― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― gershy, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lostandfound, Thursday, 1 March 2007 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 12 May 2007 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
good lord 'fire on babylon' is all kinds of fierce.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
FIIYYYYRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEE
also, that bassline!
Great song, great entire album I reckon! The ballads kill me - esp. "John I Love You" and "A Perfect Indian".
― Tim F, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 11:57 (fourteen years ago) link
the most awful song on massive attack's "100th window": "a prayer for england". DESTROY!
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Sinead, an acoustic guitar, Dutch festival crowd, 1988 -- "Troy":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeIHZvZTJTg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 October 2009 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm telling ya, people need to see this clip.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm glad for her that she's found a niche recording these genre experiments, but I really do miss her as gadfly.
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link
It's stuff like "Troy" that got us interested in the later genre experiments in the first place.
I KILLED A DRAGON FOR YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND
i love this song for reals
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:08 (fourteen years ago) link
That's a ferocious performance. Her neck muscles when she sings "I'd kill a dragon for you" alone make this worth watching.
― Euler, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
WOW.
For the first time I wondered what this song is about specifically (obv it's pretty clear what it's about generally). Is Sinead playing a woman who's in a relationship with a married (or at any rate attached) guy? That seems to be the only explanation that makes all the different bits scan consistently.
― Tim F, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, that clip is unreal. The Troy performance on the bonus disc of the Do Not Want reissue is possibly even more intense.
― Mark, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
That line, "You should have left the light on," is so brilliant. That's exactly the kind of thing someone might say when they're overcome with anger and not thinking very clearly. If the light had been on, none of this would have happened. That's how the mind works.
― Mark, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
She performed it last year for first time in almost 20 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyqvQVeVK9A
― Mark, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post Totally. Except for the first time I've thought maybe the song is kinda rational throughout. She's been having an affair with him, he said he was gonna leave his wife but now he's changed his mind, she's furious that he ever encouraged her to the point that now she's totally lost in love/hate.
― Tim F, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link
love that pinkpop clip. she did it the same way as a final encore when i saw her in '91. totally riveting.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I've never thought of the song as being about an affair with a married man specifically. He's obviously an emotionally unavailable asshole, but there could be any number of reasons for that.
The soul-killing line for me is "but I knew you wanted me to be there" -- so, despite all her yelling and screaming and white-hot anger, she's still trying to convince herself that everything is really OK.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
This helps:
WHY should I blame her that she filled my daysWith misery, or that she would of lateHave taught to ignorant men most violent ways,Or hurled the little streets upon the great.Had they but courage equal to desire?What could have made her peaceful with a mindThat nobleness made simple as a fire,With beauty like a tightened bow, a kindThat is not natural in an age like this,Being high and solitary and most stern?Why, what could she have done, being what she is?Was there another Troy for her to burn?
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032502363.html?hpid=topnews
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
that was an excellent read; she is an incredibly evocative writer
― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Friday, 26 March 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Very heavy.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2011/08/sinead_split_a_p.jpg
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
45 year old woman in not-looking-like-when-she-was-20 shocker
― 69, Tuesday, July 12, 2011 5:52 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark
― jon/via/chia/pet 2.0 (kkvgz), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
tbf it's nothing to do with age, but more that she looks radically different from the image of her that many of us carry around in our minds. i know that i wouldn't have been able to identify her in the absence of clues
― dell (del), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
tbf 45 yo Sinead looks more like she's 13
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Wait... the woman in black is Sinead?!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
y
― dell (del), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
A minute after that photo was taken she adjusted the mike down and started singing out of her bellybutton.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
jeezo
― jed_, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
The singer has crafted a rather thorough list of musts ("Must be blind enough to think I'm gorgeous") and must nots ("Must not be named Brian or Nigel").
Oh, and just in case you were wondering, the good times don't stop at the produce section.
"Let me now take time to make VERY clear that yes I 'do anal' and in fact I would be deeply unhappy if 'doing anal' wasn't on the menu, amongst everything else$$ So if u don't like 'the difficult brown'.. Don't apply..."
Also, women "will also be very much considered."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/30/sinead_n_941808.html
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
"Difficult brown?"
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
that's not how you seduce a man!
She is apparently touring soon!!! Feb 23-24 at Highline Ballroom. And I am totally hooked on "Fire on Babylon" at the moment; I cannot wait to go to this show
― Sally Field hysterically shrieking "Gloria fucking SWANSON!!!" (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 January 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe you'll marry her for 5 minutes!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
maybe you can sell her some weed!
― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
true, then she won't have to resort to crack
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/12/sinead-oconnor-pleads-for-psychiatric-help-on-twitter--suicide-attempt_n_1201626.html
― buzza, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
Oh jeez, Sinead. I hope she's OK and also that her show in NYC in a month isn't cancelled
― lost ai weiwei (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it's not really funny, I hope she gets help soon!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
I am always rooting for this woman
― gord downer (Ówen P.), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
I feel for her, she seems really ill.
― Nicole, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
Great NYT profile/interview here, discussing the above and more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/arts/music/sinead-oconnors-how-about-i-be-me-and-you-be-you.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link