Source: Click here
Translated from Spanish by cristóbal

Dublin.- Cranberries vocalist has shown the intention of leaving the band. According to information of Hot Press agency, Dolores has said that when Greatest Hits album promo and tour finish, she will make her own projects, and that will not be another Cranberries album. “The boys need some liberty” said O’Riordan. Dolores has said also that her work could be less contemporary, with the intention of creating some “world music”, something based especially in African sounds.

The Band The Cranberries was formed in 1990, and they had worldwide hits like: “Zombie”, “Linger” and “Dreams”.

The last studio albums, “Bury The Hatchet” (1999), and “Wake Up And Smell The Coffee” (2001), weren’t able to sell very well.

Some weeks ago, the band released a greatest hits album, entitled “Stars: The Best Of 1992 – 2002”.

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Popstars show clothes as benefit for Bosnia

Source: Magazine “Simone”, 1995
Translated from Dutch by Cranspektrum

The Midsummernight – June 21st – stands in the sign of benefit. A lot of popstars, like Michael Stipe, Phil Collins, Dolores O’Riordan (of The Cranberries) and Brian Eno will perform in a fashion show of which the income will go to a foundation who helps children in Bosnia. Michael Stipe and Phil Collins will give away exclusive clothing designs, they used in their own concerts, for an auction in the show. Brian Eno is the brain behind a special ’soundtrack’, which will be sold after the event.

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The Cranberries – Just My Imagination

Source: Magazine “Smash Hits”, 2000
Translated by Cranspektrum

Westlife’s Irish cousins are back with a jiggy little number

The last Cranberries single was a scary, howling type thing that made anyone with an ounce of sense run a mile. This time, however, they’ve come up with a perky piece of pop to brighten even the darkest autumn day. Just my imagination? Course not, it’s tops.

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The Cranberries award question

Source: Newspaper “De Telegraaf”, 2002
Translated from Dutch by Cranspektrum

The Cranberries are celebrating 10 years! To celebrate this date we give together with Mojo 20 free tickets for The Best Of-live concert in the Heiniken Music Hall on Monday, December 2nd. If you, together with your friend or girlfriend want to see Dolores and her men working, then you only have to reply the next question: what is the name of the first album of the irish band?

You can send the reply at prijsvraag@mojo.nl

The answers have to be sent at least till November 28th on mention of ‘Cranberries’ and the name.

Another nice reason to play with this game is that you get a comfort award which will be available by Universal record company: 10 times the most new greatest hits’ album ‘Stars, The Best Of The Cranberries’. This album contains hits like ‘Zombie’, ‘Linger’ and ‘Ode To My Family’.

For everybody who doesn’t win: there are yet tickets available on the known selling addresses.

The Cranberries. Monday, December 2nd, Heineken Music Hall. Start at 20:00PM. Entry: € 31 (exclusive order cost).

About the results can’t be corresponded.

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Mermaid’s singing

Source: Magazine “Bizz”, 1993
Translated from Portuguese by Cranspektrum

To the weak ears, the irish group The Cranberries came like a kind of balsam. Although they don’t show nothing properly unpublished (because bands like Opal, The Sundays and Shelleyan Orphan went through trace long time), the refinement of the production, the delicacy of the arrangements, beyond the undeniable charm of the singer Dolores O’Riordan did of this debut a pleasant surprise.

Very tune, she conjugates the technic of vibrato like the same that mention the mermaids Lix Frazier (Cocteau Twins) and Caroline Crawley (Shelleyan Orphan). Dolores doesn’t waste her time with obvious things. Specially in tracks “I Still Do”, “Put Me Down”, “Waltzing Back” and “Pretty”, she calls attention when her voice coils in the middle of the climatic structure formulated with the guitars and acoustic guitars of Noel Hogan.

More than a mere overnight sensation, the group impose themselves in behalf of languid sonority, sincerely melancholic, that reveal their members with their feets thrust in that tradition of the european folk rock and with accomplished pop ballads.

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Band suspend macabre video

Source: Newspaper “Jornal da Tarde”, 2001
Translated from Portuguese by Cranspektrum

“Analyse”, the new video of the irish group Cranberries, was removed for reedition. The video of the first single of “Wake Up And Smell The Coffee” album was filmed in London in August and it was in the barrier of the broadcasting TV since last two weeks. The production showed airplanes flying lower on skyscrapers and had a personage that walked on a body of a died person. The MCA found large similarities with the terrorist attacks of September 11th. The Cranberries’ leader, Fergal Lawler, agreed with the reedition. The album will come in american market in October 23rd.

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The Cranberries

Source: Magazine Web!, 2000 (9 April)
Translated from Portuguese by Cranspektrum

Dolores O’Riordan, Fergal Lawler, Noel and Mike Hogan, member of the irish group The Cranberries will come to the mexican city for one and only concert in April 9th. The group, that mix the traditional irish music with pop, is in world tour to promote their last album, “Bury The Hatchet”

Where: National Auditorium, Paseo de la Reforma e Campo Marte

When: at 19h

How much: Entrance between US$ 10 to US$ 50 in Auditorium itself or through Ticketmaster, 525/325-9000

Informations: 525/280-9250

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The Cranberries discharge rest of studio

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Date: 2001
Translated from Portuguese by Cranspektrum

The Cranberries’ new album, “Wake Up And Smell The Coffee”, sold more than one million of copies in the first week of the releasing. Fans who bought the CD will have access on the page of the http://ww.cranberries.ie site, which it is possible to download songs that stayed out of the album – the first of them is called “Many Days”. The Cranberries will start the excursion in February of 2002.

