When you understand a little about the "troubles" in Northern Ireland through the 60s, 70s, 80s this becomes so much more meaningful as a song. As an Anti War song it resonates hard, as a critique of the senseless partisan hatred that existed at the time it is a knife in the ribs.

@Thomas-we5cy

5 ай бұрын

Yes. The troubles were awful. My great grandfather did work for the people of the Republic. Came to NYC. RIP Thomas Gavigan.

@snwbrdbum14

5 ай бұрын

It's not even just the Troubles. There's CENTURIES of violence covered in this song.

@alundavies1016

4 ай бұрын

Into the 90s in this case. This was referencing the Warrington bombings in 1993. I was at Uni just up the road when they happened, one of my best friends was from Warrington and he knew people directly affected.

@piusvapor

4 ай бұрын

Bull shit its all about how you all want revenge for your past wrongs and will absolutely throw your own children into your vendetta.

@Thomas-we5cy

3 ай бұрын

Yes. My great grandfather was in the old IRA before it split. In 1922 he fled to Glasgow where my grandmother was born. He had choice to go to Australia or New York. He chose New York.

Ireland. Where my father came from. Dolores has a beautiful Irish “keening” voice. Style for funerals mostly.

Love this video from the time it came out. Dolores O'Riordan's voice gave me chill bumps back then and still does. RIP Dolores.

@WhiteyTheWhiteGuyShow

5 ай бұрын

Shame she's gone

@boboboy8189

5 ай бұрын

​@@WhiteyTheWhiteGuyShowevery life Will taste dead

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.

the black and white video parts with the kids and soldiers was actually filmed Before the ceasefire in northern ireland... from personal experience as a british soldier that was posted there it was awful on both sides it was terrifying you never knew when you went out if you were going to make it home..

@melbeasley9762

5 ай бұрын

I was there in 75/76. Not the best experience of my life. My first introduction to death.

@MySerpentine

4 ай бұрын

Seems like poor British soldiers have a long history of being sent out to make things worse. Your rulers have a lot to answer for.

@Thomas-we5cy

4 ай бұрын

My father came from Roscommon, from which his father was from. My dad’s mother was from Ballyshannon. Came to NYC in the ‘50’s. I couldn’t imagine soldiering during those times. I was a USN submariner. Met many British sailors. Same nuke missilles. We cross trained together. I was onboard the USS W. Virginia. Brits I knew were HMS Vanguard.

Delores had the voice of an angel. So sad she's gone too soon.

@Thomas-we5cy

2 ай бұрын

Alcohol kills you. Sucks.

I grew up on an estate during this time and my friends father was an army staff sergeant. My overwhelming memory was him using a mirror on a stick to sweep any cars in the carpark every day to check for bombs. Images like that never leave you.

@fearnasionainne

5 ай бұрын

I grew up in an estate were it was common for british soldiers or police to kick in your door and then tear house apart in excuse to call it house searches images from the other side

@terryware8200

3 ай бұрын

​@fearnasionainne It was pretty shitty on both sides. I remember an RAF Corporal and his 6 months old daughter being shot to death by IRA gunmen in Wildenrath W. Germany. This was in 1989. His wife, also in the car, survived the attack. One of many attacks carried out by the IRA on mainland Europe during this period of history.

@JC-gm3zs

2 ай бұрын

@@terryware8200 Yes you're right, it was 'pretty shitty on both sides'. But there was only one side who started all this shit.

You ask what country this is? It is Ireland during the times of The Troubles where there was a lot of violence. Some people complain about the streets, being patrolled by police cars and officers with handguns. When I was a child, growing up, the streets were patrolled by APCs and tanks and it wasn’t police officers just patrolling the streets, but soldiers with fully automatic weapons. Terrorism was rampant on both sides. The significance of this song is it is an anti-terrorism song after the IRA killed two children in Warrington. Show us a lot more significance and gravitas did this song than just a catchy tune, which a lot of people think. In fact, the majority of people don’t understand the significance of this song at all they think it’s about zombies. I can understand them, not being as clued in, as I would be, as I grew up there in the trouble and lived through it.

@huds5005

4 ай бұрын

A country and a foreign invader, and you claim Terrorism on both sides. That defies the definition. Shame!

@antonkunac8249

3 ай бұрын

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Nothing beats 90s videos, beautiful shots everywhere!

