No Need To Argue
by The Cranberries
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No Need To Argue is ranked as the best album by The Cranberries.
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No Need To Argue track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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No Need To Argue rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2026 | fabm0 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 9/100 | 18 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 50/100 | 10 |
| 2026 |  Milhaud | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 11/100 | 87 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1994 | 15/50 | 4 |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1994 | 61/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Bach | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 94/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1994 | 4/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1994 | 4/100 | - |
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 63 Music Albums of 1994 | 19/63 | 4 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 33 Music Albums of 1994 | 28/33 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 301 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,681 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/09/2026 00:00 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,246 | 70/100 |
| ! | 10/04/2026 08:28 | Siromynian | 1,786 | 74/100 |
| ! | 08/20/2026 19:54 | Hyggevinyl | 4,480 | 72/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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No Need To Argue forum mentions
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lightmyway TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/06/2012 22:09 | #41675 | TOP COMMENT
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A great album. The sound is a little more energetic and confident than Everybody Else is Doing It but it still has that haunting beauty. Tons of great songs. I should replace my copy of this album, it skips really bad on Yeat's Grave.
Romanelli TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/13/2011 23:40 | #19178 | TOP COMMENT
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The Cranberries rock. For exactly 5:06, they rock. That's the time of "Zombie", a great song that shows what they could have been if they had tried...for longer than 5:06. Everything else on their 2nd album sounds lazy and tired...great sleepy music. Which is too bad, because Dolores O'Riordan is something unique. She's got a great and different voice, something that with a band with some fire behind them may have been able to put to good use. Which they do, for 5:06. Everything else is okay, but nothing jumps out at you and says, "that's a great band". Unfortunately, they are exactly the same live.
No Need To Argue gets points for "Zombie". Someone should have told them that there were 12 other tracks to record, and this may have been a very good album. At least 5:06 of it is, anyway.
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/29/2012 03:18 | #43187 | TOP COMMENT
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Zombie, while a cracking song, gets tiring after awhile. I enjoy the rest of the album.
Graeme2 TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/20/2013 14:05 | #98172 | TOP COMMENT
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Dreadful. The most average of local bands with no songs or talent and an annoying vocalist.
RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/15/2016 05:25 | #166000 | TOP COMMENT
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When I was like 14, I listened to this for like 2 months constantly. I think this higher rating has more to do with that nostalgia. The music itself is actually pretty average minus a few tracks.
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