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Blondie ambition

Source: Newspaper “O Estado de Sao Paulo”
Date: 1999
Translated from Portuguese by Cranspektrum

Without to count the colour of the hair, but yes the musical intention, the voice of Blondie also influenced many vocalists of the actual pop rock. It’s the case of Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star), Justine Frischman (Elastica), Sonya Aurora Madan (Echobelly), Emma Anderson (Lush), Dolores O’Riordan (The Cranberries) and Sharlenn Spiteri (Texas), among others.

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Band express their preoccupation with the adult age

Source: Newspaper “Folha de Sao Paulo”
Date: 2002
Cranslated from Portuguese by Cranspektrum

The Cranberries started to think I the old age. That is what show the lyrics of “Wake Up And Smell The Coffee”. Something natural, since it’s ten years of career. But the chance of the political themes for compositions that approach the maturity express the preoccupation of the adult age.

With 30 years old, the vocalist Dolores O’Riordan give the key that define the CD right away the initial track, “Never Grow Old”, wherein her soft voice flow over the beautiful melody.

Musically, like in the last works, the irish group alternate moments wherein settle ballads in the Dolores’ voice with others wherein open space for Noel Hogan show his guitar sounding heavy.

If there’s no novelty, in the melodies, it’s sure the chance with the return of Stephen Street. So much that it was selected like the first single “Analyse”, that reminds “Dreams”, of the first album. It’s a market’s operation: if the fans complain that the band don’t renovate themselves, at least one song dispute in the radios.

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‘Official’ channel of the series give voice to vanguard’s music

Source: Newspaper “Jornal da Tarde”, 2001
Date: Newness – November 5th, 2001
Translated from Portuguese by Cranspektrum

‘Official’ channel of the series give voice to vanguard’s music.

Who rise on the stage are the irish The Cranberries, that in 1993, when they released their first album, “Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?”, bursting all radios of the world, reaching 6 million of sold copies.

In the program of Hyatt, the vocalist Dolores O’Riordan talks about the split and reconciliation of the group, that got rid in 96
and just came back to reunite two years after, for to record “Bury The Hatchet”, that the band take advantage to divulge.

Really nice are the old success that they don’t forget to sing there, like “Linger”, “Dreams” and “Zombie”

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Concert will homage Nobel Peace

Source: Newspaper “O Estado de Sao Paulo”, 1998
Date: 1998
Translated from Portuguese by Cranspektrum

New York – A concert to homage the winner of the Nobel Peace prize was marked for the day 11 of December, in Oslo, in Norway. Alanis Morissete, Cranberries and A-Ha will present in show, that will be one day after the official announcement of the prize. In the last year, Jewel, Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men and Sinead O’Connor performed to homage the activist Jody Williams, answerable for a campaign to finish with the miner fields. The homage of 1996 figured with Joan Osbourne and Angelique Kidio, who performed to Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta. The two distributed the prize by their contribution in tue question of the East Timor.

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MCM 2002

Source: MCM 2002
Translated from French by Florence Corfiotti

MCM clips:

After a career of 12 years, the cranberries release their best of “stars”. The touching voice of Dolores O’Riordan and the Celt memories are the main asset of the cranberries.

MCM En zappant:

12 years of career for the cranberries: band came for Limerick, Ireland. It’s with the coming in the band of Dolores O’Riordan, the singer with a voice so amazing, that our Irish reach to the top. To celebrate the path of success with hits like “zombie” or “linger”, they release a best of, a few months after their last cd “wake up and smell the coffee”, always at the top. Dolores says: “for me, it’s the end of an era and the beginning of the other.” Let’s go for a new musical adventure.

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GALA France

Source: GALA France 2002
Translated from French by Florence Corfiotti

Normally, a rock star that comes in a luxurious place is following with a horde of fans. But when it’s Dolores, the singer of the cranberries, who put his baggages in Georges V at Paris, it’s with her family: her husband Don and their 2 children: Taylor (4) and Molly (1). A bit of sweetness in a hard world…

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Irish band The Cranberries will Record In Spain

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Translated from Spanish by cristóbal

The Irish band The Cranberries, will participate as the open act for The Rolling Stones, in some of their (Rolling Stones) couple of dates in Europe the next year. Michael Gerard Hogan, Cranberries basses, said he is thankful about the opportunity of play with one of the most important band in the world, but saying also they’re actually not very fans of the band.

“Is something fantastic, because they’re a music legend, and this time will be the first will be performing like an opening act for them, even though I’m not the best Stones fan”, said the band’s basses. Hogan guaranteed that the invitation to play with the Rolling Stones, happened because “we have the same company which program the tours, so they proposed to us to be part of that, and of course, we accepted, but we they will be only 4 or 6 dates in Europe.” The Cranberries now are in the “Stars: Best of 1992 – 2002″ promotion, their greatest hits album which was released in September.

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The Cranberries and The Rolling Stones Will be together in Europe

Source: Click Here
Translated from Spanish by cristóbal

The Irish band The Cranberries, will participate as the open act for The Rolling Stones, in some of their (Rolling Stones) couple of dates in Europe the next year. Michael Gerard Hogan, Cranberries basses, said he is thankful about the opportunity of play with one of the most important band in the world, but saying also they’re actually not very fans of the band.

“Is something fantastic, because they’re a music legend, and this time will be the first will be performing like an opening act for them, even though I’m not the best Stones fan”, said the band’s basses. Hogan guaranteed that the invitation to play with the Rolling Stones, happened because “we have the same company which program the tours, so they proposed to us to be part of that, and of course, we accepted, but we they will be only 4 or 6 dates in Europe.” The Cranberries now are in the “Stars: Best of 1992 – 2002″ promotion, their greatest hits album which was released in September.

