66muds99 says:
I think what many in the States don’t realize is that The Cranberries were so big, they were bigger than Nirvana outside the States. They were the ones that brought alternative rock to the mainstream in Asia, helping pave the way for so many other groups. I mean, I’ve heard their songs in 50 different countries, and just last week in China.
Yeah or else you know you'd probably end up dead. I mean look at all the people that didn't make it. To be honest with you there was a large amount of pressure, we were really young but Basically it was the best thing I did was stop. Basically I had to go to a lot of doctors, and I was sent to a shrink and all that stuff. No you're not mad, but your life is mad. BBC - DoloresSo Island Records, etc. told Dolores the lost money was $60 million and so tried to pressure her to continue.... Evil capitalists.
Early Dolores - she never bought a pop/rock album in her life - instead did 8 years of piano lessons, sang in church choir and played church organ
Dolores - in France In a way I 'spose, music, when you sing a song and stuff, you close your eyes and it takes you away so much, so you do enter another world, don't you? You can't touch it. You can't see it. It's quite spiritual, music is.... You can't really tell the future. Life's fragile. I fly a lot, you know. I'd love to come back here, but I can't say I definitely will.
Dolores in Italy: I think there are so many different religions but basically they have the same basic principles. I'm open to different religions. I don't necessarily think Catholicism is right or Buddhism or Muslims. I kind of think it all has similar principles. When ultimately the human race is striving to go to one place together in peace.
Dolores: We kind of forget that time has lapsed cuz music doesn't really change, you know? It stands the test of time as you say. So when we are playing those songs we always feel like we are teenagers again. It's nice. It makes you feel young.She does yoga for an hour before going on stage - 2002
I'm really glad I was a country girl....going up to the fields on my own and sitting there for three hours...
schoolgirl, an East Limerick musician (who went hunting the wren), and a daughter of a singer with a deep love of country music. Dolores’ formative experiences as a musician were as a singer (and organist) in church and school. This was a repertoire that shaped her as it did so many of her generation, though besides hymnody, she proclaims to have acquired a deep passion for Gregorian chant at an early age. Church voices tend towards the unadorned – powerful, committed and true to the message of the lyrics. These elements were certainly found in Dolores’ voice throughout her career. But there was also the particular attack on syllables, the grace notes on the key words, the glottal ornamentation that marked her sound as indelibly Irish (this influence of sean nós and Irish balladry is something astutely remarked upon by Damien Dempsey on hearing of her death while attending Shane McGowan’s 60th birthday party at the National Concert Hall). And what about that yodelling? Was it an affectation? Dolores mentions in numerous interviews that it was upon listening to her father singing his favourite cowboy song that she learned this vocal trick, adapting and incorporating into her own unique sound. This wasn’t just an American affectation. The resonances between American country, Irish country, Irish balladry, and sean nós were all part of a spectrum of embodied sonic experience. Dolores singing Irish pub songs
if god could pick one woman to sing for the rest of eternity i want it to be dolores..she is a beautiful woman with a voice that can move mountains and travel across galaxiesShe was lonely at the top - interview - being in hotels alone.
..into an ex-girlfriend of mine called Kathryn who asked how TCSU were getting on since I’d split,” recalls Niall.Niall had a strange sense of humor, hence the original band name was "The Cranberry Saw-Us"
“I said the lads had mentioned that they were considering getting a girl and straight away Kathryn suggests a girl in her older sisters class at school. ‘Her name’s Dolores …she sings with the choir but she’s into Sinead O’Connor as well. I’ll get her phone number for you tomorrow.’ And that’s how, one Sunday afternoon, I ended up phoning a girl called Dolores — out of the blue — to see if she’d be interested in singing with my old band.” Dolores O’Riordan was interested. She arranged to meet at Xeric Studios late that spring with the band.A local competing band (pdf) recalls:
Niall remembers the moment Dolores opened her mouth to sing, saying, “She started playing a Sinead O’Connor song — I don’t know which one… I think it’s on ‘The Lion & The Cobra’ LP — but she was scarcely three or four lines into it by the time all our lower jawbones had hit the floor. This girl could sing — effortlessly. I think I was off the hook with Noel, Mike and Ferg by the time she finished and within a couple of minutes I’d made my excuses for dashing off, said my see ye laters and quietly slipped out the door leaving history to get on with its making.”
So her 2 big hits were written in 1990 - the last year of high school. Dreams - frisson inducing (tingles) yodelling at Nobel peace prize ceremony
No I've become really good...No honestly you're gonna get it. When you're gonna go, you're gonna go. You get killed when a bus crosses a road or whatever....You know the King is here? (Dolores): Who Elvis? No the King of Sweden!
