Worst/most cringeworthy lyric on The Cranberries' 'To The Faithful Departed'

The Cranwikkies

That is still better than "JFK, blown away/ what else do I have to say" xxxp

Van Gogh we still hold dear, although he slice-d off his ear, Picasso was an artist too, trabooooo trabooooo....

Tears of LOL at Buckley/Mandela.

Pablo Picasso seemed as though he suffered with his mental health (citation needed)/ though the exact religious reasons are a subject of debate for historians, the Egyptian lord or prince or whatever Tutankhamun was buried with his wealth

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> Tears of LOL at Buckley/Mandela.

here too

Brought up on the occasional weird bill thread, but in 1993 I saw the Cranberries open for Frank Black opening for The The. Easy to forget, but at the beginning people tossed the Cranberries in with bands like the Sundays as sort of Smiths-y, but of course only one of those bands went on to repeatedly embarrass themselves.

Crantastic fact: 'I Shot John Lennon' was originally going to be titled 'I Shot J.R.'

Smiths/Sundays/Cranberries an interesting trifecta, as I loved and championed all three album debuts, and then pretty much lost interest in following releases. xp

it's impressive to think that my own internal rewrite of "Linger" as "Do you fancy a fish finger?" still wouldn't make top 10 here

Can I vote for all of this pls -

It was the fearful night of December 8th.
He was returning home from the studio late.
He had perceptively known that it wouldn't be nice.
Because in 1980, he paid the price.

John Lennon died. [X6]

With a Smith & Wesson 38,
John Lennon's life was no longer a debate.
He should have stayed at home,
He should have never cared,
And the man who took his life declared,

He said I just shot John Lennon.
He said I just shot John Lennon.
What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.
What a sad and sorry and sickening night.
What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.
What a sad and sorry and sickening night.

Ah, ah ah ah, ah...

I think that one stings more than the others because it really, really conveys all the sins and shames of teenage poetry. I wrote a LOT of stuff with basically that rhythm and the same kind of forced rhymes and awkward constructions.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

no longer a debate

good thread

You cut me down a tree
And brought it back to me
And that's what made me see

what the hell is this

That doesn't rhyme with tree/me/see! (Also discussed on this fine thread: Lyrical Cliches You Can't Stand )

"Inject your soul with liberty, it's free" sadly underrated, but no surprise given such an embarrassment of riches

...they're BACK!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/something-else/id1211820803?app=itunes

But, sadly, no rework of "Sarajevo" or "I Just Shot John Lennon" on this.

And the PR is happy to tell you re the album cover:

Shot by Andy Earl, the photographer for The Cranberries' Everybody Else Is Doing It cover

I hope it was the same couch.

...as Gear's.

Fun fact: the next album that Bruce Fairbairn produced after this was Elegantly Wasted by INXS. Both Hutchence and Fairbarn would be dead within a couple of years, the latter being found dead by Jon Anderson while working on a Yes project.

And his last full production was for some shitty swing revival band, I guess

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_This_Place

Curious definition of fun there (xp)

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...and of course Fairbairn produced New Jersey, for those that didn't know.

At the time he passed away he apparently was going to team up with Bob Rock for another Bon Jovi production. I'm assuming this would have been the LP that became Crush?