From: owner-cranlist-digest@smoe.org (cranlist-digest) To: cranlist-digest@smoe.org Subject: cranlist-digest V2 #109 Reply-To: cranlist@smoe.org Sender: owner-cranlist-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-cranlist-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk cranlist-digest Friday, April 23 1999 Volume 02 : Number 109 Today's Subjects: ----------------- %Cran: Review of Cranberries concert at Le Zenith, 14th April, Paris, France [Francois Gibello ] Re: %Cran: review ["Frederik Bovendeerd" ] Re: %Cran: infooncranberries ["Frederik Bovendeerd" ] Re: %Cran: Winamp Skin CrANBERRIES [Schmidty ] Re: %Cran: review [Schmidty ] %Cran: ???? ["Linda Andersson" ] %Cran: Swedish review..... (translated...) ["Linda Andersson" ] %Cran: ArtworkInterpretation ["Matias G. Walkoski" ] %Cran: Hey! A GOOD BTH Review!! (surprised?) [FionaAO@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:25:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: Francois Gibello Subject: %Cran: Review of Cranberries concert at Le Zenith, 14th April, Paris, France Hi fellow berries ! This is a review of one of the early gigs performed in Paris France, lately. I ve got this review from Charlotte, a french fan, whom with I have exchanged a couple of letters (and CDs) the past few years. Enjoy. Francois. Forwarded message: > From ionteclo@cybercable.fr Thu Apr 22 03:26:17 1999 > From: ionteclo@cybercable.fr > Subject: Review of Cranberries concert at Le Zenith, 14th April. > > The Zénith, a 5,000 concert hall - Sold out > > We got there just as the support group finished their last song : it > felt very Irish that's all i can say. The setting was nice, made of > prisms of all shapes, which could receive different lights, and during > the concert, each song was thus accompanied with a dominating colour > (for what i recall, "I can't be with you" was yellow, "Ode to my > Familly" was purple, etc...) it really set a mood to each song....well > done on that point. > > After an introduction music, they started with "Promises" which created > a great response. Dolores seemed quite happy to be there, and the > musicians too. I noticed that there was a musician i had never seen with > the group, playing the 2nd guitar and most of all backing up Dolores' > voice : they really managed to find someone with the same tone of voice > because it was hard to distinguish any male tonality in his vocals. > > The second song was of the new album, and at this point my friend and i > were still in the back, people were not very enthousiastic back there so > we decided to move forward as soon as possible. To sum up they played 6 > or 7 songs of Bury the Hatchet, 1 of To the Faithful Departed (is the > group discontented with this album?), 6 of no Need to argue, and 6 of > Everybody else... The song that permitted us to move straight to the > middle : "I can't be with you", the song that allowed us to move to 10th > row : "Salvation", the song that litterally pushed us to 4th row : > "Zombie". The first and second album song were given great response, > lot's of the people sang them so that in general it felt like a great > concert. There was 3 songs for the call back, "Pretty", a new song and > "Dreams". The concert ended on the beginning of Ave Maria. It was > obvious that everyone wanted more. > > I enjoyed it a lot, had never seen the Cranberries in concert and > thought it was great, the audience was very enthousiastic, probably > because it had been a long time since the Cranberries had come to > France. > > Though there was something which bothered me about Dolores' intonation : > the way she sang the new songs. It's hard to describe the feeling i got > but it seems to me her voice has changed, maybe it's maternity but > there's an almost musicbox added sound to her voice now, which makes it > nicer but less rock. At first i thought it was the sound of the concert > or the mic which was like that, but i listened to some of Bury the > Hatchet in preview in a French store the day after and it felt the same > (go figure...). > > The Cranberries seemed to enjoy the concert a lot, especially Dolores, > who communicated a lot with the audience. The public responded a lot > more to the Everybody else and No need to argue songs compared to the > new ones. I don't know what concerts are like abroad, but in France, > when people don't know the music they won't enjoy it a lot. Fortunately > the playlist was balanced so there was a progression in the response > from the audience, and the last song, "Dreams" , erased all the > Too-bad-we-don't-know-the-new-songs kind of thinking. That's also when i > realized that "Dreams" IS their most popular song (i thought it was > "Zombie"). > > I was not too disappointed by the new songs which seemed nice, but still > there were too pop for me, and listeniong to the album in preview > confirmed my impressions. > Finally, as a general reflection on the evolution of The Cranberries, i > would say that, it seems that now on, they have decided to gather every > 2 or 3 years and make an album, and then tour a little but