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Untitled

Source: Click Here
Translated from Spanish by cristóbal

That The Cranberries are a group of singles, no doubt about it, and that’s the reason of why their concerts become from all of them, is known by everybody. Something like that was on mind before the concert, and that’s what finally happened. The usual place for big concerts, La Plaza De Toros De Vistalegre, had inside a fans legion, which was listening and enjoying the performances of Weezer and Dover, in one of those exhaustive concerts that finally get bored to fans of one group and not of the other one. Past 11 o’clock of a Wednesday, and for close the macro concert, was coming out to the stage the “star band”, that didn’t take so long to perform “Zombie” like the second song from an extensive set.

Next, “Salvation” which live is always good, “Just My Imagination” , “You And Me” or “Ode To My Family”, good songs for the encore. And they continued until they finished their singles from the last eight years. Maybe you agree with me in the fact that the best of seeing The Cranberries live, is too see on stage Dolores O’Riordan, because of the fetishist character of her moves, and to listen those characteristic gurgles which live, they sound sincerely good. Some minutes before the end of the concert, in a work day when the subway closes at 1.00, some fans started to walk to the exit, while “Animal Instinct” was sounding like the encore.

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THE CRANBERRIES THE FIRST BAND TO HAVE AN ANIMAL ON VOCALS?

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Translated from Dutch by MB_Number5

Or did you want to claim that when you hear the song Zombie from this band on the radio like me Saturday, or maybe you play the CD with this song on it simply because it’s in your collection, you never think: “jee, that Dolores O’Riordan is just like a braying donkey.” IAAAHead IAAAHead they are fighting. I don’t think it’s such a bad song on itself, but that braying in the chorus could have been less, if you ask me. By the way; Dolores’ looks always remind me of an old lover of mine…

POSTED BY FROMMEL AT 09:15

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Singers supporting Joesjtsjenko

Translated from Dutch by MB_Number5

Joe Cocker and Sting are setting in for the presidents candidate Viktor Joesjtsjenko of the opposition in the new presidents election in Ukraine on Sunday. On Friday the stars were in a video on the public television in the country. That is reported by the German newspaper Der Spiegel. In the clip the singers summon honest elections.

During the presidents elections last month in Ukraine fraud was practised, which resulted in huge protests. Eventually the elections were declared invalid. It’s very important to Joe Cocker to show his support to the Ukranian nation, because it “strives after a peaceful way to freedom and democration” according to his opinion. According to the singer democration is only working when that’s genuine. He hopes that the re-elections will pass in an honest way, because that’s the only way to reach “ real democration”.

Besides Sting and Joe Cocker also the bands The Cranberries and The Cure have set in for the elections by showing their support to the opposition in TV commercials. According to the organizers of the campaign the goal is too keep the international pressure down on the ruling party of prime minister Viktor Janoekovitsj.

http://www.nieuws.nl/archief/2004-12-25/9741/Zangers_steunen_Joesjtsjenko

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Cranberries singer to quarrel with nanny

Translated from Dutch by MB_Number5

UTRECHT – 02/05/04 – Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan is at loggerheads with a former nanny. The 34-year-old woman, Joy Fahy sued O’Riordan and her husband. According to the baby sitter the married couple had comitted breach of contract.

The court house in Dublin did not esteem the accusations proven. The BBC reported that judge Jonathan Quirke obliged the “nanny” to pay for the whole trial, almost 300.000 euro. Joy Fahy considers to appeal to a higher court. The accuser will receive 1500 euro, because she left a couple of possesions in the house of her bosses after she left.

Fahy has no idea how she should pay for the costs. “I’m just a nanny”, she said according to the BBC after the verdict. “But I still have my honesty and my dignity”. Fahy demanded a Cherokee Jeep, 12,700 euro and a initial payment for an appartment. After the trial the Cranberries singer said that she wishes to leave the whole case behind.

http://www.12move.nl/content/article/oenten/568266.htm

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Performance The Cranberries

Translated from Dutch by MB_Number5

The Cranberries banged into the charts with their world single Linger. There were 5 million (!) copies sold of their debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?. With Zombie the band reached again the highest peaks of the charts. And it kept raining hits.
Now that the band exists for ten years, there was a “Best Of” album released with all the hits on it, AND the song Daffodil Lament. This song was picked by the fans because the song was never released on single.
The Irish band played at the beginning of this year in the Heineken Music Hall like they did before, and that gig was sold out in no-time.

Company: The Cranberries

http://www.theater.nl/onstage/0,2083,1615_1132%5E1129-90862,00.html

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DJ Kickens latest production

Translated from Dutch by MB_Number5
Date: 8-11-2005

The latest production of DJ Kicken is finally out on CD single.

DJ Kickens original idea to remix Zombie of The Cranberries is finally available on CD single.

And it’s gonna be the succesor of the remake of the old Aha classic Take On Me by the name Maximus vs Banks feat Jason.

De record is being played by a couple of DJ’s for more than a month and is very popular by the audiance, also because of the jumpsound ofcourse that also became known in the DJ Kicken hits Alcoholic Party and Happy together.

The single will be released by Berk Music with 4 versions on it including the DJ Kicken version.

http://www.janvis.nl/hotnews1.php?NewsID=104762

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Cranberries, The

Translated from Dutch by MB_Number5

The Irish band ‘The Cranberries’ with eyecatcher Dolores O’Riordan was established in the late 80’s, but the succes at the beginning was still far away. The decent, soft songs hardly attracted some audiance in Ireland and England, where the audiance was not really fond of them.
A band from Ireland; that had to be either sturdy rock or a bit folk, but nothing in between, according to the people. The album ‘Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?’ from 1993 was about to flop, untill a few American radio stations picked it up. They started to play the single ‘Linger’, which even became a hit.While they were completely unknown in Europe, The Cranberries were suddenly one of the hottest bands in the US.