@user-lm6uv5hf2l

3 ай бұрын

AMEN

RIP baby doll 😢 dolores o’. You are sorely missed. She passed in 2018

There are musician/ singers that have ability to bring about ''shiny'' wonderfulness of the world and there are those that can bring awareness to the darker side of this reality of humanity.

The Warrington bombings were two bomb attacks that took place during early 1993 in Warrington, Cheshire, England. 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. The lines of the song slowly taken is about Tim Parry.

Dolores wrote this song about an IRA bombing that tragically killed kids!!!

The kid in the video who was... by a soldier is meant to be symbolic of the 1916 Easter Rising where an 8 year old was playing football with other children when a trigger happy british soldier ... him. His name was Eugene Lynch. You can google his name to find out the story.

@apriliatuono2056

5 ай бұрын

Except this song was written about the IRA killing in 1993 a 3 year old child Johnathan Ball by detonating a bomb in Warrington England. And the "Zombies" who still support these terrorist organisations.

@IvanPlayyz

5 ай бұрын

Well wasn't a kid actually shot towards the end because he was aiming an AK at people

i remember reading somewhere the drummer asked how hard he was gona play, delores awnserd - yes. thats why (i think) the drumms is harder than the song. its a amazing song never the less. rest in peace Delores never forgotten ❤

@apriliatuono2056

5 ай бұрын

The drum beats represent gunshots.

@alundavies1016

4 ай бұрын

I always love the cuts when you see the drummer battering the drums, sounds like it looks!

@philtremblay2865

3 ай бұрын

Delores told him to play angry, he did.

The chorus of this song really sticks in your head, in your head ......

This is the song that taught me message, raw emotions can be conveyed by such perfectly imperfect sounds, voice cracks, almost growls. It's in my top songs. The only time i heard similar is by Kara Fabian's Melade song, and Diana Ankudinova's Rechenka.

This is one of the greatest statements against violence. You are not correct about the history of your nation however. There was war between the various ethnic groups in Brazil before European colonisation. Then there was the long and destructive conflict as Portugal sought to take total control of the area. Following this, there were conflicts between newly arrived European colonists and those who had been in the colony for generations. There was also war between Portugal and both France and the Netherlands, when these nations sought to claim territory that Portugal controlled. In the 19th century there was the Brazilian War of Independence, then Brazil, as an independent nation, fought wars against Uruguay, Paraguay and the Palatine War. Following this was the Acre War with Bolivia. The 20th century brought involvement in WW1, the internal revolutions of the 1930s and WW2. So, Brazil, like so many parts of the World, has a close association with war and destructive conflict over many centuries.

@poppad331

5 ай бұрын

I think she was referring to in her lifetime. Obviously every country more or less has had wars. Brazil involvement in ww1 & ww2 was fairly minimal. So there really hasn't been any war in Brazil for maybe 150 years or so

@JohnHF1957

5 ай бұрын

@@poppad331 Not so. WW1 and WW2 involvement wasn't minimal, the attempted communist and fascist coups of the 1930s were significant, then the military coup after WW2 and there are the current wars on crime, drugs and corruption. The lack of knowledge is more likely due to some aspects not being included in the school curriculum and being brought up in privileged circumstances.

@ugolefeb4634

5 ай бұрын

Tu est né a cette époque ?je pense qu'on y est tous pour rien des erreurs de nos aînés a méditer

I haven't seen this video since it was released. The band Bad Wolves did a cover of Zombie in which Dolores was supposed to sing with them. But tragically on that day Dolores sadly passed away. Bad Wolves decided that all the proceeds from the cover Zombie would go to her children. And also Peyton Pairish did a cover for Zombie. I had an hour argument argument with a friend of mines daughter over this song. It was her belief that Bad Wolves come out the Zombie first. Let's just say she felt pretty salty when I proved her wrong.

Her voice was so iconic.

Great reaction to a great song.Thank you for taking the time to do this for us. Anyways have a great weekend !

i liked how it touched you. and if it WAS your first time listening to it. then it was magical

"Zombie" was written by band member Dolores O'Riordan and is about the conflicts in Northern Ireland during the Northern Ireland conflict in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The lyrics address the pain and frustration of ongoing violence and conflict, particularly the 1993 Warrington bombing in which two children were killed. The refrain "Zombie, zombie, zombie" refers metaphorically to the thoughtlessness and willingness to use violence shown by the parties to the conflict in Northern Ireland. Overall, "Zombie" is a powerful and emotional song that critically reflects on the destruction caused by the conflict in Northern Ireland and is a call for peace and change.

