The Cranberries

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 2017

First Recording: 1991

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

The Cranberries
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🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
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Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993)
No Need to Argue (1994)
To the Faithful Departed (1996)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Dreams (1992)
Linger (1993)
Zombie (1994)
Ode to My Family (1994)
Salvation (1996)

The Cranberries @ Wikipedia

Will The Cranberries be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
"Musical excellence is the essential qualification for induction."
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Have to agree with Paul.The Cranberries need 1 or 2 more killer CD's to warrant induction. There's something about the Cranberries music that gets in your blood & under your skin.Early U2 & Counting Crows as well.

I like that yellow album.To The Faithfully Departed.That really rocked! Hollywood,FREE TO DECIDE particularly great. I think those 1st 3 CD's (rewe) were outstanding. Still need some work to do.Love D's singing. KING

Posted by KING on Saturday, 02/15/2014 @ 19:46pm


The Cranberries, 1994

Ode To My Family - My father he liked me. Does anyone care?

Is this about child abuse?

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 02/15/2014 @ 20:13pm


Yeah no.

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, 12/29/2015 @ 16:48pm


Sad to hear about Dolores O'Riordan's passing today. Only 46 years old - WAY too young. R.I.P.

Posted by Steve Z on Monday, 01/15/2018 @ 12:58pm


Oh, that really sucks! O'Riordan's voice was one of the most beautiful female voices in all of rock and roll. A bit like the classic folk chanteuse, only with an Irish accent. So gorgeous. I still love Salvation, Dreams, Linger, Zombie, Analyse, When You're Gone, Free To Decide, etc. Such a gorgeous voice.

If "Unquestionable Musical Excellence" is the only criterion after 25 years, then a big yes to the Cranberries. Doubt it'll ever happen though. Love their music though.

Posted by Philip on Monday, 01/15/2018 @ 13:33pm


Not bloody likely to get in but a fine band. Perhaps the simpathy vote will help her cause but I still think they fall way short.

Posted by DIAMOND on Sunday, 03/11/2018 @ 10:07am


she had a good voice. Zombie was a good song i like the music

Posted by Margo on Monday, 04/16/2018 @ 19:18pm


The Cranberries certainly should be inducted. The songwriting, vocals and music spoke not just to an age, but also to emotions that transcend boundaries and languages. When you realize that some artists, like Percy Sledge, made it in with a very light body of work, the Cranberries are a shoo-in.

Posted by Ray on Friday, 08/10/2018 @ 14:34pm


The Cranberries will split up following Dolores’ death.

“Cranberries guitarist Noel Hogan said the band would release a final album featuring the voice and lyrics of their late singer Dolores O’Riordan before splitting up.

She was found dead in a London hotel in January. Earlier this month, her death was ruled an accidental drowning in a bathtub due to alcohol intoxication. The band had been working on a new LP in the months leading up to her death.

O’Riordan been pursuing treatment for mental illness, which had begun paying off in her final years, Hogan said. “She was a lot more herself,” he told the Guardian in a new interview. “Especially last year, when we were rehearsing. … They had found the right cocktail of whatever it was she needed to be on. There wasn’t even a case of having to work around it. The hardest thing was her back [injury], because, playing live, she could not move as freely as she used to.”

Hogan reported that the album was “very strong” lyrically. “She always said she found it hard to write songs when she was happy,” he said. “She always said put a bit of misery in her life and it was easier. We will do this album and then that will be it. There is no need to continue.”

Bassist Mike Hogan, Noel’s brother, noted that recording sessions hadn’t been greatly different to previous ones, since the band had always worked in the studio during the day and left before O’Riordan added her parts overnight.

“We’d pass each other in the corridor,” he said. “Dolores would say, ‘You know that thing you recorded?’ I’d say, ‘You mean the thing that took me five hours to get right?’ She’d say, ‘Yeah, it’s not working!’ This time around, there were nights when we were waiting, looking for her to come in the door.”

