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From album
No Need to Argue
The Cranberries · 1994 · Track 9
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Duración4:31
ÁlbumNo Need to Argue
Año1994
ISRCUSUM72009894
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The story behind
The music for Ridiculous Thoughts was born from the collaboration between Dolores O'Riordan and Noel Hogan. They were recorded at The Manor Studios in Oxford and Townhouse Studios in London during the 1994 sessions for the album No Need to Argue. The lyrics, on the other hand, were written by O'Riordan, and focus on her experiences and conflicts with the British press and its journalists. Producer Stephen Street was in charge of the song's production and engineering.
Released in July 1995 as the fourth single from the album (the third in North America), Ridiculous Thoughts had a moderate reception in Ireland, reaching number 23 on the charts, and some success in the United Kingdom and the United States. In North America, as no commercial physical version of the single was released, it did not appear on the Billboard Hot 100, but it did reach number fourteen on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The music video, initially directed by Samuel Bayer in May 1995, was later modified by the band themselves under the pseudonym "Freckles Flynn". The original version of the video, which featured Elijah Wood searching for a radio signal among ruins, did not convince the band, who decided to mix it with footage from their American Tour. An acoustic version of Ridiculous Thoughts was included on the album Something Else in 2017.