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

Schatz, Lake (7 March 2018). "The band is prepping a 25th anniversary edition of Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? for later this year". Consequence of Sound. Archived from the original on 21 June 2020 . Retrieved 21 June 2020.Dolores O’Riordan performs with The Cranberries in Holmdel, New Jersey, on September 9th, 1996. Photograph: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times 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. ARIA Top 100 Albums for 1995". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 30 December 2021.

They had not quite meshed as a band either. O’Riordan was an outsider who preferred to sing alone. This resulted in an unusual dynamic during the recording of Everybody Else. The boys would toil all day in the studio. Then Stephen Street would set up for their singer, who’d arrive as they were exiting. 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. Dolores O’Riordan with The Cranberries at the Troubadour, Los Angeles on July 15th, 1993. Photograph: Donna Santisi/RedfernsEuropean Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.11, no.12. 19 March 1994. p.18. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History.

It is true that the two biggest hits on this album are Linger and Dreams, but other songs like Sunday, Not sorry, Put me down, Still can't or I will always surpass 9/10 in my humble opinion. Minor themes like Pretty or Wanted are also excellent, and there is no topic that is not noteworthy! a b Sweeney, Eamon (19 October 2018). "The Cranberries: 'Everyone Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We?' – Still spellbinding after all these years". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 19 October 2018 . Retrieved 28 October 2018. 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. 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. 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.

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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.” Sinclair, Tom (4 June 1993). "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 20 September 2020 . Retrieved 29 August 2021. 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.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.