Ok I think this is a good chance to start posting (not feeling very creative to create a worthy introduction post on the Say Hello section sorry, lol) I'm Michael and this is my story
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I can't remember how old I was, I just know those bloody neighbors whom I dislike played Zombie (I did not know the song name by then) sometimes (well much more than sometimes really
), it was 1996 I think. Eventually I heard Salvation on the radio (not knowing its title, again); I was too much of a wee child but could recognize that the voice from the song I was listening was the very same from the song that my evil neighbors played so much. I quite liked both songs but was unable to search much about the band that played them. I did not even know its name!
Luck came and embraced me someday, when being in my brother in-law's bedroom I just realised there was an album whose booklet was missing. I asked him what had happened to it, he just explained it had being "accidentaly burnt". What a tragic event! that album was To the Faithful Departed!
I don't know how on earth my bro in-law could burn its baby-booklet! lol! Anyway, I asked him to play it as we talked and...surprise! the same amazing female voice that I had virtually fell in love with appeared talking about a picture in her head!! I could feel joy in my veins! so I could finally read the band name spinning the album case sideways: The Cranberries.
I asked him more and more about them and even if I was really young (a 6 years olded boy) I became very interested, after a few months it became my very favourite band (that had been U2 so far).
I got my very first Cranberries album one year later as a birthday gift coming from my beloved brother in-law, it was No Need to Argue!
What happened after it is history...