
Ode to My Family
Lead vocals: Vrouw
Taal: Engels
Ode to My Family is een nummer van de Ierse rockband The Cranberries uit 1995. Het is de tweede single van hun tweede studioalbum No Need to Argue.
In een interview verklaarde leadzangeres Dolores O'Riordan dat "Ode to My Family" gaat over haar beslissing de muziek in te gaan en daarmee haar jeugd te 'verlaten'. Het nummer werd een hit in West-Europa en Oceanië. Het haalde de 16e positie in Ierland, het thuisland van The Cranberries. In de Nederlandse Top 40 haalde het de 19e positie, en in de Vlaamse Ultratop 50 de 18e.
"Ode to My Family" is a song by Irish band the Cranberries, released on 21 November 1994 by Island Records as the second single from their second studio album, No Need to Argue (1994). The song was written by bandmembers Dolores O'Riordan and Noel Hogan, and produced by Stephen Street. It was a hit in Oceania and several European countries, topping the charts in Iceland, and reaching number four in France, number five in Australia, and number eight in New Zealand. Its accompanying music video was directed by Samuel Bayer. In 2017, the song was released as an acoustic, stripped down version on the band's Something Else album.