The Cranberries - Analyse

What this video is

Released 27 August 2001 as the lead single from The Cranberries' fifth studio album Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, 'Analyse' arrived at a fraught cultural moment. The original music video was distributed to major networks before the September 11 attacks and had to be urgently recalled and re-edited to remove imagery of a plane flying near skyscrapers — making it one of the most directly documented cases of 9/11…

Why it matters

Represents the final chapter of The Cranberries' original run as a commercially active alt-rock act, bridging their 1990s Celtic-inflected alternative rock identity with early-2000s adult contemporary production values. The video's clean visual language and performance-forward format is…

The director

Australian-born director who began his career editing and directing music videos in Sydney, joining Meaningful Eye Contact in 1991. Gained UK representation via Limelight Films in 1993, then joined Palomar Pictures in Los Angeles. His music video credits…