It was from this East Limerick townland that the schoolgirl singer determined she would, one day, conquer the world with her voice and her music. Lots of young girls have that same dream. Dolores O’Riordan, a force of nature, achieved it.On the day of the inquest of her body - and her birthday - a hardcore fan made a tribute vid of the Dreams of Dolores
Dolores: The mystic musician of Ireland:
You have to pray proper - you have to be focused: whether it's pain you want to get over, or something you want to do in the future - you can do anything."A 1990 version [of Dreams] was released in Ireland only in the summer of that year. It reached the top 40 on the US Hot 100 Airplay and the top 30 on the UK Singles Chart in early 1994."
I made this playlist of JUST her song Dreams - this is her true anthem song
She starts out playing it slower - at 1991 - and said it was about her first true love. But as she tours - it's the song that everyone always sings along with - and she starts playing it faster, as a more energized version.
in a moving a cappella — a riveting performance by the frontwoman that was unconventional in the heavy rock era of MTV and alternative radio, but it also stood out amid the fray for that exact reason. The song Dreams went on to peak at number 15 in the U.S. alternative charts,
People report feeling the "tingles" and "chills" from this song. In other words - this is her best known song - it was covered in China famously - and many other bands covered the song.
A Cantonese cover of the song, "Dream Lover", with backing vocals by herself, was a hit single for Chinese singer Faye Wong, included in her 1994 album Random Thoughts.[27]I just had Dolores singing it - not other people - as she is the only one with the distinctive yodeling falsetto voice.
Passion Pit released a cover of Dreams on the deluxe version of their debut album, "Manners" in 2009.
Bella Ferraro performed the song on X Factor Australia in 2012, that week the song re-entered the ARIA Charts just missing the top 50 at No.51.
Bleachers covered the song at Lollapalooza in 2014.
Providence, RI dreampop band Littlefoot covered the song live in 2016.[28]
Michael Whalen released a cover of Dreams featuring vocals by The New Tarot as the lead single to his album, "Dream Impact" in 2017.[29]
Ohashi Trio covered the song in his 2010 album "FAKE BOOK".
Japanese Breakfast covered the song during their 2018 Spotify Sessions recording.[30]
Matt Kaye released a cover as a single in August 2018.
If it seems like you've heard this song a lot more than would be justified by its chart position, that's because it's unusually soundtrack-friendly. It has appeared in the films Mission: Impossible, You've Got Mail, Boys On The Side, The Next Karate Kid, Shot Through the Heart, and The Baby-Sitters Club. You almost couldn't go into a theater in the '90s without hearing this song! It also appeared in the TV series 90210, JAG, and My So-Called Life....Dreams is still being put in movies in 2014. It's played during the end-credits of "The To Do List."
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/remembering-dolores-o-riordan-can-you-lend-me-20-quid-and-buy-me-a-drink-1.3357191
“Can you lend me 20 quid and buy me a drink” was the first thing Dolores O’Riordan ever said to me. It was in early 1993 in Fibber Magee’s pub on Parnell Street in Dublin.She was with her then boyfriend Mike (it’s his voice you hear yodelling at the end of the song Dreams), and was in a dejected state thanks to The Cranberries’ debut album being a flop – plus the two singles off it, Linger and Dreams, had failed to chart.They were about to be packed off to the US to be the support band on a Suede tour and Dolores felt that, aged 22, she was already drinking in the music industry’s last-chance saloon.
As she got older - her range started to diminish and - so she didn't do the falsetto yodeling as well. Also she didn't dance as much.
So I have managed to gather together 47 versions of the song DREAMS - (not including all the live full concerts). So a couple versions have another song or something with them but otherwise it's JUST the song DREAMS.
The backing vocals on the song are sung by Mike Mahoney, ex-boyfriend of Cranberries lead singer Dolores O'Riordan.Dreams (The Cranberries song) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_(The_Cranberries_song)
Some are different cell phones of the same concert, same song. But you get a different view, etc.
So I have Dolores performing the song all around the world - Germany, Philippines, Chile, Peru, Italy, Mexico, Scotland, Ireland, London, Chicago, Toronto, New York, Basel Switzerland, Sweden, France, etc.
Billboard Zine - 10 reasons why Dreams is one of the greatest songs ever written
O'Riordan doubled up on her vocal on the verses to "Dreams" in absolutely gorgeous self-harmony, allowing her to play both falsetto'd fantasy and grounded reality at once -- the deliberate phrasing of the lyrics making it sound like she's trying to reason with herself, and not entirely succeeding.
What is amazing is I noticed at least half a dozen people saying how this song gives them goosebumps.
only the Cranberries would've cleared out for eight bars just let their singer go to town with octave-scaling, spine-tickling "la-aa-daayyyy-yaaaaa"s -- they knew O'Riordan was their greatest weapon as a group, and they were determined not to waste any of its ammo.
Ancient Irish Scales - Library Ireland
https://www.libraryireland.com/IrishMusic/IV.phpFrom a long and careful study of some thousands of our ancient melodies, I have arrived at the conclusion that the old Irish scale was pentatonic, proceeding as ...It is generally a major scale without the fourth nor seventh degree, or the subdominant nor the leading tone. Even though this is a common form of the pentatonic scale, any five note combinations in an octave can be called a pentatonic scale. The Han Chinese use of pentatonic scales is very common.The Pentatonic Scale - Irish and Chinese Folk Songs
09940176.weebly.com/scale.html
Dolores:Lilting - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiltingLilting is a form of traditional singing common in the Goidelic speaking areas of Ireland and Scotland. It goes under many names, and is sometimes referred to as... ... puirt a beul in Scottish Gaelic, Canterach, or portaireacht bhéil in Irish Gaelic. ... Perthshire; Dolores O'Riordan, singer of Irish rock band The Cranberries ...Lilting - Wikiwand
www.wikiwand.com/en/Lilting
But I think that kids don't listen to music as much as they used to when I was growing up. When I was growing up, you'd have music in your bedroom, you'd have your cassettes and your vinyls or your CDs, or whatever it was, but nowadays I think kids spend a lot more time on YouTube and Safari and Yelp and Google and Twitter and Facebook. All these things are there now and they take a certain amount of time and focus off music. So, kids are caught up a lot on Facebook and these things as opposed to just going to their room and playing music when they're feeling bad.https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/dolores-o-riordan-taught-me-to-face-everything-horrifying-life-has-to-offer-1.3497419
Songfacts: Is that what you did when you were younger?
Dolores: I played music in my bedroom, yeah.
Songfacts: Which must have been interesting because you shared a bedroom, didn't you?
Dolores: No, we had separate rooms.
Dolores O’Riordan sometimes performed in the Sean-nós style of singing. You know this sound; it raises your hair like the electricity of a gathering storm. Frederick Douglass, a man with a perspective on misery that no modern person could comprehend, described his reaction to such singing thus: “I have never heard any songs like those anywhere since I left slavery, except when in Ireland. There I heard the same wailing notes, and was much affected by them. It was during the Famine of 1845-46... nowhere outside of dear old Ireland, in the days of want and famine, have I heard sounds so mournful.”Interview:
Though he nudges at questions of religion, tracing the delicate breath and powerful rasp of her voice to childhood church singing, and O’Riordan playfully invokes the idea (“I’ve become a bit holy now” she says, speaking of air travel worries), but a gorgeous live performance of Ave Maria with Pavarotti actually demonstrates it.There, as Pavarotti stands in admiring silence, you can see O’Riordan in a state of pure, unadulterated delight, her eyes screwing up tightly or opening dreamily within the raptures of a song.
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