No Need to Argue


No Need to Argue is the second studio album by Irish alternative rock band The Cranberries, released on 3 October 1994. It is the band's best selling album, and has sold 17 million copies worldwide. It contains the band's most successful single, "Zombie". The album's mood is darker and harsher than that on Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, released a year before.

Composition

In some of the songs, the band decided to take on a rockier and heavier side, using distortion and increasing the volume. The song "Yeats' Grave" – incorrectly listed on the album as "Yeat's Grave" and never corrected for any of the album's physical re-releases – is about William Butler Yeats, and quotes one of his poems, No Second Troy. The O'Riordan written track "Zombie" is, according to her, about the Warrington IRA bombings in 1993 that resulted in the death of two children.

Cover art

For the sleeve design, Art Director Cally re-enlisted photographer Andy Earl and hired the same sofa that featured on the debut album. The sofa was transported by hand to many locations in and around Dublin including Dalkey Island, coming to rest in a photo-studio in Dublin where the white room had been constructed for the cover shot. The band, somewhat influenced by a recent Blur photo, decided to dress up and wear suits. The hand lettering was by Charlotte Villiers, video coordinator at Island Records and distant relative of the Villiers engine manufacturing family.
Each single sleeve featured the band on the sofa in a different location. The disc itself featured a photo of just the sofa in the same room. The sofa later appeared in the video for "Alright" by the British band Supergrass in 1995.

Reception

The Billboard of August 5, 1995, stated at the time that No Need To Argue was the largest seller of albums since its release, with 5.1 million copies sold in six months. On March 1996, the band receives a Juno Awards in Canada for the Best-Selling Album Award for No Need to Argue. In July 2014, Guitar World placed No Need to Argue at number 41 in their "Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994" list.
In 2009, No Need To Argue was ranked #90 on : "Billboard Magazine, 300 Best-selling Albums of All-Time".

Track listing

Personnel

Weekly charts

Chart Peak
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Year-end charts

Certifications

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