The Cranberries might make the same song thousands of times over but oh my god, her solo stuff is fucking excellent!

Two new songs were previewed on radio 101 and they are amazing, especially "When We Were Young". That chorus will forever be in my head.

Waiting for this record with huge expectations.

SHe's lovely.

I'll be buying it, if only to remind myself how damn pretty Dolores is.

The only problem I have with her is that her use of rhyming schemes in Cranberries songs (following the first album) bordered on irritating. This is especially evident in the not-good-at-all Wake Up and Smell the Coffee.

I hope her solo makes up for how derivative the Cranberries ended up being after their first album.

I'm excited about the solo album. Though I have heard clips of some of the songs that are supposedly going to be on the album, I am interested to see/hear what direction she will be going in, considering she was the sole writer for about half of the cranberries songs...

yeah, i am so gonna check her new stuff out. the angelo badalamenti deal is probably not gonna make the album but still, i still want to hear her voice. i miss her.

I liked the version of linger that she sang in Click during Sandler's son's wedding.

myspace

her song, ordinary day, is being streamed. i can't listen to it because my computer is fucked up. but i'm sure it's lovely. she has black hair now. zexy.

So I downloaded this album now that it leaked and I have to say - it's fucking amazing.

I will most certainly be buying the album, I really love it. Harder, Faster, Better than anything the Cranberries have ever done, in my opinion. The song from the cranberries that would most fit on here would probably be "Zombie".

wow
zombie is my least favorite cranberries song but i will check it out, definitely...

Ironic considering Zombie is one of the few songs that stands out from that slow-tempo blur of the rest of their collection.

I saw this album for the first time in the HMV (did I get this right?) in Gatwick airport on my trip over to Italy.

I'll probably look for it in the stores over here.

it's not her best effort. check out the debut by the cranberries, talk about euphoric rock music. "linger" with its strings and the creepy "pretty", it has so many great songs. they turned a bit shit after this album but whatever.

oh and dolores performed in leno and she didn't measure up to the greatness of her voice, sounded shaky which she has always sounded but eh. leno makes everyone shitty. fuckin leno, big chinned asshole.

HAHA!

I feel less inclined to buy this album now that I've had it downloaded for some time.

Red was right when he described it as being "annoyingly pleasant".

Half of the songs I still think are "fucking amazing" though.

don't forget the crappy lyrics as well. "It's so thought provoking, emotion evoking..."

I know you think SM is just as bad lyrically as Are you Listening is but even the umbrella line is better than the example i gave.

i've only given it one listen and not the best listen either. still i am pleased with it so far. i think it's nothing like her cranberries work at all. it's got its low points, but i am overall pleased so far. only time will tell if that actually holds true for me, but at this moment i am liking what i have heard. far better than what is trying to be passed off as music today. then again i'm not with it with the young and the "hip". whatever that means.

you just need a "hip" replacement, daddy.

Okay fuck the lyrics, I'm back to loving this album.

it is a good album. and lyrics aren't everything. if that were the case then i don't think r.e.m. would've ever made it out of athens with they wrote during the i.r.s. years. most of it was so incomprehensible and silly (what you could make out) that it was impossible to focus on the lyrics at all. i need to dig the are you listening out and play it again.

i just wish it was softer. i really love dolores' voice when it's singing a ballad. against the guitars which sound a bit nineties, her voices takes on a hollering turn and i just don't like that.

I've been playing this one off and on. I like it since I've gotten it.

It's a really average album. Sonically, it's pleasing but most of the lyrics are just really.... crap. This isn't a new discovery since her writing has declined since the cranberries' later albums.

i wish her voice was paired with memorable melodies and lush instrumentation. i really thought it was a production misstep at work here. i hate the big guitars. her voice is so angelic and weird that it needs some warm strings and heavenly harmonies, much like the debut of the cranberries.

No I disagree. She's better when the arrangements have got some fire and kick. The softer songs have nothing to deter from the short comings in the lyrics.

I tend to agree with fub. Linger, for example, is just... divine. The strings... oh my.

light is right actually. she's better with a driving beat behind her. this album isn't as bad as it's made out to be. quite pleasent indeed.

it sounds dated for me. it also doesn't help that the melodies aren't that memorable.

alright album, only listened to it a few times. i still believe that "to the faithful departed" is her best work.

got the b-sides and will upload soon if anyone is intersted.

ME ME ME ME ME!!!
WAIT, BSIDES TO WHAT?

The b-sides to Are You Listening? Some are from the "Ordinary Day" single and others are digital bonus tracks. Here's two, will upload the other three later on my other computer.

Letting Go:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5sdpec

Sisterly Love:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jkiddf

Without You:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/shgoz4

Willow Pattern:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/iwz7bw

fanks!

Thank you muchly!

love letting go so far. so pretty.

Oh I'm loving Letting Go too. Will listen to the other song shortly.

where are the other songs, MMWT??????
i demand them!!!

tee hee

do the b-sides have remotely good lyrics???

there are four there woody. i still have one to post but i have to convert it.

and no the b-sides don't have good lyrics. none of her songs do.

Circa 1999 onwards, very true.

Post the last one, MAKESMEWANTO!!!

I know I'm a bastard, ha. My other computer that had this ONE mp3 was not working for like a week, or more.

Anyways, here it is (HQ):

Forever:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/51h72n

And oh yeah I have a high quality MP3 of "Letting Go" now. The other one was shit, if anyone wants it just say so.

thanks, upload the higher quality too.

Letting Go (HQ):
http://www.sendspace.com/file/j98dbg

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!::@e#:$@#@$p#q+er!wewe@e!el:ove

I think Ilike Dolores' new album much better than some folk seem to-I agree the sound is much more 80's & 90's, BUT, in honesty, I love the sound from the period & rather miss it. It's so funny, I did really like the Cranberries the first time around, but I never ranked them or her as up there with Kate or Siouxise or Tori or Liz! In retrospect, I love listening the Cranberries now-they had some wonderful songs that still sound so fresh now.

i've come to terms with the fact that this album is crap, especially the songwriting. ordinary day, when we were young and human spirit are the only songs i can stand.

I kind of love the album.

My favourite song is Ecstasy.

i wish i loved it. but i dunno. i'm gonna listen to it again to make sure it's not bad, because it's not, just bland. her voice is the only thing that made it worthwhile for me.