In late 1994 a new album was released, ‘No Need To Argue’.There was some more sturdy material on it and even a tearing guitar was percieved here and there. That was very obvious on ‘Zombie’, a real rock classic that will be in the All Time Top 100 without any doubt. The exclusive combination of sturdy guitars and Dolores’ quite soft voice makes ‘Zombie’a suprising but excellent hit. By late ’94 the single was even on number 2 of the Top 40, just behind ‘I Will Survive’ from the Hermes House Band.

It’s a pity that the band kind of turned out to be a one hit wonder, ‘cause after the hit single ‘Ode To My Family’ it became a little quit around The Cranberries. Once in a while they come up with an album like ‘Wake Up And Smell The Coffee’ from 2001, but those albums did not exactly set the rock world on fire.

http://www.q-music.be/bios/uitvoerder.php?bio_id=11327

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A short review of WUASTC

Translated from Dutch by MB_Number5

The Cranberries don’t have the popularity they had in the No Need To Argue era in ’94 by a long shot. Over the years the band started to sound decent. The songs are good, simple, innocent and beautiful, but they don’t offer any suprises anymore: streamlined, atmospheric and playing along. The orchestration colours the song material. One thing that’s striking, is that Dolores O’Riordans voice sounds less forced and more natural.

http://www.musiczine.net/cdnl.php?x=cranberries_the_wake_up_and_smell_the_coffee_The%20Cranberries&a=1&c=2728

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Dolores to grow on stage (Ireland) 22.01.04

Translated from Dutch by MB_Number5

CRANBERRIES star Dolores O’Riordan says her ambition os to back on stage by the age of 40.
The mother of two is living in Toronto with husband Don Burton says she wants to see her children to grow up proud of her – and see her perform.

“My pesonal ambition os to see my two kids grow up healthy and intellingent, happy and proud of me. And maybe one day standing in the audience at a gig shouting up at me to rock my socks off.

“When I’m 40 I want to be up on stage like Tina Turner – Me in my stilettos!”

The star says the Cranberries have temporarity split up as she wants to be a full-time lacking in challenge – it’s time to experiment,” said Dolores.

I’ve got mixed feelings with this box. On one hand this is a real exemplary release, on the other hand I wonder who is actually waiting for this. In this Treasure Box are the first four albums of The Cranberries, each completed with a few bonus tracks, remastered and provided with a complete new design. The lyrics of all songs are printed in the inlay and there are liner notes of the designer. The bonus tracks mainly consist of B-sides and songs which are recorded for other projects, like Ave Maria (with Pavarotti). Most of the songs are not inferior to the album tracks and there are real pieces of gold among them, like the marvelous Fleetwood Mac-cover Go Your Own Way, they could only have left that weird remix of Zombie behind. Treasure Box perfectly reflects the development that The Cranberries have been through over the first ten years of their existence: from the Indy-pop from the debut, through the atmospheric No Need To Argue (maybe not the best, but according to the undersigned definitely the most beautiful album of the last decennium), to the sturdy To The Faithful Departed and the polished Bury The Hatchet. It’s too bad that there’s only one song from the debut album on it, but that does not alter the fact that this box is a wonderful document of this marked band. Too bad that the price (just as much as the original records together) and the fact that the majority of the fans already have these songs a long time make this release slightly dubious.

Armed with enough provisions for a week, Jessica van Kessel planned to sit out the marathon broadcast of Woodstock ’94. But after one day of watching TV quite bored, she knew she wouldn’t take it. Until that moment late at night when a very young band entered the stage. “From the first tone I was suddenly awake, with that obstinate voice, those exclusive lyrics and beautiful arrangements The Cranberries obviously distinguished themselves from all those predictable set bands from the 90’s. They made the biggest impression with Zombie, that became a hit because of that gig. Then I turned the TV off, I was convinced that I’d already seen the highlights of the festival. The following years I’ve seen the band performing about 8 times myself. It ranged from the 013, a very old 30’s theatre, big arenas and a mixing studio, to the inner-court of a castle in Dublin. I think their concert in the Heineken Music Hall is one of their best. The sound was rubbish now and then, but the enthusiasm of the band and Dolores’ energetic performance made it up. It was very obvious that the band really enjoyed what they were doing, and the audience picks things like that up very quickly: the first 15 rows were jumping all the time, and sang along with devotion from the beginning till the end. During this tour The Cranberries change their set list very often, and they try to play songs which are never heard live by most of the fans. Friday night it were Joe and The Concept. The balance between the typical sharp Cranberries songs like Ridiculous Thoughts, and modest and fragile songs like Daffodil Lament was really perfect. By the way, the gigs of The Cranberries aren’t boring in any case, because of their renewing tackling. I could see them every week!”

One day, quite soon maybe, you’ll get to hear the whole story. Part of it will be about how one sophisticated London gent took it upon himself to fete the wide-eyed Cranberries with an hardly exotic stuff, but, to use his own words, he ‘may as well have asked them to eat a bat” Unspoilt, The Cranberries really are wild young things.

Singer Dolores hasn’t yet learnt to banish hurt and bewilderment from her clean-cut face. Regrettably, she keeps her head in profile for most of the gig, trying desperately to hide what most singers try to replicate all the time. And let’s take a stab at that voice. She has the voice of a saint stuck in a glass harp while being pelted with ice cubes by vicious Clangers… no? Okay, she singles like an escapee from Les Voix Bulgares, grazed, brave and wounded.

Their shyness is not only painful, but infectious too. We can hardly bear to look until the first four songs have shot by. And them it’s even more embarrassing to watch because they’re so shamingly perfect! Just for a minute, “Put Me Down” recalls The Undertones at their most poignant, and then suddenly there’s a break where the cymbals crash and Dolores sings down what must be the whole of her Irish ancestry in one glorious descent. These are the most beautiful high notes you’’ ever get to hear outside of La Scala, except they’re untrained and inglorious.

