Crap/Not Crap: The Cranberries

[krtek a houby]

I always liked The Cranberries, but until 10 years ago I had not listened to everything they did in the 90s, and curiously the songs that I liked the most as a child are the ones that I like the least now. And the most unknown songs that I've only known for 10 years (many of the B sides) are the ones I enjoy the most now.

Yes, taste varies with age. Stuff you might not have appreciated back then, you might now. And vice-versa.

Personally, feel that the first album was never topped. The band had a fresh sound and the production was perfect. It helps that Street produced my favourite Smiths album. But Dolores' voice was always worth a listen to.

 

[Crannadict]

Yes, taste varies with age. Stuff you might not have appreciated back then, you might now. And vice-versa.

Personally, feel that the first album was never topped. The band had a fresh sound and the production was perfect. It helps that Street produced my favourite Smiths album. But Dolores' voice was always worth a listen to.

The Cranberries' debut is my all-time favorite album, alongside Boston's debut Brother In Arms and Bookends. No Need To Argue may be better overall, but the debut is incredibly beautiful.

I feel like To The Faithfull Departed and Bury The Hatchet are still criminally undervalued, especially BTH.

 

[seeformiles]

The LP is Becoming More Like God iirc. It was pretty good at the time, but I've not heard it in decades and have concerns it may not have matured well

Jah Wobble was the last gig I went to before lockdown - he did quite a bit off that LP and it still sounds great

 

[seeformiles]

Maybe I'm not Irish enough

I’m Irish and don’t understand why I should like music just because it comes from where I grew up. I haven’t much time for trad Irish since it’s what my dad listened to and we didn’t have the best relationship. You like what you like

 

[Aladdin]

I’m Irish and don’t understand why I should like music just because it comes from where I grew up. I haven’t much time for trad Irish since it’s what my dad listened to and we didn’t have the best relationship. You like what you like

Absolutely agree with you.
I'm Irish.
Still can't stand Bono...

 

[krtek a houby]

Absolutely agree with you.
I'm Irish.
Still can't stand Bono.

Do like a bit of U2, though.

Listening to David Holmes now.

 

[Aladdin]

Do like a bit of U2, though.

Listening to David Holmes now.

Yes...and to be fair when U2 started gigging at way back they were really quite unique. I loved Out of Control and Boy and The Joshua Tree album. Still have it.

 

[krtek a houby]

Yes...and to be fair when U2 started gigging at way back they were really quite unique. I loved Out of Control and Boy and The Joshua Tree album. Still have it.

Got so much grief from one of my mates - how could I have U2 and joy division in my record collection etc

That's the kind of music snobbery that gets tedious when you're a teen. Nearly 40 years later and it's about as fresh as the joke about rap being spelled with a "c". Or something.

 

[seeformiles]

Still can't stand Bono...

If ever a statement united us all

 

[butchersapron]

Jah Wobble was the last gig I went to before lockdown - he did quite a bit off that LP and it still sounds great

Yes it was the album where her forgave himself for thirty years of violence by being Celtic and African. Worked too.

 

[CNT36]

Beautiful song, is in my particular top 20:

1 Linger
2 Not Sorry
3 Shattered
4 Sunday
5 Ridiculous Thoughts
6 Yeat's Grave
7 Waltzing Back
8 What You Were
9 Liar
11 So Cold In Ireland
12 Dreams
13 Desperate Andy
14 Empty
15 Still Can't
16 Ode To My Family
17 Hollywood
18 Promises
19 Zombie
20 Forever Yellow Skies

Linger is your favourite. You're so inconsequential.

 

[klang]

you must listen to most of the more than 100 songs they have made

isn't that what they do to make people talk nowadays?

 

[nogojones]

It is absurd to say that you do not like one if you have not listened to their repertoire, because it is possible that the best known songs are the ones you would like least if you had listened to the full discography of said band

It's true!

I urge Crannadict to go and listen to the full output by the Blackout Crew. It will change your world

 

[rekil]

Scooter have 20 albums. #listeningpartyinhell

 

[killer b]

I actually quite like a few scooter tracks, but the idea of actively listening to a whole album of them is ludicrous

 

[Spandex]

Masami Akita (best known for Merzbow) has released 370 studio albums, 85 live albums and 33 EPs since 1980...

 

[Orang Utan]

Masami Akita (best known for Merzbow) has released 370 studio albums, 85 live albums and 33 EPs since 1980...

And you have to listen to them all for a full appreciation of his work

 

[Orang Utan]

This thread has now placed Zombie in my head as an ear worm so thanks for that folk

 

[Aladdin]

This thread has now placed Zombie in my head as an ear worm so thanks for that folk

Go listen to the brilliant Chaila Say My Name. It's completely rubbed out all other earworms for me.

 

[Spandex]

And you have to listen to them all for a full appreciation of his work

I've never made it all the way through one Merzbow album. Just 369½ to go before I can stop trying

 

[rekil]

I've never made it all the way through one Merzbow album. Just 369½ to go before I can stop trying

I plan on doing some wyatting and dug up this piece on it yesterday where merzbow got a mention.

Ned Beauman: Wyatting (vb): when jukeboxes go mad

Ned Beauman: Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.

www.theguardian.com

 

[xenon]

no more fucking Cranberries talk, pleeeeeasse!

Cranberries is a shit name for a band anyway...

 

[Aladdin]

no more fucking Cranberries talk, pleeeeeasse!

Cranberries is a shit name for a band anyway...

You could put the thread on ignore...

 

[Crannadict]

Linger is your favourite. You're so inconsequential.

No. Is just a ersonal taste after listening to more than 100 times each album

 

[xenon]

No. Is just a ersonal taste after listening to more than 100 times each album

Who's your top 3 bands?

 

[xenon]

You could put the thread on ignore...

But it would still be happening. Sometimes turning a blind eye is not enough.

 

[Knotted]

And you have to listen to them all for a full appreciation of his work

And fully remove any earwax.

 

[nogojones]

I've never made it all the way through one Merzbow album. Just 369½ to go before I can stop trying

I love Pulse Demon and it deffo clears out any cranberry earworms

 

[CNT36]

No. Is just a ersonal taste after listening to more than 100 times each album

Personal taste is irrelevant. How much did it change the music scene?

 

[nogojones]

no more fucking Cranberries talk, pleeeeeasse!

Cranberries is a shit name for a band anyway...

I think there's scope for a Cranberries subforum. Given the popularity of threads over the past couple of days it could challenge the Dulwitch Hamlet one