I was child when I first heard the song. I enlisted in the USMC in 2003. I can no longer listen to it without crying. Became one of zombies. Stop endless wars let's not have our childern make the mistakes I did
it was written about an IRA car bomb in Warrington,England that killed two schoolchildren….here’s what Delores said about why she wrote the song. “There were a lot of bombs going off in London and I remember this one time a child was killed when a bomb was put in a rubbish bin -- that's why there's that line in the song, 'A child is slowly taken,'" O'Riordan told Songwriting Magazine. "We were on a tour bus and I was near the location where it happened, so it really struck me hard - I was quite young, but I remember being devastated about the innocent children being pulled into that kind of thing. So I suppose that's why I was saying, 'It's not me' - that even though I'm Irish it wasn't me, I didn't do it. Because being Irish, it was quite hard, especially in the UK when there was so much tension." She told Vox magazine in 1994 that the song was written in part as a mechanism to grapple with her identity as an Irish citizen that did not support the actions of the IRA. "The IRA are not me. I'm not the IRA. The Cranberries are not the IRA. My family are not. ... When it says in the song, 'It's not me, it's not my family,' that's what I'm saying. It's not Ireland".
The troubles are still simmering away. We are lucky to live during a time where the majority of people from both sides of the argument want no more fighting but to try and continue to find a peaceful answer despite the best efforts of those that want a return to violence!
This is one of those songs/videos that packs a real emotional punch. The topic of loss of innocent life in war is always terrible, and even more since real tragedy inspired this hard tune. I’m part-Irish but I think losing people to warfare is a universal heartbreak.
The lead singer sadly died a few years ago, but in her short time, she laid down some powerful tracks. All worth a listen. Great reaction. Zombie head may drive both the warmonger and the silent bystander.
Powerful song! The song was penned in response to The Troubles, a period of political conflict and violence between Northern Irish nationalists, who sought a united Ireland, and unionists, who wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom. One of the most devastating events during this time was the 1993 IRA bombing in Warrington, England, which killed two young boys and injured many others.
Zombie is a protest song inspired by the murder of two young boys, Tim Parry 12 and Jonathan Ball 3, in the 1993 Warrington bombings. They were out shopping with adults, looking for cards for their mothers for Mothering Sunday. The word "zombie" in the song refers to those involved on both the British and Northern Irish side who blindly followed orders without thinking for themselves. . Delores' voice is beautiful, the music is hard and the lyrics are hard hitting. the video shows actual soldiers on patrol on the streets there and the children are playing on the real streets. Kills me to hear it, my eldest son is only two years older than Jonathan Ball would have been, but it's a song that makes you stop and remember how fragile peace is and how easily it can be lost and everything that goes with it. R.I.P. I was blessed I got to see them in concert
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The term "Zombie" here refers to the mindset of people caught up in ongoing wars who insist their side is "right". In this case, Ireland, but this would pertain to any civil war, long term war, anywhere that is in constant conflict. The children suffer the most, both those who are hurt or killed and also those who live with the warring environment. They can become the next generation of Zombie.
This song is about what they called "the Troubles " in Northern Ireland that started in 1916. Lasted until the 1990's, You can check the history if interested. Delores O'Riordan and the Cranberries were Irish. She was another great talent gone too soon. I think the gold represents Angels of those killed. Another great song is Linger. Great action to this powerful song. 😊🎉❤
The troubles are still simmering away. We are lucky to live during a time where the majority from both sides of the arguement want no more fighting but to try and continue to find a peaceful answer despite the best efforts of those that want a return to violence!
@@jameswiglesworth5004shes referring to the Easter uprising in that part but the song is indeed about the troubles, in fact two young boys that died in a bomb explosion planted in a parked car while they were walking to school.
@@charliegeorge9393 Related conflicts in Ireland have been going on since the 12th century Norman conquest. The Troubles, however, refers specifically to the PIRA campaign from the late 1960s to 1998. The independence movement that resulted in the current independence of 26 counties of Ireland first flared up in open rebellion against English rule in the Easter Rising of 1916, whence comes the "same old theme since 1916" line but that was not part of the Troubles.
