The Cranberries Vinyl Records – Everybody Else Is Doing It, No Need to Argue & Essential Albums on Vinyl

The Cranberries were one of the defining alternative rock bands of the 1990s. Formed in Limerick in 1989 around Dolores O'Riordan, Noel Hogan, Mike Hogan and Fergal Lawler, they signed to Island Records, broke out of Ireland in 1993 with their debut Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, and spent the rest of the decade as one of the most successful guitar bands in the world.

O'Riordan's voice — unmistakable, full of yodelling Irish keening — was the band's defining instrument. Linger, Dreams, Zombie, Ode to My Family and Salvation became standards of 90s rock radio. The band split, reformed, lost Dolores too soon (she died in January 2018, aged 46), and released a final posthumous record, In the End, in 2019. The Cranberries on vinyl is consistently rewarding — Stephen Street's productions are clean, dynamic and sit beautifully on a good pressing. The Universal 180g and the recent coloured-vinyl reissues are excellent.

Best The Cranberries Albums on Vinyl

Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993)
The debut. Linger, Dreams, I Will Always, Pretty — produced by Stephen Street, who had worked with The Smiths and Blur. A genuinely beautiful first album that announced O'Riordan as a singular voice.

No Need to Argue (1994)
The breakthrough. Zombie, Ode to My Family, I Can't Be With You, Ridiculous Thoughts — a heavier, more politically engaged record that sold over 17 million copies. The masterpiece of the band's run.

To the Faithful Departed (1996)
The follow-up. Salvation, Free to Decide, When You're Gone — denser and more world-weary than its predecessors. Polarising on release; increasingly recognised as one of their finest.

Bury the Hatchet (1999)
Promises, Animal Instinct, Just My Imagination — a return to the cleaner sound of the early records after the heaviness of To the Faithful Departed. Often underrated in the catalogue.

In the End (2019)
The posthumous final album, completed by the surviving members from Dolores's vocal recordings. All Over Now, Wake Me When It's Over, Got It — a moving farewell record from one of the great Irish bands.

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