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

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Fadele, Dele (27 February 1993). "The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". NME. p.31.

The Cranberries – This month marks the 25th anniversary of..." Facebook. 7 March 2018. Archived from the original on 26 February 2022 . Retrieved 8 March 2018.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. 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. 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. The album was recorded in 1992 and produced by Stephen Street (who had worked on Blur’s Modern Life Is Rubbish in the same year). It was released in March 1993 and features the singles ‘Dreams’ and ‘Linger’; the latter a transatlantic top ten hit. The album topped the charts in both the UK and Ireland. Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? 4CD box set

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. 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. Charts.nz – The Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 December 2021. Top 100 Albums 1995" (PDF). Music Week. 13 January 1996. p.11. ISSN 0265-1548– via World Radio History.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. Dolores O’Riordan with The Cranberries at the Troubadour, Los Angeles on July 15th, 1993. Photograph: Donna Santisi/Redferns 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. 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.” Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (CD). The Cranberries. Island Records. 1993. 514 156-2. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)