What about lyrics, then? Well, there are some buttock-clenching moments like one song where “The world’s an illusion” and Dolores swears “I’m on your side”, but who cares? Dolores means it and we happen to be living in times when “Can you dig it? Ugh eugh ooh” passes for lyrics! Pah, we’ll forgive The Cranberries anything. When Dolores sings “So why are you holding her hand?”, you catch yourself mumbling, I’ll get her for your, under your breath. You can’t for the life of you remember what the word “jaded” means.

Halfway though their set they’ve overtaken Curve and The Sundays. The indie world will prove too small for them. They’re not knock-kneed, they’re not inept and they’re not transparent yellow. “Dreams” rumbles ahead, a giant pop song, ordinary until Dolores’ voice shoots up like a lift that’s suddenly decided it wants to take you to the top floor. Pop’s penthouse suite awaits The Cranberries.

The Cranberries are probably too tender for all of this, but right now they have all our hopes to weigh them down. They’re charming little innocents, so untouched, so perfect, so astoundingly pure. They’ve come from a city that isn’t Dublin, from a county where politics are conservative and where Gaelic games and rugby offer some small social hope. They thing small, embarrassed by what they’ve suddenly become. By what we’ve painted them up to be. To singer Dolores, pop songs have nothing to do with video and make-up. Nothing to do with fanciful clothes. She’s stopped reading her band’s press because she doesn’t need us to tell her who she is. And when she stands still, saying little, in places like this, it’s because she’s very unsure about all of the fuss. The Cranberries, understand, are charmingly naive, It is their single greatest attribute.

They have no idea, see, of how good they are. Of how important they might yet become to those of us who’ve become too familiar with mediocrity and mundanity. The Cranberries had never hears of The Sundays or Throwing Muses nine months ago. The songs just happened. They just came our. We believe that. The Cranberries are too frail to be contrived. And while a line like “I was just 16 years old when I married you / And now it’s just a stupid mess I don’t know what to do” might seen trite, then you have to understand that Dolores is 18 years old and coming from what is essentially a very narrow rural tradition. And she writes nothing like The Saw Doctors.

Tonight is all very full, lots of old songs, gorgeous songs, “Put Me Down” with its spine-shill jangle and hum, “Linger” with its gloriously spellbound simplicity, “Dreams” with its curious drum thud. Dolores even plays some acoustic guitar but it look all wrong, all too cumbersome for her. It still sounds very fine, though, and “Reason” and “Pathetic Senses” become huge shimmering pop songs, songs that Johnny Marr, for instance, would collect and play. “Liar” owes to Pixies’ “Is She Weird” but we’re not here to look for clues. We’re here to love a band wholly. To hug them and kiss them. Tonight beauty does what beauty does best. Be beautiful.

The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?

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Translated from Spanish by cristóbal

The Cranberries were founded in May 1990, and after publishing an EP call “Uncertain”, they released their first album “Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?” in 1993.
Their debut album has sold over 8 million copies worldwide, although it hasn’t sold 17 million copies as “No Need To Argue”, we can say that album sold well because of the first album.

The beginnings are never easy, but The Cranberries are the exception. When the album is released, people is indifferent to it, but its release in United States a year later, companied by a successful tour, makes a re edition of the album, and then it got the first place in UK album charts. The album in that year had long life, with songs like “Linger”, full of brilliant arrangements, “Dreams”, a positive song that mix the power and melody tension, and “Pretty”.

The guitarist Noel Hogan co wrote all songs, except three of them, with Dolores O’riordan, showing a wonderful talent when they played the songs.

O’riordan wrote songs full of romantic reflections, and she made clearer that she has a voice that many Opera performers would like to have.

The Cranberries surprised everyone in the world of music since the beginning, because they navigated against the fluid of Grunge, Hip Hop and House genres, music that used to conquer the first places in rankings on the entire world. The recipe: sounds of guitars from Rock Indie and Post Punk influences, some elements from Celtic music, and a powerful and touching voice.

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The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?

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Translated from Spanish by cristóbal

What The Cranberries made and got during the 90’s begins was not common, especially with their albums names. When Grunge and G – Funk were very famous (Nirvana, Dr. Dre), with “Everybody…”, Cranberries got number one spot in the England charts, a some time later they got more success in United States.
Guitarist Noel Hogan, who was the band’s center in that time, co-wrote all the songs, except 3, with Dolores O’Riordan, showing a nice “economy” when they played, which with Stephen Street’s production got a big projection and some delicate waves of quiet rhythms.
O’Riordan offers us lyrics full of romantic reflections, and she made very clear that she has a vocal ability that many opera performers want to have.
The best 2 songs from the album, that got a lot of success, are “Dreams”, a strong song that mix the melody tension with excellent rock moments, and the melancholic “Linger”, full of really impressive chords arrangements.
Listening to “Everybody…” is a real pleasure to ears, showing an excellent voice of O’Riordan, and the work of a young band creating a beautiful synthesis of sounds.

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Source: Unknown (maybe it’s Melody Maker)
Author Jennifer Nine

GRADUAL pleasure, this one. Not because it takes long to sidle beneath your skin, because it doesn’t. But it spreads like a slow smile on the face of the one you love.

Personally I think it has a lot to do with the letter “r”. Coming from a country where this consonant is pronounced properly, I’ve a certain sympathy for the Irish, who do it too. Dolores O’Riordan knows, among other things, how to use her ‘rrrr’s, and it’s a jumping-off point to understanding the lovely undentimentality of her voice, and it’s curling, brisk, quiet touch.

