Everything

The Bangles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: October 18, 1988
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000026I6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,901 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything IS everything it's cracked up to be, February 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Everything (Audio CD)

With Everything, the Bangles made some of their hardest-rocking songs to date. This is one of those few CDs where you can actually listen to every track without skipping one tune. Songs like Bell Jar, Watching the Sky, and Crash and Burn just make you want to bang your head and whip your hair back and forth. Michael's songs are all instant-classics (not a suprise). My favorite Michael song is Something to Believe In, a perfect love song with Michael's rich voice and strong lyrics. This tune almost made me cry the first time I heard it, because it was just so good. Vicki's songs were what made this CD rock. Debbi's songs gave Everything a positive boost and her pretty voice is very easy and pleasant to listen to. Susanna carries her songs with that unmistakably sweet voice. However, Susanna's best songs are found on All Over the Place. There, her voice contrasts nicely with the hard-driving guitar riffs. Here, her voice with the soft ballads, like Eternal Flame, I'll Set You Free, and Waiting For You can be a little over the top for some people, but I personally still loved them. My last statement is that Everything is a work of art and I give it my stamp of approval, so go and buy this CD today!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Final chapter in the Bangles saga never falters, February 25, 2002

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Daniel J. Hamlow (Narita, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everything (Audio CD)

Normally, a new sound is a nice way of saying that the album stinks. Exceptions are artists and groups like the Beatles, David Bowie, KISS, Prince, and Kate Bush, whose musical quality or fan base was never compromised. Included in this category, is Everything, the sayonara of the Bangles.

Susanna gets the best songs, especially the Bangles' last indelible mark on the radio, "Eternal Flame" with its stirring string section, the other single, the upbeat "In Your Room" with its weird Indian stylings, the remarkably Byrdsian "I'll Set You Free" whose accompanying backing by her bandmates add to the 1960's sound, and "Waiting For You," which has a slight Byrds sound not as apparent as the other song.

Bassist Michael Steele gets to sing three songs and they are all striking: they are "Complicated Girl" the mid-paced, wistful, introspective "Something To Believe In" and "Glitter Years." She's second in vocal talent after Susanna.

"Complicated Girl" with mid-song "ooh la-la-la" that recalls the Beatles, their original muse. "Glitter Years," with its fiery drum and guitar opening, is Michael's ode to 1973-74, the height of glam rock, whose main protagonists wrecks his father's car singing a familiar tune: "You better hang on to yourself." Thank you, Mr. Stardust.

Vicki Peterson has vocals on "Bell Jar," with its weird droning guitar. I assume the song is about poet Sylvia Plath. The same long-drawn out drone is present in the dirge-like "Watching The Sky." She gets help from Vinnie Vincent on the 12-string on "Make A Play For Her Now." More on "Crash And Burn," also sung by her, later.

Debbi Peterson gets to sing "Be With You," Everything's third single, and the engaging "Some Dreams Come True."

My favorite song is the bitter and suicidal "Crash And Burn," a tune that has popped up for a visit during my darker moments: "Going nowhere/and I don't care/Can't wait till I get there/Sometimes I wish I could crash and burn." However, I wouldn't do a grisly car-induced self-snuff vis-a-vis the last verse of the song: "There was a wreck-o yesterday/And by tomorrow/they'll clear the char-o/and wash the tar and trouble away." Not tar and rubble? Well, that too, obviously.

This is the closest to their "white album" but I'll bet they could've come out with that if they'd stuck around for one more album. Like its predecessors, Everything is solid, with the usual mix of jamming rockers and lush ballads with nary a filler song present. Everything thus closes the all-too brief chapter on the Bangles.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good band, great songs, September 1, 2004

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music_lover "music_lover" (NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everything (Audio CD)

I loved this album a lot, very romantic and by the campfire songs. The voices of all singers in this group are very sweet to listen to . I dont listen to girl bands a lot , but "something to believe in" and "complicated girl" completely bowled me over. Perfect gift for ur girlfriend i think