Well, I was 7! It was in 94, with Zombie, at first, I didn't like it, well, I certainly didn't like it because my brothers didn't stop saying how much this song was great... and I had the sickness to say that everything my brothers liked sucked, and vice versa! Anyway, my brothers bought No Need To Argue...and I fell in love with it. I took their cd and didn't stop listening to it, my parents loved it too, so we played it in the car, at home, always, I simply loved it. Then we bought Everybody Else... and they became my fav band. They've learned me what music is. Dolores has learned me to listen to the lyrics (I used to translate them into french, and I've learned english thanks to that!)

Now I'm 20, I've seen the Cranberries 3 times, and I've got my ticket to see Dolores in Brussels! Can't wait...

i met with Cranberries in 18th June 1999 :) i heard Promises in a Turkish radio station and i only said "who is she? i should listen their all songs" and then i learned this group is The Cranberries..then i started to love them more and more..i started to learn their lifes, and their character..

The Cranberries is the best group in my life..and they will be forever.i love them so much..

and Dolores is more special for me..i love her character, her thoughts and all

LOL, great question!

Wow, lets see, I was 11 at the time, in the year 1994 when I was watching music videos on MTV and Ode to My Family came on. I remembered the catchy "Do do do do's" and Delores' unique voice. Right after the video had finished, I never heard of that song or the band again until in 1998 when my cousin was listening to their sophmore LP, No Need to Argue. At that moment, my memories of that video from 4 years ago had returned! I borrowed the CD from my cousin and listened to the entire album, I instantly fell in love with NNTA. After months of borrowing NNTA, my cousin decided that I could have it . Soon afterwards, I bought Faithful To The Departed and Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We? The following year I bought Bury the Hatchet on its release date and the same with Wake Up And Smell The Coffee in Oct. of 2001. Since then I've been a huge fan of the Cranberries and eagerly await for their next LP.

Hi tGDA,

The first time I heard the name of "the Cranberries" from one of my friends in high school was 1994. I didn't know anything about them and hadn't heard anything like that before. My friend gave me the CD of "No need to argue", When I listened to it, I got a sort of addicted and I couldn't listen to any other song anymore. I had the lyrics and I memorized all the album and it was so nice for me to be able to sing the way dolores does. I love her accent and her voice so much. The intersting point to me was that I had learned english in american accent , but now I whisper the songs in Irish accent like her.

Hope to have a good community with u all.

 Marjan

Hello everyone..Thank you for this nice topic..Here is my story...

It was 6 years ago when I was at high school.Everyday,during the launch time, there was special songs coming from the music system in the school.When I first listened to Promises, I was surprised by Dolores' beautiful,perfect voice.First I didn't know who she was and the name of the song.and then I searched for it,waited everyday to listen to it again.I asked my friends and they didn't know.Then after a week later they played it again and listened to it memorizing some parts of the lyrics. I searched through the Google and find it.I was really happy and then I listened as more songs as I can find.I became a fan of Cranberries and I am really happy for that.Every time I listened to Dolores, I feel like I am blessed.

Hi Marjan,

Did you know we became Cranberrie-Fans in the same year, with the same album? Funny is, that the first song I heard and made me a fan, is Ode to my Family. Ode to my Family is nr 1 from the album and No need to argue the last song.

By the way, because of your name Marjan, are you Dutch? I'm.

gtz Hans Koekkoek

I first heard of The Cranberries in '96 when I saw the video "Salvation"... I never liked the band... Heard Zombie, but never gave it a chance and just changed the channel everytime the video came on TV...

Then I think it was in 98 when I heard "Promises" and I liked that song... But it wasn't played very much...

Then in 2001 I heard Analyze, and I couldn't believe how humble and soft and pure her voice was and how the song was... Then in 2002 I downloaded a few tracks off the net... Started to like the band even more..

Then in late 2006, I was on a certain message board and the title was "Don't You Remember When Music was actually good?" And I clicked it, and the person posted a video for "zombie"... Right there I was convince that this band was awesome and I got all their albums and became a bigger fan... Bought their Stars DVD as well ;) Well worth the purchase...

So yeah I took a good 10 years for me to be where I'm at with the Cranberries... They finally grew on me haha...

So, FM, you eventually became a fan with WUASTC and as a matter of fact you've ranked Analyse and Wake Up And Smell The Coffee among your favourite songs.

My story with the Cranberries is somewhat opposite: I became crazy about them when NNTA was released.  I was a very composed guy at the time , so I would never have thought I could become maniac about a rock band (I don't know if this sentence is in English, forgive me), yet that's what I became.  I don't know what it was, I guess that Dolores' voice in the context of the simplicity and essentiality of their music stroke a very special note inside of me.

Instead I find WUASTC quite poor compared to the previous works.  Somehow, I think WUASTC was the symptom of a decreasing creative vein that eventually led to the band's breakup.  There are a few tracks I like very much (This Is The Day, Chocolate Brown), yet I think too many are way below the Cranberries average.  Just a personal opinion, of course, I don't want to change your mind!

The thing is I downloaded 4-5 songs off the net... Just random songs, just to see if they band had a lot of "filler' type songs...

The ones I downloaded were

Promises, Analyze, Every Morning, Wake Up And Smell The Coffee, This Is The Day and I loved all those tracks... But even though I liked them I still didn't pay attention to them... It was until I heard and saw the Zombie video a few months ago, then I said, "my goodness, music was REALLY good back then!"

Brilliant thread everybody - really warms the heart

As a very young teenager I spent a lot of time watching music videos. They really were my passion for quite awhile - ahh the glory of marketing!

I recall seeing the video for "Linger" when it came out and remember thinking 'oh a new Everything But The Girl song' (HA!). Found the video racy at that young age, the black and white style reminiscent of Madonna's "Justify My Love". Quickly learned it was not EBTG and became a Cranberries listener.

I remember hearing "Linger" and that was it.....I loved them. I really don't have much of a "story" - I think the first time I saw them live was during the NNTA tour (although, something tells me I saw them open for another band prior to that....) -

I've seen them various times for each tour they've done, and I'm looking forward to the next phase of my Cranberries "relationship" - to see Dolores SOLO!

Who knows whats next......hopefully we have many more years of the band, in different forms, and that they (together/solo) give us more music to enjoy!

Kelly 

Gwen:

I recall seeing the video for "Linger" when it came out and remember thinking 'oh a new Everything But The Girl song'.

Did you pay a penance for such a sinful thought, Gwen?

Luca:

Gwen:

I recall seeing the video for "Linger" when it came out and remember thinking 'oh a new Everything But The Girl song'.

Did you pay a penance for such a sinful thought, Gwen?

I blame it on the short hair, which was a popular look for awhile there! I quickly retracted the thought when I got a better look at Dolores' face Much different, ahhh, jawline.

       Hmmm....I really haven't got any intersting story about "how I became a Crans fan".but....I can say that it was few years ago,maybe nine,maybe ten.I liked it but i didn't really understand it because I was too young.Now when I'm older much older ;-) I can't live without Dolores voice,and this brilliant music!!!

       I don't know am I have right but first song which I heard it was "Zombie". yeah it was incredible experience.But the biggest expression on my sensibility had "Linger", thanks to this song I fall in love in the Cranberries:d Now after a few years I can say that listening to Dolores is better than anything else, maybe without sex;p hehe

      That's my story,my simple story, simple but true....