Come on now, admit it - who here likes/has liked the Cranberries?

loved those first two albums. RIP

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.

can't imagine my life without 'linger'.

Whoa

https://youtu.be/Y95VtBO_zZA

This will get a big wave of tributes in the Irish press. They look after - or, are very interested in - their own.

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 (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agreed

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.

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.

aww man

Was never much of a fan of the Cranberries but Dreams is one of the all-time great songs by anyone

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.

I still really like that first record a lot. She seemed troubled in recent years. RIP.

Dreams, Linger, Empty, Twenty-One, Free to Decide, When You're Gone all K-classic to me.

Her singing voice, with that Irish lilt, was absurdly beautiful.

I liked the first two LP's, especially the production. The third one is where I jumped ship.

RIP.

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

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.

The strange thing is I was actually listening to 'When You're Gone' when the news broke. Just the weirdest coincidence.

maybe she will come back as a zombie, zombie, zombie ie ie ie

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

Huge fan and play linger and ode to my family for friends at times. Always will be classic tunes

Needs a mod edit to the title..

That Belfast Telegraph story from 2011 is a wrenching read

Sorry, 2014 https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/dolores-oriordan-the-demons-that-linger-in-her-life-30758766.html

Damn

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

friend, not friends. somehow three or more people singing 'when you're gone' in a public place sounds weird

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

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 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a weird thing to write. who isn't? what's your point?

When I lived in Mexico, people were very impressed when I said I was from Limerick, the city where the cranberries came from

The death of Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan is not being treated as suspicious by the Metropolitan Police.

that just means it's not foul play

it's weird how everyone suddenly loves the Cranberries but treated them like a complete joke beforehand

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.

xpost Who loves the Cranberries? Or was that a joke?

xpost Who loves the Cranberries? Or was that a joke?

― 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

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

people say nice things about people after they die. its a thing. most people on earth haven't listened to a cranberries album in years. death is an excuse to remember.

i agree

Whether or not they were worthless she died too young, which is what made her death so notable.

We couldn't sneeze on the board the week Amy Winehouse copped it but an Irish woman dies and it's critical detachment month I see what's happening here

Also a good reason to set aside prejudice and rediscover. I’ve been listening to plenty of linkin park in the last 6 months and kicking myself for not having done so earlier

"why aren't more people being total assholes about this??? i demand justice!!"

We couldn't sneeze on the board the week Amy Winehouse copped it but an Irish woman dies and it's critical detachment month I see what's happening here

― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, January 16, 2018 10:53 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree

dmac otm

gave the first album a spin this morning, I still like that record even though it, for some reason, really reminds me of a bad period of my life where I was drinking a horrible lot and inlove with some girl who was really bad for me. I listened to lots of music then but that album for some reason really seems steeped in that; maybe because I didn't listen to it much after 1993.

listened to the first album a few months ago, much more dreamy than I remembered. probably one of the most nostalgic things I could listen to, considering I played it over and over then didn't listen to it for 15 years or so.

exactly. it's really that kind of record. maybe because they became so shit after the second one and people who were kind of on board earlier on abandoned them.

I even saw them live, with Suede (Suede opened, and were better)

that just means it's not foul play

― akm, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 5:06 AM (one hour ago)

can't speak to Mark's unsourced quote, but in Australia, "The police said there were no suspicious circumstances" is newspaper code for suicide.