Dolores is keening like an angel. Children put to the cross. Always the first victims in war. Thank you for your fine reaction. Take care. Stay safe❤! Greetings from Jonas, Gothenburg Sweden.

and this song played on MTV on Saturday evenings, in European Top 40! we had ice cream and stuff after Sauna, watched this, and other groovy music. We turned out fine, functional adults. eh?

@DerMacko

5 ай бұрын

some of my jeans might be older than our host here.... anyways, stay fit, Cycle! your arse wil love it!

The sky is pissing tears and Delores is keeinng for the dead

Delores wrote this song in reaction to an IRA bomb that killed two schoolboys in Warrington England. She's trying to put out the message that the victims in all the fighting are always the most innocent. I'm English/Irish so I feel this song to the bone

@carlbode666

4 ай бұрын

Crazy how no one else commenting knows that fact pal

@Anonlb

4 ай бұрын

Well it bears repeating because that's the whole point of the song. To send a message out and make some people actually think about what's really going on around us all. I'm sure Delores would agree. Anyway I'll see you in the comments of the next zombie react I see where I'll be repeating myself some more. much love fellow human✌️🤤🤚

Such a huge voice in a small package!

Back from an era when lyrichs still had a meaning. RIP Dolores without a doubt one of the best female voices ever!

I miss delores.such beautiful voice and entertainer.R.I.P🥀

This is about the conflict in Ireland (the IRA - Irish Republican Army). There's an updated version by Bad Wolves where the lead singer from Cranberries (Dolores) was supposed to add vocals but tragically she passed away as they were about to record the updated version. But check out the Bad Wolves version.

@Mickael_

5 ай бұрын

+1 for Bad Wolves, it's more than a cover, it's a "hommage" to Dolores for me

@jameswiglesworth5004

5 ай бұрын

Why do you only mention the IRA, a conflict requires other groups to participate and the other main one's were Irish Liberation Army, Ulster volunteer Force and The Ulster Defence Association

@alzer6467

4 ай бұрын

​@@jameswiglesworth5004 and the biggest gangsters of them all - the British Army.

@MySerpentine

4 ай бұрын

@@alzer6467 British rulers have a lot to answer for.

@-scrim

4 ай бұрын

Nah, it's garbage.

I stand with Ireland. From Spain, we feel you 💜

R.I.P., Dolores....you had a hard life and spent your last years raising awareness and $$$$ for children caught in war zones around our troubled world........we miss your talent and your heart.......

As one who lived it, i'd say after all's said n' done not too bad... reality is, The Troubles only ended up with 3,500 deaths. Quite contained i'd say compared with the war that was going on for same length of time, the Lebanese civil war, 150,000 deaths...

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It’s a song about the Irish War/ conflict for independence, which started back in 1916, then the formation of the IRA in 1919 to 1968, but still continued until 1998, it lets people know about the senseless killings and bombings that have claimed way too many innocent lives and has happened over the far too many years

This song old,, is my memories is children ❤

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The lilt in the song is called keening. It's done during funerals. Besides the conflict between Britain and Ireland over Northern Ireland, there was also some conflict between Protestant and Catholic religions in Ireland. When I was growing up, this conflict was on the nightly news quite frequently.

@Thomas-we5cy

5 ай бұрын

So on point Jen. Dolores was trained in that vocal style. As well as Sinead. RIP to both.

John and Yoko "Imagine". Then imagine. RIP Sweet Delores.

Watching people get knocked sideways by this song is literally my favourite thing to do.

it's cul, delores teaching the angels how to sing now. ty for reaction.

It goes back to 1916 Easter Rising.

"What country is this?" - Northern Ireland. Who was basically in a civil war for hundreds of years. The most recent "troubles" lasted around 30 years from the 1960s until the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998. It's been somewhat quiet in the 2000's.

It's about political and geographic conflict between England crown and Ireland and its terrible consequence that has been like that since a long time ago basically.

@alanbeaumont4848

5 ай бұрын

Ireland was not a participant, but the IRA operated from both Northern Ireland (UK) and the Republic. Britain didn't react by invading the Republic but treated it as an internal security problem.

@ligthbringer99

5 ай бұрын

@@alanbeaumont4848 yeah you right my bad IRA started the conflict in northern Ireland not Ireland republic and then the situation scaled to both sides I explained awful sorry.

