Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

The Cranberries - Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
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Artist: The Cranberries
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2001-10-23
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
  1. Never Grow Old
  2. Analyse
  3. Time Is Ticking Out
  4. Dying Inside
  5. This Is The Day
  6. The Concept
  7. Wake Up And Smell The Coffee
  8. Pretty Eyes
  9. I Really Hope
  10. Every Morning
  11. Do You Know
  12. Carry On
  13. Chocolate Brown
  14. Bonus Track

Free Music Notes for Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Free Music Review: short shelf live
Hit: 3 Stars

Just one song in this album enjoyed significant airtime: "Analyse." I remember even hearing it blaring from a jeepney in the Philippines. This album was born in 2001, right after 9/11. The video of "Analyse," with the silhouette of a man walking among high-rise buildings, took on a particular poignancy. But the songs were still Cranberry-hopeful. In "The Concept" Dolores chants: "Hold on to the concept of love, always darling/ Hold on to the concept of love, always/ Night all night, all night/ Night all night, all night."

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee sounds like a rehash of the third album, with all its sins intact. To the Faithful Departed earnestly sang of the Bosnian conflict; it was panned by critics. I remember a review from Time magazine. It said the band's understanding of theconflict was wrong, that it was a case of music and politics mixing badly. Wake Up and Smell the Coffee also couldn't let go of clich?d didacticism/preachiness (item: "Looks like we've screwed up the ozone layer/ I wonder if the politicians care") and whimsical existentialist yearnings (item: "I hope you'll never grow old/ I hope you'll never grow old / I hope you'll stay/ Forever Young"--"Never Grow Old"). The songs in this album have a very short shelf life.

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After 10 years of making hit records, you would think Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan would have figured out how to write a proper rock lyric. But less than two minutes into the Irish group's fifth album, we are treated to a flashing display of her incomparable wit: "Birds in the sky/ they look so high" she coos on the opening track "Never Grow Old," before adding "I feel the breeze/ I feel at ease." And that's when she is being mercifully clever. On the title track, she doesn't even bother summoning the lessons learned in fifth-grade poetry. She simply repeats each line twice, therefore rhyming every sentiment with itself. The lazy writing is really a shame because it gets in the way of one of the last truly clear, pristine voices in rock. While the Cranberries' musical might remains largely intact on its fifth album, showcasing full-bodied rhythms and symphonic flourishes on tracks like "I Really Hope" and "This Is the Day," it's really difficult to sustain any interest when the tiresome lyrics trip you up at every turn. --Jaan Uhelszki

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