This was tough! THE CRANBERRIES ZOMBIES REACTION

In todays reaction we check out this awesome music video, and talk about the genius within the music.
Also we talk about how the music is such as masterpiece.
If you want to see me check out more music from your favourite bands, please let me know in the comments.
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[@AthDara62]

Dolores felt such anger and frustration she was compelled to write this song. The music company wrote a cheque for $1 million not to pubish but she tore it up and published anyway (thank god). The way Fergal plays the drums shows this anger and frustration, that the ordinary people of Ireland didn't agree with the IRA and their tactics, especially killing young chirdren, but their voices weren't being heard. At the end of the song Fergal is beaten, subdued, just like the ordinary people feeling they can't be heard. I think the bass, is totally uneffected throughout and again at the end it just keeps the same beat, reflecting people's attitudes, shortly after seeing something on the TV and being enraged they are back to their normal hum drum lives. God bless you Dolores, RIP. Genius with a heart of gold.

[@IndianTee]

Great reaction Alan, thank you. With the greatest respect, it's passed off as Catholic versus Protestant however, Ireland fought for freedom due to hundreds of years being oppressed by the British Empire,, not the British people, which included included the so called Famine. It was not a famine, livestock, food, grain was being exported from Ireland to the UK, while the Irish people were starving. Ireland regained some independence however only regained 26 out of 32 counties, Br Emp kept the northern 6 counties. A divide between the people who wanted to be part of Ireland (mainly Catholic) and the people who wanted to be part of the UK in Ireland (mainly Protestant). The people on both sides did not hate one another, this is/was a war, for what? Greed, Rich man's greed with poor man's blood. Peace and love from Ireland

[@norffcdoomer1393]

And peace and love from the North of England. Horrible tragedy filling the riches pockets.

[@IndianTee]

@@norffcdoomer1393 Exactly Alan, yet both you and I suffer and the rich just sit back and get richer. Cheers Alan, again, great reaction xx

[@blackenreed1425]

Yes, Catholics (C) vs Protestants (P) , English (E) vs Irish (I). At university in 1971, I was studying Physics. My lab partner (I, C) and I (E, P) avoided all talk of bombs, etc. But I've wondered since what we were doing on the roof of the Physics building playing/experimenting with a 6 ft parabolic microwave emitter with no knowledge of microwave ovens!

[@mubbles1066]

it was written about an IRA bombing 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".

[@craigbolton5093]

Her Limerick accent burns through... Powerful!

[@AlanEvans23]

Her voice is beautiful

[@jonsmith7718]

interesting how the truth finds its way out even after years its gettin some air play i wonder why ...

[@IndianTee]

@jonsmith7718 Yes, as far as I can recall, the video/song was banned by Uk & Ireland

[@carlstewart8787]

The rifles are SLR's - Self Loading Rifles.

[@AlanEvans23]

The rifle that young soldier was holding at the beginning was a SA80 bulpup.1990s the SA80 replaced the SLR and is still in service today

[@bodkie]

I am curious what music you have actually listened to, having not heard of the most influential Irish band I, as an Australian born in the early 90s, know of. To have evaded hearing either this song, or Linger, also by The Cranberries, seems wild to me.

[@AlanEvans23]

When i was younger i used only listen to hip hop and nothing else at the time, now im older im starting to open my ears more to more Bands thats why i started this channel to explore music that i never listened to as a kid and with this channel its based on my journey through exploring different types of music and finding appreciation for it.

[@bodkie]

@@AlanEvans23 I only had a very brief look through at your channel, so I'm not sure if you've seen much by David Bowie, but if not I'd be interested in what you think starting at a song by him called Lazarus.

[@AlanEvans23]

@@bodkie I be more than happy to check it out thanks for the suggestion

[@InanaNinsianna]

Not sure why you cut off the ending to the song

[@AlanEvans23]

erm cos the video finished 🤔

[@InanaNinsianna]

@@AlanEvans23 there is a longer version that has a longer outro that is better

[@AlanEvans23]

i didnt cut the ending off, the video finished

[@InanaNinsianna]

@@AlanEvans23 which is why I mentioned that there is a longer version. I apologize for thinking that you did, apparently you just went with the shortened version.

[@AlanEvans23]

@@InanaNinsianna I wasn't aware of a longer version