Details of the final LP will be revealed soon.”

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/cranberries-break-up-last-album/

Posted by The Dude on Friday, 09/14/2018 @ 17:52pm


The Cranberries is one of the most genuine bands I have ever heard, it also has the voice of Dolores who is the best alternative rock vocalist according to Billboard.

In my opinion there will never be a voice that moves me as much as Dolores O'Riordan's.

Famous songs like Linger, Dreams, Zombie and Ode to my family are hymns of our generation.

Likewise, The Cranberries have two perfect albums (Everybody else ... and No need to argue) as well as a very good experimental album, To the Faithfull departed.

I cannot understand how this extraordinary group is not yet included.

Posted by Carlos, from Spain on Monday, 09/14/2020 @ 20:52pm


The Hall of Fame needs to place the Cranberries into the hallowed halls otherwise they will become hollow halls. Their sound was so independent. That voice of the late great DO was symbolic and genuine for their time. I could name 20 bands that have been placed into the hall and of course it is all interpretive to the tastes of the committee. But...when the likes of the Cranberries, or say Jethro Tull, are snubbed in favor of genres not even associated with Rock music it stops being the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and just becomes another bullshit
Award show glorifying some acts that wouldn't even make the regionals in a battle of the band's! Do the right thing and put Delores and the Cranberries up on the mantle with the greats and take them off the shelves with the fakes! Content matters does it not? If so it is a no brainer.

Posted by Daryl Saltzman on Tuesday, 02/16/2021 @ 17:30pm


Pls but them where they belong,in the rock and roll hall of fame,they should have been there since 2017,one year b4 she past away,her voice is iconic ,HOF 2022

Posted by Chris tanner on Saturday, 04/3/2021 @ 13:11pm


Definitely SHOULD be in.
Zombie!
Linger!
Mic drop!

Women don't always get proper regard in this industry.

Posted by Diane on Wednesday, 12/15/2021 @ 06:41am


I'm going to make this very short and very simple… If the cranberries are not inducted, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke.

They will never ever ever be that level of artistry coming from another band in our lifetime—let alone a haunting and resonating voice like Delores! Dolores O'Riordan deserves to be in there with that band because there will never be another voice or another talent like that, ever!

Posted by Tina on Sunday, 01/23/2022 @ 11:23am


There is no voice more beautiful and no character who was as strong. She got me through the worst of life and showed me it could be awesome. Dolores O'Riordan and the Cranberries deserve this more than anyone.

Posted by Aniya on Thursday, 05/5/2022 @ 10:04am


The Cranberries..deserve mention..with excellent song writing,Dolores voice of an angel and the Hogan brothers..it's a symphony of Irish folk rock rolled into one..I miss her alot..rest in peace

Posted by Miles Gentry on Wednesday, 06/1/2022 @ 11:00am


Dolores for sure. Her voice was one of the strongest and emotive of the late 20th Century. It didn't hurt that it was also smooth as mercury. As a songwriter of merit, she stands alone, and as an entertainer, a member of the Cranberries, she should be inducted again.

The Cranberries captured a lot in their music, and shared it with the world, influencing the direction of a generation.

Posted by Ed on Thursday, 08/18/2022 @ 02:14am


Please induct The Cranberries! Dolores O'Riordan deserves recognition posthumously.

Posted by Trish on Tuesday, 01/17/2023 @ 15:01pm


Dolores O'Riordan , was probably the greatest Lyracist , and Vocalist that ever lived ! ! ! Have you heard their entire discography ? It's nothing less than astounding !

Posted by Victor P Friskey on Wednesday, 12/20/2023 @ 10:05am


If you're not quite sure if The Cranberries should be inducted, just watch their concert Live in Paris 1999 on YouTube. Peak Zombie.

Posted by Pablo Lives on Wednesday, 12/20/2023 @ 23:14pm


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