“Ridiculous Thoughts” by The Cranberries

"Ridiculous Thoughts" was cut during the 1994 sessions for No Need to Argue, the Cranberries' second album, at The Manor in Oxford and the Townhouse in London, with Stephen Street producing and engineering. Dolores O'Riordan and Noel Hogan wrote the music, and O'Riordan's lyrics wrestle with her troubles with the British press and its journalists.

It's the band at its most bittersweet: guitars chiming and then swelling, Fergal Lawler and Mike Hogan keeping a steady roll underneath, and O'Riordan's voice leaping and keening over the top, wounded and defiant at once. Island issued it as a single in July 1995, and Samuel Bayer directed the video, which featured Elijah Wood. A stripped-down acoustic take surfaced in 2017 on Something Else.

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