No Filler Music Podcast - Beyond Zombie: The Overlooked Gems From The Cranberries First Three Records

Episode Date: May 10, 2021

You've heard "Dreams" and "Linger". You've probably heard "Zombie" close to a gazillion times by now. But as we like to say around here, it's often the tracks between the singles that need another listen (or for some - a first listen). We dive into The Cranberries' first three records and marvel over how unmatched Dolores O'Riordan's powerful and unique vocals were in the 90s rock landscape, and how refusing to shed their Irish origins made her voice that much more powerful by giving western audiences a perspective we may never have heard. Tracklist: The Cranberries - Reason The Cranberries - Pretty The Cranberries - Still Can't The Cranberries - Yeats' Grave The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again The Cranberries - I Just Shot John Lennon The Cranberries - Bosnia The Cranberries - Linger (live from MTV's Most Wanted) This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Can you talk about the first time you heard her sing? I was just blown away when I heard it. I couldn't believe it. And then we played just some of the instrumental stuff we had. She was really impressed. So she can get the next Wednesday, I think, or something like that. And put Lingora on a tape. And welcome to No Filler.

The music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden gyms that fill the space between. the singles on our favorite records. My name is Travis. I got my brother Quentin with me today. And that was the voice of Dolores O'Reardon of the Cranberries. I put you that last name pretty bad last week. So I wanted to make sure I got it right.

I listened to several interviews. The second O. is silent. O'Reardon is how they were pronouncing it over there. Okay. Well, that's good to know. But anyway, so that was her talking about, that was from an MTV interview clip from back in the 90s, 95, where she was talking about when she walked into audition to be the singer for the band at the time. And how, you know, she walked into a room for the guys.

And, you know, she knew that, like, she had her secret weapon to seal the deal was her amazing voice. And that's what we're going to mainly focus on today, I think, is just how amazing a vocalist she is and how unique her vocals were in the 90s rock scene, right? And how that helped them stand out so much amongst the grunge artist, right? I mean, I'm really excited to get into it just because for me, I just know the mega hits from the cranberries, you know? Yeah. I never actually haven't dove into them yet myself.

just other than what I, like I said, what I heard on the radio back in the 90s. Yeah, everybody remembers and still loves linger, dreams, zombie, which was on their second record. But yeah, those songs are just iconic, massive hits, right? There's a lot of great stuff, as you could imagine, on their first three records at least. So that's what we're going to do. We're actually going to play songs from a few songs from their first three records. So we're going to kind of mix it up a little bit, which is always fun to do because you get a good sense of the band that way versus just focusing on one record, which is what we typically do. But yeah, we're not going to get too much into the background of the band or anything like that.

Well, I did want to ask you, Trev. You said that she walked into her audition. Yeah. Were they a band before she joined? Yeah, I'll give you a quick synopsis then. So they formed in the 80s. And it was two brothers, basically, the Hogan brothers, who are actually descendants of a 19th century Irish poet named Michael Hogan. So these are the Hogan brothers, Noel and Mike.

And they met the drummer Fergal, or Fergill, Lawler. in the mid-80s. They started, you know, kicking around. They brought on this other guy to be the lead singer originally named Neil Quinn. But he was also in another band at the same time. So he was doing like double duty kind of stuff. And then he decided to focus all of his efforts on the other band. And so that had left open the spot for lead singer.

She was 18 at the time. She walked in with a pink track suit on and a Casio keyboard under her arm. and she's this really tiny kind of petite person. So I don't think she had the buzz cut at the time. But, you know, she had a really short hair by the time they hit the mainstream. But yeah, she's this very, what's the word I'm looking for? Not very. Not someone who would command the room or whatever.

Exactly. And then as she said it there, you know, once she opened her voice, then that's it. Right. So they had some songs written already. They actually had Linger, was actually written at the time. Oh, man. I wonder if there's any recordings of that Neil guy singing it. Oh, well, they had written it. They hadn't recorded anything. Oh, man. Okay.

But yeah, or at least not that I've seen. Well, that must have been awesome for her. Like, I kind of like what she was saying in that interview. Like, I knew. You know, I knew that I had the chops hiding in my vocal cords. Right. And again, like, that's kind of what made them so special was her, right? So we're going to get right into the tunes here, Q. But let me just say real quick, because this is relevant for the first song that we're going to play. She was, by the time she was, I guess right around the time she joined the band, actually, when she was like 16.