Regarding your question about the use of the word zombies. I do feel like both of those things that you described are kind of flavors on it, slight nuances that are mixed in, but it seems to be and I know a lot of people that fought in World War II and I even met one of my relatives that fought in World War I and I've known the son of a young man at 29 who died at the end of World War II and left his 1 year old behind and then I met this man when he's in his seventies and eighties and it's just so many different things that relate to those experiences. So to me it means the older people that I met in my family that had survived World War II mostly, but like I said I got the same thing from World War I and then of course there's Vietnam you know. And so to me, zombies just means when you are traumatized by that whether you were in combat or near it or whether you were suffering the repercussions of it on the home front, it's just so easy to just stay in that trauma. It makes me wonder about your story. Because obviously, this got to you just like it did to me.
My interpretation (Irish/Australian) of "Zombie, zombie in your head" has always been that we attribbute a kind of 'otherness' to conflicts that we aren't personally apart of. Like, there's a detachment in the fact of it happening elsewhere that makes it more comfortable. Like a zombie. Delores is saying "nah, you see a zombie, but what's really happening here are mothers, children, bombs, death. You can't detach here!"
great reaction video and nice analysis. Zombie always has represented the children that grow up under the influence of war, literally becoming soldiers when they learn to walk... zombies that know nothing else but war....I could be wrong but that is what it means to me.
You're gonna like TheCranberries Blessing! Another deep&interesting rabbit-hole, with so many great songs... For somethings REALLY diff from Zombie, check out OdeToAFamily & It'sJustMyImagination!!!
Sometimes saying nothing says as much as thousands of words. This is how I understood your long silence at the first break in the video. I saw all the signs that you understood the essence of the message of this song, of this cry from the heart against this murderous madness. Drummer Fergal "Patrick" Lawler, "through the way he plays", expresses very well all this rage towards this murderous madness perpetrated by the IRA, supposedly in the name of the Irish.
We are all Zombies, these atrocities are caused by few evil, greedy, power hungry men, yet the majority just allow them to continue. This is a protest song against wars. RIP Dolores, our beautiful Irish treasure, you are missed. Please pray for the people in Gaza and Palestine etc tonight, peace and love from Ireland
Your comment is so true and truth is a rarity these days, we continue to ignore the real monsters in favor of using our energy to be judgmental and petty with others within our reach.
Not so fun fact: The black and white segments (sans the band) were unscripted and not played by actors... real British soldiers and real Irish children playing.
I totally agree that her vocals were spectacular, and this is a great song. I don't know what the vocal technique she used is called, but it is the same one used in traditional Irish songs, and in the Irish folk songs. It is very melodic, and the phrases are emphasized by dragging them out. It's not that common in rock songs, but some bands do this in some of their more folk like songs. I think any good singer can sing this song, but it would be difficult making it sound anywhere near as good as Dolores O'Riordan. She is Irish and her speaking voice is similar to what she does in the song. She also grew up with the effects of this war happening in a part of Ireland. Therefore it would be more heartfelt for her. The whole song is about the dehumanizing effect of the war. It effected the people fighting, and the innocent victims. I think zombie is referring to the numbing effect the war had on the people fighting. I traveled for a year in England, Scotland, and Wales in 1973-1974. At times I was pretty scared of walking near a place where a bomb planted by the IRA was going off, especially in the London area. I enjoyed your reaction and would suggest that you sing this song, record it, and listen to how it sounds.
I've studied Dolores's vocal technique at length to cover some Cranberries songs. Some people say it's keening which is a very old technique and referred to mourners at a funeral who would keen over the body. It's like a cry or wail. Other people say it's kind of a yodel type sound but not in the country sense. I've tried it with Zombie and Dreams specifically. There is even a channel on here called Nail Every Note that talks about the vocal technique being used here. No one can sing like Dolores, she just sang like no one else. One of the most powerful voices in music ever! RIP, Dolores. I think if someone does cover this song, put your own spin on it, think of it as a tribute to her and The Cranberries.
This song is about a terrorist attack that killed two children. Also the music video is actually shots from Northern Ireland in a time know as the troubles. The soilders, murals and children playing on the street are all real.
