All I Need Is Everything

"All I Need Is Everything"
Single by Aztec Camera
from the album Knife
ReleasedSeptember 1984
Length4:00
LabelWEA/Sire
Songwriter(s)Roddy Frame
Producer(s)Mark Knopfler
Aztec Camera singles chronology
"Oblivious"
(1983) 		"All I Need Is Everything"
(1984) 		"Still on Fire"
(1984)

"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 song's music video was in light rotation on MTV in autumn 1984.[4]

The unusual B-side of the single, a downbeat acoustic cover of "Jump" by Van Halen, drew positive attention.[5][6]

  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). [1], Jamming
  4. ^ "MTV Programming". Billboard. 20 October 1984. p. 32. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Aztec Camera | Artist". Official Charts. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
  6. ^ Chilvers, C.J. The Van Halen Encyclopedia (Paperback), p. 156 (2001)