Zombie (song)
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| Single by The Cranberries | ||||||||||||||
| from the album No Need to Argue | ||||||||||||||
| Released | 19 September 1994 | |||||||||||||
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| Recorded | 1994 at Windmill Lane Studios | |||||||||||||
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| Length | 5:06 (album/video version #1) 4:11 (video version #2/radio edit) |
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| Label | Island | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Dolores O'Riordan | |||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Stephen Street | |||||||||||||
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"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.
It won the "Best Song" award at the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards.
According to the sheet music published at musicnotes.com, "Zombie" is composed in the key of E Minor with a tempo of 84 beats per minute.
Zombie was written during the Cranberries' English Tour in 1993, in memory of two boys, Jonathan Ball and Tim Parry, who were killed in an early-1993 IRA bombing in Warrington.
The Rough Guide to Rock identified the album No Need to Argue as "more of the same" as the Cranberries' debut album, except for the song "Zombie", which had an "angry grunge" sound and "aggressive" lyrics. The Cranberries played the song on their appearance on the U.S. show Saturday Night Live in 1995 in a performance that British author Dave Thompson calls "one of the most powerful performances that the show has ever seen".
Greil Marcus wrote that Zombie created a "displacement" by reference to the 1916 Easter Rising, and that it was "bizarre" for a song of the pop genre to refer to events before the lifetime of the target audience. Allmusic said the song "trivialized" the events of the Troubles, and that the "heavy rock trudge" of the song did not play to the band's strengths.
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