What was the Cranberrie's most successful single to date while also serving as a protest song?
cf2c01be55125fe6af33e862d3ae8807
No Need to Argue No Need to Argue is the second studio album by the Irish rock band The Cranberries, released on 3 October 1994. It is the band's best selling album, and has sold about 17 million copies worldwide. It contains the band's most successful single to date, "Zombie". The album's mood is darker and harsher than that on "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?", released a year before. It shows a more mature performance by lead singer Dolores O'Riordan, writing about war, death, love and disappointment. Her voice is clearer, without the previous album's double and triple voice layering.
1acada50f8698a48174325e5271c6bfa
Zombie (song) "Zombie" is a protest song by Irish rock band The Cranberries. It was released in September 1994 as the lead single from their second studio album, "No Need to Argue" (1994). The song was written by the band's lead singer Dolores O'Riordan, and reached No. 1 on the charts in Australia, Belgium, France, Denmark and Germany.
fe974688a9a783a3abb0ebf230174ef7
Citizen/Soldier "Citizen/Soldier" is a single by the American alternative rock band 3 Doors Down from their self-titled album "3 Doors Down". The song was released as a single in November 2007 in conjunction with a recruitment campaign by the United States National Guard. The lyrics convey the band's views regarding the actions performed by the Guard. It was released as the third single for American active rock and mainstream rock radio stations in November 2008, while it is their fourth overall single.
541ed4995796442f71e48c2fd2a0484a
Ill Manors (song) "Ill Manors" (stylised as "ill Manors") is a hip hop protest song by English singer-songwriter Plan B. The track was released in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2012 as the lead single from the soundtrack to "Ill Manors", a film written and directed by Plan B. The song was written in reaction to the 2011 riots across England, and specifically Plan B's perception of "society's failure to nurture its disadvantaged youth".
e4d3fad55aeb24bbb521923e6da346ab
Solidarity Forever "Solidarity Forever", written by Ralph Chaplin in 1915, is perhaps the most famous union anthem. It is sung to the tune of "John Brown's Body" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". Although it was written as a song for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), other union movements, such as the AFL-CIO, have adopted the song as their own. The song has been performed by musicians such as Utah Phillips, Pete Seeger, and was redone by Emcee Lynx and The Nightwatchman. It is still commonly sung at union meetings and rallies in the United States, Australia and Canada, and has also been sung at conferences of the Australian Labor Party and the Canadian New Democratic Party. This may have also inspired the hymn of the consumer cooperative movement, "The Battle Hymn of Cooperation", which is sung to the same tune.
c16ce441db23986531f294c447d91302
Animal Instinct (The Cranberries song) "Animal Instinct" is an alternative rock song by Irish band The Cranberries. It is the second single from the band's fourth album, "Bury the Hatchet", released in 1999. The song deals with motherhood. A music video, directed by Olivier Dahan, was released to promote the single. The single became the band's first single to miss the UK Top 40, charting at number 54 (not including the original chart position of "Linger"). In 2017, the song was released as an acoustic, striped down version on the band's "Something Else" album.
5011e6e923c0b9446c4f6e66b845d669
Bubblin' (Cru song) "Bubblin'" was the second and final single released from Cru's debut album, "Da Dirty 30" (1997). It was not as successful as their previous single, only charting at number 23 on the Hot Rap Singles.
17eba03e3edcc3d8d9de5d43aaae9dc2
Cruisin' (Smokey Robinson song) "Cruisin'" is a 1979 single written, produced, and recorded by Smokey Robinson for Motown Records' Tamla label. One of Robinson's most successful singles outside of his work with The Miracles, "Cruisin'" hit #1 on the U.S. "Cash Box" Top 100 and was also a major "Billboard" Pop hit, peaking at #4. It was a Top Five hit on the Soul chart as well.
ce81731c30132cfbeb6ea8de7776facf
Tak Boleh Tahan "Tak Boleh Tahan", colloquial Malay loosely translated as "I can't take it anymore", was a protest campaign launched by the Singapore Democratic Party over the escalating cost of living in Singapore. According to the SDP,
3360fe2a2a88e48356a02e5e5dc82007
Stand (R.E.M. song) "Stand" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released as the second single from the album "Green" in 1989. The song peaked at number six on the "Billboard" Hot 100, becoming R.E.M.'s second top 10 hit in the United States. The song reached number 48 on the UK Singles Chart and number 16 in Canada. It was placed on R.E.M.'s Warner Bros. Records "best of" album "" in 2003.