And so, in July, 1991, turning down offers from labels such as Warners, Virgin, CBS, Rough Trade, EMI, Virgin, and Imago, the band singed on to Island Records for a six-album contract.1991 full album Uncertain - "time is an illusion baby, I'm on your side."
With his dictorial approach, he governed the mixes with dance beats and industrial guitars. After a month of tense recordings, only three mediocre songs were produced. Finally, the tension became too much — they dumped Pearse Gilmore. The legalities of the split would last for three years. One clause of the dispute, which ended in 1995, is that neither Pearse nor the band can talk to the press about their disagreements.1993 Linger on MTV live
With this and everything on the shoulders of the band, they were crippled — especially Dolores who became physically ill. With abject depression and induced weight loss, she was confined to her bed.
frisson inducing.
There was consensus that they were going to be big; the harshly critical British music press fawned over them, with high praise appearing in NME and Melody Maker, which dubbed O'Riordan "The Voice."
Island Records won the bidding war, and in 1993 released their debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, with two surefire hits from the demo: "Linger" and "Dreams."
Dreams and Linger - live 1993
La voz y belleza de Dolores me tiene hipnotizado,,,,The voice and beauty Dolores got me hypnotized.
Zombie Live full concert album 1994 Zombie, her third big hit was written in 1993 and released on MTV in 1994. 2009 - remembering how fast her fame was in the US 1993 - interview
In 1989, brothers Mike (bass) and Noel (guitar) Hogan formed The Cranberry Saw Us with drummer Fergal Lawler and singer Niall Quinn, in Limerick, Ireland. Less than a year later, Quinn left the band.[14] The remaining band members then placed an advertisement for a female singer. O'Riordan responded to the advertisement and auditioned by writing lyrics and melodies to some existing demos.[15] When she returned with a rough version of "Linger", she was hired, and they recorded Nothing Left At All, a three-track EP released on tape by local record label Xeric Records, which sold 300 copies.[15] The group changed their name to "The Cranberries".[16] The owner of Xeric Studios, Pearse Gilmore, became their manager and provided the group with studio time to complete another demo tape, which he produced. It featured early versions of "Linger" and "Dreams", which were sent to record companies throughout the UK.[15].................overview - of their first tour - interview
By June 1993, the band came to the US to tour for the first time, supporting The The. They began in Colorado, and moved across the country. However, as they moved along, something rather odd began to happen… album sales began to climb slowly but surely. At first, they were selling 20,000 albums a week — modest. But as time progressed, the numbers began to rise to 30,000 then 50,000 a week. By the time the tour ended, there was enough interest that the band booked a few club dates of their own.
“Dreams” was re-released, and smashed into the Billboard Top 40. By this time, the band filmed the video for their upcoming second single, “Linger” in Los Angeles. They received some unexpected company on the set; REM’s Michael Stripe and Jean- Baptiste Mondino, director of Madonna’s “Justify My Love” showed up. The video was directed by Melodie McDaniels.
She also released an album with D.A.R.K. (Andy Rourke from The Smiths + Dolores and her boyfriend/dj Olé sharing vocal duties on all songs). The Cranberries are also releasing a reissue of their debut with previously unreleased material from that era (release at the end of this year) AND a whole new album, for which Dolores already had recorded the vocals for (release nex year). D.A.R.K. also stated Dolores worked on a second album with them, and that they hope it will one day get released. So hopefully we'll hear from Dolores again. (:1996 MTV awards - Dolores says she was lusting big time - all excited - after the Metallica singer there
The grind of touring was at odds with her priorities: family, church and nature. By 1996 she was subsisting on coffee and cigarettes, and down to about 90 pounds. The press turned on her as well. Everett True, who writing for Melody Maker called The Cranberries a "heaven-send" in 1991, wrote of O'Riordan five years later: "You can actually see the mean-spiritedness of her thoughts imprinted on her pinched little face." Nasty stuff. She hardly deserved the vitriol.https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/dolores-o-riordan-an-artist-searching-for-her-stable-self-1.3398068
O’Riordan responds, though, with human insights (originally, her band mates had to turn down their amps to hear her voice, “which is a big thing for them, when guys are 15 or 16”), with political understanding (the music industry and hawkish sensationalism of the press, “is very sexist towards women”, she says in 1995) and with rich, evocative images: recording Bury the Hatchet while seven months pregnant, she recalls, “was great craic … It was like a new band, I was like a different person, obviously.”