Take “Linger”, for example, though not my copy. It’s got lots of “r”s, and you hear them loud and clear though the Jimmy Webb-colored strings and all the other gentle sounds (guitar, always the pristine guitar) that producer Stephen Street sifts our with a careful, even hand. And maybe it’s because of those sharp corners that, help up against The Sundays (to whom they will always be compared, for the pos-Smiths atmospherics as much as for the girl singer/dreamy guitar pop configuration), The Cranberries sound infinitely less cultivated. In the sense of picket fences, tidiness, and prim preciosity, that is.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a point on this record where loud, angsty bits underscore The Cranberries’ proud intentions. Although at points, it’s true, the drums thud with a blood-pulsing command (“Wanted”, “Still Can’t”) that does the work of any screaming riffs you’d care to name. Or, on “Pretty”, which does everything but ape its title in the way you’d expect, the whiff of a New Order-ish melancholy bass line tugs at the memory banks.

If there’s a lyrical agenda for this record, and I don’t doubt that there is, The Cranberries make it shimmer and dance just outside the reach of our ears. It might well be about the gulf between the short names we give things – regret, defiance, love and no-longer-love-and the shifting, exclusive truth of what they become. Each time Dolores sins “I don’t want to leave you / Even though I had to / I don’t want to live you / Even though I still do”, (“I Still Do”) each repetition offers greater, sadder little truths. Or, on “Dreams”, whose buoyant dynamics are as exhilarating as watching a horse’s legs gather into a gallop, she exclaims “It’s never quite as it seems / Cos you’re a dream to me,” with such evident, painspoken delight that it makes more comparison.

Life many small things, Dolores’ voice is neither as simple nor as frail as it seems, and there’s a world of headstrong energy inside it. It’s in the weird ululations that conclude “Dreads”, verging close to the unearthly; it’s there, too, in the brittle bones of “Waltzing Back”, in which she gulps, “Who gave them the right?” over and over, as thirsty for justice as for air. The bleakly gorgeous, piano-haunted “Not Sorry” shows she could easily be Mary Margaret O’Haza, or Sinead, if she liked. And in contrast, and with equal ease, she makes “I Will Always” a dreamy amble, and the album-closing “Put Me Down” all effortless meringue-clouds and sun showers.

Countless times, while listening to this record, I’m on the verge of recognizing some favorite, forgotten song, something sad or comforting. But I can’t seem to pin any of them down, as hard as I think around the dusty corners of my record collection. I think, in fact, it’s simply the sound of this record, already all the way though to my bones.

When we Americans hear the term “Irish band”, we tend to think of the music of U2, Van Morrison, the Pogues, and Sinead O’Connor, musicians who, despite their differences, have the interesting reputation of possessing far more pure spiritual intensity than your average white band.

One wonders what Ireland’s Cranberries, whose Island debut, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, has recently hit the racks, think of the stereotype.

“it’s probably the way our purer people are brought up”, suggests Noel Hogan, the band’s main guitarist and melody-writer. “The Church would probably play a big part. Our parents are usually very religious, and when I was young I went to Mass every Sunday. Confession, too. Everybody I knew did.”

Dolores O’Riordan, the lead-singing Cranberry whose haunting and piercing voice receives the majority of her group’s adulation, concurs. “I suppose there’s a lot of culture involved in those bands you just names. The Irish culture is very strong.”

Like Noel, she credits the Roman Catholic upbringing that her countrymen receive for that strength.

It’s a nice childhood to have”, she explains. “I think I’ve become more aware of how nice it s since I’ve begun to travel and see a lot of corrupt and disgusting things.”

Dolores’s referring to a walk on the wild side she recently tool. “We were in Amsterdam, and I went down to the red light district. I was disgusted.”

Her brogue-heavy voice drops to a whisper, and she shudders as if she’d just stepped on a cockroach. “I wanted to see the planet – both extremes – but I was just shocked.”

I make the mistake of asking… and what did she find so shocking?

“Women sitting in windows with no clothes on!” she shoots back.

“You have that in America, too, don’t you?”

Uh, well, gee, I don’t know about –

“It’s really bad in Amsterdam. They’re really into pornography and all that business. I was so disgusted I didn’t want to be there anymore.

“But,” she interjects, “it’s good to get to travel and see things.”

The Cranberries are certainly getting to travel and see more of America then they ever expected to see, first doing their own tour in back June, then opening for the The-Frank Black tour, then hooking up with Suede. Those co-headlining dates with Suede seemed like an enchanting path to up and coming talented band Nirvana. It was an inspired idea, but things began to go wrong when Suede were forced to cancel shows in the Midwest due to a death in a band member’s family. The Cranberries suddenly found themselves doing part of tour solo. Then in a surprising move, they bowed out of the last days of the Suede tour, deciding to opt for opening for Duran Duran’s second extensive sweep through America from mid-October well into December. Perhaps The Cranberries just have a preference for bands with repeated words. What was even more surprising was that Suede cancelled its remaining dates after New York City once the lost the ‘Berries. No specific reason was given but one can only guess. Now The Cranberries are lucky enough to travel to exotic locales like Thibodaux, LA and Bethlehem, PA, but unlucky enough to have Duran Duran postpone those four dates at the legendary Radio City Music Hall. DD lead vocalist Simon LeBon ruptured something in his throat… hmm, perhaps he tried competing with Dolores’ soaring range?

Even so, all this travel is probably quite an event fir this subtle yet savage band. For most of their young lives (average Cranberry age: 22), the four Cranberries have lived in Limerick, Ireland’s third biggest city, according to Noel, with a population between 60 and 70 thousand. Dolores describes her upbringing as very sheltered and strict. Unlike Northern Ireland with its religious and political strife, Limerick still boasts ways of Irish life more in keeping with the romanticized versions as conveyed by Hollywood, Lucky Charms, and Irish Spring.

“When people thing of Ireland.” observes Noel, “they usually think of Dublin. But there are a lot of nicer places. Near where we live there are a lot of beaches and things.”

