Everything To Everyone (U.S. Version)

• Artist : Barenaked Ladies
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0093624820925
• Label : WARNER BROS
• Manufacturer : WARNER BROS
• MPN : 093624820925
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.40 inches (Height) x 5.50 inches (Length) x 0.15 pounds (Weight) x 4.90 inches (Width)
• Package Quantity : 1
• Part Number : 093624820925
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : WARNER BROS
• Release Date : 2004-04-19
• Running Time : 61
• SKU : War3Aug430
• Studio : WARNER BROS
• UPC : 093624820925

Amusing and quirky as ever, Barenaked Ladies are the holiday camp red coats of the Canadian pop industry. However, Everything to Everyone--their first studio album since the disappointing Maroon--is a rather more rueful, sometimes even caustic collection of songs often reflecting on the superficiality and vacuous stupidity of 21st-century western life. Although the wit hasn't run dry and the tunes (often echoing the Cars, XTC and REM in pop mode) remain upliftingly light and engaging, this higher-profile seriousness is jolly good news for all the killjoys in the UK, a country where cynicism seems a highly regarded virtue and where pop bands with brazenly humorous tendencies are hounded out of town. The only jokey number here "Another Postcard" (one of those Barenaked rapid patter specials; this one's about getting pictures of chimps in the post) is pretty awful and about as pleasant as being accosted in the street by some pushy rag week buffoon with a rattling collection tin. Elsewhere, Barenaked Ladies speak out for good old-fashioned human frailty (the moving ode to depression "War On Drugs" is a touching sister piece to XTC's "Wrapped In Grey"), urge us to love the losers ("Second Best") while launching broadsides against the brainwashing of retail therapy (the loopily-paced ELO disco of "Shopping") and celebrity-lifestyle. In a moment of telling reflection they even ask "If I shed the irony would everybody cheer me?". The answer is yes, as "Everything to Everyone" handsomely attests. --Kevin Maidment

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: Celebrity
  • 2: Maybe Katie
  • 3: Another Postcard
  • 4: Next Time
  • 5: For You
  • 6: Shopping
  • 7: "Testing 1, 2, 3"
  • 8: Upside Down
  • 9: War On Drugs
  • 10: Aluminum
  • 11: Unfinished
  • 12: Second Best
  • 13: Take It Outside
  • 14: Have You Seen My Love
  • 15: Another Postcard
  • 16: Maybe Katie
  • 17: Second Best

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