When You’re Gone A daily briefing on what matters in the music industry, Ice Cube on Role in Developing Trump Campaign's 'Platinum Plan' for Black America | Billboard News, Billie Eilish Posts Racy Photo to Hit Back at Body-Shamers | Billboard News, The Lincoln Project Shares Powerful Music Video to Demi Lovato's 'Commander in Chief', Here Are the Lyrics to JP Saxe's 'If the World Was Ending,' Feat. The righteous subject matter gives her and the band license to unleash the fury that’s just below the surface on many other Cranberries songs, with O’Riordan howling holy hell over a wall of distortion. They sounded ready to conquer the world. The version on Something Else, the acoustic greatest-hits album the Cranberries made in 2017, is a tearjerker. O’Riordan rhymes “depressed” with “utterly and totally stressed,” later adding, “The thing that freaks me out/ Is I’ll always be in doubt.” The contrast draws you in, and “Animal Instinct” stands as the last great Cranberries single. Blur/Morrissey producer Stephen Street oversaw The Cranberries’ first two albums, and the band reunited with him for their fifth album, Wake Up And Smell The Coffee, in 2001. Blessed with one of O’Riordan’s most luxurious vocals, this sensual pop song is further elevated by a swooning string arrangement overseen by Morrissey/Durutti Column alumnus John Metcalfe. Much better is "Stars," one of the band's more pop-sounding efforts. The fact that this song was originally released as a Europe-only B-side speaks to the very high level that the Cranberries were operating on in ’94. Here are the band’s ten finest moments, some exceedingly familiar, and a few you probably missed. Schizophrenic Playboys 9. home; no need to argue; news; music; gallery; sign up; merch; biography; contact; socials. All it lacked was cultural clout. 4. In 2002, they reunited with producer Stephen Street on Wake Up And Smell The Coffee, but the mainstream had largely lost interest in the band by this point. “They were just chord sequences that kept repeating, and then there might be a change for two chords,” she said. “Away” has one of O’Riordan’s gentlest lead vocals, an aching melody, and a hymn-like lyric that could be about world peace or a loved one’s illness. A gospel choir appears in Sam Smith's "Stay With Me" video, but the vocals on the song are all Smith - about 20 tracks of his voice were used to make him sound like a chorus. Does Angus really drink himself silly? If you choo… Built around chiming, cyclical chords, and sturdy rock rhythms, the song’s lyric is drenched in sorrow (“Lying in my bed again/And I cry ’cause you’re not here”). Zombie In a contemporary review, Hot Press hailed the song and its arrangements, saying that it was stylistically different from the band's previous works: "Staccato rhythms and subtle jerks and pauses in the music and the singing make this more than just business-as-usual for the Cranberries. She was 19. Listen to “Ode To My Family” long enough and you start to wonder. Revealing the influences of Catholicism and traditional church singing on the group, this haunting track’s title translates as ‘Jesus’ and was inspired by O’Riordan’s childhood, when she was a regular soloist at the liturgical events at her school, Laurel Hill in Limerick. Two years after its recording, “Liar” wound up in the teen movie Empire Records, and it’s had a devoted following among fans ever since. But you’ll be missing out on some excellent songs, like this pissed-off gem, released as the second single from To The Faithful Departed. Their debut, Everybody Else is Doing It So Why Can’t We?, was initially ignored when released in early 1993, and it wasn’t until that fall—after the band opened for Suede and Duran Duran on their US tours—that MTV picked up on their single “Linger”. “Ridiculous Thoughts” (No Need to Argue, 1994). For a key track on a multi-million-selling album, the song remains surprisingly overlooked, but it’s an understated treat that more than earns its place among the best Cranberries songs. Back in Limerick circa 1989, when they were still called the Cranberry Saw Us, some other guy was their frontman; when he left, he recommended O’Riordan through a friend of a friend. But they deserved one; fourth album Bury the Hatchet was their sharpest yet, relying on more concrete sounds (hard guitar strums, horn blats, even funky rhythms on “Copycat”) that in turn jelled into concrete songs. The recording studious began a bidding war for the band. "New New York," in which lead singer and songwriter Dolores O'Riordan takes on the September 11 terrorist attacks, is a bit heavy-handed, as O'Riordan confesses that the subject is beyond her ("There's nothing to say") before settling for the anthemic statement, "They won't tear us apart." Also from The Cranberries’ much-acclaimed 1993 debut, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, “Linger” was actually the first song O’Riordan and guitarist Noel Hogan wrote together and it provided the group with their first major international hit. ‘Linger’ Also from The Cranberries’ much-acclaimed 1993 debut, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why …