Her "inquest" was done "coincidentally" on her birthday - just a few days ago....Dolores described by a devoted fan who met her in 1999
The way that she was kind inspired me....and she changed my life...and a written tribute she gave
"Without Dolores O'Riordan, we wouldn't have Faye Wong's cover of Dreams in Chungking Express (which was also featured in a 1994 Wong Kar-wai drama film)," wrote Tiff Zhang in response to a post debating which song was better.
"An Irish songbird who was a major musical influence to one of China's biggest pop stars. Rest in peace," said another Weibo user.
Renowned Chinese music producer and talk show host Gao Xiao-song, who frequently used Zombie as the opening theme for his show, paid tribute to the late Irish rocker by sharing a 2017 memory of meeting O'Riordan in Ireland.
Ms Dolores O' Riordan had one of the most angelic voices i ever heard and the first time I know about her was through Cranberries's song-Dreams in Cantonese version and was sung by a Chinese singer, Faye Wong....Then from there I found out about Cranberries and their songs....She was one the of the best female lead singers I ever heard....So sad to know her passing....it was a pity to lose her so young.....deepest condolences to her family members and loved ones.....
1993 - Linger had gone Platinum in the US so they get a big "welcome" back to Ireland
She toured with Duran Duran and married one of the band ...
This hurts my heart. Rip fly high !!!Dolores 1993 live Dutch tv
Dolores interviewed about recovering from her US tour after the first album.
RIP Dolores O' Riordan, the voice that Occupied many a moment, and many a border, subtly defining the growth of a few generations from Limerick to France, from N.Y. to L.A., from Canada to Korea, and right across the globe over the last few decades, a true free spirit that will live on - Our Queen of Limerick xxx!All your friends change toward you and you got to let go of that.....
according to a 1995 piece in the Orlando Sentinel, "even staunch followers were less than dazzled by the band's early live shows. O'Riordan refused to face the audience, standing sideways while she sang".A tour concert from 1995 US
The reason was shyness but she would soon come out of her shell.
Amazing performance, especially WAR CHILD... chills
So Dolores - means "grief" and "sorrow." She was sexually abused - and suffered from it.
From the age of eight, Dolores was routinely raped and molested in her own home by someone in a position of trust.Comment says:
the man that molested her showed up at her father's funeral. She divulged that he apologized to her at that time. Skeleton song is solo song about facing her trauma
Her mother is a devout Catholic who chose her daughter's name in reference to the Lady of the Seven Dolours.[51]
Chiu, Melody (15 January 2018). "Sexual Abuse, Depression and a Prior Suicide Attempt: Inside Dolores O'Riordan's Difficult Life". People. Meredith Corporation. Retrieved 17 January 2018.So her husband left her - after 20 years of marriage - And she was basically catatonic - after a manic rage reaction - in 2014.
Indeed, she explains she hadn’t seen her abuser for years until she saw him at the funeral of her father two years ago, which brought back the demons of the past as she was about to start a new tour. Dolores then emphasizes the depression she went through on the 2012 world tour, saying “I worried that I might not make it through it“, some facts that created a special atmosphere at these gigs that some of us, fans, could unfortunately feel. http://cranberriesworld.com/2013/11/10/breaking-news-dolores-sexually-abused-as-a-child/
Someone comments:
Brave Dolores, She was one of the Richest Woman in Ireland, (vid of her wealth) She spent All her money on Poor Limerick Homeless, she built many Houses for Limerick Poor families. She organised the Biggest intrnational Rock Concert ever in Limerick city ever In 2000 tour she played for Israel to bring Peace and Security for Oppressed and Discriminated Jewish people in the World.When I drove up north - I constantly try finding music worth listening to on the radio. On one trip I heard one Cranberries song - and I got the internal tingles - frisson. That was the only song that gave me that reaction. Then on another trip - the same thing but a different Cranberries song. It was the only song to give me frisson - internal tingles (increased dopamine bliss).
this gave me goosebumps again today!!! So I decided to look up the Cranberries online - and discovered the lead singer had died this year! And her "inquest" was Sept. 6th on her birthday - turning the same age as me. She died very close to my own birthday.
She says she had a lot of demons, "a lot of grief" and a lot of nightmares, and was trying to get over her demons, to get the demons to leave her. (2007) She tried to overdose in 2013. Her 2014 divorce shattered her and she was put on psychotropic meds (in 2015 She declared herself publicly diagnosed Bipolar for the first time).
At the age of 42, she said in an interview if she made it to 50, she'd be happy. On Monday, she died aged 46.
