Think I'll revive this thread instead of some of the other ones. Dolores O'Riordan has suddenly passed.
https://www.rte.ie/amp/933526/?__twitter_impression=true
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
oh shit! whoa. that's really too bad. I can't say I liked anything after the first two albums but those records were good enough at the time.
― akm, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
wtaf
― faust apes (NickB), Monday, 15 January 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
I loved 'Linger': a special record. And admired the whole first LP: it was always curious how good it was.
― the pinefox, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
Horrible news. The only people who dislike Linger and/or Dreams are soulless hipsters.
― treeship 2, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
this is devastating
― infinity (∞), Monday, 15 January 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
she was having some sort of breakdown last year, i hope its not suicide
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Monday, 15 January 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
Dreams and Linger are great songs yes
RIP :(
― Jeff W, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
Zombie is also a great song.
― treeship 2, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
"Linger" is forever
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 15 January 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
"died suddenly" suggests it could be suicide
― PaulTMA, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
loved those first two albums. RIP
― kinder, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
46 man, no age.
I'd hold off on the suicide speculation, frankly. I still remember when the God Machine's Jimmy Fernandez died suddenly as a young man during sessions for their second (and last) album, out of nowhere. More information will come as it does.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
can't imagine my life without 'linger'.
― Nourry, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
Whoa
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 15 January 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/Y95VtBO_zZA
― treeship 2, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
This will get a big wave of tributes in the Irish press. They look after - or, are very interested in - their own.
― the pinefox, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
― the pinefox, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:23 (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Agreed
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 15 January 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
i really liked them, and her. i only heard the first couple of albums so i can't speak to anything from the third album on but those first couple were pretty fine albums overall.
― omar little, Monday, 15 January 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
Wow. I feel like I've been hearing the Cranberries name-dropped recently more than ever, it seemed the critical revival (or just rediscovery by younger listeners?) was happening.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
aww man
Was never much of a fan of the Cranberries but Dreams is one of the all-time great songs by anyone
― silverfish, Monday, 15 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
They were obviously making top shelf dream pop (heavy on the pop). I don’t know what happened in the 90s but the critical ambivalence they attracted — or the idea that they were a “guilty pleasure” — made no sense.
― treeship 2, Monday, 15 January 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
I still really like that first record a lot. She seemed troubled in recent years. RIP.
― Brave Combover (Dan Peterson), Monday, 15 January 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
Dreams, Linger, Empty, Twenty-One, Free to Decide, When You're Gone all K-classic to me.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Monday, 15 January 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
Her singing voice, with that Irish lilt, was absurdly beautiful.
― treeship 2, Monday, 15 January 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
I liked the first two LP's, especially the production. The third one is where I jumped ship.
RIP.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Monday, 15 January 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
it's a slow work day today so i've put on everybody's doing it in the office
definitely takes me back
what a loss
― infinity (∞), Monday, 15 January 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
The first record soundtracked a big period of my youth and I fell in love with D via the songs and the photographs of her in the CD insert. R i p.
― calstars, Monday, 15 January 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
The strange thing is I was actually listening to 'When You're Gone' when the news broke. Just the weirdest coincidence.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Monday, 15 January 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
maybe she will come back as a zombie, zombie, zombie ie ie ie
― akm, Monday, 15 January 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
Literally heard this for the first time on Sunday on a Mark Kermode radio show about songs in films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hHznB-_Gbs
― piscesx, Monday, 15 January 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
Huge fan and play linger and ode to my family for friends at times. Always will be classic tunes
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 15 January 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
Needs a mod edit to the title..
― Mark G, Monday, 15 January 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
That Belfast Telegraph story from 2011 is a wrenching read
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Monday, 15 January 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
Sorry, 2014 https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/dolores-oriordan-the-demons-that-linger-in-her-life-30758766.html
Damn
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 15 January 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
The strange thing is I was actually listening to 'When You're Gone' when the news broke. Just the weirdest coincidence.― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Monday, January 15, 2018 1:50 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
heard this just a few days ago in a public place and was singing along with my friends.
Stinkin
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Monday, 15 January 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
friend, not friends. somehow three or more people singing 'when you're gone' in a public place sounds weird
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Monday, 15 January 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
One of the most distinctive rock voices of her generation imo. I love the first album especially, and also the "Uncertain" EP that came out in '91. This song went on a lot of mixtapes in the early '90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e43LhSk-Mm8
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 15 January 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
― the pinefox, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:55 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is a weird thing to write. who isn't? what's your point?
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 15 January 2018 23:11 (six years ago) link
When I lived in Mexico, people were very impressed when I said I was from Limerick, the city where the cranberries came from
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Monday, 15 January 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
The death of Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan is not being treated as suspicious by the Metropolitan Police.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
that just means it's not foul play
― akm, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
it's weird how everyone suddenly loves the Cranberries but treated them like a complete joke beforehand
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
Thought the consensus view was that first LP was excellent, second patchy, third embarrassing, dunno after that, so people have been talking about Linger and Dreams rather than I Just Shot John Lennon, seems fairly standard response imo.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
xpost Who loves the Cranberries? Or was that a joke?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, January 16, 2018 10:34 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
surely in reference to the fact that a couple of days ago literally nobody gave 2 shits about the cranberries but yesterday there was a bunch of glowing assessments of their music in obits.
I've always liked linger and dreams tbh
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT> DOLORES NEVER FAKED HER LIVE PERFORMANCES> SHE PLAYED ALL HER PARTS> I WAS THERE FOR ALL THEIR SHOWS AND IT WAS ALL FOR REAL> MISTER NED RAGGETT I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU GET YOUR STORIES BUT CRACKER CAN SAY WHATEVER THEY WANT BUT THEY WILL ALWAYS SUCK IF EVEN THEY DON'T SPREAD LIES ABOUT A BAND THAT DOESN"T DESERVE TO BE SHIT ON! GET A CLUE ASSHOLES― chocolate brown, Sunday, November 9, 2003 8:46 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link