She was listening heavily to the Smiths, the Cure, R.E.M. Depeche Mode, right? Big hitters, right? As far as like names that we all know and love, right? also suing the banshees, the Kings, right? So she was heavily into like a new wave, lots of new wave and then lots of alt rock, early alt rock stuff from REM, I guess, right? What I wanted to, the reason I wanted to bring up the Smiths at least is I, you hear that throughout the cranberry, the sound of the cranberries, or at least the guitar work. And Dolores played rhythm guitar as well for the band. So their first record, came out in 1993.

It's called Everybody Else is Doing It, so why can't we? Our first pick from this record, though, actually didn't appear on the record. But it was done, it was recorded during those sessions, right? And they released a sort of a complete sessions type record. The reason I want to play is because it doesn't really sound like them yet. You know, like you can tell this is, you know, there's a reason why I didn't make it to the record. But it's a great song. And it also, I think, showcases that Smith's influence quite a bit.

So this song is called Reason. I like that bass line. And the drums are great, too. Yeah. But, yeah, so the bass player is Mike Hogan, just to give you the browser here. I sort of named them, but I didn't really say what they did. So Mike Hogan's on bass. Noel Hogan is guitar, lead guitar.

and he also did a lot of the songwriting alongside Dolores, so they both kind of wrote the songs together. Fergal on drums and then Dolores, singer-songwriter, rhythm guitar player. But yeah, I really like that song quite a bit, actually. But you can, if you, you'll see what I mean when I start playing the rest of the tracks. Like, you can tell she was still finding her, her, I don't want to say her voice, because, like, her voice is her voice. But I mean, like, the way that she had that traditional, like, Irish characteristics to her vocal delivery, right?

You don't really hear it that much in that song. So it's almost like she was still trying to. It makes me wonder, like, when she walked into that audition, we'll never know. But, like, did she tap into that kind of thing? Or did she keep that in her back pocket? Like, hey. Yeah, I wonder if she just kind of kept that tucked away until, like, a few more sessions with the group. We'll never know.

but I do know this. This next song definitely showcases that. And you think you like that song, do you? Just wait until you hear this one. Okay. This one is very, very stripped down and like basic. As far as like what's going on with the guitars, the drums, stuff like that. Very, very toned down.

But her vocal delivery is what makes it like, it makes it, you know, it brings that gut punch, right? So here we got. This is another song. This is actually off the record. Again, the record we're talking about. here's their debut record. Everybody else is doing it, so why can't we? And this song is called Pretty. Man, that song would not be as impactful if it wasn't for the way she sings it. Right. That's everything in that song. Yeah. And it's like, I know we don't like using this

word cue, but it's haunting, right? It's haunting. Because of what she's doing, like it's, It is haunting. The way she's doing the verse is almost like a very breathy kind of almost like a whisper almost. And then she comes in with the way the drums accentuate her vocals going up too, which is really cool. I mean, yeah, I guess now that I think about it more, yes, the song wouldn't be as impactful without her. But like you just said, the way that every single member, the way that they play their instrument, yeah, all of it adds to the impact of the song. Like, yeah, those drum hits are really cool. The guitar has sort of like a flange and not a flange, but like a tremolo kind of effect on it,

which I think actually kind of helps with like sort of that in and out kind of pull that happens with her vocals, you know? Yeah. Anyway, that was a really, like there was only like 20 seconds left in that song. Very simple, straightforward song. I feel like it's really just, it's a showcase of her voice, right? And just how powerful it is. Yeah, let me say this, dude. While I was listening to that, it made me think of our conversation that we had about

Shaw Day, how she really didn't think that they were going to make it huge because of the landscape of music when they were releasing just straight up jazzy stuff in the age of like keyboards and synth pop and, you know, the stuff that was happening in the 80s, like you were saying, dude, the cranberries in that landscape in the 90s, like, man, they, no one else was like the cranberries in the 90s. Yeah. But the interesting thing about them, though, is that like, when you listen to zombie, there is some straight grunge, almost like a shoe, almost a shoegaze grunge kind of guitar, the main guitar riff when it kicks in, the distortion and stuff kicks in. So it's not like they weren't doing the alt-rock grunge sound,

but they were doing it plus some some jangle Brit pop type stuff from their influences plus her vocals right so it's not like they were completely out of left field but they were but they had such a unique spin on the sound at the time you know well especially with songs like pretty yeah exactly but yeah this is kind of dumb i didn't actually mention this i think it's one of those things that's just kind of known but they were their their origin is ireland they're from limerick ireland that wasn't known. I mean, I feel like that was pretty obvious after that intro clip. Sure.

