SONG OF THE DAY
“The Icicle Melts” by The Cranberries (No Need To Argue, Island Records, 1994). Written by Dolores O’Riordan.
INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)
- This album was the band’s most successful album, and has sold about 16.7 million copies worldwide.
- It contains the band’s most successful single to date, “Zombie”.
- The album’s mood is darker than that on Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?. It shows a more mature performance by lyricist and vocalist Dolores O’Riordan, writing about war, death, love and disappointment. Her voice is clearer, without the previous album’s double and triple voice layering. In some of the songs, the band decided to take on a rockier and heavier side, using distortion and increasing the volume. The song “Yeat’s Grave” is about William Butler Yeats, and quotes one of his poems, No Second Troy. The hit song “Zombie”, written by lead singer Dolores O’Riordan, is according to her about the IRA bombings in 1993 that resulted in the death of two children.
- The group was one of the most successful rock acts of the ‘90s and sold over 14.5 million albums in the United States alone. The band has achieved four top 20 albums on the Billboard 200 chart (Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?; No Need To Argue; To the Faithful Departed and Bury the Hatchet) and eight top 20 singles on the Modern Rock Tracks chart (“Linger”, “Dreams”, “Zombie”, “Ode to My Family”, “Ridiculous Thoughts”, “Salvation”, “Free To Decide” and “Promises”).
- In 2009 The Cranberries reunited. The band is currently on a North American tour, followed by dates in Latin America and Europe in early 2010.
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