@MySerpentine

4 ай бұрын

@@ligthbringer99 The conflict started when England took over Ireland a thousand years ago, really. Everything is just a battle in that war.

Thank you Mate, and a lot of the video is really real video. She was on the street when to. Kids didn't make it.

오우! Zombie

Need to watch tge cover by Bad Wolf

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Basically about the long running war in Ireland which is still going on, since the 60s. The IRA versus another group. Some recruit kids to fight for them. A bit like the congo( africa), a rich person promises the big dreams and items to the kids and recuits them with top dollar belongings to fight, in the end they get killed. But this song was about a couple bombings which killed 2 kids out shopping. How i view the video clip images- she is Cleopatra- the queen, the kids are covered in gold- meaning they are valuable and are precious. Shes telling the gold kids with the arrows to fight and protect yourself against these people, listen to the motherly figure. You don't want this to happen, you must stand up and voice your opinion and fight for yourself.

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Delores was magical.

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HELLO! you should try the bad wolves cover🤗

Please do more series of cranberries songs❤

Thanks for the reaction -- I do wish you had increased the volume of your voice in the mix when you were commenting while the song was playing. Some of what you said was inaudible.

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Nice reaction mam..i use to jam with this song b4..theres a cool cover by franz rythm family band (fathet and kids jamming) u can also react to the other cover songs of cranberies,the corrs, metallica, csn, ccr,etc.

R I P .. to ALL cos she is alive and we are all DEAD ! ......

This song (and video) go easily to neverforget-category.

Aqui no Brasil as crianças morrem de fome, de falta de assistência médica, de doenças básicas curáveis, Steph. Os adolescentes, principalmente os pretos, morrem de tiros da polícia. Thanks to reacting for Zombie - The Cranberries 🙌

great reaction, please react to bad wolves cover of zombie.

O vídeo fala da violência promovida pelo exercito inglês sobre a população irlandesa devido á ocupação indevida que a Inglaterra impõe a décadas sobre a Irlanda. A banda U2 também tem uma música que conta sobre um evento que relata o massacre conhecido por "domingo sangrento", quando numa manifestação pacífica os saldados da rainha abriram fogo contra a população desarmada.

@mubbles1066

5 ай бұрын

However that’s not the main meaning of the song,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".

You look stunning steph 😅

You were emotionally ambushed...

Nice video but for the record Brazil has been involved in a dozen or so wars in the last 200 years including WW1, WW2. The later of which Brazilian troops fought in Italy with other allied forces. Although they haven't been in any major conflict since 1945.

This is a powerful cry against the tribal conflict in Northern Ireland. Two tribes raised to fear and hate with a few individuals on both sides feeling empowered to kill and maim. I do hope the violence is over but the division of the tribes will take generations to dent.

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RIP Dolores

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Just to be clear the Britush military never bombed the IRA or put tanks on Irish soil.

@alanbeaumont4848

5 ай бұрын

Well not after independence anyway.

RIP Dolores. the wold is more ugly without you

This song is has to do with the violence in Ireland and how it destroys the families in that country.

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Well, Steph... Brazil hasn't had any recent wars with other nations, but you had a long period of far-right authoritarian govt in the 1960s-80s, which included a military coup and lots of innocent civilian murders by police forces... That counts! New subber.

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Here's a random recommendation : NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN by The Moody Blues. It's from the late 60s (1967), but has endured as a major hit through the 80s and beyond. Many who react to this song are finding the orchestral remix, which sounds great and all, but it may be a bit long for the first-time listener, especially with the narrative "lament" thrown in. The original release version was around 4½ minutes long, so you can either hunt that one down, or dive right into the orchestral mix, which boasts a little cleaner and crisper mix, and also runs a bit longer, at least 6 or 7 minutes, perhaps even closer to 9 (depending how it is cut from its "full-length concept album" mix for a KZread video). Whichever way you go, it's a great and timeless song and depending just HOW sensitive/sentimental/emotional you are, you MAY want to have some tissues nearby for the tears, haha.

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You have gorgeous hair and eyes. This is a great tune. Rip to the singer Dolores. :(

Why is the volume so low?

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After seeing this one, you should watch the cover from Bad Wolves. That version is so good and the story will bring a tear to your eyes.

@-scrim

4 ай бұрын

Nah, Bad Wolves is trash.

This describes the IDF’s response to the senseless Hamas terrorist attack on Israel

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Nothing worse than someone watching this video without knowing the history of the lyrics.

your volume level is only 33% of what is normal on this platform.

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