Released on 3 October 1994, "No Need To Argue" was the second studio album by Irish alternative rock band The Cranberries, it's considered the band's best-selling album, selling over 17 million copies worldwide, the album spawned four singles "Zombie", "Ode To My Family", "I Can't Be With You", & "Ridiculous Thoughts", even though the mood of the album is darker and harsher than its predecessor a year prior, it was massive biggest-selling album worldwide boosted by the massive hit single "Zombie".
The album was a landmark in the band's sound, decided to take a rockier and heavier side, using distortion and high volume, according to drummer Fergal Lawler, the musical change happened because after two years of touring to promote their debut album, we had been used to hearing ourselves loud on stage and everything, so maybe that's a natural thing that happened then.
While they were in New York, the band decided to record demos for the upcoming album, fly back to London and hired Stephen Street as a producer, musically speaking, "No Need To Argue" did not diverge too far from Everybody Else Is Doing It. Instead, the thirteen-song solidified the group’s strengths as purveyors of melodic, emotive rock-pop of the highest caliber.
Largely written while on tour to support Everybody Else Is Doing It in 1993, No Need To Argue found O’Riordan working through the emotional residue of a recent breakup while grappling with her newfound fame. But she also expanded beyond this introspection to examine the events of the world surrounding her, affording the album a broader thematic composition than its predecessor.
"Zombie", was inspired by the 1993 IRA bombing in Warrington, England that killed two young boys and injured dozens of others, an impassioned protest song that decries all of the nonsensical violence and victimization of the innocent, the track was the first of four official singles unveiled from the album, immediately followed by the album-opening “Ode To My Family.” a reflection and looking back home and wondering where my childhood went, according O’Riordan.
O’Riordan revisits the relationship between her past and present two songs later on "Twenty One." The song celebrates the freedom that accompanies the transition from adolescence into adulthood, which can—at least symbolically—protect her from the hardships of the past and help her move on with her life, next is the third single "I Can’t Be With You," a regret-ridden breakup song that finds O’Riordan longing for a past love and the history they shared together. It doubles, however, as a declaration of defiance and independence, the symphonic "Empty" continues in the same vein, unfolding as a hauntingly beautiful reflection on regret and loss that leads to hollowed-out emotions, a thematic thread that reemerges later on the plaintive "Everything I Said" and "Disappointment."
But not all is doom and gloom throughout the record, however, as the endearingly wistful lullaby of a love song "Dreaming My Dreams" is a sanguine, strings-laden dedication to her then-new husband Don Burton, the former tour manager for Duran Duran and The Cranberries’ production manager at the time, the fourth and final single "Ridiculous Thoughts." is for the critics as the supreme highlight of the album, the song’s ethereal intro segues into charging guitar work upon which O’Riordan showcases her vast vocal range, as she exorcises the disenchantment that comes with encountering deception and betrayal among people you once trusted.
The most affecting moment arrives with "The Icicle Melts," inspired by the unconscionably tragic 1993 murder of a two-year-old boy James Bulger in Liverpool, England. Despite the profound sadness of the song’s subject matter, O’Riordan offers a message of hope and redemption in the chorus, "Yeat's Grave" is about the poet William Butler Yeats and quotes one of his poems "No Second Troy", the album closed with "Daffodil Lament" and the title-album "No Need To Argue".
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