Posted in 1990s, Music, Something Changed at 12:00 on 19 July 2024
The Cranberries are the group I started this category off with.
It’s about time I returned to them.
This was their first hit.
The Cranberries: Dreams
Posted in 1990s, Music, Something Changed at 12:00 on 2 February 2018
In the first of this category’s posts I mentioned that Dolores O’Riordan of The Cranberries had a distinctive voice. There was a distressed quality to it that spoke of demons in the way that Janis Joplin’s also did. O’Riordan’s childhood experiences and subsequent bipolar disorder can perhaps be discerned in her vocal performances.
(Listening to the guitar on this I think Snow Patrol may well have listened to this sort of thing.)
The Cranberries: Zombie
Posted in 1990s, Events dear boy. Events, Music, Something Changed at 12:00 on 17 January 2018
I haven’t previously had a category for 1990s music – the spur for Friday on my Mind, Reelin’ in the Years and Live it Up wasn’t there. I had been thinking of a starting point, but not this one.
I have been shocked into it by the premature demise of Dolores O’Riordan, lead singer of The Cranberries, who first entered the public consciousness in the 1990s. 46 isn’t 27 but it’s still shockingly early. O’Riordan had a distinctive voice which I shall be coming back to.
The Cranberries: Linger
Dolores Mary Eileen O’Riordan: 6/9/1971 – 15/1/2018. So it goes.
