Hasn't held up too well.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― PB, Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm at work and the PA is blasting the Cranberries' greatest hits.I feel a sudden urge to kill.
― Marco Damiani, Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I used to really like "Zombie" for a couple of months back then.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
lololol I should track down that "Bosnia" song, it seems like it would be a treat
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
SARAJEEEEEEEEEEEVOSARAJEEEEEEEEEEEVO
fucking priceless, no wonder Jewel released "Pieces Of You"
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I. JUST. SHOT. DOLORES.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
omg the end of this with the music box
why did no one stop her, lololololol
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
OH MY GOD
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Ugh @ "perfectly fine" x 2. I've seriously gotta self-edit.
― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought "Linger" was pretty dreamy at age 14.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll always associate "Dreams" with a particularly gripping Angela "moment" in "My So-Called Life."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
omg bosnia!!!
SARAJEEEEVO! SARAJEEEEVO! SARAJEEEEEEVO! SARAJEEEEEVO!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2009 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
BOSNIA Lyrics
I would like to state my visionLife was so unfairWe live in our secure surroundingsAnd people die out there
Bosnia, was so unkindSarejevo, change my mindAnd we all call out in despairAll the love we need isn't thereAnd we all sing songs in our roomsSARAJEVO erects another tomb
SARAJEVO! SARAJEVO! SARAJEVO! SARAJEVO!Bosnia, was so unkindSARAJEVO! SARAJEVO! SARAJEVO!Bosnia, was so unkind
Sure, things would changeIf we really wanted them toNo fear for children anymoreThere are babies in their bedsTerror in their headsfor 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, RummmpatitumTraboo, Traboo, Traboo
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
There are babies in their bedsTerror in their headsfor the love of life!
Why didn't Lionel and Michael include these verses in "We Are The World"??
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 8 January 2009 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I've seriously listened to this song about 5 times in a row. You don't get entertainment like this anymore.
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 January 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
was "Free To Decide" supposed to be her "Emperor's New Clothes"??
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 8 January 2009 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 January 2009 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Thursday, 8 January 2009 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
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
xpost
― 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