Shortly before midday on Saturday, 20 March 1993, The Samaritans in Liverpool received a bomb warning by telephone. According to police, the caller said only that a bomb had been planted outside a Boots shop. Merseyside Police sent officers to branches of Boots in Liverpool and warned the Cheshire Constabulary, who patrolled nearby Warrington. About 30 minutes later, at about 12:25, two bombs exploded on Bridge Street in Warrington, about 100 yards (90 m) apart. The blasts happened within a minute of each other. One exploded outside Boots and McDonald's, and one outside the Argos catalogue store. The area was crowded with shoppers. Witnesses said that shoppers fled from the first explosion into the path of the second. It was later found that the bombs had been placed inside cast-iron litter bins, causing large amounts of shrapnel. Buses were organised to ferry people away from the scene and 20 paramedics and crews from 17 ambulances were sent to deal with the aftermath. Three-year-old Johnathan Ball died at the scene. He had been in town with his babysitter, shopping for a Mother's Day card. The second victim, 12-year-old Tim Parry, was gravely wounded. He died on 25 March 1993 when his life support machine was switched off, after tests had found only minimal brain activity. Another 54 people were injured, four of them seriously. One of the survivors, 32-year-old Bronwen Vickers, the mother of two young daughters, had to have a leg amputated, and died just over a year later from cancer. The Provisional IRA issued a statement the day after the bombing, acknowledging its involvement but saying: Responsibility for the tragic and deeply regrettable death and injuries caused in Warrington yesterday lies squarely at the door of those in the British authorities who deliberately failed to act on precise and adequate warnings A day later, an IRA spokesman said that "two precise warnings" had been given "in adequate time", one to the Samaritans and one to Merseyside Police. He added: "You don't provide warnings if it is your intention to kill". Cheshire's assistant chief constable denied there had been a second warning and said: Yes, a warning was given half-an-hour before, but no mention was made of Warrington. If the IRA think they can pass on their responsibility for this terrible act by issuing such a nonsensical statement, they have sadly underestimated the understanding of the British public. A piece on BBC North West's Inside Out programme in September 2013 speculated that the bombing may have been the work of a "rogue" IRA unit, which was supported by the IRA but operated independently and who used operatives who were from England to avoid suspicion. The programme also examined a possible link between the attack and British leftist political group Red Action, though nothing was ever proven. This song was a direct response to these events from the band at the deaths of two innocent children
Others have noted the significance of 1916 to the NI conflict. But your reference to WWI reminided me of the more general applicability to the century of modern warfare. Beautiful reaction.
One of the most powerful and painful rock songs and videos ever recorded. We are the zombies who remain silent. From the first chord we know this is a serious work about a serious subject. The video images and editing are perfect for relating the brutally honest reaction to the horrors of war. Juxtaposing the children and the religious imagery was genius and awful at the same time.
Trust the Brits to make it all about them, its not just about your kids, its about all the kids, especially the ones the British took in N.I, as a child who grew up there, i remember walking up the street, being stopped by a British soldier, pointing a rifle at me, asking me who i was and where i was going... as a child we'd go to the playground, Catholics on one side, protestants on the other, each singing rebel songs at each other, was no malice, was just the craic...We were Zombies
I belive this song was partially intrumental in a change of mentality that eventually led to peace in Ireland. Though fighting a just fight that was almost a state of open war in it's infancy by the time of this song it had been clear for some time that the IRA were fighting an enemy that was not in open and conventional war with them and what's more didn't want such a war. The lyric 'with their tanks and their bombs and their guns and their bombs, in your head they are still fighting' . This is a referance to the fact that why are the British not using their tanks and all their bombs on us? It's because they are not at war with Ireland. Yet the IRA are still bombing the mainland and civilian targets almost indiscriminately, like 'zombies' fighting a battle that is no longer there. 'It's not me, it's not my family' referenciing the fact that this action had lost popular support among many of the people it was being perpetrated in the name of. It is a homage to the degredation and damage lengthy and bitter conflict can instill in otherwise rational minds.
Linger / Dreams / Ode To My Family / When You're Gone / Animal Instinct / Promises / Just My Imagination / Salvation / Ridiculous Thoughts / Stars / You And Me / This Is The Day / Time Is Ticking Out / Tomorrow / Never Grow Old / Free To Decide / Wake Me When It's Over / All Over Now Some more music videos by The Cranberries you might like
spectaculour vocals very different and original . i hope you will listen to the version by Bad Wolves, they released a tribute version of this song just after the death of the original singer. Another artist with a very interesting voice is Alanis Morisette, please listen to her song ..you oughta know, and for technical perfection try sara bareilles, live in atlanta her cover of the elton john song, goodbye yellow brick road
No. If you're referring to the children in which this song was inspired by they both died. The title zombie has nothing to do with a "look" it's about being complacent to violence
utter rubbish! it was about the death of 2 boys in an IRA attack in Warrington England in 1993! Prats like you should stop commenting on things you don't know!
