The Cranberries – To The Faithful Departed
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Label/Cat#: Island PHCR-1811 | Country/Year: Japan 1996, Bonus
Genre: Rock | Hoster: Filesonic/Filepost
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CD Info:
Cranberries, The – To The Faithful Departed
Label: Island Records
Catalog#: PHCR-1811
Format: CD, Album
Country: Japan
Released: 18 Apr 1996
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock
Tracklist:
1 Hollywood 5:07
2 Salvation 2:24
3 When You’re Gone 4:56
4 Free To Decide 4:24
5 War Child 3:50
6 Forever Yellow Skies 4:09
7 The Rebels 3:20
8 Intermission 2:03
9 I Just Shot John Lennon 2:41
10 Electric Blue 4:51
11 I’m Still Remembering 4:49
12 Will You Remember? 2:49
13 Joe 3:22
14 The Picture I View
15 Cordell 3:39
16 Bosnia 5:37
Companies etc:
Distributed By – Polygram K.K., Made In Japan
Credits:
Bass – Mike Hogan
Conductor [Strings] – Michael Kamen (tracks: 5, 7, 16)
Drums, Percussion – Feargal Lawler
Engineer, Mixed By – Mike Plotnikoff
Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin – Noel Hogan
Percussion [Additional] – Randy Raine-Reusche
Producer – Bruce Fairbairn, Cranberries, The
Vocals, Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Mandolin – Dolores O’Riordan Burton
Written-By – Dolores O’Riordan (tracks: 1, 3 to 8, 11, 12, 15, 16)
Written-By, Lyrics By – Dolores O’Riordan (tracks: 2, 9, 10, 13)
Written-By, Music By – Noel Hogan (tracks: 2, 9, 10, 13)
Written-by [Orchestration], Arranged By [Orchestration] – Michael Kamen
Notes:
Tracks 8, 14 & 15 are bonus tracks.
The Japanese title of the release is: “??????”.
Barcode and Other Identifiers:
Rights Society: JASRAC
Other (Fix Price Japan): ¥ 2.500
Review
by Ned Raggett
To the Faithful Departed turned out to be where the Cranberries’ best intentions finally and thoroughly tripped them up. Switching producers to Bruce Fairbairn was a troubling enough move to begin with; Stephen Street’s ear for the band’s dynamics was note-perfect, but Fairbairn’s work with arena-rock monsters like Aerosmith meant that on Departed everything was scaled up accordingly. The results may have been more commercial, but they took the identity of the band with it — the opening song “Hollywood” was a sludgefest that, ironically, didn’t give the band the muscular kick that propelled songs like “Zombie.” O’Riordan, meanwhile, decided she was a generation’s spokesperson, fully taking over the songwriting, except on a couple of cuts with Noel Hogan, penning some appropriate liner notes, and running with it. Songtitles say it all — “War Child,” “I Just Shot John Lennon,” complete with cheesy gun shots, and perhaps most painfully obvious at the end, “Bosnia.” Then there’s lead single “Salvation,” which preaches against heroin addiction in a manner worthy of afterschool specials and with about as much depth. Not that good songs can’t and haven’t been written on these subjects, of course, but O’Riordan, lacking a truly individual or unique take on them, is not the person to be writing them. Or singing them — her wails and yelps now run rampant, being less voice-as-instrument as it is signature calling card to be employed throughout. There are bright points — every so often Hogan’s guitar comes through at its best, and there’s the retro-’50s finger-snapping “When You’re Gone” and the nicely arranged “Electric Blue.” Still, when compared to No Need and especially Everybody, Departed completely suffers in comparison. allmusic
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