Track Listing

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. Aluminium
11. Unfinished
12. Second Best
13. Take It Outside
14. Have You Seen My Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27264 in Music
• Released on: 2004-04-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

CD Description
'Everything To Everyone' is the sixth release from Toronto's quirky alt-rock quintet The Barenaked Ladies. The album isthe follow up to 2000's 'Maroon' and contains more of theirtrademark hook-filled melodic pop-rock. This album containsjust as many intelligent tangents as previous works, whether that be unexpected time or musical changes or their patented dark lyricism.

Customer Reviews

Something for Everyone
BnL's lack of success in the UK is absolutley criminal. For a band who are so diverse, original, rocking, humorous, cry-your-eyes-out-powerful, witty - they are monstrously under-rated. This album follows suit in all respects. If you like BnL at all, buy this and you won't be disappointed.

This is a wonderful album. It contains everything of their previous works, but does lack a certain sparkle. Songs like provide 'Upside Down' and 'testing 1,2,3' a brilliant pace and sound to the album. That famous humor is every present in 'Another Postcard'; and all of the sensitivity and wit of the band are present in 'War On Drugs' and 'For You'. There are op many different styles and sounds on this one CD: its a real testimony to the talents of the band.

Sadly, its not the classic that many people were expecting. At times, it becomes dangerously close to naff-pop. But these are minor complaints.

Each listen of this album gives me something different. I cant recommend it enough.

Another great album from those crazy canadians
Its seems that the barenaked ladies have turned their back on trying to crack the UK, which is a shame because i havent had the chance to see them live yet, but getting on to the album....

if you are already familar with the barenaked ladies then this album is a return to form after the slightly disappointing Maroon. This album has some very cathcy songs and i think the stand-out tracks are Maybe Katie, Another Postcard, War on Drugs and Take it out side, but all the tracks are good, one song i dont really 'get' is 'have you seen my love?', it seems to me to be a straight forward love song, which doesnt suit them at all.

If you are new to the barenaked ladies then this album is a pretty good representation of the band, but maybe the greatest hits would be a better start!!!! Anyway this album is very good, and i highly recommend it.

Excellent Album From A Band That Deserves Exposure
What an excellent offering from a group that is way too underexposed in England. This album has much for everyone. "War on Drugs" is an excellent song that can bring a tear to the eye in the right situation. "Upside Down" is exceptionally catchy, and a song that will be stuck in your head for days. Along with the wacky; "Another Postcard" and "Shopping" being songs that seem to be pointless, but are excellent fun to listen to. My only possible gripe is with "Celebrity". I didn't like this song too much, it just didn't suit the tone of the album. 9/10. Excellent Album Guys.