Dolores O'Riordan, singer of The Cranberries, has died suddenly today at 46 years old. The group was born in Ireland between 1989 and 1990 and became one of the best known of the nineties. After three decades of experience, the band just released in 2017 Something Else, a compilation with three new songs and their best known songs, in acoustic format. Because the truth is that the death of O'Riordan leaves behind a legacy of iconic hymns. Here we review some.
Zombie, 1994. Inevitable to start with the best known theme of the group. Coming from their second album, No Need to Argue, the song refers to the conflict in Northern Ireland and specifically arose as a reaction to protest against an attack by the IRA in the English town of Warrington in 1993, which killed two children.
Dreams, 1992. Two years earlier, The Cranberries released the first single from their debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can not We ?. O'Riordan is the author of the lyrics of the song, as well as of all the others who composed the album.
Linger, 1993. He also came out of Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can not We ?. O'Riordan wrote it inspired by the memories of their first kiss.
Ode To My Family, 1994. Part of the second album, No Need to Argue. Released just after Zombie, achieved some international success but suffered the comparison with the previous single, which had swept all over the world.
Animal Instinct, 1999. It is one of the most famous songs of The Cranberries. Very successful was also the video clip, which starts with a mother to whom social services take custody of her daughter. It comes from his fourth studio album, Bury The Hatchet.
Promises, 1999. Another case in which the video is perhaps as appreciated as the song. The recording of Promises mixes vampires, cowboys, darkness and atmospheres of the Wild West to unfold its desperate rock.
Just My Imagination, 2009. Quite the contrary that Promises: it is one of the many samples, throughout the career of The Cranberries, that the group could go from dark rock to hymns full of joy.
When You're Gone, 1997. Contained in The Cranberries' third studio album, To the Faithful Departed, the song was written by O'Riordan.
IN MEMORY OF DOLORES 'RIORDAN 1971-2018.