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The Cranberries - No Need to Argue results

The participants sorted by deviation from final results:
Seanchan (20)
neonreaper (22)
HBJDubs (28)
BlueCrystalTear (30)
ChichiriMuyo (30)
FoolFantastic (34)
MetalmindStats (34)
Johnbobb (40)
Raetsel_Lapin (46)

General Album Comments

BlueCrystalTear: My familiarity with the Cranberries is limited to "Linger", "Dreams", and "Zombie" so this is gonna be interesting to go through.

I thought I should just do a first listen today and, after completing it, I found a lot of songs to be repetitive - the lyrics just refrain again and again to a pretty ridiculous extent. The vocals and instrumentation are excellent but the band reaches its heights when the song isn't six words long. And there are definitely some here, though... not quite in the song I expected them to be. I like that.

Raetsel_Lapin: That's about how I feel after the first listen. I've spent more than enough time ranting against repetition, so let's just say this album isn't for me... but I do find their sound intriguing enough that I don't especially mind listening to this album anyway.

ChichiriMuyo: Depression is repetitive, kids.

ChichiriMuyo (on Cranberries' previous album): This whole album, it's all about the kind of depression one might experience when they've been abused, at least emotionally, at a young age. This is Dolores's songwriting about her youth, and it's not a coincidence that the follow up is "no need to argue." No caps. Not in either album. The two albums in totality are just saying "fine, I tried, now I'm going off on my own." I don't really know her life, but I know from the songs on these two albums that she was escaping something, someone that made her feel less than. I think maybe over the course of this weeks album you might figure that out.

Seanchan: My initial impression ranged from eh to zzz. I perked up a bit in the 2nd half. Not sure if thats because the back half is better or if after 30 minutes I finally caught the wave of the album.

We'll see what a few more listens brings. This one is a big drop in energy after the last 2 weeks.

BlueCrystalTear: Three listens was enough for me. I like, but don't love, this. My rankings became pretty clear to me after three, with only slight changes from one to the next. The top three and the bottom three stayed the same (same order for the top though) from one listen to the next.

neonreaper: After my top three songs, I'd say most of the album is "okay" for. They were a good band that seemed to make the music that they set out to make, I enjoy some of it quite a bit, and respect the rest of it. I don't have a ton of confidence in my middle rankings, but I was happy to listen to Yeat's Grave a bunch this week :)

Johnbobb: overall a great album, and Dolores O'Riordan is flat out incredible at using her voice less for traditional vocals and more as an instrument of its own

Seanchan: I didn't particularly care for this album. It's fine, I don't hate it, but I can't see myself listening to it again except maybe as background music that I'm not paying attention to.

ChichiriMuyo: A lot of bands face a sophomore slump. They put together every good to decent thing they've ever written and just find themselves creatively tapped by their second album. Not The Cranberries. No, not only were they able to largely continue with the same feel and content as their first album they went further, evolving it, going deeper and darker, creating their Magnum Opus. Dolores O'Riordan really looked into her world, inner and outer, and saw so much darkness and refined it into genuine poetry. She expresses her pain from difficult relationships (familial, social and romantic) as well as the pain she saw around her, especially when it came to the ways innocent children can be hurt by people with so much more power than them. Yet in spite of all this doom and gloom there is a glimmer of hope in there. Just because things have been bad, just because bad things may continue to happen, there's no reason to believe it will always be bad. You can move on from it, maybe you can even be stronger for it.

Ranking the tracks of this album was incredibly difficult for me, almost like ranking one's own children. Every single track taps into something deep inside me, even the weakest on the album (not that I think any of them are weak). It certainly doesn't hurt that this album came out just as I was entering that troublesome period of puberty, meaning that every one of these songs felt like they were written for me by the only person in the world who understood what I was going through. lol. I guess there's no need to argue, this album will always be special to me, special to me.

MetalmindStats: I think I like every song here individually, as well as the way they all come together to comprise an album.