All You Can Eat (k.d. lang album)

All You Can Eat
All You Can Eat
Studio album by k.d. lang
Released	October 10, 1995
Genre	Pop
Length	36:09
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	k.d. lang; Ben Mink;
K.d. lang chronology

All You Can Eat is the third solo album by Canadian singer k.d. lang, released in October 1995.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Cash Box	(favorable)^[2]
Chicago Tribune	^[3]
Robert Christgau	^[7]
Entertainment Weekly	A^[4]
Los Angeles Times	^[5]
NME	7/10^[6]
Rolling Stone	^[8]
Spin	7/10^[6]

In a Rolling Stone review, Barry Walters wrote "The rhythms and sonic textures draw from the vintage soul of Al Green, while the stark arrangements and lush melodies embrace the primal sophistication of trend-bucking college-radio faves like Björk and [PJ] Harvey without evoking either. By holding back on vocal volume and letting her creativity loose, Kathryn Dawn ultimately expresses much more. Traditional torch and twang gave her something to master and rebel against, but sublimely sensual art pop has set lang free."^[9]

David Browne of Entertainment Weekly described the album as "Ten meditations on unrequited desire, courtship, rejection, and sex, All You Can Eat is both the most brazen and conventional album she’s ever made, and one of her best. With each new album, lang has gradually toned down the often cloying cowpunk giddiness of her early work. That course continues with Eat, a sober album that musically and lyrically picks up where Ingénue‘s hit 'Constant Craving' left off. The songs are a series of pleas to a lover to allow our tortured chanteuse into her life, each one highlighting varying degrees of optimism, confusion, and bleakness."^[10]

In an AllMusic review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine called it "a more experimental and realized record than its predecessor Ingénue."^[11]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by k.d. lang and Ben Mink

"If I Were You" – 3:59
"Maybe" – 4:11
"You're Ok" – 3:03
"Sexuality" – 3:24
"Get Some" – 3:37
"Acquiesce" – 3:33
"This" – 4:02
"World of Love" – 3:44
"Infinite and Unforeseen" – 2:57
"I Want It All" – 3:39

Personnel

k.d. lang - guitar, harp, ukelin, banjo, glass harmonica, keyboard, vocals
Teddy Borowiecki - organ, synthesizer, piano, keyboard, Fender Rhodes
Graham Boyle - percussion
John Friesen - cello
Ben Mink - bass, guitar, violin, keyboard, ukulele, viola
David Piltch - bass
Randall Stoll - drums

In other media

The song "Sexuality" was also released on Friends Original TV Soundtrack.

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for *All You Can Eat*
Chart (1995)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[12]	3
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)^[13]	10
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[14]	89
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[15]	1
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[16]	48
UK Albums (OCC)^[17]	7
US Billboard 200^[18]	37

Year-end charts

1995 year-end chart performance for *All You Can Eat*
Chart (1995)	Position
Australian Albums Chart^[19]	44
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)^[20]	90

Certifications

Certifications and sales for *All You Can Eat*
Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)^[21]	Platinum	70,000^{^}
Canada (Music Canada)^[22]	Gold	50,000^{^}
New Zealand (RMNZ)^[23]	Gold	7,500^{^}
United Kingdom (BPI)^[24]	Silver	60,000^{^}
United States (RIAA)^[25]	Gold	500,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.