THE BAND, BAD-WOLVES DOES A REMARKABLE-AND ONLY CLOSE TO HER, A REMAKE OF THIS SONG IN WHICH DOLORES PERSONALLY PICKED THEM TO DO. SADLY THAT DIDNT HAPPEN. THE DAY BEFORE THE DEBUT BETWEEN HER AND THE BAND BAD-WOLVES, SHE PASSED AWAY. THE BAND BAD-WOLVES DID GET PERMISSION TO DO HER SONG AND THEY DONATED ALL THE PROCEEDS-FROM THE SALES TO GO TO SUPPORT HER CHILDREN.
If you get a chance, please react to a song called "bed of roses" by a band called bon Jovi. An amazingly sung ballad. Stay healthy and happy holiday season 😊😊
The troubles, were secular between Catholics and Protestants with the Brotish crown sticking there nose in. The closest conflict to compare to it it's viciousness is the middle east. But that pales in comparison in the violence. In particular, this came out after a bombing in which some children were caught up in the blast. The Irish were prejudiced and faced discriminated against for a long time. Centuries in fact.
7:33 She is referring to both, for sure... the gold points to the reality that each human person is invaluable and rightly to belong and to be valued as belonging to Christ Jesus. The visuals, because war keeps happening, apply well across time. :) Thankful for your beautiful reaction, and the way you received it.
I think zombies mean that then people are in the war they see so much violence more then normal people can handle so they shut down there brains and become like Zombies!
At the time of this song the IRA (Irish Republican Army) were constantly fighting with the British military for more independence, very much like Hamas in Palestine fighting the Israeli army today. The fighting was constantly on the news for many tears. A political agreement was eventually reached. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army
The IRA were actually in conflict with the Protestant Unionists, not the British Army, who were actually there as peacemakers, though of course there was much resentment at their presence and it led to the situation escalating
@@jameswiglesworth5004They were also in conflict with the British military. From Wikipedia: " It used guerrilla tactics against the British Army and RUC in both rural and urban areas, and carried out a bombing campaign in Northern Ireland and England against military, political and economic targets, and British military targets in mainland Europe. They also targeted civilian contractors to the British security forces. The IRA's armed campaign, primarily in Northern Ireland but also in England and mainland Europe, killed over 1,700 people, including roughly 1,000 members of the British security forces and 500-644 civilians."
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She tried to the traditional death wails of the Irish (some women would mourn the death )
I was child when I first heard the song. I enlisted in the USMC in 2003. I can no longer listen to it without crying. Became one of zombies. Stop endless wars let's not have our childern make the mistakes I did
So many people have cried with this song. AMAZING
it was written about an IRA car bomb in Warrington,England that killed two schoolchildren….here’s what Delores said about why she wrote the song. “There were a lot of bombs going off in London and I remember this one time a child was killed when a bomb was put in a rubbish bin -- that's why there's that line in the song, 'A child is slowly taken,'" O'Riordan told Songwriting Magazine. "We were on a tour bus and I was near the location where it happened, so it really struck me hard - I was quite young, but I remember being devastated about the innocent children being pulled into that kind of thing. So I suppose that's why I was saying, 'It's not me' - that even though I'm Irish it wasn't me, I didn't do it. Because being Irish, it was quite hard, especially in the UK when there was so much tension."
She told Vox magazine in 1994 that the song was written in part as a mechanism to grapple with her identity as an Irish citizen that did not support the actions of the IRA.
"The IRA are not me. I'm not the IRA. The Cranberries are not the IRA. My family are not. ... When it says in the song, 'It's not me, it's not my family,' that's what I'm saying. It's not Ireland".
Wasn’t a car bomb. Was a bomb placed in a trash can right next to a super market. Everything else you said is correct
The troubles are still simmering away. We are lucky to live during a time where the majority of people from both sides of the argument want no more fighting but to try and continue to find a peaceful answer despite the best efforts of those that want a return to violence!
