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

ELL OH ELL!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=58594&item=4742806946&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

He/she/it is a treat.

Hasn't held up too well.

I'm at work and the PA is blasting the Cranberries' greatest hits.
I feel a sudden urge to kill.

i remember that section in 'dreams'. you know the bit that goes "LaaaaRR LaR La LaRR LaR La LaaaaaRRRRR". that was sort of moving. or maybe.

I used to really like "Zombie" for a couple of months back then.

lololol I should track down that "Bosnia" song, it seems like it would be a treat

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=bosnia+cranberries&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

lolololol

SARAJEEEEEEEEEEEVO
SARAJEEEEEEEEEEEVO

fucking priceless, no wonder Jewel released "Pieces Of You"

I. JUST. SHOT. DOLORES.

omg the end of this with the music box

why did no one stop her, lololololol

Re: "Dreams" - lol do you remember the video for that song, where they were hosing of a tree-stump looking thing which was caked in mud & it ended up being a mystical, naked dude curled up in the fetal postition & the band were all like "whoah, symbolic.."

The first album is perfectly fine minor-key jangle pop - a nice companion piece to The Sundays' first album. "Linger" is timeless. The second album was OK, but "Zombie" being such a megahit was obviously the beginning of the end b/c it gave DO'R the misguided creative licence to tackle topical, politically-motivated lyrics. And we all know how that turned out.

Overall: a perfectly fine minor band, wrongly eleveated to major-player status, who let it go to their heads & embarassed the hell out of themselves.

OH MY GOD

Ugh @ "perfectly fine" x 2. I've seriously gotta self-edit.

I thought "Linger" was pretty dreamy at age 14.

I'll always associate "Dreams" with a particularly gripping Angela "moment" in "My So-Called Life."

omg bosnia!!!

SARAJEEEEVO! SARAJEEEEVO! SARAJEEEEEEVO! SARAJEEEEEVO!

BOSNIA Lyrics

I would like to state my vision
Life was so unfair
We live in our secure surroundings
And people die out there

Bosnia, was so unkind
Sarejevo, change my mind
And we all call out in despair
All the love we need isn't there
And we all sing songs in our rooms
SARAJEVO erects another tomb

SARAJEVO! SARAJEVO! SARAJEVO! SARAJEVO!
Bosnia, was so unkind
SARAJEVO! SARAJEVO! SARAJEVO!
Bosnia, was so unkind

Sure, things would change
If we really wanted them to
No fear for children anymore
There are babies in their beds
Terror in their heads
for the love of life!

When do the saints go marching in?
When do the saints go marching in?
When do the saints go marching in?
When do the saints go marching in?

Rummmpatitum, Rummmpatitum
Traboo, Traboo, Traboo

There are babies in their beds
Terror in their heads
for the love of life!

Why didn't Lionel and Michael include these verses in "We Are The World"??

I've seriously listened to this song about 5 times in a row. You don't get entertainment like this anymore.

was "Free To Decide" supposed to be her "Emperor's New Clothes"??

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.

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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.