The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (25th anniversary edition) [ISLAND]

Why you'll love it

This is the 25th anniversary remaster. The Cranberries' debut went to No. 1 in the UK and Ireland (more than a year after it came out, a rare feat) and "Linger" became the band's biggest hit in North America.

This edition

• 25th anniversary edition, newly remastered
• Single LP, 12 tracks
• Includes "Dreams" and "Linger"

About the album

The Cranberries' debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, was a lovely surprise to North American audiences unacquainted with the Irish quartet's earlier EPs when the indelible singles "Dreams" and "Linger" finally wafted across the Atlantic around the record's arrival in March of 1993. And they are indelible, those singles, make no mistake.

But the rest of the album is pretty sweet, too, immediately showcasing the gift for dream-pop sparkle and the commanding vocal presence of singer Dolores O'Riordan that would take over the entire planet when "Zombie" and the massive No Need to Argue came along just a year and a half later. There's a beguiling innocence to this album that (ahem) lingers to this day, because it's doubtful anyone involved was aware at the time just how much the Cranberries would soon catch on. They just wrote some really good tunes and let the songs do the work.

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On Island, a 25th anniversary reissue of the 1993 album.