I'm sure that did not help "heal" her (the side effect symptoms are probably worse). She took to binge drinking - alone - while on psychotropic meds. A "high risk" behavior that led to her passing out in a bathtub and drowning.
Dolores: My favorite part is actually when you go on stage and you have a really good time and everything sounds great and you have a great performance and you get a great reaction from the crowd. That's the best, and when I'm on stage performing and everything is great, I'll forget every single thing. All my worries go out the window, and it's the best feeling.She loved to sing though.
She kept going because she knew many people were depending on her for their livelihoods, but O'Riordan finally crashed at the end of the year. The birth of her first child in 1997 helped align her priorities, allowing The Cranberries to regroup in 1998. They've released three albums since, with another, Something Else, slated for April 28, 2017.
Even in that link above - that early doc - she is talking about wanting to die. One of her vids of her hit songs strangely shows her slowing "falling" back underwater, disappearing, like she is drowning. She did not like being famous. 1995 interview - says how she was ironically most unhappy from her early fame -
Her voice is unique
Never been into music let alone the cranberries but just listened to this ladies voice and songs and loved it she's such a beautiful honest clean spirit, who wants the simple things in life, love, children and happiness and to think she has gone from this world its a shame.. yes the world is definitely worse of without her...
"The Cranberries had so many hits in Asia," said Lauretta Alabons, director and founder of Singapore-based concert provider LAMC Productions.So as I listened to her songs online - comments rolled in from around the world. Pretty much every country you can think of - Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Borneo, India, Philippines, Brazil, Nigeria, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Indonesia, Latin America, Asia, Slovakia, etc. Everyone loved her voice. Someone commented:
The former entertainment television presenter said she was "shocked and saddened" by the news.
If you could hear the singing of certain parts of Africa, New Guinea, etc, you would realize this kind of singing has ancient roots.Exactly. She is striking a timeless depth of humanity - "Sounding the Depths" as Dr. Victor Grauer calls it. (audio examples from around the world). A person had said they hate yodelling in regards to her big hit Zombie and her other big hit Dreams. https://www.youtube.com/user/celticyodels/videos has a Dolores vid.
Zombie was a visceral response to the death of two children in an IRA bombing in the Cheshire town of Warrington.2000 set and interview of hits NYC,
Three-year-old Johnathan Ball was killed when two bombs hidden in litter bins detonated on a busy shopping street in March 1993. Tim Parry, aged 12, died five days later.
Dolores went to L.A. to read movie scripts, to consider acting - after their 2nd album
I just want to pass on and enforce the message which makes really sense about her song.from another you tuber James Brown: My heart is broken today. Dolores O’Riordan has passed on. She was the voice of my generation, Generation X. I was in college in the Nineties and training to go into the Army. I wanted to serve like my father and grandfather before me. They had their war songs in World War II and Vietnam and in the Nineties, we had “Zombie”. Dolores wrote Zombie when she was Twenty-two years old and it was amazing that at a young age she understood warfare enough to write about it. She was like a fiery Valkyrie singing in a thunderous voice at the top of her lungs, like a young child screaming at her parents to stop fighting. We all knew what she was saying, trying to get the elders to stop the madness. “in your head, in your head they are fighting-with their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns, in your head they are crying”. “Another mothers’ breaking heart is taking over, It’s the same old theme since 1916”. My generation like others before hoped that the war would stop, but it goes on. That song and the Voice of Dolores will live forever. Every time a new generation comes of age and questions why the world is consumed with war they will listen to “Zombie”. They will know that this young woman from Ireland stood up and screamed in the faces of the masters who rule the world and told them that they are tearing our world apart. Dolores O’Riordan performed all over the world, from Ireland to the U.S. to Argentina to France to Poland. Today I am also infuriated and sad because the pain and depression that she suffered from was caused by the abuse she suffered as a child. Whatever her hardships or pain in life today she is suffering no more. She was an Irish Angel placed on this earth and now she has gone to live with the other Angels. She will be missed but also remembered for the important message she brought to we mere mortals.
Zombie is such a haunting song. Paired with her passion and vocals, makes for an amazing song................
Other fans have shared my respect for the Irish frontwoman, like Shirlene Chew, a fan in Singapore since she was 14.........................
She told me that she was drawn to O'Riordan's "originality and rebel style".
"She was a rebel and I loved her for that. When she first came on the scene, there were people who thought she sang funnily, almost like yodelling. But I didn't feel that way. It was that quality that drew me to her," she said.
