History Music / TheCranberries

The Cranberries are an Irish pop/rock band. They formed in Limerick in 1989. The original lineup consisted of lead singer Niall Quinn, lead guitarist Noel Hogan, his brother Mike Hogan on bass guitar, and Fergal Lawler on drums. The band was originally called "[[IncrediblyLamePun The Cranberry Saw Us]]". After less than a year Quinn left the band and the remaining members put out an advertisement for a new singer. Dolores O'Riordan responded to the ad by writing lyrics to some band demos. The song she came up with was "Linger". The band hired her.

* CoverVersion: Their cover of Music/FleetwoodMac's "Go Your Own Way" on ''Legacy: a Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours''.
** They did a cover of Music/{{Carpenters}}' "Close to You" for the tribute album ''If I Were a Carpenter''.

* ProtestSong: Many. Arguably, too many.
* PunBasedTitle / IncrediblyLamePun: "The Cranberry Saw Us" might be the worst band name in history.

* BlackSheepHit: "Zombie", which is a rare example of the hit being heavier than the band's usual output (as opposed to softer). The band said that it was heavy because the song was written out of anger, and changing the music would dilute the message. The band did go on to include some heavier material on future albums ("Hollywood", "Salvation", "Promises", "This Is The Day" being some examples from each), but the album "No Need To Argue" on which "Zombie" appears is very laidback and poppy in comparison to it.

* ThePeteBest: Niall Quinn.

* TooSoon: After 9/11, the video for "Analyse" had to be withdrawn and edited because of buildings falling down. Whilst the video premiered before it, the single was only released on September 17th, a week after 9/11.

* Music/{{Carpenters}}: They did a cover of "Close to You" for the tribute album ''If I Were a Carpenter''.

* Music/FleetwoodMac: Their cover of "Go Your Own Way" on ''Legacy: a Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours''

* TheTroubles: "Zombie"

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* {{Woodstock}}: Played there in 1994.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Nearly all of their material fits snugly in the 2-4 range ("Linger", "Dreams" and "Animal Instinct", for instance), although they weren't afraid to throw a curve ball and release songs as high as the 6 range ("Zombie" and "Hollywood" are prime examples).

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Nearly all of their material fits snugly in the 2-4 range ("Linger" and "Animal Instinct", for example), although they weren't afraid to throw a curve ball and release songs as high as the 6 range ("Zombie" and "Hollywood" are prime examples).

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Nearly all of their material fits snugly in the 2-4 range ("Linger" and "Animal Instinct, for example), although they weren't afraid to throw a curve ball and release songs as high as the 6 range ("Zombie" and "Hollywood" are prime examples).

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Nearly all of their material fits snugly in the 2-4 range, although they weren't afraid to throw a curveball and release songs as high as the 6 range.

* AGoodNameForARockBand: The second name, anyway.

* SpokenWordInMusic: "Yeat's Grave" quotes from [[http://www.bartleby.com/147/36.html a poem]] by [[WilliamButlerYeats the man himself]].

* "I Just Shot Music/JohnLennon"

* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: You could be correct, and call it "Yeats's Grave". Or you could adopt the wrong but very common convention that reflects how people usually pronounce possessives, and call it "Yeats' Grave". But calling it "Yeat's Grave" is ''definitely'' wrong.

* SpokenWordInMusic: "Yeats' Grave" quotes from [[http://www.bartleby.com/147/36.html a poem]] by [[WilliamButlerYeats the man himself]].

* SongStyleShift: "Daffodil Lament" turns from a mournful dirge about a woman trapped in a bad relationship to a joyful, optimistic tune with a ringing guitar line after she leaves him. Then there's another weird, mournful dirge at the end, possibly indicating future uncertainty.

* WilliamButlerYeats: "Yeats' Grave"

* LyricalShoehorn: O'Riordan, who writes all the band's lyrics, is prone to this. One notable example is the chorus to "Zombie" with its double use of "guns": "With their tanks/and their guns/and their guns/and their bombs"

* ProtestSong: Many. Arguably, too many.

* ''Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" (1993)

* Music/Carpenters: They did a cover of "Close to You" for the tribute album ''If I Were a Carpenter''.