Everyone Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, the Cranberries, 1993, :41
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
I'm quite surprised by this album, which I idiotically dismissed as "pop" when it came out because it was new and I was a hip dude who only listened to old music, because old music is great, and new music sucks, except now this album is old, and it's good now. Good lord, I was a pretentious little jerk. Anyhoo, this debut album, while perhaps slightly overlong (I'd cut out a couple of tracks), features some astonishing songwriting chops right out of the gate by Dolores, whom I'm sure I dismissed at the time as just a pretty face with a voice, because I was a pretentious jerk. Favorite tracks: "Dreams," "Linger," "Sunday," and "Still Can't..."
