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

wtf

People told me I looked like Delores in high school but I think it was just bcz she has short hair and so did I, and people are uncreative but also want to tell people they look like celebrities. I got a big bowling ball head, come on!

I'm now pretty much convinced that The Cranberries were a prank.

They got very good write-ups in the UK music press in 1991 or whenever, just as they were about to break (presumably on the strength of that demo mentioned upthread). I first heard them shortly afterwards, when the BBC had them as headliners in a set of gigs from a church in Glasgow. The prettily mysterious singer from the first press shots was already gone, replaced by some sort of poison gollum, as was the exquisite voice that Melody Maker had promised. She stood and screeched in a pose that looked frankly retarded, bony fingers splayed, back arched, staring madly. So no, I never got as far as liking them. Felt somehow betrayed, actually.

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/e6/6d/0125228348a00b3c26aec010.L.jpg
Anyway, this sleeve is the glaring omission from this thread. Somehow made better by Amazon listing this as the 'explicit version'

Yestreday it was such a revelation: I didn't remenber they were so terribly lame.

(by the way: Dan, that "video" is PRICELESS).

It is amazing how much less I like "Zombie" now that I know what the real lyrics are.

for the love of life!

heh heh heh heh heh heh heh hey-oooo ah ah-ah

Love that googler way upthread, still.

GET A CLUE ASSHOLES

Still really like "Linger." I like playing this on guitar but can't be bothered to learn the words other than the chorus so just strum that part until I feel it's safe to sing the chorus again.

I think To The Faithful Departed was the first album I bought by a band I liked (I would have been ~13 at the time) that made me decide my love of the band had stopped. I Just Shot John Lennon & Salvation both kind of awesome in their terribleness, though. Uh-huh-huh, Uh-huh-huh, Uh-huh-huh..

I like that one song about her family

yeah I had to 'the faithful departed' too...I think I got it as a present? was younger than that, like 8 or 9? anyway, despite liking their first album, it was pretty obv that departed really had *nothing* going for it

Anyone know where I could find those early EPs?

I still have my copy of the Uncertain e.p. (on Xeric records). Wonder if it's worth anything.

times are tough all over

it is, but for some reason not as much as the original vinyl of their second LP

xpost

They're no Rubberbandits.

Help:

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?
― DG, Wednesday, October 17, 2001 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.