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I'm 72 yrs old and Irish. Such a deep song.
This is one of those songs/videos that packs a real emotional punch. The topic of loss of innocent life in war is always terrible, and even more since real tragedy inspired this hard tune. I’m part-Irish but I think losing people to warfare is a universal heartbreak.
The lead singer sadly died a few years ago, but in her short time, she laid down some powerful tracks. All worth a listen. Great reaction.
Zombie head may drive both the warmonger and the silent bystander.
Sorry to hear she passed truly a legacy piece
Powerful song! The song was penned in response to The Troubles, a period of political conflict and violence between Northern Irish nationalists, who sought a united Ireland, and unionists, who wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom. One of the most devastating events during this time was the 1993 IRA bombing in Warrington, England, which killed two young boys and injured many others.
A top 100 song of all time no doubt.
Beautiful reacction ❤
Zombie is a protest song inspired by the murder of two young boys, Tim Parry 12 and Jonathan Ball 3, in the 1993 Warrington bombings. They were out shopping with adults, looking for cards for their mothers for Mothering Sunday. The word "zombie" in the song refers to those involved on both the British and Northern Irish side who blindly followed orders without thinking for themselves. . Delores' voice is beautiful, the music is hard and the lyrics are hard hitting. the video shows actual soldiers on patrol on the streets there and the children are playing on the real streets. Kills me to hear it, my eldest son is only two years older than Jonathan Ball would have been, but it's a song that makes you stop and remember how fragile peace is and how easily it can be lost and everything that goes with it. R.I.P. I was blessed I got to see them in concert
YES! An AUTHENTIC REACTION. Thank you for doing this video. ❤❤
Dolores. Such a beautiful Irish woman. Such a beautiful Irish voice. RIP
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The term "Zombie" here refers to the mindset of people caught up in ongoing wars who insist their side is "right". In this case, Ireland, but this would pertain to any civil war, long term war, anywhere that is in constant conflict. The children suffer the most, both those who are hurt or killed and also those who live with the warring environment. They can become the next generation of Zombie.
This song is about what they called "the Troubles " in Northern Ireland that started in 1916. Lasted until the 1990's, You can check the history if interested. Delores O'Riordan and the Cranberries were Irish. She was another great talent gone too soon. I think the gold represents Angels of those killed. Another great song is Linger. Great action to this powerful song. 😊🎉❤
The troubles are still simmering away. We are lucky to live during a time where the majority from both sides of the arguement want no more fighting but to try and continue to find a peaceful answer despite the best efforts of those that want a return to violence!
@@jameswiglesworth5004shes referring to the Easter uprising in that part but the song is indeed about the troubles, in fact two young boys that died in a bomb explosion planted in a parked car while they were walking to school.
@@jameswiglesworth5004 learn your history! Been going since the 17th century at least.
@@charliegeorge9393 Related conflicts in Ireland have been going on since the 12th century Norman conquest. The Troubles, however, refers specifically to the PIRA campaign from the late 1960s to 1998. The independence movement that resulted in the current independence of 26 counties of Ireland first flared up in open rebellion against English rule in the Easter Rising of 1916, whence comes the "same old theme since 1916" line but that was not part of the Troubles.
@@cruentomucrone5022 you think I don't know this? By the way Delores even mentions 1916 in the song FFS!
Give the Irish an instrument they make you laugh with sorrow and cry with joy
her singing style is called Keening - such an amazing voice, so powerful and unique.
Regarding your question about the use of the word zombies. I do feel like both of those things that you described are kind of flavors on it, slight nuances that are mixed in, but it seems to be and I know a lot of people that fought in World War II and I even met one of my relatives that fought in World War I and I've known the son of a young man at 29 who died at the end of World War II and left his 1 year old behind and then I met this man when he's in his seventies and eighties and it's just so many different things that relate to those experiences.
So to me it means the older people that I met in my family that had survived World War II mostly, but like I said I got the same thing from World War I and then of course there's Vietnam you know.
And so to me, zombies just means when you are traumatized by that whether you were in combat or near it or whether you were suffering the repercussions of it on the home front, it's just so easy to just stay in that trauma.
It makes me wonder about your story. Because obviously, this got to you just like it did to me.
