I don’t hate Zombie... I hate what it did to them on the following album.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 06:26 (six years ago) link
last five or so songs on no need to argue are all wonderful
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 06:27 (six years ago) link
What really matters mystifies me is how the songwriting quality basically collapses for the entire stretch between “Ode To My Family” and that final remarkable home stretch.
Actually Everyone... seems really notable for its consistency given the band immediately became so inconsistent (though still capable of greatness) thereafter.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 10:28 (six years ago) link
Alfred you forgot “Wanted”
― dorsalstop, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 10:51 (six years ago) link
I was listening to "Everybody Else Is Doing It" last night for the first time since the 90s. Very strong album, so dreamy and nostalgia-inducing. I really like "pretty" and "put me down"
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 10:54 (six years ago) link
RIP Dolores.
Dreams is an all-time favourite for me. The first album reminds me of moving to London in '93 and drinking with lots of Irish people.
I think Zombie was where a lot of people got off the bus. I remember they took some stick for releasing an anti-IRA protest song only a couple of weeks after the IRA ceasefire - like they could put the peace process at risk.
― Chunky Backgammon (onimo), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 11:06 (six years ago) link
I remember they took some stick for releasing an anti-IRA protest song only a couple of weeks after the IRA ceasefire - like they could put the peace process at risk.
LOL
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 11:10 (six years ago) link
Don't be daft - 'I Can't Be With You', 'Twenty One' and 'Empty' are three of the best tracks on there!
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
The first two LP's are near equal in consistency, and would be equal if 'Zombie' wasn't on there.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 11:42 (six years ago) link
Yeah Sunday is a brilliant, giddy thing, i always thought it was called Sunday because it's their most obvious homage to The Sundays.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 12:03 (six years ago) link
never pursued their albums but i had MTV for the mid 90s when they broke. i remember "Zombie" and "Linger" on constant rotation and i loved those songs.
last night i looked up the video to "Salvation" and holy crap yes there is the killer evil clown creeping at the window that haunted my dreams when i was a teen! i hadn't seen this video in 20 years, tbh im glad i didn't imagine it! really insane video. btw it's actually a pretty cool song
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link
She looks seriously fucking ill in the video to 'Free to Decide' ...
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
This is nice, despite the sort of creepy and/or on-the-nose overtones of a lyric about a hotel in London.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=229&v=AG1LGI0Gf_Y
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link
Four tracks into the new (and final) Cranberries album and admittedly I'm enjoying it a lot. For me, this is easily a better record than Roses... it might turn out to be their best since No Need to Argue, actually.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link