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To the Faithful Departed,The Cranberries

- To the Faithful Departed
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The Cranberries
Released 1996

When You're Gone
04:56
22,301 plays

Salvation
02:24
21,913 plays

Electric Blue
04:51
19,196 plays

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songs

- 1
- Hollywood
- 05:07
- 17,782 plays

- 2
- Salvation
- 02:24
- 21,913 plays

- 3
- When You're Gone
- 04:56
- 22,301 plays

- 4
- Free to Decide
- 04:24
- 18,203 plays

- 5
- War Child
- 03:50
- 13,358 plays

- 6
- Forever Yellow Skies
- 04:09
- 14,498 plays

- 7
- The Rebels
- 03:20
- 15,020 plays

- 8
- I Just Shot John Lennon
- 02:41
- 12,765 plays

- 9
- Electric Blue
- 04:51
- 19,196 plays

- 10
- I'm Still Remembering
- 04:49
- 13,642 plays

- 11
- Will You Remember?
- 02:49
- 12,846 plays

- 12
- Joe
- 03:22
- 12,634 plays

- 13
- Bosnia
- 05:37
- 11,974 plays

album review

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 on Departed everything was scaled up accordingly. The results may have been more commercial, but they took the identity of the band with it -- that opening song "Hollywood" sounded exactly like atypical sludgefest "Zombie" was all to be expected. 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. ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide