Product 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.

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: #37113 in Music
• Released on: 2004-04-19
• Number of discs: 1

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

Customer Reviews

Barenaked Ladies do it again
It seems everyone has their own idea about this album. My rating seems to agree with the general concurrence of four stars. In my humble opinion, not to turn the ratings board into a forum, granted, Maroon was my favorite album; In no way "disappointing"as was said in another review. However, I find that the sixth CD from this wit-filled band is rather a change of pace - for better or worse.

They've changed pace a bit from the fast-paced rythmis pop from their '92 release, Gordon, as well as the mostly pointless lyrics of Maroon, and have moved into what is for the most part a bit slower of an album with some of the lyrics making a bit more sense. The song "War on drugs" carying a steady melody that has brought tears to more than one person I know, as well as the song "Aluminum" having a mellow feel, as well as a MIDI-esque electric organ-like synth that calms rather easily. "Another Postcard" is a rather rambling song with no purpose, however it keeps the flair of speedy melodic rambling that has attracted quite a large portion of this band's fanbase spawning from the '98 hit "One Week" from their album "Stunt." That mood, however, is quite an ephemeron on this album.

Overall, a lot of good work, but not as upbeat or in-your-face witty as I have come to expect and love from the Barenaked Ladies. A bit of profound writing here and there, and a bit of nonsense, as only the Barenaked Ladies can do it.

Extra points for keeping their shirts on on this cover, unlike "Au Naturale - Live in Detroit, MI"

An intresting sound
This album seems to have lost some raw energy in translation. The purity of sound that makes the Barenaked Ladies music so emotively brilliant seems to have plunged into a world far more synthetic. Step through the looking glass into a Barenaked Reality that wavers between brilliant and appalling. I must explain, this is not a bad album nor is it great nor was it written by Lewis Carroll, however it plays an important part of Barenaked History, their increasing need to experiment with sound must soon be coming to a close, we will see, as with their Christmas album a return to more feeling, energetic, melodic, beautiful music that conjured up the glorious fame, beheld in albums like Stunt. If you can get past initial falsehoods and moments that embarrassingly "try to hard", you will be rewarded, there is much in this album that will transform and inspire.

Made me fall in love with BNL all over again...
I've been a fan of BNL since 1992 (Gordon) and have religiously bought each album as it's been released, and they just keep getting better and better. I must have been out of touch for a while because I did an Amazon search and here it was, also 'Barenaked for the Holidays' so I bought them both. From track one ('Celebrity') on Everything to Everyone I was smitten. I love the entire album, particular faves being 'Everything is Unfin' 'Aluminum' 'Another Postcard'...oh I could go on. It's yet another masterpiece from this amazing band. Buy this cd!!!