The Cranberries “No Need to Argue” Remastered and expanded 2CD + 2LP vinyl edition, Expanded digital version to be Released

Island Records/UMe are proud to announce the release of remastered and expanded versions of ‘No Need to Argue’ by The Cranberries on September 18th. Originally released in 1994, No Need To Argue was the band’s biggest selling album with global sales in excess of 17 million and contained the band’s most commercially successful single “Zombie.” The video for “Zombie” has since been viewed over 1 billion times on YouTube, making The Cranberries the only Irish band to pass this milestone and putting them in a very small club of artists to do so. Dolores O’Riordan – the band’s powerful and captivating lead singer – tragically passed away in January 2018.

The expanded 2CD and digital versions of No Need To Argue include a remaster of the album and three B-sides: “Away,” “I Don’t Need,” and “So Cold In Ireland” from the original tapes. Also included are 19 previously unreleased tracks including two songs not officially released in any format: “Yesterday’s Gone” – recorded unplugged for MTV in New York in 1995 – and a demo of “Serious,” which until now has only existed as a low quality live bootleg on YouTube. The 2CD edition features previously unseen photographs taken from the album photo sessions.

The expanded 2LP features the remastered album plus three B-sides and extra tracks “Yesterday’s Gone” and a cover of the Carpenters “(They Long To Be) Close to You.”

Both the 2LP and the 2CD sets include a 5,000 word essay on the history of the album written by the band’s archivist Eoin Devereux, who previously wrote the sleeve notes for the reissue of their debut album ‘Uncertain’.

2CD digital tracklist

2020 remaster + extras

  1. Ode To My Family
  2. I Can’t Be With You
  3. Twenty One
  4. Zombie
  5. Empty
  6. Everything I Said
  7. The Icicle Melts
  8. Disappointment
  9. Ridiculous Thoughts
  10. Dreaming My Dreams
  11. Yeats’ Grave
  12. Daffodil Lament
  13. No Need To Argue

B-sides + extras

  1. Yesterday’s Gone (MTV Unplugged)
  2. Away
  3. I Don’t Need
  4. So Cold In Ireland
  5. (They Long To Be) Close To You
  6. Zombie (A Camel’s Hump Remix by The Orb)

Demos + live tracks

Magic shop demos

1 Song To My Family
2 So Cold In Ireland
3 Empty
4 Ridiculous Thoughts
5 Everything I Said
6 Yeats’ Grave

Demos

7 Serious
8 Away
9 I don’t need

Live @ Liverpool Royal Court 14.10.1994

10 Dreaming My Dreams
11 Daffodil Lament
12 The Icicle Melts
13 No Need To Argue
14 Empty

Live @ National Stadium, Milton Keynes, 30.07.1995

15 I Can’t Be With You
16 Ridiculous Thoughts
17 Zombie

2LP tracklist

A

  1. Ode to My Family
  2. I Can’t Be with You
  3. Twenty One
  4. Zombie

B

  1. Empty
  2. Everything I Said
  3. The Icicle Melts
  4. Disappointment
  5. Ridiculous Thoughts

C

  1. Dreaming My Dreams
  2. Yeats’ Grave
  3. Daffodil Lament
  4. No Need to Argue

D – Bonus tracks

  1. Yesterday’s Gone (MTV unplugged)
  2. Away
  3. I Don’t Need
  4. So Cold in Ireland
  5. Close to You
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