Everything

Bangles (Artist)

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  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #40,200 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Japanese only paper sleeve pressing features all new 2009 remastering and bonus material. Sony. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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6 of 6 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

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!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Daniel J. Hamlow (Narita, Japan) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent follow-up to Different light, March 23, 2003

By	Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The sound of the Bangles owes a lot to music of an earlier generation, which is probably why I like it. Unlike so many all-female groups, they all played instruments - three of them were guitarists and one was a drummer. They all got a chance to sing lead, though Susannah Hoffs was usually the lead singer on the hits. All of them have good voices, but perhaps the public detected something extra special in Susannah's voice.

There were three original albums, but it is the second (Different light) and the third (this one) that really matter. Of course, their best songs have been released on several compilations down the years.

This album yielded Eternal flame, their only British number one. An excellent ballad, it has more recently been revived by Atomic kitten, who also had a big UK hit with it. That didn't do the Bangles any harm at all. Yet another hits compilation was released to capitalise on the situation, reminding everybody whose song it really was.

Nothing else here was anywhere near as successful as Eternal flame, but there are many other fine songs including the lesser hits, I'll set you free, Be with you and the rousing up-tempo opener to the album, In your room. Despite that opener and the closing Crash and burn, most of the songs here are ballads.