Description
Three decades after its original 1995 broadcast, this acoustic live performance recorded at the time, one of the hottest new bands since their arrival two years before. This stripped-down performance reveals the haunting purity of Dolores O’Riordan’s voice – piercing, fragile and resolute in equal measure. Backed by the Electra Strings quartet, songs like ‘Ode to My Family’ and ‘Dreaming My Dreams’ gain a poignant intimacy, while ‘Zombie’ becomes even more searing in its acoustic form, stripped of distortion but not of fury. The setlist bridges eras with early hits ‘Linger’ and ‘Empty’ stand beside then-unreleased tracks ‘Free to Decide’ and ‘I’m Still Remembering’. which would later anchor To the Faithful Departed. The rare gem ‘Yesterday’s Gone’, written the day before taping, feels like a fleeting diary entry. MTV Unplugged features The Cranberries simplicity as power. Listening now, it’s impossible not to feel the ache of O’Riordan’s absence and the timelessness of her voice.
Track list:
Side 1
1.”Intro/Dreaming My Dreams”5:12
2.”Ode To My Family”5:32
3.”Linger”5:04
4.”Free To Decide”4:28Side 2
1.”I’m Still Remembering”5:01
2.”Empty”3:57
3.”Zombie”4:25
4.”Yesterday’s Gone”3:54
5.”No Need To Argue”3:31
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