get on with > their lives : i have nothing against balanced people who want to live > their normal lives with their familly, but to me this way of thinking is > against the principles of good rock music making, and has a direct > impact on the quality of their new songs. I'm going to (buy) Bury the > Hatchet because i can't resolve myself to forget about the Cranberries, > don't misunderstand me, it's still nice pop, but maybe too nice this > time. > > Charlotte, 19/Paris Feel free to write her directly if you want to share some point of views... Francois. - --------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Ridiculous Thoughts Mailing List Send posts to : cranlist@smoe.org Send unsubscribe requests to: cranlist-request@smoe.org Put "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, send a subscription request to: cranlist-request@smoe.org put "subscribe" in the BODY of the message. You must unsub from cranlist if you do not want to receive both loose and digested mail. - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:37:42 +0800 From: "aier~" Subject: %Cran: Cran Phone interview + Copycat Hello fellow CranFans, there's a BTH promotion in Singapore right now, and they have this 9-questions interview with 'em. I wonder if it's taken from somewhere else? Maybe u can tell me after u read the answers. Anyway, I called it to listen to it (this calling-in part is part of the promo) caught snippets, quite full snippets I'll say, althoe u know how it is with phone stuff, (not to mention how Dol goes on and on, taking quick breathe in between, u know how she is...) can't hear quite carefully sometimes. Abt 15 mins. Call me slow, but I had to listen to it many times, before I could scribble down stuff. I think it was Feargal who talked abt "the making of Copycat" haha. do u spell Fergal? Feargal in Ireland? This is NOT EXACT BUT the CLOSEST MAIN extract: 1. Why "Bury The Hatchet"? Dol: "Well, actually we had 2 choices, one was more mellow and y'noe, kinda boring, "Promises" didn't mean too much, I mean, we wrote a song called "Promises" yah, but why do we have to name it y'noe...so "Bury The Hatchet", it's more agressive but a, peaceful offering, let bygones be bygones, move on. The band has been through many ups and downs and we almost broke up, we stopped making music after the tour, didn't know where to start, took a big break and suddenly found happiness again, y'noe, so, smile." 2. Adding-on (I can't tell who this is? My guess is Mike.) "..In Ireland, "Bury The Hatchet"..very fogettable things, start afresh." 3. What are your fave songs in the album? Dol: " Oh I love songs with a lot of (I heard 'flatter', but it sounds ?), y'noe, like 'Desperate Andy", oh I love that song, "Loud and Clear", I like the humour and light-heartedness. Also, teh more emotional ones like "Animal Instinct", "You And Me" , which is obviously about my new kinda found love, and er, 'Promises" y'noe, that kinda rockish theme, yah, don't really have a favourite." 4. Adding-on (I think this is Feargal) "Same tracks for me..."Shattered", really open...I dunno, it's amazing." 5. Dying In The Sun (I think it's Feargal again.) "Dolores...it's beautiful...just 2 takes, and that's it. Which is great becos' you can really hear the emotions." 6. Copycat (I think's Feargal again, since he's talking abt Noel and Mike is usually solemn.) "Well, we put some fast accoustic thing, same 4 chords fast over and over, Noel had the rhythm to it, Dolores added in the keyboards, with a kinda 70s sound, groundwork that way. Then it seems like some 70s detective programme! It was fun for us to do that, cos we've never done that type of thing before." 7. The Nobel Peace Prize performance in Oslo was your first since 3 years! How do you feel about it? Dol: "Oh, it was cool going on stage. Miss this, fun. Although the audience could have been more...but at this kinda event...it was bizarre when I saw these people with those (I'm sorry I really can't make out what she said. It was something she were carrying I guess. Expression or sumthin) and makes you wanna, it's cool. I kinda 'WANT' to go back, perform again. 8. You've travelled to so many parts of the world, and you still call Ireland home. Dol: "With our first and second albums, after our band took off, and we became really famous, I thought it'll be really difficult to stay around. To be honest, it was! Over the years, we try to creep back, we've spend time here and there, South, West Coast..no place like home. Your family members, and when you have a kid, you see that you need the kinda security, offered to you, by your family, y'noe." 9. I hear lotsa of humour in this album. Is humour very important? Dol: "Yah! It's important, very important! Everyone should have humour in your life. If you forget to laugh...something's missing. It's brilliant to laugh, make a clown of yourself, brilliant ro be ridiculous...y'noe! When you stop doing that, taking life seriously, what's the point, really?" ----------------------------------------END OF EXCERPT----------------------------------------- Yilin 'It was