The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? [1993]

Posted on October 8, 2008 | Category: Alternative, The Cranberries

This remarkable CD is, in my opinion, the most remarkable debut album I have ever heard. I fell in love with the song Linger as soon as I heard it, so I naturally went right out and bought the album. I was impressed then and I’m still impressed. This music is so distinctive and achingly beautiful that it remains as fresh and enjoyable now, all these years later, as it did then. It is ironic that an album with such a long name features songs with short titles, but the overall disc really takes precedence over the individual songs. I actually have trouble remembering the title for each song, but this is primarily because this album is almost organic in its completeness, simply teeming with life and substance. I just don’t put this CD in the drive and listen to a song here or there; I have to experience the whole thing every time I play it. I’m not sure how this distinctive type of music should be classified; I don’t know if its primary influence is Welsh or Celtic or something else. All I know is that Dolores O’Riordan has the most distinctive voice I have ever heard, and her vocals make each song hauntingly beautiful and absolutely amazing. This album creates a surreal atmosphere inside your mind and really and truly hypnotizes you with its power. I love every single song on here; Linger is of course my favorite, while I Still Do and Dreams stand out slightly from the crowd, but the quality of this music is spread lavishly from start to finish. This is as polished and unbelievably complete an album as a group or artist can hope to deliver. Even the Cranberries, as much as I love their music, have never quite been able to recapture the magic of this first album.

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1. I Still Do.mp3 [MP3Today.Info]
2. Dreams.mp3 [MP3Today.Info]
3. Sunday.mp3 [MP3Today.Info]
4. Pretty.mp3 [MP3Today.Info]
5. Waltzing Back.mp3 [MP3Today.Info]
6. Not Sorry.mp3 [MP3Today.Info]
7. Linger.mp3 [MP3Today.Info]
8. Wanted.mp3 [MP3Today.Info]
9. Still Can’t….mp3 [MP3Today.Info]
10. I Will Always.mp3 [MP3Today.Info]
11. How.mp3 [MP3Today.Info]
12. Put Me Down.mp3 [MP3Today.Info]

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