It was in this rich, elemental setting that The Cranberries – Dolores, Noel, Noel’s younger brother Mike (bass) and Feargal Lawlor (drums) – grew up and had their senses trained, and their rich, elemental music reflects it. Dolores has made much of her enjoyment of church music but insists that the British press has made too much of their Catholic upbringing with regard to the group as a whole. The Cranberries’ music, after all, even at its most gorgeous and ethereal, as in the songs “Dreams”, “Sunday”, and “Linger”, is at least as sensuous as it is spiritual. It’s also not surprising that Dolores openly attacks the British press, as she’s seen too much of what it can do to a fledgling band. Instead, she’s already shoving them away, making sure they can do no harm to her though her words.

What really sets the band apart from the spiritual are the aggressiveness of Dolores’ lyrics, which can range to the bewildered to the bitter. And when she performs these songs live, the intensity of the words shine though with much more conviction then on album. The album can convey a cuddly warmth due to the purity of the music, whereas live Dolores uses her voice as a weapon, striking notes with a vengeance. That slightly sweet cast that coasts the album is totally shredded, much the better for the band’s music.

At it’s best on their debut album the band grounds Dolores’s church-honed gift for improvisational vocalize in folk-pop melodies that betray her bandmates’ familiarity with the popish turn European post-punk took in the mid-eighties, they sound too tart. “Waltzing Back”s martial drums and melody, for instance, echo U2’s ‘Sundays Bloody Sunday’ to a fault.

But the live setting is the time to prove what you’re really made of, and here The Cranberries are living to their name, strangely bitter yet decidedly tasty. When they don’t add any sugar, the do sound tart, full of sharp bite. But live when they go into the aforementioned gorgeous and ethereal “Dreams”, “Sunday”, and “Linger”, Dolores creates a bewitching spell that only becomes more precious when contrasted against her onstage black-clad banshee demeanor.

“Linger’ is the first song we ever wrote,” states Dolores incredibly. Who would’ve thought anyone could’ve concocted such a perfect tune on the first try? “It’s our baby. There are only four chords, but it’s a grand song.”

Of the songs she and Noel have written since The Cranberries recorded Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? Nearly one year ago, Dolores says, “I suppose they’re getting more experimental, musically. And maybe the topics are becoming a little more open and widespread.”

And more political, too. Onstage she describes a new song, “Zombie”, as being dedicated as their song for peace in Northern Ireland. The song has a finely honed edge to it, Dolores using it as a steely sonic sword to get her message across. In the context of their current set, it is the most serious and savage song, Dolores giving every fiver of her being over to it. This song also tells fans that if this is the oath their music is going to be taking, their second album could be a brilliant affair indeed, spiked with vinegar instead of sugar. Nice will no longer be the overused word for this beginning band.

Does Dolores worry that her songs, old or new, might lode something in translation as these tours the The and Duran Duran load the band to the largest venues of its three-year career?

“No,” she answers. “The more the merrier.”

And all of a sudden. Dolores sounds less like an ex-choirgirl from the quieter parts of Ireland and more like the unlikely candidate for pop stardom her band’s music has made her. As transitions go, this one should prove fun to listen to and watch. It may well be the Cranberries who will soon be headlining dates at Radio City, instead of opening for others: their album crashed into the top 50 party that’s normally reserved for those less talented…

Probably Dolores’ biggest task for now is to get the rest of the band over their intense stage fight. Bassist Mike acts as if he moves his fingers too hard someone will scold him for being too active. Brother Noel just needs to accept the fact that you can’t get around being onstage when you perform live, although his excursions into feedback prove promising.

But when the brothers trade a shy smile across the stage while Dolores is hitting some if her stunning high notes, you can tell they’re mentally thanking the day they found her.

And when Dolores decides to do a little step dancing at the conclusion of ‘Liar’, performing these precise steps in her bare feet, you can tell she’s taking these large venue tours in stride and also nodding to her Celtic heritage, even if at times she resents having the tag of Irish band adhered to her group. If she’s having any stage fight she’s certainly not going to let it show. Not Dolores. She has the secret to her band’s success contained in her petite frame, and while she’ll share that amazing gift of a voice with you, she’s not going to give anything else away. Not just yet. She’s seen enough to understand that once people get a taste, they could well devour a young band whole without any remorse for their inner feelings and personal pride.

But in the future… like I said, the transition should prove to be glorious indeed. They already have the pure power… they just need to weild it with all hands held fast.

The word nice will no longer apply. And thank Dolores for that.

The main references about the irish group The Cranberries fall back into the vocalist Dolores O’Riordan. And indeed she doesn’t have only a nice voice, like also is different from the other singers in style of Liz Fraser (who has been frequently compared). That can be considered a great injustice, since – honestly – as Fraser as most of the singers in this style seem everything absolutely the same.

O’Riordan also get to show other talents, besides her voice: she wrote all 13 tracks of this album and signed all the arrangements of strings that frame great part of the excellent repertory.

By the woof of the acoustic guitars, of the keyboards and the soft repercussion drawing itself melodies that are impregnated of a subtle beauty, in which insinuate itself the inebriant vocals of O’Riordan. The registers she presents get to go of the more easy delicacy to emblems totally aggressive and energetic.

Even the compositions which in a first hearing sound trivial, after make gigantic itself, involving us with seduction, from a magic hypnotic effect.

Stephen Street (who already had worked with The Smiths and Morrissey) signed the production of “No Need To Argue” like he have done in the last album of the group, “Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?”. What just come to reinforce the emblems and the sophisticated sonority quality of Dolores O’Riordan & Co.

Author: ERIN HAWKINS

Some things are so catchy and compelling that you have to swallow your
pride and shed the heavy coat of Rotate This ethics that keeps telling
you: “If it ain’t on Touch And Go, don’t buy it.”

