A reviewer from Music & Media wrote, "Currently on tour with the Hothouse Flowers, these fellow Irishmen deserve your attention. It's that emotion that powers this track". Singing in a strong Irish brogue she comes off both needy and detached here. Jason Elias of AllMusic described "Linger" as "a song of regret, epic in scope and sweeping", praising the instrumentation and O'Riordan vocals: "While this isn't lyrically novel, the full-on emotionality of lead singer Dolores O'Riordan makes this stand out. We're so lucky to have left that behind, to have that legacy. We must have played it a gazillion times in our lives and it just becomes a part of the set, but it's different now. And when I listen to them now I realise how great they are for someone so young, which I never, ever appreciated until a year ago. They were just songs in the set list for us everybody else was losing their mind about them. It's only really since Dolores passed away that I've grown a proper appreciation for songs like 'Linger' and 'Dreams'. In an interview for NME, guitarist Noel Hogan said of the song: In a 2012 interview, O'Riordan commented, "I remember when MTV first put 'Linger' in heavy rotation, every time I walked into a diner or a hotel lobby, it was like, 'Jesus, man, here I am again'. "Linger" has since become one of the band's most famous songs, though O'Riordan noted that the band did not expect the song to reach the level of commercial success that it did. In the documentary '99 Love Life & Rock 'n' Roll, O'Riordan says that the song is about her first serious kiss. The following week she came back, and she had lyrics written out and melodies and she sang along to what we were playing, and it was like, 'Oh, my God. I gave her a lift up to the bus stop and I was saying, 'Will we see you next week?' We gave her a tape of the music for 'Linger', which she took with her. We couldn't really hear her because she was singing through a guitar amp or something. She arrived with a keyboard under her arm, just set it up and played a few songs. Drummer Fergal Lawler recalled the process in an interview, saying: When O'Riordan was auditioned as the lead singer for the band, she wrote the lyrics, turning it into a song of regret based on an experience with a 17-year-old soldier she once fell in love with. "Linger" is written in the key of D major. In 2017, an acoustic, stripped-down version of "Linger" was released as the lead single from the band's seventh studio album Something Else. In 1990, "Linger" was released on a demo tape with " Dreams" in Ireland only in the summer of that year under their initial band name, the Cranberry Saw Us. Additionally, "Linger" was voted by Australian Triple J listeners as number 3 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 1993 chart. The single remained on the US Billboard Hot 100 for 24 weeks. "Linger", which has an acoustic arrangement featuring a string section, became the band's first major hit, peaking at number 3 in their native Ireland, number 8 in the United States, and number 14 in the United Kingdom. It was later re-released on 31 January 1994. Composed by band members Dolores O'Riordan and Noel Hogan, and produced by Stephen Street, "Linger" was first released as the second and final single from the album on 15 February 1993 by Island Records. " Linger" is a song by Irish alternative rock band the Cranberries from their debut studio album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993). You know I'm such a fool for you.Artwork for the North American release (US CD single pictured) Things wouldn't be so confused and I wouldn't feel so used,īut you always really knew, I just wanna be with you.Īnd I'm in so deep. If you, if you could get by, trying not to lie, You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha.ĭo you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to, Were you lying all the time? Was it just a game to you?īut I'm in so deep. So why were you holding her hand? Is that the way we stand? I swore, I swore I would be true, and honey, so did you. It's tearing me apart, It's ruining everything. I'm sure I'm not being rude, but it's just your attitude, If you, if you could return, don't let it burn, don't let it fade.
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