Bury the Hatchet (album)

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Bury the Hatchet
Studio album by The Cranberries
Released	19 April 1999
Recorded	1998
Genre	Rock
Length	50:58/68:40 (re-release)
Label	Island Records
Producer	Benedict Fenner
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
The Cranberries chronology
To the Faithful Departed (1996) Bury the Hatchet (1999) Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2001)

Bury the Hatchet was the fourth album by The Cranberries, released in 1999. All lyrics by Dolores O'Riordan, and all music by Noel Hogan and Dolores O'Riordan except tracks 3, 8, 10 and 13 by Dolores O'Riordan. In the US, the album has sold 377,000 copies as of April 2007.

It's the first album released by the band after their (first) hiatus which started back in 1996. Dolores had taken that time to heal from stress-induced diseases, and also had her first child, Taylor, during this period. This last fact reflected on some of the tracks in the album, mainly on "Animal Instinct" and "You and Me".

The sound of the band had matured. It wasn't the melancholic and nostalgic feel of their first two albums, and it steered far apart of the anger shown in To the Faithful Departed. The themes of the songs vary, from maternity and children, to divorce and child abuse.

"Promises", the first single, talked about divorce, a theme that was bugging Dolores, who had time to rest in her home country, Ireland. She said she wrote it when divorce was becoming particularly popular there. She was of course fearful of her own marriage, not because she had any troubles with her husband Don, but because now she had to have something else in mind: her son.

[edit] Track listing

1. Animal Instinct (3:11) - Second single June'99
2. Loud and Clear (2:45)
3. Promises (5:27) - First single March'99
4. You and Me (3:35) - Fourth single February'00
5. Just My Imagination (3:41) - Third single September'99
6. Shattered (3:42)
7. Desperate Andy (3:44)
8. Saving Grace (3:08)
9. Copycat (2:53)
10. What's on My Mind (3:12)
11. Delilah (3:32)
12. Fee Fi Fo (4:47)
13. Dying in the Sun (3:32)
14. Sorry Son (3:28)

The album was re-released in 2002, under the title Bury the Hatchet (The Complete Sessions 1998-1999). This version of the album featured bonus tracks; b-sides from the singles lifted off the album.

An alternative version of this re-release also exists, featuring the bonus tracks on a separate disc and coupled up with some live tracks, it is called "Bury The Hatchet Complete Sessions", and was released in 2000, with these tracks:

1. Baby Blues
2. The Sweetest Thing
3. Woman Without Pride
4. Such A Shame
5. Paparazzi On Mopeds
6. Promises (Live In Paris '99)
7. Animal Instinct (Live In Paris '99)
8. Loud And Clear (Live In Paris '99)
9. You And Me (Live In Paris '99)
10. Shattered (Live In Hamburg '99)
11. Desperate Andy (Live In Paris '99)
12. Delilah (Live In Paris '99)