I'm Irish and like some Irish bands like The Cranberries, Thin Lizzy and of course U2. RIP Dolores O'Riordan
My interpretation (Irish/Australian) of "Zombie, zombie in your head" has always been that we attribbute a kind of 'otherness' to conflicts that we aren't personally apart of. Like, there's a detachment in the fact of it happening elsewhere that makes it more comfortable. Like a zombie.
Delores is saying "nah, you see a zombie, but what's really happening here are mothers, children, bombs, death. You can't detach here!"
Thank you mate. Much love.
The cover with Bad Wolves is an amazing tribute to Delores.
Well done! Perfect reaction, please keep being as genuine as you are in this video. Thank you.🎉
great reaction video and nice analysis. Zombie always has represented the children that grow up under the influence of war, literally becoming soldiers when they learn to walk... zombies that know nothing else but war....I could be wrong but that is what it means to me.
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Another deep&interesting rabbit-hole, with so many great songs... For somethings REALLY diff from Zombie, check out OdeToAFamily & It'sJustMyImagination!!!
Still powerful after all these years
RIP Dolores
Sometimes saying nothing says as much as thousands of words. This is how I understood your long silence at the first break in the video.
I saw all the signs that you understood the essence of the message of this song, of this cry from the heart against this murderous madness.
Drummer Fergal "Patrick" Lawler, "through the way he plays", expresses very well all this rage towards this murderous madness perpetrated by the IRA, supposedly in the name of the Irish.
We are all Zombies, these atrocities are caused by few evil, greedy, power hungry men, yet the majority just allow them to continue. This is a protest song against wars. RIP Dolores, our beautiful Irish treasure, you are missed. Please pray for the people in Gaza and Palestine etc tonight, peace and love from Ireland
Your comment is so true and truth is a rarity these days, we continue to ignore the real monsters in favor of using our energy to be judgmental and petty with others within our reach.
I really liked your reaction to this old band. And I love your style with your beautiful purple hair ✌
Not so fun fact: The black and white segments (sans the band) were unscripted and not played by actors... real British soldiers and real Irish children playing.
One of most pure female voices, you'll need to dive in and listen to Karen Carpenter with her brother The Carpenters.
It's becoming a RUGBY Union Anthem in Ireland 🇮🇪and South Africa🇿🇦
Great reaction and great comment left by @PaMagnolia. Here's to your next one. 🙏😊💜
I totally agree that her vocals were spectacular, and this is a great song. I don't know what the vocal technique she used is called, but it is the same one used in traditional Irish songs, and in the Irish folk songs. It is very melodic, and the phrases are emphasized by dragging them out. It's not that common in rock songs, but some bands do this in some of their more folk like songs. I think any good singer can sing this song, but it would be difficult making it sound anywhere near as good as Dolores O'Riordan. She is Irish and her speaking voice is similar to what she does in the song. She also grew up with the effects of this war happening in a part of Ireland. Therefore it would be more heartfelt for her. The whole song is about the dehumanizing effect of the war. It effected the people fighting, and the innocent victims. I think zombie is referring to the numbing effect the war had on the people fighting. I traveled for a year in England, Scotland, and Wales in 1973-1974. At times I was pretty scared of walking near a place where a bomb planted by the IRA was going off, especially in the London area. I enjoyed your reaction and would suggest that you sing this song, record it, and listen to how it sounds.
i think keening could be the term
I've studied Dolores's vocal technique at length to cover some Cranberries songs. Some people say it's keening which is a very old technique and referred to mourners at a funeral who would keen over the body. It's like a cry or wail. Other people say it's kind of a yodel type sound but not in the country sense. I've tried it with Zombie and Dreams specifically. There is even a channel on here called Nail Every Note that talks about the vocal technique being used here. No one can sing like Dolores, she just sang like no one else. One of the most powerful voices in music ever! RIP, Dolores. I think if someone does cover this song, put your own spin on it, think of it as a tribute to her and The Cranberries.
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This song is about a terrorist attack that killed two children. Also the music video is actually shots from Northern Ireland in a time know as the troubles. The soilders, murals and children playing on the street are all real.