Sure, it clashed with the Jesus Lizard part of your brain, but you
liked “Linger.” You didn’t enjoy liking it, but you found yourself
humming it as you weaved through the downtown traffic on your
customized mountain bike. It’s true — admit it. You like that new
Sheryl Crow song too, but we won’t get into that.

Last year’s Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? was a sweet
little album, full of sweet little love songs. Though the disc wasn’t
vacuum-sealed by critical acclaim, their wispy tunes conquered the
college charts, and the rest of the continent willingly followed. But
who could blame them? Dolores’ voice is just so beautiful.

A mere year later, The Cranberries are back with the striking
follow-up, No Need To Argue. They’ve kept the couch motif to their
artwork, but that’s about the only constant. This time around, the
songs and production are much crisper and cleaner — and Dolores is
writing less ephemeral tunes about her boyfriends and more about the
human condition and strife in their native Ireland.

The sentiment behind the first single, “Zombie” — a buzzing
five-minute condemnation of IRA terrorism — is positively chilling:
“Another head hangs lowly/ Child is slowly taken,” she sings. “And the
violence caused such silence/ Who are we mistaken.” This is the most
captivating pop song I’ve heard all year.

There’s still the odd angelic bittersweet melody for the ethereal set
latched onto Everybody Else…. It’s not like they’ve gone New Model
Army or anything. But when I’m given the choice between pixie dust and
the bleak, rugged landscape, I’ll take their sparse “Yeats Grave,” a
well-worn novel and a dark pint of lager — and drink the fairy kingdom
away.

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The Cranberries, the new sensation

Source: Magazine “Amiga”, 1994
Translated from Portuguese by Cranspektrum

“No Need To Argue” is the second work of a band with undiscussable talent. This new work from The Cranberries show a bit of the crop of the worldwide pop, that don’t have nothing what stay owing to the old kings of the pop music. Packed by Dolores O’Riordan and her unconfoundable vocal timbre, the group waste quality. “No Need To Argue” has notable songs, with packed lyrics, all of them very well arranged as though can to confirm in ‘‘Ode To My Family’, ‘Dreaming My Dreams’, ‘Empty’, ‘Twenty One’, ‘Zombie’ and ‘Daffodil Lament’.

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No Need to Argue Review

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Translated from Spanish by cristóbal

After the success of their first work “Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?”, the second album of The Cranberries, “No Need To Argue”, offers to us more of the fantastic Cranberries pop. Until the peaks of the atmospheric, captivating, and unquiet voice which made the band international stars, “No Need to Argue” continues with the Cranberries traditional emotive orchestral pop. The soft acoustic arrangements of Dolores O’Riordan, the ethereal lyrics, and the amazing sound used in the songs, make The Cranberries one of the best quality bands. But the O’Riordan obsession to describe the Irish life destructed by the war, make them being far from the other artists from the same time. In the exciting “Ode To my Family”, O’Riordan asks repeatedly “Does Anyone Care?”, and the effect results devastating. “Ode to My Family” is an instant picture of kids playing in the wreckage in Belfast, and “No Need to Argue” is the background.

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The Cranberries: No Need To Argue (Island 1994)

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Translated from Spanish by cristóbal

This is one of the most essential albums of the 90’s, and maybe one of the albums that I used to listen more (in cassette). Today, with more opinion, I can say that is a perfect album, because of that balance between the slow songs (Ode To My Family, Twenty One, No Need To Argue), and those rocker ones (Zombie, hard as the aspect it’s about, and Ridiculous Thoughts), the rest of their discography has very good songs also, that weren’t unnoticed, although they weren’t very popular as the singles from this album.

Maybe it was in the stop between the third and the fourth album (1996 – 1999), when they followed the Pop way (with songs like “Animal Instinct), and years later, they finally diluted until the band’s separation moment.

For me is one of those bands (for example like No Doubt) that with their most successful album and the final greatest hits collection, you can make a great view about what they have done, and you can enjoy the best in music.

What I like from the album No Need To Argue, is the way how Dolores sing, that sometimes reminds me of Sinead O’connor, the moments with more guitars, and the simple production, with a few arrangements (some chords, in Empty for example). A clear and a direct Pop-Rock.
And what can I say about the cover? I just love it, and they didn’t make another good one, except for the Wake Up And Smell The Coffee cover, but in this case, is a completely different style.

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The Cranberries: No Need To Argue

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Translated from Spanish by cristóbal

With their last surprising success, Cranberries decided to create a second part, with no risking to make excessive changes, a fact that made them more successful.

The album repeats the ideas from the first album, because they resorted again to Stephen Street’s help. The song that opens the album is one of the best songs written by Dolores O’Riordan, with charming chords arrangements made by the guitarist.

“No Need…”is better in the parts when Cranberries works on structures that they dominate, getting nice songs like: “Twenty One”, the howl song “Daffodil Lament”, the epic one “Zombie”, and the provocative “Disappointment”.

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The Cranberries: The vocal quivers of a diva named Dolores

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Translated from Spanish by cristóbal

Dolores O’Riordan has made people love her or hate her in front of a group that has found success involuntarily, because of a song like “Zombie”.
When something like that happens, it means that the band has surpassed the popular aspect, to have a place in the honors division.

Now everybody knows the story of this Irish band that went to United States with Suede, and that with the album “Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?” sold more copies than the expected at first.

Sometimes the art born from the suffering, but to avoid the opposite, Dolores O’Riordan had to despise success, catching her guitar in the first place she found, while the audience clapped their hands. That’s the way she created the songs from the second album “No Need To Argue”.

Live Spirit: “This album is more real than the last one, I don’t know if is in her face, like Michael Stipe could say, but it’s nearest from live concerts than the other one”.

The tour is the fact that inspire a band to go home to rest or record. Cranberries are out from the hometown since one year ago.