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In Your Head: Cranberries Expand 'No Need To Argue' With B-Sides and Outtakes

July 30, 2020 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

No Need To Argue

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No Need To Argue, the album that gave Irish rockers The Cranberries their biggest hit around the world, is getting expanded  this fall.

As a tribute to frontwoman Dolores O'Riordan, who passed away unexpectedly in 2018, the surviving members of The Cranberries have remained active despite the band's formal dissolution, expanding their debut Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? later that year and wrapping up final album In The End in 2019. No Need To Argue continues that reissue series, offering the remastered original album along with B-sides and a disc of demo and live material. Of particular interest to longtime fans are two tracks that have never been officially released in any capacity: "Yesterday's Gone," as performed on the group's appearance on MTV Unplugged, and the demo "Serious."

While the album sleeve to No Need To Argue featured the band on the same sofa they posed on for the cover of their debut, its placement around different locations in and around Ireland could be a bit of a metaphor for how their sound changed on this record. In place of the light acoustic yearning of breakthrough single "Linger," No Need To Argue featured tracks like the wearier "Ode To My Family" and the edgy, cathartic "Zombie," written in response to two boys killed in an IRA bombing in England. Despite the heavy subject matter - or perhaps part of it - "Zombie" would become one of the group's signature songs, topping the German, French and Australian charts as well as Billboard's modern rock survey in America. (A lack of physical single in the U.S. prevented its crossover to the pop charts.) The track helped the album become one of the bestselling of the year it was released, moving some 17 million copies across the globe.

The expanded album also features unseen photos from the album cover sessions and a 5000-word essay by band archivist Eoin Devereux. Those liner notes will appear in both the expanded 2CD and double vinyl sets (which feature the remastered album and bonus tracks on the first disc of the package). uDiscover Music is offering a limited clear pressing of that 2LP set, as well.

No Need To Argue is available once again on September 18. Pre-order it below and check out the full track list.

No Need To Argue: Deluxe Edition (Island/UMC, 2020)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscover Music (limited clear vinyl)

CD 1/LP 1-2: Original Album Remastered + B-Sides & Extras

  1. Ode To My Family
  2. I Can't Be With You
  3. Twenty One
  4. Zombie
  5. Empty
  6. Everything I Said
  7. The Icicle Melts
  8. Disappointment
  9. Ridiculous Thoughts
  10. Dreaming My Dreams
  11. Yeats' Grave
  12. Daffodil Lament
  13. No Need To Argue
  14. Yesterday's Gone (MTV Unplugged)
  15. Away
  16. I Don't Need
  17. So Cold In Ireland
  18. (They Long To Be) Close To You
  19. Zombie (A Camel's Hump Remix by The Orb)

Tracks 1-13 released as Island 314 524 050-2, 1994
Track 14 previously unreleased
Tracks 15-16 from "Zombie" CD single - Island CID 600, 1994
Track 17 from "Ode To My Family" CD single - Island CID 601, 1994
Track 18 from If I Were a Carpenter - A&M 314 540 258-2, 1994
Track 19 from "When You're Gone" U.S. CD single - Island 422 854 825-2, 1996

CD 2: Bonus Content (previously unreleased)

  1. Song To My Family (Magic Shop Demo)
  2. So Cold In Ireland (Magic Shop Demo)
  3. Empty (Magic Shop Demo)
  4. Ridiculous Thoughts (Magic Shop Demo)
  5. Everything I Said (Magic Shop Demo)
  6. Yeats' Grave (Magic Shop Demo)
  7. Serious (Demo)
  8. Away (Demo)
  9. I Don't Need (Demo)
  10. Dreaming My Dreams (Live at Liverpool Royal Court - 10/14/1994)
  11. Daffodil Lament (Live at Liverpool Royal Court - 10/14/1994)
  12. The Icicle Melts (Live at Liverpool Royal Court - 10/14/1994)
  13. No Need To Argue (Live at Liverpool Royal Court - 10/14/1994)
  14. Empty (Live at Liverpool Royal Court - 10/14/1994)
  15. I Can't Be With You (Live at National Stadium, Milton Keynes - 7/30/1995)
  16. Ridiculous Thoughts (Live at National Stadium, Milton Keynes - 7/30/1995)
  17. Zombie (Live at National Stadium, Milton Keynes - 7/30/1995)

Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: The Cranberries

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Comments

  1. Ross says

    August 1, 2020 at 8:16 am

    Really looking forward to this one. I have the existing expanded edition, but the second disc of demos and live tracks make this a must buy for me.

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  2. Ed Randazzo says

    August 4, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    A long-time fan STOKED for the secord disc of previously unreleased demos and live cuts!

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