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 90s masterpiece. Guitar heaven for the post- Nirvana, pre-internet generation.

Sublime production / Engineering from Sean Slade, Paul Q Kolderie and Juliana. A Fort Apache triumph.

The opening seconds of What A Life sets the tone, with an explosion of noise. 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 perfectly. The wall of noise at the end of Hang Down From Heaven, the agony of Bottles and Flowers, the sheer (only) everything about Only Everything.

What an album.

Personnel

Juliana Hatfield – vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards
Jim Fitting – baritone saxophone
Dean Fisher – bass guitar
Josh Freese – drums
Mike Levesque – drums
Paul Q. Kolderie – drum machine
Sean Slade – drum machine, clavinet
Walter Sear – theremin

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

There was a 'furry' limited edition CD

What a Life (Promo Single)

Andrew has a cool set of video stills from the 'What A Life' video at Cheap and Plastic.

Trivia

In 2012, Juliana said on Twitter that she took the title "Only Everything" from part of a line in a Dinosaur Jr. song ("raisans") from "you're living all over me".

Press

NME - March 1995

Vox Magazine - May 1995

Q May 1995

Select Magazine

Only Everything Demos

In December 2014, as part of her PledgeMusic project for the reunion of The Juliana Hatfield Three, Juliana released 'rocket science', saying:

i was going through all the “only everything” demos that i found and this is a song nestled among a bunch of songs that ended up being re-recorded for the OE album. this one was never recorded with the band. i guess i felt it didn’t really fit among the OE mostly-rock songs. it is labeled “rocketscience” on the cassette. “why do i do what i know is bad”, indeed! why? why?

2021 Solo Electric Livestream

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On February 21, 2021 Juliana performed the album in a solo electric performance from Q Division studios in Somerville, MA. This was the third in a series of livestreams, temporarily available for free on YouTube with donations accepted on a pay what you want basis.

Kevin Wilson reviewed the show at My Shuffled Life.