Throwback

This is the first version of the โ€œDreamsโ€ video that was on MTV. I know because I watched it the first time it was ever aired. On YouTube, the third video is erroneously labeled the original, but the one below was it. You can tell because itโ€™s obvious they literally spent tens of dollars on this one.

The first time I watched this video I thought, Thatโ€™s a very shy possibly angry Irish girl with an amazing voice. Iโ€™ll be buying that album. Which I did.

There were actually three versions of the โ€œDreamsโ€ video, by the way, made as The Cranberries got more popular. My favorite was always the original because Dolores seemed more real in that one than in any of the others โ€” although the red cloak she wears in the third is damn cool.