Please refresh the page and retry. D olores O'Riordan, the main songwriter and frontwoman with The Cranberries, has died aged With the band from Limerick, she created some of the most beloved songs of the Nineties. An accusatory lament, it grapples with the endless recriminations of the Irish Troubles, with a slow rolling bass line and thumping mid-tempo beat, finding tension between melodic delicacy and introspection in the verses with a keening, wailing chorus charged with distorted grungy guitars. Apparently we do. Once that hookline has got into your head there is no shaking it. A pure pop rock beauty, Dreams chugs along on clipped guitars and an airy, ethereal vocal that suddenly breaks off for some very Irish folk yodelling. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future.

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Pride of the city of Limerick, The Cranberries rose to fame in after catapulting hits such as Zombie and Linger. This induced with Sorry Son kind of tracks. The video premiered in September and featured footage of planes flying over two skyscrapers. Following a decade-long break, the Cranberries reunited for a sixth studio album in Sets a different mood compared to the other singles released from the iconic No Need to Argue album. Years later, its addictive enough rhythm might make you wanna play it on repeat on days you get tired of your bae. The euphoria of the new millennium seems to have sipped into the track, too. An ode to love and eternity, happily associated with the Cranberries come-back in after a three-year absence from the music industry. We used to be so free We were livin' for the love we had Livin' not for reality pic. And that was done on intention.
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From their year career together, we choose 20 of the best Cranberries songs that will linger on through the ages. Her voice trembles with emotion and the band play with brooding persistence, creating an otherworldly, elegiac quality. What about radiation?
Quinn was replaced as lead singer by Dolores O'Riordan in In early , after a six-year hiatus, the Cranberries reunited and began a North American tour followed by shows in Latin America and Europe. Something Else , which covered many of the band's most popular songs along with new orchestral accompaniments provided by the Irish Chamber Orchestra, was released in April