All I Need Is Everything

"All I Need Is Everything"
Single by Aztec Camera
from the album Knife
Released September 1984
Genre New wave, alternative rock
Length 4:00
Label Rough Trade/Sire
Writer(s) Roddy Frame
Producer(s) Mark Knopfler
Aztec Camera singles chronology
"Oblivious" (re-release)
(1983)		 "All I Need Is Everything"
(September 1984)		 "Still on Fire"

"All I Need Is Everything" was the first single off the album Knife by Scottish new wave band Aztec Camera.[1] The single was released in September 1984 and reached number 34 on the UK Singles Chart, remaining on the chart for six weeks. The single version is two minutes shorter than the album version, which has an extended fadeout.[2] According to a 1984 interview with Roddy Frame, the song was written in March 1984 while he was touring the United States. Frame called it an "unusual choice for a single, because unlike our previous singles (and most pop singles) it doesn't have a recurrent chorus at all."[3]

The unusual B-side of the single, a downbeat acoustic cover of "Jump" by Van Halen, drew positive attention.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Thompson, Dave. Alternative Rock, p. 165 (2000)
  2. ↑ Mason, Stewart, All I Need Is Everything, allmusic.com, Retrieved 8 October 2013
  3. ↑ (October 1984). , Jamming
  4. ↑ "Aztec Camera | Artist". Official Charts. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
  5. ↑ Chilvers, C.J. The Van Halen Encyclopedia (Paperback), p. 156 (2001)