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~ The Cranberries
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  • Audio CD (1 April 1996)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Island
  • ASIN: B000001E9I
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 68,528 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Hollywood
2. Salvation
3. When You're Gone
4. Free To Decide
5. Warchild
6. Forever Yellow Skies
7. Rebels
8. I Just Shot John Lennon
9. Electric Blue
10. I'm Still Remembering
11. Will You Remember
12. Joe
13. Bosnia

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The songs on the Cranberries' third album touch on painful topics, dealing mainly with loss and the difficulties of growing toward true adulthood. Tragic inspirations include the deaths of singer-lyricist Dolores O'Riordan's grandfather ("Joe") and John Lennon ("I Shot John Lennon"); some import pressings also include "Cordell", an elegy for Denny Cordell, who signed the Cranberries to Island Records in 1991.
Much of this material is bittersweet, but the songs are saved from dreary melancholy by the characteristic quirky Cranberries sound of O'Riordan's angelic voice, scattered with her trademark yelps and other vocal tics, juxtaposed against energetic, hard-edged guitar work by O'Riordan and Noel Hogan. Inaddition to the newly mature lyrics, there is also a new, rougher-edged sound to this album's production, which puts the music within easy reach and lends TO THE FAITHFUL DEPARTEDan earthy appeal.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply The Best (again), 3 Oct 2000
This is wthout doubt on of the best pieces from Dolores and the group it brings the angelic sounding irish accent along for the ride aswell, which is always a good point for the band. The album also has a lot of those strong hidden meanings and deep lyric..... all i can say is if you like there othere work then you will love this especially "salvation"!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars wonderful album, 28 Nov 2000
Worthwile to buy this one. another great cranberries excursion! This one has some "heavier" rocksongs as well as some more quite ones. Great stuff. Roland.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A stylistic mess of presentation over substance, 21 Aug 2003
By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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The Cranberries seemed to be suffering from musical amnesia when they recorded this third album; at the very least, Dolores O'Riordan was undergoing some type of identity crisis. Basically, this is a Cranberries album, but it is not Cranberries music. Oh, it seems pretty good when you first listen to it, but the quality of songs seems to diminish consistently as the album progresses. Overall, this music is just too heavy-handed. While I did love the song Zombie from No Need to Argue, its rock emphasis is not something I would like to see repeated in every single song. The first four tracks here can be enjoyable and quite catchy at first; I was even quite enamored with Free to Decide initially, but eventually these hard-hitting songs become rather tiresome. The remaining tracks give birth to a new phenomenon; for the first time, O'Riordan's unique vocal style becomes an increasingly annoying caricature of itself. Then there are the lyrics. O'Riordan seems to think herself a prophetess of love and kindness and is very vocal to the point of shrillness in her condemnation of war. The strident political and socially conscious emphasis can become so overbearing that the diatribe contained in the impassioned lyrics of songs such as War Child and Bosnia actually detract from the message O'Riordan is apparently trying to convey. What is worse, the lyrics actually become meaningless at times. Many of these songs also go on for too long, with several being concluded with extended periods of annoying musical cacophony. Overemphasis on presentation results in far too little emphasis on the music itself, and this greatly weakens the impact of this album.

In the end, the Cranberries seem to find themselves picking and choosing from among a number of different musical styles in a desperate attempt to discover something to replace their formerly clear-cut sound. The first few tracks are burdened with an uncomfortably aggressive rock emphasis, with Forever Yellow Skies literally drowning in a sea of drums. Will You Remember? is carnival music and becomes almost laughable, while Joe features the strangely trilling sounds of gondola music in the background. Stylistically, this album is just a mess. Clearly, though, the worst song on here is I Just Shot John Lennon. I don't know what O'Riordan was thinking with this one, but the only thing she achieves with the song is a type of failure that the Cranberries had never come close to experiencing before. If you are a Cranberries fan, you can listen to this album on occasion and get some enjoyment from the music here and there, but clearly this album represents a bad misstep on the road to the Cranberries future.

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