uh...written on a Sunday.' -Dolores on her song "Sunday" - --------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Ridiculous Thoughts Mailing List Send posts to : cranlist@smoe.org Send unsubscribe requests to: cranlist-request@smoe.org Put "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, send a subscription request to: cranlist-request@smoe.org put "subscribe" in the BODY of the message. You must unsub from cranlist if you do not want to receive both loose and digested mail. - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:05:56 +0200 From: "Peter Hennig" Subject: %Cran: Winamp Skin CrANBERRIES Hi There Do you know where I can fin a Cran Winamp Skin?? I didnt find any o the databases!!?!?!?!??! Thanx Peter - --------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Ridiculous Thoughts Mailing List Send posts to : cranlist@smoe.org Send unsubscribe requests to: cranlist-request@smoe.org Put "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, send a subscription request to: cranlist-request@smoe.org put "subscribe" in the BODY of the message. You must unsub from cranlist if you do not want to receive both loose and digested mail. - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:06:06 +0100 From: "Darren Ross" Subject: %Cran: Another bad review for BTH... I got this from the BBC website......has anyone seen any positive reviews about BTH yet ? - ----- Entertainment: New Music Releases CD Review: The Cranberries By the BBC's Chris Charles Irony is a much over-used and misunderstood concept. Alanis Morissette had a pop at it with the disastrously titled Ironic. "Rain on your wedding day" - that's just bad luck, Alanis. "A free ride when you've already paid" - what's that all about then? In fact, the only ironic thing about the whole song was the fact it contained no irony whatsoever. The Cranberries, on the other hand, have captured it perfectly, albeit unwittingly. Flick to track nine of their fourth album - the song's called Copycat - and it's positively oozing the stuff from every available orifice. "A lack of originality," wails Dolores. "So much for the radio, everyone sounds the same," she moans. Woah, hang on there a minute. Take a closer look at Bury The Hatchet and you realise that during her time away she's turned into a giant cooking pot whose specialised subject is calling the kettle black. Condemned to the scrap heap Exhibit one is Desperate Andy. Not only is the riff blatantly pilfered from Iggy Pop's The Passenger, the "la-la-las" have also been unashamedly ripped off and not-so-cunningly disguised as "ro-lo-los". Move forward one and you come to Saving Grace. Even the bendy Hawaiian guitar can't hide the fact that Bread's Eveything I Own forms the backbone of the verses. And there's more. Just My Imagination bears more than a passing resemblance to Madness' Our House and current single Promises, despite a punchy riff straight out of 1977, keeps threatening to go into Erasure's Ship Of Fools. Lack of originality? Everything sounds the same? Hmm. Unfortunately it's not just the Copycat capers that condemn this album to the scrap heap. The Cranberries have become victims of their own success and everyone expects them to knock out another Zombie or Linger. You won't find either on here. Second fiddle to B*Witched Then there's the Irish factor. When they last made a dent in the charts, Dolores had replaced Sinead O'Connor as the number one female pop star from the Emerald Isle - now she's forced to play second fiddle to the likes of The Corrs and B*Witched. This was born out by the failure of the single Promises (likeable for the first two minutes, tedious for the remainder) to make an appearance in the top 10 in a week when a reinvented soap star - Martine McCutcheon - sailed in at number one and The Cartoons dropped only one place. Face the facts, Dolores - people are getting bored. If you can be bothered to listen to all 14 tracks on Bury The Hatchet, you will come across the odd passable tune. What's On My Mind is a stringy, lilting love song and Shattered almost stirs the emotions, but in the main it's all wah-hoos, eeh-ohs and eh-ohs. We know who to come to to when the Teletubbies movie soundtrack comes up for grabs. Lyrically uninspired, Dolores only comes to life on Loud And Clear: "Hope you get a puncture everywhere you drive, hope the sun beats down on you and you skin yourself alive". Ill-advised stab at humour She does have an ill-advised stab at humour by rhyming Andy with shandy, but there's only one person who can get away with that and he's never been the same since he parted company with Johnny Marr. If this seems like a savage criticism of a once-revered band, you'd be spot on. To describe it as mediocre would be doing mediocrity an injustice and the only people likely to part with their money are blindly loyal Cranberries fanatics who would snap up a nursery rhyme if they put it out as a single. The only hope left for the band is to ditch Dolores. The only hope for Dolores is a series of celebrity duets with stars who once held her in awe. Alanis Morissette springs to mind, ironically enough. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/new_music_releases/newsid_321 000/321531.stm - -- Darren Ross dr@lineone.net - --------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Ridiculous Thoughts Mailing List Send posts to : cranlist@smoe.org Send unsubscribe requests to: cranlist-request@smoe.org Put "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, send a subscription request to: cranlist-request@smoe.org put "subscribe" in the BODY of the message. You must unsub from cranlist if you do not want to receive both loose and digested mail. - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:16:28 +0200 From: "Frederik Bovendeerd" Subject: Re: %Cran: review Guess what, DiCicco,! I got your mail from 21 Apr 99, called "%Cran: review"... > seems to refer to the recent Irish peace accords, but after a listen, you'll > want to Bury the Hatchet in the Cranberries' skulls. Is it only me, or do all those negative reviews tend to be personal? :-\ Take care, - Frederik +++ ICQ *3887587* +++ *Homepage at* http://www.puti.de/home +++ +++ *Cranberries Cover Gallery* +++ http://www.puti.de/crancovers +++ - --------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Ridiculous Thoughts Mailing List Send posts to : cranlist@smoe.org Send unsubscribe requests to: cranlist-request@smoe.org Put "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, send a subscription request to: cranlist-request@smoe.org put "subscribe" in the BODY of the message. You must unsub from cranlist if you do not want to receive both loose and digested mail. - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:16:28 +0200 From: "Frederik Bovendeerd" Subject: Re: %Cran: infooncranberries Guess what, Schmidty! I got your mail from 21 Apr 99, called "Re: %Cran: infooncranberries"... > > restrained a bit... He is singing almost the complete song on the latest > > Dreams live version from the Nobel concert. ;-) > Yeah, but listen to the album version... I think this live version is > the best I've ever heard... I love the tremolo on the second guitar, and > the harmonies are exactly as on the album... it sound brilliant! Of course, you cannot deny that the two additional instruments make no difference in the sounds, it sounds brilliant, after all they can play virtually everything now. ;-) But still, this backing vocals guy... Hmm... It always sounds to me as if his mic is not loud enough and he... shouts, shouts, shouts at the top of his lungs. ;-) Take care, - Frederik +++ ICQ *3887587* +++ *Homepage at* http://www.puti.de/home +++ +++ *Cranberries Cover Gallery* +++ http://www.puti.de/crancovers +++ - --------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Ridiculous Thoughts Mailing List Send posts to : cranlist@smoe.org Send unsubscribe requests to: cranlist-request@smoe.org Put "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, send a subscription request to: cranlist-request@smoe.org put "subscribe" in the BODY of the message. You must unsub from cranlist if you do not want to receive both loose and digested mail. - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:14:51 +1000 From: Schmidty Subject: Re: %Cran: Winamp Skin CrANBERRIES Peter Hennig wrote: > > Hi There > Do you know where I can fin a Cran > Winamp Skin?? > I didnt find any o the databases!!?!?!?!??! > Thanx > I actually made one (and did send a mail to this list about it)... It's currently available from winamp.com, in the skins section... somewhere in the music skins, way down the back... it got quite a low rating, but oh well... my friends liked it :) Seeya. Johannes. - -- Schmidty schmidty777@geocities.com "How could you get satisfaction from the body of a child? You're vile, sick!" - -Dolores O'Riordan Burton ("Fe Fi Fo") - --------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Ridiculous Thoughts Mailing List Send posts to : cranlist@smoe.org Send unsubscribe requests to: cranlist-request@smoe.org Put "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, send a subscription request to: cranlist-request@smoe.org put "subscribe" in the BODY of the message. You must unsub from cranlist if you do not want to receive both loose and digested mail. - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:21:18 +1000 From: Schmidty Subject: Re: %Cran: review > Is it only me, or do all those negative reviews tend to be personal? :-\ > Yeah they do... funnily enough, the critics seem to hate it, but all of my friends who generally have a (rather strong) dislike for the berries, and to whom I have played the album, like it a lot better, and I personally think it's excellent, not quite up with NNTA, but damn close... Oh, as for the backing vox (save myself writing another mail), I think he's yelling, because he's actually singing in the same pitch as the original backing vocals on the album versions (ie Dolores' pitch), which is quite hard for a guy (trust me, I've tried)... he's probably singing falsetto for a large part of the time, and you need to yell it for it to work properly, especially at a rock