Shortly before midday on Saturday, 20 March 1993, The Samaritans in Liverpool received a bomb warning by telephone. According to police, the caller said only that a bomb had been planted outside a Boots shop. Merseyside Police sent officers to branches of Boots in Liverpool and warned the Cheshire Constabulary, who patrolled nearby Warrington. About 30 minutes later, at about 12:25, two bombs exploded on Bridge Street in Warrington, about 100 yards (90 m) apart. The blasts happened within a minute of each other. One exploded outside Boots and McDonald's, and one outside the Argos catalogue store. The area was crowded with shoppers. Witnesses said that shoppers fled from the first explosion into the path of the second. It was later found that the bombs had been placed inside cast-iron litter bins, causing large amounts of shrapnel. Buses were organised to ferry people away from the scene and 20 paramedics and crews from 17 ambulances were sent to deal with the aftermath.
Three-year-old Johnathan Ball died at the scene. He had been in town with his babysitter, shopping for a Mother's Day card. The second victim, 12-year-old Tim Parry, was gravely wounded. He died on 25 March 1993 when his life support machine was switched off, after tests had found only minimal brain activity. Another 54 people were injured, four of them seriously. One of the survivors, 32-year-old Bronwen Vickers, the mother of two young daughters, had to have a leg amputated, and died just over a year later from cancer.
The Provisional IRA issued a statement the day after the bombing, acknowledging its involvement but saying:
Responsibility for the tragic and deeply regrettable death and injuries caused in Warrington yesterday lies squarely at the door of those in the British authorities who deliberately failed to act on precise and adequate warnings
A day later, an IRA spokesman said that "two precise warnings" had been given "in adequate time", one to the Samaritans and one to Merseyside Police. He added: "You don't provide warnings if it is your intention to kill". Cheshire's assistant chief constable denied there had been a second warning and said:
Yes, a warning was given half-an-hour before, but no mention was made of Warrington. If the IRA think they can pass on their responsibility for this terrible act by issuing such a nonsensical statement, they have sadly underestimated the understanding of the British public.
A piece on BBC North West's Inside Out programme in September 2013 speculated that the bombing may have been the work of a "rogue" IRA unit, which was supported by the IRA but operated independently and who used operatives who were from England to avoid suspicion. The programme also examined a possible link between the attack and British leftist political group Red Action, though nothing was ever proven.
This song was a direct response to these events from the band at the deaths of two innocent children
Others have noted the significance of 1916 to the NI conflict. But your reference to WWI reminided me of the more general applicability to the century of modern warfare. Beautiful reaction.
The Zombies are you, and probably me!
One of the most powerful and painful rock songs and videos ever recorded. We are the zombies who remain silent. From the first chord we know this is a serious work about a serious subject. The video images and editing are perfect for relating the brutally honest reaction to the horrors of war. Juxtaposing the children and the religious imagery was genius and awful at the same time.
Rest in Peace dear Dolores
Trust the Brits to make it all about them, its not just about your kids, its about all the kids, especially the ones the British took in N.I, as a child who grew up there, i remember walking up the street, being stopped by a British soldier, pointing a rifle at me, asking me who i was and where i was going... as a child we'd go to the playground, Catholics on one side, protestants on the other, each singing rebel songs at each other, was no malice, was just the craic...We were Zombies
I belive this song was partially intrumental in a change of mentality that eventually led to peace in Ireland. Though fighting a just fight that was almost a state of open war in it's infancy by the time of this song it had been clear for some time that the IRA were fighting an enemy that was not in open and conventional war with them and what's more didn't want such a war. The lyric 'with their tanks and their bombs and their guns and their bombs, in your head they are still fighting' . This is a referance to the fact that why are the British not using their tanks and all their bombs on us? It's because they are not at war with Ireland. Yet the IRA are still bombing the mainland and civilian targets almost indiscriminately, like 'zombies' fighting a battle that is no longer there. 'It's not me, it's not my family' referenciing the fact that this action had lost popular support among many of the people it was being perpetrated in the name of. It is a homage to the degredation and damage lengthy and bitter conflict can instill in otherwise rational minds.