Yeah, they're obviously not from America. But anyway, from the interviews that I watched and listened to, they were just as shocked as anybody maybe with the success that they had. Once they're, it's probably a similar thing. I didn't really look into it, but they probably got picked up on some radio stations in the U.S. and then that's it, right? That's the end of it. I think they released Linger and they released Dreams. I think Dreams first and then Linger. And Linger is what, you know, where they really took off. All right, so I got one more track from this record. I wanted to play those two because I think Reason helps kind of show that influence coming in because it kind of sounded like a new wave

Smith's type of song. Pretty was just to show you what she can do with your vocals. Now the rest of these are straight cranberry James Q is what I'm calling them. All right. So here we go. This is our last pick from their first record. Everybody else is doing it. So why can't we? This song is called Still Can't. Always be a soft spot in my heart for a well-placed la-da-da. You know, when it's done right, just getcha. Yeah, you got to do it right. But yeah, I can hear the R-EM influence a lot. Definitely, R-E-M. And specifically her, the way she strums, like her strum patterns and stuff, because she's rhythm, you could tell when it's her. Yeah.

It's straight-up Smiths. But yeah, just, you know, I think maybe on this record more so than their follow-up record, with the exception maybe of zombie, a lot of the stuff on their debut record is kind of dark, darker. sounding, which I always gravitate toward that kind of stuff. I, you know, I like that kind of stuff cute. I know. The next record, we're only going to play one song from their next record. No need to argue, which again, that, you want to talk about explode. Zombie is like their mega hit off the second record, probably their biggest hit to date. But I guess the point I was trying to make is if you listen to most of the stuff on this record, no need to argue. It's a little it's softer, lighter, doesn't have a lot of the same sound that their first record did.

So they changed a little bit of their vibe. But I'm going to play a song that's got some, I guess you could tell what type of cranberry song I like by the songs I'm bringing today. But anyway, that's just, I guess, worth noting that, like, they have a wide range of sound. I say for the most part you know because if you think about dreams and linger compared to the tracks I just played they definitely lean more toward the RAM side of Alt Rock

than like I say they maybe flirt with grunge like a couple like footsies under the table kind of flirting with grunge you know what I mean? Not like barely scratch the surface but they still very subtle they still do in some ways but not really they're more on the Alt Rock spectrum

Anyway, all right, so let's jump to the next record here. So I'm only going to play one track, and let's just get right into it here, Q. The song is called Yates Grave. It's quite the groove in that song, dude. The way the bass guitar and drums, like the way that they play off each other is something else, dude.

Like, I love when the bass plucks alongside the, the kick drum, like mimics it. Yeah. That's always a cool, cool groove. And that, man, they were, like, I just imagine that this song live, I mean, I feel like they're just so in sync with this song. Yeah. And just, you know, like I was saying, it's the way she accentuates certain parts of the

verse and stuff like that that, that makes her vocal delivery so powerful. because like just especially with pretty right where it just comes out of like it just her volume the way she kind of fluctuate the control that she has yeah it just she really utilizes that um trick if you want to call it a trick that you know that tool uh well and yeah and that's i mean there's a right and wrong way to sing into a microphone yeah like i don't know if it just comes naturally to her or what but like the way that it's captured on these recordings is really, really powerful. Yeah. So Yates, or Yates, I should say, Yates grave, that is a poet by the name of, well, she actually

said the full name, William Butler Yates. So apparently she, in an interview in 94, she said she was really into his poetry, that she wrote a song called Yates Grave the first time that she went to Sligo and saw where he was buried. She said he, she loved his passion, the dreamer he was, and the fact that he looked beyond the material world to matters spiritual. It's awesome. Which is really representative of the Irish people as a race. So that's one thing about, about Dolores as a songwriter. And again, what you, what you get from the cranberries that you aren't going to hear in the rest of the songs that were charting in the 90s on the rock radio and stuff like that, Zon.

Zombie is about like an anti-war song about the Northern Ireland conflict, right? And like when you, if you're familiar with the lyrics, right, they're tanks, their bombs, their guns, right? In your head, they are dying, zombie, zombie, right? So she sings about struggles and conflicts from where, you know, her native country, right? Her birthplace and so like that. And so again, you get a perspective that you're not going to hear from Pearl Jam, you know. Right.