concert... Schmidty. - -- Schmidty schmidty777@geocities.com "How could you get satisfaction from the body of a child? You're vile, sick!" - -Dolores O'Riordan Burton ("Fe Fi Fo") - --------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Ridiculous Thoughts Mailing List Send posts to : cranlist@smoe.org Send unsubscribe requests to: cranlist-request@smoe.org Put "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, send a subscription request to: cranlist-request@smoe.org put "subscribe" in the BODY of the message. You must unsub from cranlist if you do not want to receive both loose and digested mail. - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 07:03:52 PDT From: "Linda Andersson" Subject: %Cran: ???? What's everyone's problem with Bury the hatchet??????????????? It's such a brilliant album!! I'm not just saying that as a cran-fan - - but everyone I know who's heard it says the exact same thing!!! All songs are GREAT! Especially "Shattered", "Animal instinct", "Fee fi foo" and "You and me"..... I'm totally puzzeled...... (Hmmm.... I´m NOT a feminist... But it seems to me that music groups with a female lead singer today have to be a supermodel or a total bimbo to get a good review!) By the way... "Promises" was number 16 on some UK chart yesterday.. (I think that was the first time I've seen that song on any top 20 chart...) // Linda ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - --------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Ridiculous Thoughts Mailing List Send posts to : cranlist@smoe.org Send unsubscribe requests to: cranlist-request@smoe.org Put "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, send a subscription request to: cranlist-request@smoe.org put "subscribe" in the BODY of the message. You must unsub from cranlist if you do not want to receive both loose and digested mail. - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 07:49:04 PDT From: "Linda Andersson" Subject: %Cran: Swedish review..... (translated...) This is the review from one of Swedens most popular magazines called "Aftonbladet" (...and it's a bad one!!!!!!!!) Bury the hatchet got 2 out of 5 +:s: "The awful albumcover indicates that the worlds second most popular irish people wants to be a Pink Floyd 2000. Just the mere thought has the same effect as a sack full of rotten shellfish. But ”Bury the hatchet” is actually a more joyful album than the last one (TTFD). Happier. Straighter. Thanks for that! But does this mean that it's good? Well. Sometimes the debated Dolores O’ Riordan -unbearable loudmouth or sweet angel – squeezes out a melancholy that's hard to resist and sometimes it's really a nice "sting" in the melodies. But most of the time I'm left feeling indiffrent. It feels to "flat". Too impersonal. Too cowardly. And there's no hit like ”Zombie” – which I actually liked– to be found..." Per Bjurman, Aftonbladet 1999-04-16 CRANBERRIES: Bury the hatchet ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - --------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Ridiculous Thoughts Mailing List Send posts to : cranlist@smoe.org Send unsubscribe requests to: cranlist-request@smoe.org Put "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, send a subscription request to: cranlist-request@smoe.org put "subscribe" in the BODY of the message. You must unsub from cranlist if you do not want to receive both loose and digested mail. - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:34:57 PDT From: "Alex Kraus" Subject: %Cran: Online interview tonight In case you didn't know, there will be a live Cran-interview broadcast tonight and you can listen to it on the net! It starts at 7 PM (Eastern) and lasts til 8. They'll be playing songs from the new album, and of course, an interview with Dolores and Fergal. To listen, go to http://edge102.com and click on "Listen in real audio" and you'll be set. Or, If you live in Canada, the radio station is Edge 102. I don't wanna miss this like I did the German concert :) Well, enjoy! -Alex - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Alex Kraus a.k.a. Cranguy and SOLDIER_1stClass e-mail: cranguy@hotmail.com ICQ#: 14755760 Webmaster of The Cranberries Gazette: http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/deadhead/454 Assists with CranberriesOlogist: http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/baccarach/675/ And check out my eBay page: http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/cranguy/ "Nobody knows exactly where these people are, but I know we would like to believe it is a better place. I believe it is a human impossibility to obtain complete peace of mind in this dimension. There's too much suffering and pain... There is a light that never dies." -Dolores O'Riordan, To the Faithful Departed "I want to meet... you." -Aeris, Final Fantasy VII - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com - --------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Ridiculous Thoughts Mailing List Send posts to : cranlist@smoe.org Send unsubscribe requests to: cranlist-request@smoe.org Put "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, send a subscription request to: cranlist-request@smoe.org put "subscribe" in the BODY of the message. You must unsub from cranlist if you do not want to receive both loose and digested mail. - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:59:38 +0100 From: "Matias G. Walkoski" Subject: %Cran: ArtworkInterpretation you wrote: ""My personal interpretation is the eye is the media. During TTFD, they were under so much stress and all the media did was 'watch' them on end. I suppose the naked man symbolizes the shameful condition that the band was in. The man bends over, as if to hide his nakedness.. the band, too, tried to hide their problems. I don't think any of us really saw any sign that the band was on the verge of breakup during TTFD. Also, that same idea is shown in the video of FTD, at the beginning where dolores has to practically crawl through the people with the cameras."" well, this are more or less, the words from Dolores O'RIordan explanation on the albums artcover, that she said in an Interview in Hora Prima (MTVLatina) I guess, this were parts of an Interview for Mtv in USA.She also explained the backcover.This are not her exact words, but the general idea: "On the back cover, the man is standing, and is like he's shouting: 'Ok, look at me, I'm trying to deal with the fame thing.'" (also to be in the desert, is that there's no escape from media/fans, and the sky without clouds, thus the eye can see everything) Is like the cranberries are accepting the fact, that they're are famous and is part of the rules, to be 'observed' with the big eye from the media and fans. But they're no longer that shy man from the frontcover, they feel more like the man in the backcover, ready to accept the fame. Storm Thorgersen has translated the personal view of the past (frontcover) and present/future (backcover) of the band, how they feel about beeing the cranberries, into images. He's from the 'surrealistic' school (I mean Salvador Dali and that kinda art), and he also worked for Pink Floyd,Peter Gabriel,Genesis and Black Sabbath.They(the rest of the band) met Storm trough Noel Hogan in a studio in London. If anyone has the full Interview, could please post it on the list? Bye, walko (http://www.angelfire.com/ar/argenberries/) - -------------------------------------------------- Su Email Privado, Gratis en http://www.mixmail.com - --------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Ridiculous Thoughts Mailing List Send posts to : cranlist@smoe.org Send unsubscribe requests to: cranlist-request@smoe.org Put "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, send a subscription request to: cranlist-request@smoe.org put "subscribe" in the BODY of the message. You must unsub from cranlist if you do not want to receive both loose and digested mail. - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:13:52 EDT From: FionaAO@aol.com Subject: %Cran: Hey! A GOOD BTH Review!! (surprised?) Hey Everyone, with the massive bad reviews surfacing in europe, we go to the US for a good review. In my opinion, forget the Euro reviews because they are just really trashy and love to pinpoint the littlest details and jump at the chance the trash anything! Thank God for the US who know a good album when they see one. here's a review from All Star: Cranberries - Bury the Hatchet (Island) allstar rating: 6 The Cranberries, one suspects, have been insufferable ever since their recent guest appearance at the Nobel Peace Prize concert (was Hole not available?), if not before. With a recorded history divided between the fey ("Linger," et al) and the ferocious ("Zombie"), and a brittle pixie of a lead singer, the Cranberries have always been a little much, a condition their fourth and finest record, Bury the Hatchet, will go only a small way towards alleviating. Evenly populated by vigorous pop songs (like the almost-bouncy first single, "Promises") and airy, sweeping ballads (like the lovely closer, "Dying in the Sun"), Hatchet finds the band greatly advanced in both songwriting and playing, and Dolores O'Riordan's voice has never sounded finer, having improved in tenor and range during the band's three-year hiatus. O'Riordan still seems to have two moods -- wistful and disapproving -- both of which are given quite a workout on the record's assorted love songs, odes to motherhood, and protestations against societal evils. However laudable anti-child abuse tracks like "Fee Fi Fo" are in theory, they only underline the Cranberries' fondness for the obvious; after all, no one thinks child abuse is good, nor has anyone had anything novel to say about it since "Luka." Only "Copycat," which bemoans pop radio's lack of diversity ("So much for the radio/The radio is sad") is truly awful, though: It bears more of a stylistic resemblance to Phoebe from Friends' "Smelly Cat" than any of the Cranberries might care to imagine. What do you think huh? More US reviews should surface so i'll email the list with them! hopefully they will be good as well! 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