....Dreams as well🙂
Ode to my family, and linger. 🙂
Linger / Dreams / Ode To My Family / When You're Gone / Animal Instinct / Promises / Just My Imagination / Salvation / Ridiculous Thoughts / Stars / You And Me / This Is The Day / Time Is Ticking Out / Tomorrow / Never Grow Old / Free To Decide / Wake Me When It's Over / All Over Now
Some more music videos by The Cranberries you might like
My favorite Cranberries song is Linger. React to it as well.
spectaculour vocals very different and original . i hope you will listen to the version by Bad Wolves, they released a tribute version of this song just after the death of the original singer. Another artist with a very interesting voice is Alanis Morisette, please listen to her song ..you oughta know, and for technical perfection try sara bareilles, live in atlanta her cover of the elton john song, goodbye yellow brick road
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If memory serves me right, there was a photo of children. They survived a bombing and they were in shock and they had a zombie look about them.
Oh wow thanks for sharing
No. If you're referring to the children in which this song was inspired by they both died. The title zombie has nothing to do with a "look" it's about being complacent to violence
@@mykebreeden thanks it was a long time ago I wasn’t 100% sure on that
utter rubbish! it was about the death of 2 boys in an IRA attack in Warrington England in 1993! Prats like you should stop commenting on things you don't know!
she has quite a vocal, sald she died young. try 'linger', she uses an irish vocl techneque called keening i tink?
THE BAND, BAD-WOLVES DOES A REMARKABLE-AND ONLY CLOSE TO HER, A REMAKE OF THIS SONG IN WHICH DOLORES PERSONALLY PICKED THEM TO DO. SADLY THAT DIDNT HAPPEN. THE DAY BEFORE THE DEBUT BETWEEN HER AND THE BAND BAD-WOLVES, SHE PASSED AWAY.
THE BAND BAD-WOLVES DID GET PERMISSION TO DO HER SONG AND THEY DONATED ALL THE PROCEEDS-FROM THE SALES TO GO TO SUPPORT HER CHILDREN.
Some of the video is real, she watched 3 boys die in Ireland. Im so sad we lost her. This was a real song.
Check out the cover of Franz Rhythm of Zombie. Sang by a teenage girl.
Bad wolves did a cover of this song
If you get a chance, please react to a song called "bed of roses" by a band called bon Jovi. An amazingly sung ballad. Stay healthy and happy holiday season 😊😊
The troubles, were secular between Catholics and Protestants with the Brotish crown sticking there nose in. The closest conflict to compare to it it's viciousness is the middle east. But that pales in comparison in the violence. In particular, this came out after a bombing in which some children were caught up in the blast. The Irish were prejudiced and faced discriminated against for a long time. Centuries in fact.
They weren’t caught up on the blast they were targeted a McDonald’s who else would u target if u we’re blowing up a McDonald’s
RIP Dolores O'Riordan
7:33 She is referring to both, for sure... the gold points to the reality that each human person is invaluable and rightly to belong and to be valued as belonging to Christ Jesus. The visuals, because war keeps happening, apply well across time. :) Thankful for your beautiful reaction, and the way you received it.
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The killing in Northern Ireland was and still is silly..
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I think zombies mean that then people are in the war they see so much violence more then normal people can handle so they shut down there brains and become like Zombies!
I have watched dozens ot reactions to this video and outside of the UK nobody gets it. Did nobody watch the news in the 2000s?
I think European people know, well maybe not the young ones. I can still remember the news about it. greetings from Germany
So, what did you learn about zombies?
Zombies are mindless, without a conscience.
Unfortunately Dolores drowned in 2018, in a bath in a hotel room and alcohol intoxication was involved.
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IRA irish republican army north and south been in hostile situations for decades
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Don't act so much, be more sincere
At the time of this song the IRA (Irish Republican Army) were constantly fighting with the British military for more independence, very much like Hamas in Palestine fighting the Israeli army today. The fighting was constantly on the news for many tears. A political agreement was eventually reached. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army
The IRA were actually in conflict with the Protestant Unionists, not the British Army, who were actually there as peacemakers, though of course
there was much resentment at their presence and it led to the situation escalating
@@jameswiglesworth5004They were also in conflict with the British military. From Wikipedia: " It used guerrilla tactics against the British Army and RUC in both rural and urban areas, and carried out a bombing campaign in Northern Ireland and England against military, political and economic targets, and British military targets in mainland Europe. They also targeted civilian contractors to the British security forces. The IRA's armed campaign, primarily in Northern Ireland but also in England and mainland Europe, killed over 1,700 people, including roughly 1,000 members of the British security forces and 500-644 civilians."