Battle Of The Worst: The Cranberries 'Zombie' vs Simple Minds 'Belfast Child'

"with their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns"

"you said bombs twice"

"they have a lot of bombs"

― ★ Project Pat ★ What Cha Starin At ★ I Ain't A Mirror ★ (some dude),

can I vote for "Bosnia"
or maybe "Pieces of You" by Jewel

simple minds

you can do your own poll, lol
xp

Oh, I did give them the botd when they did "Belfast Child", heart in the right place, bit of an epic, not exactly Boheemsrapsdy, but hey...

Now, if you'd optioned their cover of "Sign of the Times", hmmm....

So, Zombs it is.

The Simple Minds ep Belfast Child came from also included

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ4XVsu3q5w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnHvgujwks8

so that might just give the edge to Simple Minds in this poll

in what direction?

winning this poll for being shittest

Zombie is at least funny. Simple Minds also had a way to fall (Lovesong, I Travel, New Gold Dream, even Up On The Catwalk...to this?), Cranberries were fairly awful on record from the off. (I saw them live in '91 and thought they were OK).

So, BC.

zombie is uplifiting and cool

ive nvr heard of the simple minds or the other song so ill abstain

probably would vote 4 this tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNLnYvBfVWo

zombie is a good song wtf

compared to many other Cranberries songs, yes

lol

:(

armand would get my vote in 90% of ilx polls were he to be an option

Boney M - "Belfast" > Simple Minds - "Belfast Child" > U2 - "Sunday Bloody Sunday" >>>>> Cranberries - "Zombie"

(excluded from special edition Rubbish Songs abt the Troubles rundown for actually being good or at least not having terrible lyrics, in the first instance by virtue of being an instrumental: Orbital - "Belfast" and SLF - "Alternative Ulster")

Simple Minds - "Belfast Child" > U2 - "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

I did hesitate before that one because it's basically not true except that I can't stand U2 at all

Zombie is fucking hideous in a way rarely achieved in music. Belfast Child is just predictably sappy.

I really feel that ppl who have the above opinion haven't heard many Cranberries songs

"I Just Shot John Lennon" is far worse.

any love for Linger?

not from me

Via another thread, Taylor Parkes and Everett True let you know how they care.

Let us also not forget:

This is the thread where we write lyrics to songs by The Cranberries about the death of pop stars

i imagine charity shops were inundated with cranberries cds

2) Dolores O’Riordan. Her smug conceit masquerading as concern for all mankind.

LOL @ this. Her attempts to dance in the Salvation video may be some of the smuggest movements made by humans.

lol

“It was a fearful night of December 8th/He was returning home from the studio late/He had perceptively known that it wouldn’t be nice/Because in 1980 he paid the price…With a Smith & Wesson 38/John Lennon’s life was no longer a debate.”

CORRECTION: Zombie is fucking hideous in a way rarely achieved in music… except by the Cranberries themselves in songs like I Shot John Lennon, Bosnia, etc.

It was a tragic day when a lovely lass
Who went by the name of Mama Cass
Stopped off at the corner store to buy
a tasty ham sandwich and an order of fries

Deep into the sandwhich she did bite
And only then did she get a fright
She huffed and puffed and then she choked
And only then the shop assistant spoke

"I just killed Mama Cass", he said,
"I just killed Mama Cass."
What a sad and sorry and sickening sandwich
It's so terrible that life's such a bitch

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...

― Dolores O'Riordan, Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:21 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark

XD

What a sad and sorry and sickening sandwich

Seriously dying here.

(^poor choice of words?)

I would like to state my vision,
Life was so unfair.
We live in our secure surroundings,
And people die out there.

Bosnia was so unkind.
Sarajevo changed my mind.
And we all call out in despair.
All the love we need isn't there.
And we all sing songs in our room.
Sarajevo erects another doom.

Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Sarajevo.
Bosnia was so unkind.
Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Saraje-
Bosnia was so unkind.

Sure things would change if we really wanted them to.
No fear for children anymore.
There are babies in their beds,
Terror in their heads,
Love for the love of life.

When do the saints go marching in? [X4]
Walk on tip toe...

the most classic Cranberries thread on ilx: "You don't get it, do you? My wife is Bono. She is not Larry." aka Dolores from The Cranberries and her pisshead husband vs their beleaguered nanny

"'Sunday Bloody Sunday'. What a great song. It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it? You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euhGPrgVZj0

I still stand by assertion that Cranberries were an elaborate prank

I'm pretty sure that they changed the space-time continuum and actually shot John Lennon with bullets full of suck.

I still stand by assertion that Cranberries were an elaborate prank

and you know something? This era of simple minds was far far far worse

Here's worse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YKRY0rSiEs

that is a hellishly bad song. that was the 1st song i heard by them, and being scottish, i was surrounded by people in school who loved them. VILE BAND. I could never go back and check out the supposed good stuff as this band throughout my teenage years were ubiquitous and AWFUL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvGpWksgEI8

Guys, it's Sting weighing in on The Troubles (now with added Bono)

"New Gold Dream" is gorgeous though.

God, the song Zombie is an egregious crime against humanity. A war crimes tribunal should be convened.

I hope Shakey and I get called to sit on it.

why wouldn't you?

goddam, that thread about this idiot from the Cranberries, her husband and the nanny they fired is hilarious.

all the Cranberries threads are hilarious

Not as funny as the tunes. The woman sounds like a cow dying by the side of the road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb49GCdWvSo

Hahaha, that's great.

yeah you said the same thing about "Sister Ray"

i actually watched both videos and I'm definitely voting simple minds. that piece of shit got to no 1 in the UK.

that whole post live aid period really was horrible wasn't it?

Wretched. Most of the worst songs about Serious Issues ever recorded were made in the five years after Live Aid.

simple minds wrote a lot of them too

They worked quickly

wait did somebody say "Alive and Kicking" was awful? love that jam

Thanks for the thread idea, DL!

"Most of the worst songs about Serious Issues ever recorded were made in the five years after Live Aid."

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

result! (funny thing is most of the belfast child votes probably came from old simple minds fans)

lol this thread ... i missed it when it was active, but i would've voted for Simple Minds. half b/c "belfast child" is awful on so many levels (not the least in its cheap and bombastic sentimentality) but b/c it's evidence of how far Simple Minds fell. this song was the bloody splat on the sidewalk after they dove headlong into U2-esque pomposity.

"zombie" was merely a bad song from a band that was kinda-OK at best.

that is -- the Cranberries were jumping off a barrel. Simple Minds were jumping offa the fucking Empire State Building!

Indeed, I would have undoubtedly voted for Simple Minds and I love their first five albums. 'Belfast Child' comes from an era of Simple Minds I would never go anywhere near.

Battle Of The Worst: The Cranberries 'Zombie' vs Simple Minds 'Belfast Child'

That's unfortunate, Kerr. You're missing out on some great stuff.