Dolores O'Riordan gave birth to her second child and it made her very happy. In turn, it has made her band turn upward as well. Whatever angst might have settled under the...
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Dolores O'Riordan gave birth to her second child and it made her very happy. In turn, it has made her band turn upward as well. Whatever angst might have settled under the...
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The second half of the '90s was difficult for the Cranberries, not just because of changing fashions, but because the group embraced both a social consciousness and a prog...
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Title aside, what the Cranberries were doing wasn't that common at the time, at least in mainstream pop terms; grunge and G-funk had done their respective big splashes via...
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Love 'em or leave 'em, the Cranberries no longer care. Radiating confidence, this record demands attention for that reason alone. The lyrics might be trite and the songs...
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A message to anyone who passed off Ireland's hit-happy, Cranberries as one more alterna-pop flash in the pan: Sit down, shut up and listen to their adventurous third...
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Departed turned out to be where the Cranberries' best intentions finally and thoroughly tripped them up. Switching producers to Bruce Fairbairn was a troubling enough move...
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A little too much ambition can be dangerous. So the Cranberries apparently learned from their peculiar 1996 release, To The Faithful Departed, a study in miscommunicated...
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The Cranberries stumbled with their move toward heavier, politically fueled modern rock on To the Faithful Departed, losing fans enamored with their earlier sound. Like many...
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Bitch, bitch, bitch. O'Riordan, beginning to feel her chops as a pop diva, experiments with rawer vocals and gets more complaints--about everything from war to being...
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With their surprise success behind them, the Cranberries went ahead and essentially created a sequel to Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We with only tiny...
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The Cranberries stumbled with their third record, To the Faithful Departed, as their move toward louder, heavier, politically fueled modern rock lost them fans enamored with...
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For the Cranberries, assembling a best-of covering the first decade of their career means compiling their singles in chronological order, which turns out to be a foolproof...
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With their surprise success behind them, the Cranberries went ahead and essentially created a sequel to Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We with only tiny...
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The Cranberries stumbled with their move toward heavier, politically fueled modern rock on To the Faithful Departed, losing fans enamored with their earlier sound. Like many...
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Title aside, what the Cranberries were doing wasn't that common at the time, at least in mainstream pop terms; grunge and G-funk had done their respective big splashes via...
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Island Records has shown some confidence in the career of the Cranberries by assembling this collection, which compiles all of the band's studio recordings of the 1990s....
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