Hi here is my story: i dont remeber the first time i heard them or the song but my sister which is 10 years older than me was listening Zombie in 1995. Radios and Televisions were trying to remind us about falling of Berlins Wall and there were some politics things that made Zombie often on radio and TV. So i remebered one day my father was death just beofre some months and we were all listening Zombie on TV - me, my sister and my brother all of us singing and shouting those words(and me imaging playing drum part- it was my child wish to play drums). I remeber that i already knew every single beat of drums, i knew words so may be that was just the time i realise what they mean for me.  

it was in 1994, I was....7. My brothers bought everybody else then no need to argue and I loved it... so I took their cd's, played them in my bedroom. And acted like I was Dolores... huhu

 They learned me music!

 

 

Hello at all!                                                                                                  Hope you will understand me, because I´m from Germany

And this is my story (probably not so spectacular like some i read)...                  It was the 24th January 2007 and i write with one of my friends at ICQ. She asks me: "Hey do you know this song?" (Well, it was Zombie and I think everyone should know this song! )                                                                         Then she post "Twenty-One", "I can´t be with you" and "Dreams" to me and i fell more and more in love with this music and Dolores unbelievable voice....*is in seventh heaven*...                                                                                         As soon as possible I buy "No need to argue" and "Bury the hatchet", but I´m still searching for "Everybody else is doing it so why can´t we", "Wake up and smell the coffee" and "To the faithful departed" ...... I hear the songs at Youtube.com but that´s not teh same, is it??

Hope I´ll meet some freaky fans like me here??

Love

Hi!!
love this question! i actually signed up just then to answer it! hahahA!
all your stories are great, and i love hearing about your first experiences with the cranberries. anyway....
id always heard people talk about the cranberries at school, and songs like linger were always playing when i was a kid but i never listened to them. so then in year 12, i had to study the film clueless (along with the book Emma). so in clueless the song "Turn away" plays while they are driving the car. and im like, omg! what is that song! who is singing it!!! so then my teacher gave us a list of all the songs in the move (for some technique work or something) and i found the song on there, went home and downloaded it! then i started listening to more cranberries music and since then i have been in love. and turn away will always be one of my favourite songs!

I was waching 'Charmed' and Cranberries had a concert in the P3. And they was singing 'Just my imagination'. Who is watching 'Charmed' he know what is P3. Then I heard 'Zombie'. And I say: 'I love it'.

Peace!

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What's in your head?

Hello!I have become a cranfan seeing "Des chiffres et des lettres" at the t.v.!Bye!

I became a fan back in January of this year. I was playing Halo 3 with my friend and we pulled an all nighter and he set his iPod to The Cranberries album, "Stars". He left it on repeat so for about 9 hours straight we played through while The Cranberries got hammered into my brain. Without knowing it, I got addicted to them. Soon after I bought all their albums plus Dolores' solo album. I freaking LOVE THE CRANBERRIES!!!!

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~Is she fighting for air?~

it is interesting that there are so many diferent stories...

well.i knew about Zombie but i was interested in something more..So i asked my uncle because he is a music fan in general and he knows a lot about that subject..He had somewhere recorded concert in London and i decided to listen it. I was impressed but when came song "Daffodil Lament" i was speachless.I couldn't stop listening....:)

 

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jasmina

I've been a Cranberries fan for a little over a week, but the band has really taken me by storm.  I can't believe that I hadn't listened to them before.  Some of it has to do with the fact that I grew up listening to Zeppelin, Floyd, Yes, etc. and that was my music.  But now the Crans fit in there very nicely.

Backing up a little, I am a BIG fan of live music. So much so, that I belong to a music trading community for bootleg concerts. We only trade shows that have never been officially released, because we do not want to steal from the artists and I typically only get shows where I already own the bands whole commercially released catalogue.

Well, on a lark, I decided to get two Cranberries shows to give them a try (1994-10-26 Munich and 1996-08-29 Toronto).  I've been listening to them non-stop since.  I can't get over Dolores' voice  She reminds me a little of Enya and her older sister, Maire Brennan and of Sarah Lacy of Eden's Bridge, but Dolores is a lot more risky of a singer.  She takes chances. Her emotions and personality come out.  I love it.

And The Cranberries are a GREAT live band.

This week or next, I plan to purcahse all of their CD's.  Does anyone know if the band gets more of the proceeds if you purchase through this site?  I want to support their efforts and hopefully woo them back out of hiatus!

I remember hearing Dreams when i was 9 years old and it always stayed with me.. so when i finally got old enough to buy records The Cranberries was the first band i went out to buy. :)

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