From: owner-cranlist-digest@smoe.org (cranlist-digest) To: cranlist-digest@smoe.org Subject: cranlist-digest V2 #111 Reply-To: cranlist@smoe.org Sender: owner-cranlist-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-cranlist-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk cranlist-digest Sunday, April 25 1999 Volume 02 : Number 111 Today's Subjects: ----------------- %Cran: London concert review ["Darren Ross" ] Re: %Cran: Rolling Stone review of BTH ["Frederik Bovendeerd" ] Re: %Cran: Rolling Stone review of BTH ["Alex Kraus" Subject: %Cran: London concert review Hoist by their own bombast The Cranberries Empire, London W12 © The newly blonde Dolores O'Riordan gets even further away from her roots at the Empire Photograph: ANGELA LUBRANO It was a crucial test of public taste and critical forgiveness when the Cranberries played their first full show for more than two years at the Shepherds Bush Empire on Monday. Dormant since their third album, For the Faithful Departed, earned relatively poor sales and merciless reviews in 1996, the Irish foursome who have notched up album sales of nearly 30 million made this low-key concert the first step in their comeback campaign. In the spiralling, hiccuping, piercing yodel of singer and lyricist Dolores O'Riordan, the Cranberries can lay claim to one of the most original and emotive voices in pop. But O'Riordan is also responsible for some of its most monumentally crass lyrics, veering from exquisite to excruciating with alarming regularity. The good news is that this wholesome Limerick quartet have partially rediscovered their melodic, folkish roots on their archly titled new album, Bury the Hatchet. The bad news is that they did not quite manage to incorporate this shift back towards subtlety in the cramped confines of the Empire. A newly blonde O'Riordan seemed to be locked in stadium-rock siren mode for much of the 90-minute set, prowling the stage and punching the sky as she roughly manhandled brittle anthems which deserved far more care and compassion. Admittedly there were moments of beauty amid the bluster, including early airings for the sparkly acoustic gems Ode to My Family and Linger. These remain O'Riordan's most personal lyrics, pre-fame compositions which lack the formulaic ring of more recent efforts, and even her faltering voice could not entirely erase their quiet majesty. At least one number from the new album, the tremulous lullaby Saving Grace, tapped into a similar mood of sparse serenity, but otherwise the singer made little emotional connection with an expectant crowd. The remainder of the set alternated between anodyne new material such as You and Me and Delilah and foot-stomping, chest-beating tantrums which gave full rein to the band's least attractive qualities. Nor was there much evidence in either the recent single Promises or the new album track Desperate Andy that the Cranberries have evolved beyond bludgeoning half-tunes and clumsy sloganeering. The foursome ended this unsatisfying comeback show without reclaiming much ground from their detractors, leaving behind a vague sense of opportunity squandered. They may no longer embrace mid-Atlantic stadium-rock banality quite as unequivocally as they did a few years ago, but they also appeared equally uncomfortable with the mellifluous ballads which brought them recognition in the first place. Hence the encore revival of their earliest hit, Dreams, a once elegant shimmer now curdled into something lumpen and uncouth. Their forthcoming world tour may revive the old spark, but for now the Cranberries seem stranded between the sublime and the ridiculous, milking a limited repertoire of weary vocal tics and increasingly graceless melodies. STEPHEN DALTON © Times Newspapers Limited - -- 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: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 12:57:11 +0200 From: "Frederik Bovendeerd" Subject: Re: %Cran: Rolling Stone review of BTH Guess what, Alex! I got your mail from 23 Apr 99, called "Re: %Cran: Rolling Stone review of "... > or is it that one "Our house... is a very very very fine house.. with > two cats in the yard..." Um, I don't know this one, so it may just as well be it and HAVE some similarity. ;-) And even if! ;-) 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: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 12:57:11 +0200 From: "Frederik Bovendeerd" Subject: %Cran: cdnow.com... Hi there.... That's what cdnow.com has to say: Cranberries - "Bury the Hatchet" If you've been in Cranberries withdrawl since 1996's "To the Faithfully Departed," your fix is here. On "Bury the Hatchet," Dolores O'Riordan and the boys are more melodic, more rocking and more undeniably Celtic than ever. "Delilah" pounds away like a 50-pound sledge, "Shattered" showcases O'Riordan's tough-but-tender voice, and "Animal Instinct" shimmers and shines like a Galway street after a spring rain. 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: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 06:18:40 PDT From: "Alex Kraus" Subject: Re: %Cran: Rolling Stone review of BTH It's a really old song. '70s or something like that. I can see more similarites than the "middle of the street" The Crans do admit that there's a '70s feel to some of their new songs (especially Loud and Clear) .. -Alex - ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Frederik Bovendeerd" To: cranlist@smoe.org Subject: Re: %Cran: Rolling Stone review of BTH Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 12:57:11 +0200 Guess what, Alex! I got your mail from 23 Apr 99, called "Re: %Cran: Rolling Stone review of "... > or is it that one "Our house... is a very very very fine house.. with > two cats in the yard..." Um, I don't know this one, so it may just as well be it and HAVE some similarity. ;-) And even if! ;-) 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. 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You must unsub from cranlist if you do not want to receive both loose and digested mail. - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 00:13:16 +0200 From: asleemil@online.no Subject: %Cran: Improved ICBWY Homepage Hello, I just wanted everyone to know that I've moved the "I Can't Be With You Homepage" to http://thecranberries.com/ It has some new features, and I have added a Mp3 of "Sorry Son". It's still a bit "half-finished", but when I get the time, I'll update it. Bury The Hatchet is great! I love every song, and it's a strong album, both lyrically and otherwise. My personal favorites are: "Desperate Andy" (Dolores' voice uses all aspects in this song!), "Just My Imagination", "Shattered", and all songs after track 9. (To be honest, all songs!) I have seen a commercial for the album on MTV Nordic, where the eye is used in the beginning and "Promises" is played, before a picture of the album is shown at the end. Has this commercial been showed in other countries; wasn't it supposed to be shown on some of the huge American TV stations? I hope you all like the album! Asle Andersen I Can't Be With You Homepage: http://thecranberries.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: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 18:30:32 -0400 From: Dal Subject: Re: %Cran: The north american leg of their club tour Yes!!!!! I got tickets for the Toronto concert. I'll be on the balcony(didn't know what was good) c and e 100-and-something. i think that's pretty good considering I got it at about 8 or 9 pm when the tickets went on sale at 12noon. (It took me a VERY long time to persuade my mom to give me her creit card number and my dad told me to ask my mom. We got in a big fight that morning and she refused to give me the number. boy was i mad!!!) I couldn't find any pairs anywhere. so it's two seats two rows and two seats apart. oh well. We'll try to somehow maybe trade with someone to sit beside each other. anyways, is anyone sitting near me? lemme know k? okay so can anyone please tell me of any good music stores which sell bootlegs, rare stuff, etc. I'd really appreciate it. I'm not very familiar with the Toronto area. okay well I'll talk to ya all later. Dal p.s.- is there usually a RTML meeting b4 or after the Cran-concerts? - --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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