riordan.

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Dolores O’Riordan with The Cranberries at the Troubadour, Los Angeles on July 15th, 1993. Photograph: Donna Santisi/Redferns 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. 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.” Con este ábum, The Cranberries tocó el cielo, y con No need to argue se instaló en él definitivamente. Siempre será una de las mejores 50 bandas del siglo XX. 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.

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! Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1994". Billboard. Archived from the original on 9 March 2021 . Retrieved 4 September 2021. 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.

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The commercial failure of Loveless was restored with this album by another Irish band, which did have the opportunity to make the dreampop sound known to the world. It is true that with No need to argue, The Cranberries abandoned this style definitively, but bands like Cocteu twins, The Sundays or Sonic youth should be eternally grateful to The Cranberries for their work in promoting dreampop and shoegaze. 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. Australiancharts.com – The Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 December 2021. 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.

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. 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.

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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. 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. 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.” 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).

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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. 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