I was asked to listen to The Cranberries - Zombie

Delores is "keening". This is a deep part of the Irish psyche and culture. It is the sound of grief and mourning that seems to bleed from particularly an Irish woman's soul.

This song is about the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland when two young boys aged 3 and 12 were killed in a bombing. That vocal she is doing is called "keening". It's like wailing in grief for a deceased person. Thanks for the reaction.

This song is truly an all time masterpiece, 30 years later it still moves me.

At times her vocals sound like crying. RIP Dolores 💔

'Zombie' was hated by all sides during the 'troubles', as every side thought it was criticising them. It is criticising everyone involved in the violence at that time, saying they are mindless zombies, irrespective of whether British army, Republican or Loyalist. It is a very powerful song, and very personal to me, as I grew up with those bombs. Thank God we have peace now (kind of). Sleep peacefully now Delores.

This song has been out for ever and I heard it when it first dropped. And yet it still brings me to tears this many years later!

In the 1916 Rising of the 590 people killed during the Easter Rising, 374 were civilians, 116 were British Soldiers, 77 Insurgents and 23 members of the Police Forces. There were 38 children - aged 16 and under killed. My husband and I were in Ireland for 3 weeks in 2016 and the 100th Anniversary of the Rising was seen everywhere.

She gave the drummer the freedom to play as he wished. The one request she had for him was in the chorus to play pissed off. Look at his face during it, and you will see a pissed off individual.

The rage and despair in this song is stunning. It still brings tears to my eyes.

"Linger" should DEFINITELY 100% be the next Cranberries song that you react to!!!! And "Dreams" is the 3rd Cranberries song in my (massive) Rock & Roll playlist.

it was written about an IRA car bomb in Warrington,England that killed two schoolchildren….here’s what Delores said about why she wrote the song. “There were a lot of bombs going off in London and I remember this one time a child was killed when a bomb was put in a rubbish bin -– that's why there's that line in the song, 'A child is slowly taken,'" O'Riordan told Songwriting Magazine. "We were on a tour bus and I was near the location where it happened, so it really struck me hard – I was quite young, but I remember being devastated about the innocent children being pulled into that kind of thing. So I suppose that's why I was saying, 'It's not me' – that even though I'm Irish it wasn't me, I didn't do it. Because being Irish, it was quite hard, especially in the UK when there was so much tension." She told Vox magazine in 1994 that the song was written in part as a mechanism to grapple with her identity as an Irish citizen that did not support the actions of the IRA. "The IRA are not me. I'm not the IRA. The Cranberries are not the IRA. My family are not. ... When it says in the song, 'It's not me, it's not my family,' that's what I'm saying. It's not Ireland".

I feel the drums are HIGHLY underrated in this track. The snare work and accents are just perfect. The fill into the chorous that is closing the song as well, gives me chills everytime.

So hauntingly beautiful! Her voice is perfection.

That sound is called keening and it sounds like wailing and crying. It is used at funerals in Ireland.

RIP Dolores! 🙏

Try "Linger", "Ode to My Family", "Linger", "Dreams". Zombie is a tough song but understanding the history helps.

Rihanna was a baby when these guys started out. That vocal effect is typical in Irish traditional music.

Loved Delores' voice, she was a gift. Unfortunately she was lost way too young. RIP Delores!

Dolores sang the Fleetwood Mac classic "Go Your Own Way" at the " Europe2" radio station in France , accompanied by only an acoustic guitar. The power of her vocals is astounding. Anyone who hasn't seen it should seek it out immediately, a reaction would be even better. Thanks bro, and best wishes from Belfast.

You should see what Bad Wolf did with this song. They were supposed to collaborate with her on a new version and on the day that they were to record she died. Bad Wolf regrouped and recorded it and all the proceeds go to her children.