636bab835ef2dd03a9b69db0ffdd15a6
Alice's Restaurant "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" is a record by singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie, released as the title track to his 1967 debut album "Alice's Restaurant". It is notable as a satirical, first-person account of 1960s counterculture, in addition to being a hit song in its own right and an inspiration for the 1969 film, also named "Alice's Restaurant". The song is Guthrie's most prominent work, based on a true incident from his life that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965 with a citation for littering, and ended with the refusal of the U.S. Army to draft him because of his conviction for that crime. The ironic punch line of the story is that, in the words of Guthrie, "I'm sittin' here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the Army—burn women, kids, houses and villages—after bein' a litterbug." The final part of the song is an encouragement for the listeners to sing along, to resist the draft, and to end war.
9beb8b022e8400cfc35ffbc89be9da02
Nobody Hears "Nobody Hears" is a song recorded by rock band Suicidal Tendencies. It was released as the first single from the band's 1992 album "The Art of Rebellion", and became their biggest U.S. hit at the time, peaking at number 28 on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock chart.
31986cca10628b672de5318e27efbd47
Jailhouse Rock (song) "Jailhouse Rock" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller that first became a hit for Elvis Presley. RCA Victor released the song on a 45 rpm single on September 24, 1957,although the song was released in 1957 it became popular in the 1960s to coincide with the release of Presley's motion picture, "Jailhouse Rock".
10c1030f765f3a485a79b16aa4696834
Bend and Break "Bend and Break" is a song performed and composed by English rock band Keane, released as the fifth and last single from their debut album "Hopes and Fears". This single was released only in some European countries (not in the United Kingdom) such as Germany and Austria, similarly to their 2007 single "Try Again". However "Bend and Break" was still heard on some American radio stations. The single features "Bend and Break", "On a Day Like Today" and a live version of "Allemande", as well as the "Bend and Break" live videoclip. "Bend and Break" is drummer Richard Hughes' favourite Keane song. This was also the last single that used the typeface "Cochin", the one used in the "Hopes and Fears" era.
a426ad3a4bd319a31c79d6dfc2731fba
Basket Case (song) "Basket Case" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day. It is the seventh track and third single from their third studio album, "Dookie" (1994). The song spent five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart.
92f5c57e027204385b871e94577a969a
I Had the Craziest Dream "I Had the Craziest Dream" is a popular song.
4f079e32a81b2622039d9d8c60eb24d6
Going Up the Country "Going Up the Country" (also Goin' Up the Country) is a song by American blues rock band Canned Heat. Called a "rural hippie anthem", it became one of the band's biggest hits and best-known songs. As with their previous single, "On the Road Again", the song was adapted from a 1920s blues song and sung in a countertenor-style by Alan Wilson.
56f8d3132b421bb317763831c10331d0
She (Green Day song) "She" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day. It is the eighth track on their third album, "Dookie" and was released as the fifth and final single. The song was written by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong about a former girlfriend who showed him a feminist poem with an identical title. In return, Armstrong wrote the lyrics of "She" and showed them to her. She later dumped him and moved to Ecuador, prompting Armstrong to put "She" on the album. The same ex-girlfriend is the topic of the songs "Sassafras Roots", "Chump", and "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)". It is one of the few Green Day singles that did not have a music video.
a956d06ec1e62b5f20d8dc267cdd8898
Chant des Partisans The Chant des Partisans was the most popular song of the Free French and French Resistance during World War II.
337561b5673ca2a5996e7bb41e93222f
I Can't Come Down "I Can't Come Down" is a song by English rock band Embrace and the fourth and final single from their number-one selling album, "This New Day". It was released on 4 December 2006 as the follow-up to "Target". The B-sides included various versions of "I Can't Come Down", "Contender" and a live recording of the recently written "Heart & Soul". The single peaked at #54 in the UK Singles Chart, making it the lowest charting single by the band to date and their first to miss the UK Top 40.
62353e9a2df42b407afd4c584ec79fbf
Re-Ron Re-Ron is a 1984 song by Gil Scott-Heron. It criticizes the campaign for the re-election of Ronald Reagan. It was recorded in collaboration with Bill Laswell.
cce153f08aa0e972d4f5fa5ba4833fd7
I Still Remember "I Still Remember" is a song by English rock band Bloc Party. It was released as a single from their second studio album, "A Weekend in the City"., being the first U.S. single and second UK single from the album. The single was released in Britain in two 7" formats as well as a CD version. The B-sides are "Atonement", "Cain Said To Abel", "Selfish Son", and "I Still Remember (Music Box And Tears Remix)". A limited edition "I Still Remember" 7" was also given to the first 1000 people who pre-ordered the album from Insound. The music video was made by Aggressive and was first shown on 8 January 2007 on MTV2. Upon release, the song reached number 24 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart (since renamed Alternative Songs), making it the band's highest charting single in the US, besting the number 34 peak of "Banquet" on the same chart in 2005.