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

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The Irish band recently reunited for their first tour in six years and singer Dolores O'Riordan admits they are desperate to record some fresh material.

She said: 'It would be nice to come up with a new record. I don't see why not. The ideas are always there, so hopefully something will come out of it."

If The Cranberries are going to commit to an LP – which would be their first studio release since 2001’s 'Wake Up and Smell the Coffee’ - Dolores wants it to be as good as it can be.

The 'Linger’ singer – who has been working on new material with guitarist Noel Hogan - added in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper: 'Noel has been sending me lots of music, and I've been continually writing. It's one of those things where we have to see what happens. There's no point in bringing out a crappy record. You want it to be good, so hopefully the creative juices are flowing."

Myspace, was so unkind
Facebook, Twitter, change my mind

i still like Sunday off the first album. there i've said it now.

And the results:

http://www.vevo.com/watch/the-cranberries/tomorrow/GB4111100290

The 'Linger’ singer

Say it out loud...

like a hyperproduced 2011 sundays song

can't process

think the song they released just before breaking up was pretty great, weird monster-era peter buck guitar tones in there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_6ak9CYx48

Linger is a guilty pleasure of mine. Really nice melodies.

gorgeous

https://soundcloud.com/tenderstrength/sets/no-need-4-dreams

I have no idea what that is but it is amazing, reminds me of that Sail A Whale EP that came out on Sincerely Yours a few years ago.

Come on now, admit it - who here likes/has liked the Cranberries?
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youtube above is enjoyable.

Their first album sounds so intimate and small -- and then by the end they were bombastic!

i am convinced that when i hear "zombie" it is a different song than most people hear, because to me it sounds amazing: heavy riffage with quivering super-irish sounding female vocals, exciting dynamics, i play it on the jukebox at a local bar sometimes.

love "dreams"
like "linger"
lol "zombie"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz9xCTOPRw

I <3 Zombie

I think if you all look deep within yourself, you'll find what's in your heaaaaaaaaad, which is that you actually like the song zombie.

hey!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e56JIp2hXcY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6plNu1xLwxE

i like that one too. i've never seen a wild seal.

obviously any fan of "Zombie" is going to be a fan of honking seals

"bada-bing!"*

*phrase the kids i tutored recommended i say after telling a joke so they would be able to tell that i was joking.

A+++++ that faye wong burning car video

<3 nv

it's really only been in the last couple years that i can hear "Dreams" and "Linger" and be like, damn, those are really good songs. 20 years ago, was not having it.

'Zombie' is quite comfortably one of the worst songs on No Need To Argue. I remember seeing the video to it on MTV at some point in 1994... I would have been about 11 years old at the time and I thought "what the fuck have they done!?". I was already familiar with their debut album because a member of my family had bought it because he liked 'Linger' and 'Dreams', and the very last thing I expected from the band at that time was for them to discover distortion pedals and powerchords. I just thought "this is awful, this really doesn't suit this band, or this singer". Of course, this is the direction they ended up taking for that career-killing third album.

is it the vague political self-righteousness people don't like?

the power chords and the breathy irish vocals are good. objectively.

what is the weather like on your planet?

i was 5 when it was released so i think i hear it without any context really and that might affect what it sounds like to me

although, fuck it. i don't have to explain myself. you are all wrong.

"Salvation" is self-righteous and was always my jam. "Zombie" is just hilariously stupid and monotonous.

"Zombie" and "Brain Stew" were a special kind of endless slog that could only be a unit-shifting hit in the mid 90s

salvation is also great

Yeah, I don't get it. I thought "Linger" and "Dreams" were some kind of Irish country music when I first heard them. Thought "these lyrics are dumb". But subsequently found "Zombie", the rest of NNTA, then "Salvation" and "Free To Decide" completely irresistible and loved this band to death until I noticed via a music magazine they weren't a cool band to like.

Had a conversation at 14 with my crush where we both complained at how bad the first album was in comparison to NNTA. Not standing by that assessment, but I never understood the latter day opinion that first album >>>>>>> everything else

I just don't think The Cranberries ever did that kind of sound well, and usually when the distortion and powerchords arrived, then Delores would use it as an excuse to do her seal-barking/bellowing vocal on it, which isn't the prettiest sound in the world. They sounded far more natural and at home with tracks like 'Twenty-One': arpeggiated, lightly chorused guitar, with acoustic guitar backing, Delores singing in a low register and softly (none of the bellowing), and buffed up to perfection by Stephen Street. People can say whatever they like about the quality of the songwriting and the musicianship on those first two Cranberries albums, but the production on Everybody Else and No Need To Argue is top notch.

i'd agree with that re: production

i just don't think they ever had an idea of what kind of band they wanted to be

I wish they'd decided to be the band that made "Salvation" and songs like "Salvation" forever. People who call her voice annoying should really think for a second about their Siouxsie and E Fraser fandom bc some women sing like that and it is awesome

yeah. i like when her singing gets guttural because it is sort of unexpected based on what her voice usually sounds like, and it sounds like she is straining to sing like that which produces a compelling kind of tension. also in zombie, the quivering/cracking thing she does is perfectly executed. that song is anything but a "slog"

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Yeah, but then Delores sings like that and it doesn't sound awesome. In my opinion, anyway. The sad thing is, after the success of 'Zombie', and then To The Faithful Departed, Delores never quite regained the softer voice she once had on the first album and portions of the second album. Even when they tried to return to their early sound on some of their later albums, Delores' voice was still in jackhammer mode, as if it were poised to belt out 'Hollywood' for all eternity.

And as for Delores herself, her transition from shy/butter-wouldn't-melt circa the first album to the arrogant, preachy and downright nuts woman she was circa the third album was quite something.

she was good in that Father Ted episode tho

heard "dreams" on the local classic rock station last week, which struck me as an odd song to cross over in that direction.

jesus, i can muster up some defenses of delores but she's not even in the vicinity of e. fraser.

sometimes it seems like delores did not have much of a natural ear.

I'm thinking "Garlands" -> "Treasure" E. Fraser and there is not an ocean between them. There is a river and some mix decisions

Beyond that tho yeah there's an ocean and a continent

i like the 2 cranberries songs i have heard and honestly did not realize ppl were so angry about them for ages

Salvation is bellowy dolores at her worst imo, zombie is fine, dreams and linger great, ode to my family i find in my head more than any of em

Terrible live iirc

darragh otm. I think my favorites of theirs melody-wise may be "Empty" and "Free to Decide," the lyrical silliness of the latter notwithstanding.