Although, you know, Pearl Jam, obviously saying about similar deep stuff like a Germany, right? Yeah. A whole different kind of thing. But like from the Cranberry, like Cremberry is you're getting their perspective that only they can bring because they're from Ireland. And that's just what they grew up knowing and stuff. She went, you know, she's familiar with some poet. Like poetry is a thing that Irish people. people are known for, apparently.

I mean, think about it. Like, they're two members of the band. They're descendants of a famous poet. You know what I mean? Yeah. She's obsessed with this poet dude. She went and saw his grave and stuff. Like, it's just part of who they are, you know?

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Must be 21 or older. Play responsibly for help. Call 1-800 gambler. All right, I got too much tracks, so let's blow through these next two here. This next song is just, it's fun. And I think it's, to me, it reminds me so much of the Smith's song. If you don't, if you're not familiar with this song, I might play it for it. you. It's a single, but it's the Smith's Big Mouth Strikes again. I don't believe so. I haven't given them a fair shake, man. Let me play that song real quick. Okay. Now, this is a single, so I know we don't play singles on this show, but sometimes we do. This is just to illustrate

the comparison here, because this is what I think of. Maybe I'm, maybe I'm alone in this, but when I hear the song I'm going to play by the Cranberries next, this is the song I think of. And again, this is the Smith's Big Mouth Strikes Again. Yeah, dude, every time I hear, I've heard a few songs from that album specifically, The Queen is Dead. Every time I hear one, I'm like, I think it's time I need to dive into the Smiths, and then I never do. Yeah.

They're worth giving a listen to for sure. It's time. Anyway, so you heard that. Now, here's this song by the Cranberries, came out for their next record. To the Faithful Departed, came out in 1996. This song is a little bit more aggressive right out of the gate. You can tell me if you hear any similarities. I do, especially knowing that Dolores was influenced by the Smiths.

All right. This song is fun. It's called I Just Shot John Lennon. Right out the gate, right? And I think it's the way she strums. Like the strumming patterns are very similar to the Smiths. but um and that song reads like a um just like a standard uh country western tune totally it's very like storytelling yeah definitely all right that was another short and sweet song there's only like a few

a few seconds left in that track but i got one more and i think that this song is not to the extent that it was a single or that it was hugely popular but as far as the subject matter goes i think this next song was basically their zombie, but for this record, if you know what I'm saying? Like the subject matter is similar, but this was not a single. It's the very last track. I always get suspicious when I hear a song that I'm like, that's kind of similar to this other one that was a huge hit on their previous record. I'm always like, well, is that just the record label being like, hey, can you, can you just

give us another zombie please? It could have even been like maybe not even from the get-go set out to be written like zombie or sound like zombie, but then they tweak it in their studio or whatever. Like the producer's like, let's make this one sound like zombie. Yeah. The only reason I'm saying is because it has similar subject manner. That's really it. Okay. As far as it being about a political type thing.

So this song is called Bosnia. It's about this Yugoslav civil war and like the brutality of it and stuff like that. and like how there's this war happening sort of in your backyard and you're just sort of like sitting at home secure in your house kind of thing, right? Anyway, again, the song is called Bosnia. And I'm going to let this one play out a little bit, kind of a link to your clip,

because there's a lot of stuff that happens in the song, that's kind of cool. All right, so again, this song is called Bosnia off of the Cranberry's record to the faithful departed. end the song. And into record too, right? Yeah. But yeah, what a cool song.

I love the concept of it. Like the drumming has got that sort of drummer boy marching drumbeat, which is really cool. The way they close the song, as you heard, was like, when did the saints go marching in? As in like, when is it over? I think is what she's trying to say there. And yeah, the lyrics are really interesting, right? Like, we all sing songs in our rooms, Sarajevo, erects another tomb. In other words, like you're saying, like it's kind of shit, it's kind of like the fucking

the war in Afghanistan, right? Like, it's just this thing that's happening. You know what I mean? It's happened. Yeah, dude, that's the thing. Like, I just have to, you have to just not think about it. Right. And that's kind of the point she's making.

For her, what she's thinking about is something that's like kind of like in your backyard and it's happening. Yeah. You know, it's a lot easier to distance yourself from it when it's across the globe, you know, with American soldiers in the Middle East or whatever. but like she's talking about civil war kind of in in that in the region that she's from you know really cool song i love the way that um and again like i love this is what makes it so fun and rewarding to listen to cranberries is what you i mean i've been saying it all night what you get

from her vocals right the ways that she accentuates the words serievo over and over again and that kind of build up to the next verse i like that a lot she's got this growl kind of to her that she kind of lets out a little bit. Yeah. And again, it's that sort of like that dichotomy of like her soft vocals to the way that she can kind of really belt it out, you know. And hey, dude, another reason to listen to an album from start to finish because definitely, you're going to miss out on that sweet Bosnia track if you don't give it a go. Right. And I was jumping around all over the place on these records trying to find the picks to play. And I'm glad that I made it to the end for Bosnia. Because like, you know, imagine if I was that, all right, cool, I just shot a lot, John Lennon, that's a good enough song.

