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Others flashed to My So-Called Life or You’ve Got Mail or their own prom night.

When I heard yesterday that singer Dolores O’Riordan had died at age 46, I thought immediately of the Cranberries scenes in Clueless, that iconic text of teen life in the late 20th century, and Elif Batuman’s 2017 novel The Idiot. It’s true in other ways, too, though - ways that are harder to measure, but more important in the long run.

That’s true in numerical terms: The Irish band’s first two albums, 1993’s Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? and 1994’s No Need To Argue, went platinum five and seven times over, respectively, yielding enough hit singles to keep the Cranberries all over alternative radio and MTV through the mid-’90s. The Cranberries were one of the alt-rock era’s biggest successes.