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Crap/Not Crap: The Cranberries

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

I have already explained it before, I will not repeat it because I am not a parrot. If you do not want to read the thread again, I leave you this video about how The Cranberries and specifically Linger changed the History of Music forever:

 
Fine to like The Cranberries - I don't, much - but to claim they had much of a far reaching effect on any wider music scene is ridiculous imo
Depends on where and what the scene is. As posted previously, when we were in Bali, they were a staple of cover bands in the live scene. Was amazed to hear Zombie, repeatedly, so far from home...

Mean, that's kinda far reached, if not necessarily a wider music scene :)
 
Depends on where and what the scene is. As posted previously, when we were in Bali, they were a staple of cover bands in the live scene. Was amazed to hear Zombie, repeatedly, so far from home...

Mean, that's kinda far reached, if not necessarily a wider music scene :)
I was on holiday in Sicily in 2005 and every single bar seemed to have a band on. And every single band played Every Breath You Take in various souped up styles. I'm assuming it was a hit there that year... :hmm:
 
I was on holiday in Sicily in 2005 and every single bar seemed to have a band on. And every single band played Every Breath You Take in various souped up styles. I'm assuming it was a hit there that year... :hmm:
And possibly a few years after when we were there, sure we heard it at least once. Most unexpected was hearing a jazz/indie band covering Radiohead and joy division, though.
 
I'll give them a chance, something you've never done with The Cranberries discography;)
I admire your enthusiasm and while I've no doubt at all that the Cranberries changed your life forever, to most people they're just one of many successful bands of that era. And that's fine. My favourite band absolutely changed my life, but most people have never heard of them, and when I'm introduced then to friends, most have been indifferent.

What's important is enjoying the music for yourself and being grateful for finding music that makes such a positive difference on your life. Trying to persuade people that the band are really really important for whatever reason is a fruitless task and why should it matter anyway?
 
Who's your favourite band editor ?

Probably The Innocence Mission who specialise in beautiful, autumnal melancholy, in a Sandy Denny/Nick Drake/folkie vein. The singer Karen Peris has one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard.

They're quite religious which is usually the cue for me to dismiss a band out of hand, but the songs are mainly about reflective moments, insecurities, the changing seasons, snow, rain and the beauty of nature. It's fair to say that they've pulled me though some of my darkest moments.

They stared off in a kind of The Sundays vein but have become more stripped down in the last decade. They're still producing great music, even though they're ignored by most of the music world. And that suits me fine.

Two examples for you.




 
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Probably The Innocence Mission who specialise in beautiful, autumnal melancholy, in a Sandy Denny/Nick Drake/folkie vein. The singer Karen Peris has one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard.

They're quite religious which is usually the cue for me to dismiss a band out of hand, but the songs are mainly about reflective moments, insecurities, the changing seasons, snow, rain and the beauty of nature. It's fair to say that they've pulled me though some of my darkest moments.

They stared off in a kind of The Sundays vein but have become more stripped down in the last decade. They're still producing great music, even though they're ignored by most of the music world. And that suits me fine.

Two examples for you.






I think I've heard of them before but not heard them. Loved those two songs though especially the second one.
 
I'll give them a chance, something you've never done with The Cranberries discography;)
I've listened to every song on both threads!

Most I found pretty awful to my taste, but there were a couple that were not offensive (the Jah Wobble one and one without drums which was sort of Enya-ish)
 
I admire your enthusiasm and while I've no doubt at all that the Cranberries changed your life forever, to most people they're just one of many successful bands of that era. And that's fine. My favourite band absolutely changed my life, but most people have never heard of them, and when I'm introduced then to friends, most have been indifferent.

What's important is enjoying the music for yourself and being grateful for finding music that makes such a positive difference on your life. Trying to persuade people that the band are really really important for whatever reason is a fruitless task and why should it matter anyway?
The issue is that The Cranberries released their last succesful album in 1999, and 22 years later are one of the 10 biggest bands of the 90s in Spotify.

They were a great band, that deserve being inducted in the HoF. And it is really unfair that the job of another similar bands as Pearl Jam, Radiohead or REM is recognized, but not The Cranberries. All 4 bands sold more than 40 million copies and hace great songs, and in my opinion Dolores was the best singer of the 90s.
 
The issue is that The Cranberries released their last succesful album in 1999, and 22 years later are one of the 10 biggest bands of the 90s in Spotify.

They were a great band, that deserve being inducted in the HoF. And it is really unfair that the job of another similar bands as Pearl Jam, Radiohead or REM is recognized, but not The Cranberries. All 4 bands sold more than 40 million copies and hace great songs, and in my opinion Dolores was the best singer of the 90s.

I don't think 'Pearl Jam - crap/not crap' on here would indicate universal acclaim tbh, to put it mildly.
 
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