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The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? Audio CD

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The Cranberries Band: The Cranberries
Title: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
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Release Date: 1993-04-20
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Still Do 2: Dreams 3: Sunday 4: Pretty 5: Waltzing Back 6: Not Sorry 7: Linger 8: Wanted 9: Still Can't... 10: I Will Always 11: How 12: Put Me Down

Great listen
Shipping was ultra fast and the CD was in the original wrapper - and flawless. This is the first piece I've bought by the Cranberries and I'm very satisfied with it. I was very happy with the vendor.


I want to make one thing perfectly clear
If you wanted to just say you were recording an album then that's fine, but don't say you are doing this because everyone else is SO THERE!!!!!! Now that my venting over the title is over now onto serious business: "Linger" is my first introduction of the Cranberries, and let's just say that it was as bad as getting a manly handshake from a woman. Despite your album title not everybody was trying to imitate 10,000 Maniacs in 1993, and so therefore the title doesn't apply to you. The melody is despicable, and the lyrics are too, and it was one of the bad memories of the first months in FL. That's where I was first introduced to this, so I feel that if everyone was rocketing to the moon in their underpants would you? .


Good Album
Most of the songs are well written and well performed. I think this is a good album in the whole. The lead vocals do sound a bit the same after a while, but she has a nice voice so I don't mind hearing it over and over. I think this album still sounds good, it's better than most of the stuff out today.


The 5 star ratings here are a bit much
Yes, many of the tunes here waft delicately and create a slightly melancholy ambiance. Yes, Dolores O'Riordan has a beautiful voice.

The problem is that the songs rest TOO heavily on her voice without the songwriting to carry it. Too few of these tunes have solid bankable hooks that draw you back to them again and again and that counts against the longevity of this in the end.

In addition, the lilting quality of O'Riordan's voice takes on a near yodel affectation at times that means her singing style may take some getting used to. That's not to say this album is "bad". . just that much of it possesses a tendency to bleed into the background.

HIGHLIGHTS:
Driving drums and shimering guitar made "Dreams" a big hit as was the string-kissed "Linger". Outside of those, "Still Can't. . " and "How" with its "Never before and never again" chorus settle in with repeated listening. It closes on a nice note with the otherworldly soaring backing vocals on "Put Me Down".

LOWS:
"I Still Do" is a prime example of a tune that I just can't recall once it stops playing and it was allowed to set the stage for the disc. While that's truth in advertising at its most extreme, it certainly doesn't start the CD to best advantage.

BOTTOM LINE:
A great voice can't carry songs on its own and this album is hit and miss but the best bits are majestic. Definitely one I'd borrow from a friend first before buying, though.


Beautiful melancholy...
Perhaps it is because during a certain period of transition in my life, this album and the Counting Crows album never left my CD players and the song "Linger" always take me back to that period of time and causes a bittersweetness to arise in my soul. This album, along with Counting Crows 'August and Everything After', came out around the same period of time and both have this gripping, haunting sound to them. So too was I transported back when I revisited this album after a number of years.

This album is gorgeous on so many levels. I forgot just how powerful it is. The music, the singing, the lyrics and the overall tone are melancholy but not depressing, haunting but not sorrowful and gorgeous in a way few albums achieve. "Linger" is one of my all time favorite songs and it never gets old but this is a treasure trove of other songs that never made the radar.

It plays well as an organic whole; there is not a bad song on here. If you're ever looking for an album to help you chill, to cause you to reflect or to just set a certain mood, this is one to play. .


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