"Her music video appearances were also different from other music stars of that era. She danced funny too but because she was so authentic, it became her style instead."
So her singing was not just some pretty girl voice - there was very strong emotional catharsis going on. Some people can't handle it. Someone else wonders if she got murdered:
After looking into this, "EVERYONE" needs to keep up on this. Just hours being found dead (supposedly by staff- IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!!!- "WHAT WERE THEY DOING GOING INTO HER ROOM, FOR NO REASON, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?!?!!!!!!....) she talked to Bad Wolves (band) and NOTHING seemed wrong. When The Cranberries did "Zombie" I wondered if 'that crown' (English royalty) would kill her for that (since they couldn't do anything else to her). The Cranberries said that the song was about 2 boys that the IRA killed, but everyone knew that it was about all of the Irish that the English have killed (to own and control them). Remember, England has invaded MANY countries, tried to take them over and own them. Even though it never worked out for them, that wasn't until AFTER they had murdered ENDLESS people in the attempt thereof. Also, remember Princess Di?- How some paparazzi supposedly chased her into a tunnel, then once there she was killed? (and there being "conflicting" statements about that- how "NO ONE saw the car she was in racing around, trying to get away from them- and how they had to be going fast enough to catch air going into that tunnel, but NO ONE saw that either"....) I'm beginning to suspect England in this. Especially since they "somehow" can't say how she died (making sure they secure a doctor, pathologist, coroner... to go along with their story?- for the IRA WILL SHOW THEM WHAT "REAL WAR" LOOKS LIKE IF IT COMES OUT THEY KILLED HER!!!!!!!!!).Live in Paris concert, 1999, Cranberries
Acoustic version of her big hit about her first kiss: Linger - NPR studio
Someone comments:
She has a great talent of mixing her chest voice and head voice.Her voice reminds me of the lead singer of - Marianne Faithful...
Interesting it's a review of Alanis Morissettee - with whom Dolores compares herself -stating Alanis sold 28 million of one record and she sold 28 million of several records over 10 years....CMJ New Music Monthly - Jul 1995 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?id=6SwEAAAAMBAJNo. 23 - Magazine... from Mars) that's unpleasant for about 20 seconds and then permanently brands itself onto your cerebral cortex, like Marianne Faithfull or Dolores O'Riordan.
When her child was 5 then she quit the Cranberries - so her 5 year old would go to school, instead of touring with the band - dang VOICE OF AMERICA (CIA propaganda radio!)
the snots coming up your throat and the frogs - it will be lovely! It will be lovely!So her third big hit was "Dreams."
She moved to Canada as her husband was Canadian - and speaks Gaelic with the Canadian Irish
Dolores on how they had to take a break from touring but the music was a release
Dolores - she "went into the forest" and grew her hair out and got shy again. 2007
13 years on a tour bus! On Hiatus for 7 years. Then got back together to make Roses album, 2009 - interview
Cranberries - best of live playlist
The funny thing is her band - when they try to play on their own without her singing - it doesn't sound that good. Just like a normal back up band.
Dolores used microtonal tuning in her singing!!
Here she is being interviewed - AFTER she left the Cranberries and before they got back together.
"I can't sleep cuz I hear a melody in my head" - and she likes John Lennon the most.
"I eat a frightening amount of garlic. No one wants to talk to me cause I stink"
"I guess only the good die young."A cranberries fan channel
INterview with her band - live show
Dolores, 1995, live
Live in Korea, 2002 concert
2007 - interview on her solo work after 4 year break
Another Cranberries fan channel
Cranberries Live Ireland - 2000
2011 - no need to argue anymore
I hear your voice in my head and in my heart. As long as I can, I will hold on to her because so few things have touched me But your voice resonates in my heart.Dolores solo album 2007
http://cranberriesworld.com/
Zombie - 2017 cell phone
after her 2nd solo album - interview 2009
2012 Slovakia
An amazing playlist of Dolores - saying females should be equal without needing to hang their knockers out, etc. and need to be respected by males
It was the best moment of my life when he came out, It's real love!speaking on giving birth - she got the oxytocin blast!
I have all these things....but I'm so lonely, so lonely inside, so sad. I really wanted to experience some really strong love, so I think when I had... I never experienced so strong love for so long. It was really like mind blowing, so amazing...I began seeing Nature again...I opened up to love.Dolores on her baby love
https://www.youtube.com/user/Cranaddict/playlists
The final live performance of Dolores - "Where did all the time go?" January 2018
You never really know everything. Even when you die you don't know everything. - Interview - One day at a time. 2007
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