Let me just stop there. I've got my picks. But, you know, I had to keep going because you never know when like the best track, your most favorite track on a record could be the very last track. I can't tell you how many times I've done that where I've gone back and listened to records that I love and I maybe for whatever reason never made it to the last track. And then suddenly it's like, oh, crap. this song on the record that's at the end is a banger, you know, my new favorite drug. It makes me think of, um, give me fiction. What's the last song on that?

I couldn't tell you, but Tyler Darling could tell you in a heartbeat. Tyler Darling, uh, if you don't know, is the host of, I turn my podcast on, which is a podcast dedicated to the greatest band of all time, perhaps, Q, Spoon. At least that's how he would say it. Merchants of Soul, dude. Merchants of Soul. Merchants of Soul, it's a killer try. Imagine if you didn't get all the way to the end of the album.

You'd never know. I don't want to know what this. You can't. Anyone who presses play on a spoon album is going to make it all the way to the end. That's a very good point. All right. So here's the sad truth about Dolores is she actually passed away in 2018 on the 25th anniversary of their first record. So she was young.

she was only 46. She died of a drug overdose, and a parent, a parent drug overdose from, she was found in a hotel bathtub kind of thing, drowned in a bathtub, had a bunch of drugs in her system, that kind of thing, right?

Anyway, so you know the publication medium.com, the website? I'm aware of that publication. That's where I found that kick-ass article about shoegaze or doomgays, I should say, remember. It's just a platform where anybody can write and publish articles, right?

So I found this story written right after she passed away by somebody named Charles Tanzer on Medium. Actually, I have his name this time. It's called a love letter to Dolores O'Rordan of the Cranberries. And part of – this is going to be kind of different because I'm going to read quite a bit here. But like, I love this kind of stuff. I love hearing these types of stories. So he was talking about how, you know, where he was in his life when no need to argue. you came out, which was their second record. So I'm just going to read an excerpt from this

piece by this guy. Okay. He says, Dolores, Mary, Eileen O'Reardon, the 5-2 Dynamo from Limerick, is letting us all know just exactly what the fuck she thinks of stupid-ass wars. She's talking about zombie. It's powerful. She alternates between singing and screaming, and her voice grabs you and doesn't let go. I was living in Kyoto, the ancient historic capital of Japan. on a college junior year study abroad program when the song was released. He talks about how he bought a CD because it's before Spotify and streaming and all that kind of stuff. And he said that he had this hour-long bus ride that he would take from his host family

in Yamashina, which was in the mountains in this beautiful, idyllic Japanese setting to the university in Kyoto where he was studying, right? He says that during that hour long commute, he blasted the hell out of the cranberries and especially zombie on the disc man. And for those listening here are younger, that's a portable CD player. Yeah. A CD is a disc that you used to play music from, if you don't know. The view from the bus, as he says, as we descended the mountains to the central plain of Kyoto was simply amazing. He goes on and on to describe how beautiful it was.

And he was saying the whole time he was blasting that Zonautzon. and daydreaming about war, life, love, loss, and nature. And he says it, uh, try to imagine, right, an American college student listening to an Irish folk rock band on a bus in Japan, right? It seems strange that sort of that image, right? But that's how much they meant to him, right? Their music comforted me in a time when I was just finding my way in a new foreign country. They really made my adjustment to Japan easier and better.

So I owe them a debt of gratitude. Anyway, I just loved that imagery and like that story of how important music is, right? And like, especially when you talk about like an American college student in Japan listening to an Irish folk rock band. That doesn't seem as crazy nowadays because we're also connected, right? But like in the 90s, he talks about how he ran out, he ran out to the CD shop and found the record in Japan. But I just love, I love those types of moments where you're alone. with music. You know what I mean?

This guy was lucky enough to have an hour-long bus ride every day where he could zone out and listen to music while looking at these beautiful mountains in Japan. Like, I can't even imagine that. Yeah, man. It kind of captures the magic of... The magic of music. You know, having a close relationship with music. Yes, exactly.

