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"Zombie”—The Cranberries

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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Dolores O'Reardon's Zombie on Saturday Nightlife

The song is one of the radest jump scares in the 90s rock canon. This quite bombastic burst of pure righteous gnarly more grunge than grunge distortion was not expected by 16 year old me in 1994 based on my prior knowledge of an affinity for the cranberries. zombie is inspired by and dedicated to the memories of jonathan ball and tim perry the two children killed in an irish republican army bomb planted in a trash bin on a busy street in warrington, Ireland.

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