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    Only Everything (1995)
    Juliana Hatfield

    1. What A Life
    2. Fleur De Lys
    3. Universal Heart-beat
    4. Dumb Fun
    5. Live On Tomorrow
    6. Dying Proof
    7. Bottles And Flowers
    8. Outsider
    9. OK OK
    10. Congratulations
    11. Hang Down From Heaven
    12. My Darling
    13. Simplicity Is Beautiful
    14. You Blues 

    The mid 90's masterpiece.  Guitar heaven for the post- Nirvana, pre-internet generation.  Of it’s type this record is unsurpassable.  The effort in the studio shines through every single track.  Production / Engineering from Sean Slade, Paul Q Kolderie and Ms Hatfield herself reaching standards only hinted at on 1992’s Hey Babe. The guitars are made to sound otherworldly in their intensity and Juliana’s voice (beautiful but naturally limited and not always suited to studio ‘enhancement’) is worked to perfection on all 14 songs.  A Fort Apache triumph and a monumental leap from Become What You Are.

    The opening seconds of What A Life sets the tone, with an explosion of noise, the anything but ladylike clearing of the throat (as if spitting out the For The Birds period Juliana) and the listener is sucked in. 

    Fleur de Lys, sung entirely in French succeeds without pretence.

    Live On Tomorrow is 3 minute pop perfection and one of Juliana’s most beautiful tunes to this day. 

    My Darling, reworked from its acoustic version as a Spin The Bottle b-side, fits in to the production of the album effortlessly. 

    The wall of noise created at the end of Hang Down From Heaven, the sheer agony of Bottles and Flowers, the sheer everything about Only Everything.

    A 14 track album is often 2 or 3 too many.  Not here, and there are no standout tracks - every single damn one is awesome.  How this album fails to make critics lists of 1990’s classic albums is as staggering as was the commercial / critical indifference to which it was released in 1995. 

    One of the greatest albums ever made.

     

     

     Juliana performs 'Universal Heart-beat' on 'The Word'
    Channel 4, UK, 1995


     

    'What A Life', Reading Festival, UK, 25 August 1995
    It would be over 10 years before
    Juliana performed in the UK again
     

     

    Vox review May 1995 (click to enlarge)


    NME review March 1995 (click to enlarge)

    Select review 1995 (click to enlarge)the 'furry' limited edition cdthe 'furry' limited edition cd



    Video stills from "What A Life" at cheapandplastic.com