Anyway, I know that was kind of a tangent, but I love hearing that kind of stuff. That's great, dude. I appreciate it. So anyway, he just wanted to write this, his experience. and his connection with the cranberries, and specifically Dolores, you know, after she passed away, basically was just him getting his thoughts out.

But there it is. Now it's on the internet forever. Anybody can find it, connect with it. So anyway, that's that. After that, they continue to put our records, but nothing was quite as successful or the same as their first three records. I really like their first record.

If you had to pick one to listen to all the way through, I'd recommend that one. There's a lot of solid stuff on here. But there's great stuff scattered throughout their first three records beyond just the picks that I brought to the table today. But anyway, that's it, man. Awesome. Just scratching the surface of the cranberries. But again, that's one of those bands that we all know very, very well.

If you're a fan of 90s rock music, you know there are three mega hits just like the rest of us do. but if you've never really dug beyond the singles, like this is the kind of music that is between the singles, as we like to say, Q. Love it, dude. Great, great picks. Great picks. Thank you. All right. What else are we going to do, man? I don't know. I want to stay in the 90s, too. We're going to stay in the 90s. We're going to figure this out right now? I've been talking about doing this record for a while, and this would be a pretty big change of pace, but built to spill. Now, that would be something, Q.

Let's do it, man. If you're cool with, with, taking the reins once a more because I don't really know anything about them dude yeah let's do never got into them let's do keep it like a secret came out in 1999 so we're right on the the edge of the 90s here but that's gonna you know kind of like uh I don't know where you put built this bill they're they're kind of like a um I don't want to say email but they're certainly not if I could figure out how to use the new Spotify layout I could find their bio for you. I mean, would you put them in like the modest mouse? Yeah. Like more on that side of things? Yeah. They're classified as indie rock. Yeah.

That's a good enough umbrella to put them under. But they've been around for it for a long, long time. So, but yeah, let's talk about built the spills, keep it like a secret. That's a great record. I hope that it's not, nothing but singles on this record, because I know my favorites if I had to pick some. And if they are singles, well, we're not going to play them. We don't play singles on this. We can't do it. Yeah. All right.

So next week we'll do Bill to Spill the week after that. It might be time for another, what you heard. I don't know. It's going to be time, dude. I'm going to be ready to share some more tunes with you. All right. Built to spill next week. What you heard after that.

And then who knows, maybe we'll do, maybe we'll switch, Q. Maybe we'll switch it up finally. I think so. I think it'll be time. All right. Cool. As we head into June. Well, we know what's coming in June.

dude we won't spill beans but we already have at least one episode in store for us but we'll talk about it um during the what you're good episode it's gonna be hard for us not to spill beans yeah well we're gonna talk about because we're gonna play the single oh you're right no one knows what we're talking about but yeah dude i can't wait all right well you uh yeah yeah you can uh find us on twitter at no filler podcast uh shout out to us tell us what what you like and don't like about the show just say something to us, you know? Anything. It's not hard.

Is it hard? I don't know. I don't tweet. It's really not that hard. Yeah, just say something to us. We'll respond to you. Tell us, hey, you know what? What's one of your favorite cranberry's tracks that I missed?

Tell us what, tell us, uh, maybe a song from some of the later stuff that, that we overlooked. Let us know your favorite cranberries track and we'll play it as an outro on our what you heard. Yeah. It's that simple. You heard it here. You want, you want, you want your stuff played on, you know, we're like radio. DJs, man.

For real. This is a request. We're taking requests right now. Our Watcher heard is our monthly mixtape and we try and we've been successful for the last three to have our outro come from one of our listeners or, you know, friend of the show. We want to play your tunes. Let us know what your favorite. Help.

Let us know what your favorite built a spill is. Yeah. Good call, dude. Built to spill, man. They've got a ton of music. They're still putting out music. So yeah, if you're listening right now, that makes you a listener. And we would like to hear from you.

That's how that works. Especially if you made it to the end of this episode, that means you're a listening. Exactly. So give us a shout to us on Twitter. Jinks Coke. All right. You can also find us on the Pantheon Podcast Network. That's pantheonpodcast.com.

The home of podcasts for music lovers. I do think we switch that up every time. I don't know what the actual slogan is. That's cool. probably should know that by now but pantheonpodcast.com lots of great music centric podcasts including us yours truly is what i was going to say us uh you're uh the two of us anyway just about anything anything that that tickles your fancy you can find a show about it most likely on the pantheon podcast network so that's pantheon podcast dot com and uh that's that we're going to

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