The Cranberries - Treasure Box: The Complete Sessions 1991-99 (2002/2014)

CD1

1. The Cranberries - I Still Do
2. The Cranberries - Dreams
3. The Cranberries - Sunday
4. The Cranberries - Pretty
5. The Cranberries - Waltzing Back
6. The Cranberries - Not Sorry
7. The Cranberries - Linger
8. The Cranberries - Wanted
9. The Cranberries - Still Can't...
10. The Cranberries - I Will Always
11. The Cranberries - How
12. The Cranberries - Put Me Down
13. The Cranberries - Reason
14. The Cranberries - Them
15. The Cranberries - What You Were
16. The Cranberries - Liar
17. The Cranberries - Pretty
18. The Cranberries - How

CD2

1. The Cranberries - Ode To My Family
2. The Cranberries - I Can't Be With You
3. The Cranberries - Twenty One
4. The Cranberries - Zombie
5. The Cranberries - Empty
6. The Cranberries - Everything I Said
7. The Cranberries - The Icicle Melts
8. The Cranberries - Disappointment
9. The Cranberries - Ridiculous Thoughts
10. The Cranberries - Dreaming My Dreams
11. The Cranberries - Yeats' Grave
12. The Cranberries - Daffodil Lament
13. The Cranberries - No Need To Argue
14. The Cranberries - Away
15. The Cranberries - I Don't Need
16. The Cranberries - (They Long To Be) Close To You
17. The Cranberries - So Cold In Ireland
18. The Cranberries - Zombie

CD3

1. The Cranberries - Hollywood
2. The Cranberries - Salvation
3. The Cranberries - When You're Gone
4. The Cranberries - Free To Decide
5. The Cranberries - Warchild
6. The Cranberries - Forever Yellow Skies
7. The Cranberries - The Rebels
8. The Cranberries - Intermission
9. The Cranberries - I Just Shot John Lennon
10. The Cranberries - Electric Blue
11. The Cranberries - I'm Still Remembering
12. The Cranberries - Will You Remember_
13. The Cranberries - Joe
14. The Cranberries - Bosnia
15. The Cranberries - Cordell
16. The Cranberries - The Picture I View
17. The Cranberries - Ave Maria
18. The Cranberries - Go Your Own Way
19. The Cranberries - God Be With You

CD4

1. The Cranberries - Animal Instinct
2. The Cranberries - Loud And Clear
3. The Cranberries - Promises
4. The Cranberries - You And Me
5. The Cranberries - Just My Imagination
6. The Cranberries - Shattered
7. The Cranberries - Desperate Andy
8. The Cranberries - Saving Grace
9. The Cranberries - Copycat
10. The Cranberries - What's On My Mind
11. The Cranberries - Delilah
12. The Cranberries - Fee Fi Fo
13. The Cranberries - Dying In The Sun
14. The Cranberries - Sorry Son
15. The Cranberries - Baby Blues
16. The Cranberries - The Sweetest Thing
17. The Cranberries - Woman Without Pride
18. The Cranberries - Such A Shame
19. The Cranberries - Paparazzi On Mopeds

Island Records has shown some confidence in the career of the Cranberries by assembling this collection, which compiles all of the band's studio recordings of the 1990s. Each of the four discs contains one of the Cranberries' albums from the decade, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, No Need to Argue, To the Faithful Departed, and Bury the Hatchet, followed by five or six bonus tracks that were released originally as single B-sides, remixes, or on various-artists albums. Taken together, the recordings trace the band's recording journey through the '90s, from its beginnings as a relatively melodic Celtic-tinged and romantically inclined outfit on its debut, to an increasingly hard rock posture and an overtly political lyrical concern on the second and third albums, and back to a lighter approach on the fourth album. The high points remain the hits: "Linger," "Dreams," "Zombie," "Ode to My Family," "I Can't Be With You," "Ridiculous Thoughts," "Salvation," "When You're Gone," "Free to Decide," "Promises," and "Animal Instincts." But there are songs among the bonus tracks that are more than just throwaways; "Liar," "I Don't Need," and "So Cold in Ireland," to name three, are good enough to have been included on the Cranberries' regular albums. The occasional covers of other artists' hits, the Carpenters' "(They Long to Be) Close to You" and Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way," are illuminating, though the band embarrasses itself performing Ave Maria with Pavarotti (a track that, despite the stated restriction to studio recordings, was recorded live). At this point, the Cranberries might be better served by a carefully selected hits collection than they are by these collected works. But their fans may welcome the chance to have all their '90s recordings in one place, as long as they don't mind buying the albums again.