I'm now pretty much convinced that The Cranberries were a prank.
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 January 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
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.jpgAnyway, this sleeve is the glaring omission from this thread. Somehow made better by Amazon listing this as the 'explicit version'
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 9 January 2009 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Yestreday it was such a revelation: I didn't remenber they were so terribly lame.
(by the way: Dan, that "video" is PRICELESS).
― Marco Damiani, Friday, 9 January 2009 10:08 (fifteen years ago) link
It is amazing how much less I like "Zombie" now that I know what the real lyrics are.
― The Book of Outhere (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
for the love of life!
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
heh heh heh heh heh heh heh hey-oooo ah ah-ah
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Love that googler way upthread, still.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
GET A CLUE ASSHOLES
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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..
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I like that one song about her family
― iatee, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― iatee, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone know where I could find those early EPs?
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I still have my copy of the Uncertain e.p. (on Xeric records). Wonder if it's worth anything.
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
times are tough all over
― butt sound insanity (gbx), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
it is, but for some reason not as much as the original vinyl of their second LP
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― sculpture of marmalade (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
They're no Rubberbandits.
― ecuador_with_a_c, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 02:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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."
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."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Myspace, was so unkindFacebook, Twitter, change my mind
i still like Sunday off the first album. there i've said it now.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
And the results:
http://www.vevo.com/watch/the-cranberries/tomorrow/GB4111100290
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
The 'Linger’ singer
Say it out loud...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
like a hyperproduced 2011 sundays song
can't process
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
Linger is a guilty pleasure of mine. Really nice melodies.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
gorgeous
https://soundcloud.com/tenderstrength/sets/no-need-4-dreams
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
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.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 11 July 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
Come on now, admit it - who here likes/has liked the Cranberries?― DG, Wednesday, October 17, 2001 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 11 July 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
youtube above is enjoyable.
Their first album sounds so intimate and small -- and then by the end they were bombastic!
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Thursday, 11 July 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Treeship, Thursday, 11 July 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link
love "dreams"like "linger"lol "zombie"
― 69, Friday, 12 July 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz9xCTOPRw
― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Friday, 12 July 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
I <3 Zombie
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 12 July 2013 03:35 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Treeship, Friday, 12 July 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link
hey!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e56JIp2hXcY
― Treeship, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:36 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6plNu1xLwxE
― Mancunian stagger (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:50 (ten years ago) link
i like that one too. i've never seen a wild seal.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:51 (ten years ago) link
obviously any fan of "Zombie" is going to be a fan of honking seals
― Mancunian stagger (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:51 (ten years ago) link
"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.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
A+++++ that faye wong burning car video
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
<3 nv
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 01:02 (ten years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
'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.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
is it the vague political self-righteousness people don't like?
― Treeship, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 01:33 (ten years ago) link
the power chords and the breathy irish vocals are good. objectively.
what is the weather like on your planet?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 01:34 (ten years ago) link
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
― Treeship, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 01:36 (ten years ago) link
although, fuck it. i don't have to explain myself. you are all wrong.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
"Salvation" is self-righteous and was always my jam. "Zombie" is just hilariously stupid and monotonous.
― some dude, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
"Zombie" and "Brain Stew" were a special kind of endless slog that could only be a unit-shifting hit in the mid 90s
― some dude, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 01:38 (ten years ago) link