the thing with sinead is that she spoke up against child sexual abuse in the catholic church before anyone else in a similarly visible position did so. she took flak from basically everyone, who chalked it up to her being an "irrational" "crazy" woman.
i still think of her as an essentially principled, brave person who now seems to suffer from some kind of tragic mental illness which i don't know the details of.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
never heard this before
For Sinead O'Connor, Love Willie - Don't Give Up - https://t.co/xbFXnQsH3i via @YouTube— Willie Nelson (@WillieNelson) August 16, 2017
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 August 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
After that video she put up last week, this thread popping up made me think "oh no" - glad to be listening to that instead, her voice works perfectly.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 18 August 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
^same, my heart in my mouth for a second.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 18 August 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
New song, streaming exclusively on The Irish Sun.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Friday, 3 August 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
https://heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/trouble-of-the-world-2
― djh, Saturday, 3 October 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
There was a weird thread in my dreams last night where I kept reciting lyrics from I do not want what I haven't got, then a stretch where I listened to the album "in full" (in dream time). So I had to play it today. Definitely the album with the highest percentage of songs that make me burst into tears, though I can never predict which moments will do it.
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Sunday, 7 March 2021 00:02 (three years ago) link
amazing new interview
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-rememberings.html
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
also, very afraid to read old posts in any sinead related threads tbh
Later, when “Nothing Compares 2 U” made her a star, O’Connor said the song’s writer, Prince, terrorized her. She had pledged to reveal the details “when I’m an old lady and I write my book,” and now she has: She writes that Prince summoned her to his macabre Hollywood mansion, chastised her for swearing in interviews, harangued his butler to serve her soup though she repeatedly refused it, and sweetly suggested a pillow fight, only to thump her with something hard he’d slipped into his pillowcase. When she escaped on foot in the middle of the night, she writes, he stalked her with his car, leapt out and chased her around the highway.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
i love her so much <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
harangued his butler to serve her soup though she repeatedly refused it
The mental image of this alone is incredible...
― Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) stan (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
reminds me of the Stevie Nicks story about Prince visiting her while sick, fluffing pillows and stuff until she demanded cough medicine. "I'm not here to get you hooked on another drug!" he yelled and walked out.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
yikes
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
suddenly doesn't seem as strange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIIAQME1Uhg
― piscesx, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
the photo of the pope being her Mother’s is a detail i never knew & it makes me love her morealso shaving her head when the exec tells her to dress more pretty is VERY much my energy and maybe my entire reason for her being my ride or die for 30+ years
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
yeah the key part of the prince stuff was this imo
Prince is the type of artist who is hailed as crazy-in-a-good-way, as in, “You’ve got to be crazy to be a musician,” O’Connor said, “but there’s a difference between being crazy and being a violent abuser of women.” Still, the fact that her best-known song was written by this person does not faze her at all. “As far as I’m concerned,” she said, “it’s my song.”
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
Sinead otm
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
she's just such a beautiful person imo sometimes it's just overwhelming
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link
a queen.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
I'm surprised that I haven't said so before itt, but I realised a while back that I'm going to get into A LOT of fights on the internet when she goes.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 09:07 (two years ago) link
i will have your back
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 20 May 2021 02:12 (two years ago) link
Sinead is in the comments section of that NYTimes article, chatting away. All her comments are NYT Picks so they are easy to find.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 20 May 2021 02:17 (two years ago) link
Her first two albums are among my most cherished, just bottomless in their subtleties.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 May 2021 02:24 (two years ago) link
otm
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 May 2021 03:46 (two years ago) link
"IT IS NO MEASURE OF HEALTH TO BE WELL ADJUSTED TO A PROFOUNDLY SICK SOCIETY"
this is hard to argue with
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 May 2021 10:39 (two years ago) link
frankly a far better take on mental health than just about all the "awareness" raising stuff that's everywhere these days has to offer
― Left, Thursday, 20 May 2021 11:58 (two years ago) link
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 19, 2021 10:24 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, May 19, 2021 11:46 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
otm. And off the top of my head, I can't think of a better album/career opener than "Jackie."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 20 May 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
I just recently dug up I'm Not Bossy (I'm the Boss), after ignoring or maybe not even being aware of it when it came out, and it's good! Not great, but a totally respectable aging-legend album with some legit bangers. Love her.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 20 May 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link
Agreed. How About I Be Me (and You Be You)? also offers pleasures.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 May 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
I noted at the time that the multi-tracking of her vocals on I'm Not Bossy was an attempt to mitigate how raspier her vice has become.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 May 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
lol her voice
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 May 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
I really like this reworking of an older tune (I like the original too):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxH16hEYuuc
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 20 May 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
this made me go back and listen to Universal Mother last night, which I'd purchased when it was released but otherwise remembered nothing about other than being disappointed at the time (though I did see her live after it came out, the only time I ever saw her). Not sure why, it's a pretty strong album. Not as good as the first two but what is?
― akm, Thursday, 20 May 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
"Fire in Babylon" though
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 May 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
jesus christ i had forgotten how devastating most of “i do not want what i haven’t got” is.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 May 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
i’ve said this before nowyou said i was childish and you’ll say it now
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 May 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
not really a fan of those last two albums, she sounds good on them but the songs themselves are just not up to snuff. I like the recent single though.
― akm, Saturday, 22 May 2021 14:53 (two years ago) link
giving Faith and Courage a first listen ever today
"No Man's Woman" is a jam.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 May 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
Too much Dave Stewart though
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 May 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
jesus christ i had forgotten how devastating most of “i do not want what i haven’t got” is.I love, love, LOVE that album. I know it got a lot of attention when it was released - a multiplatinum, Grammy-winning seller that placed a strong second in Pazz & Jop - but it didn't feel like that many people were still listening to it a decade or two later. I think I was introduced to it through Greg Kot - he loved that album, comparing it in some respects to John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band. He never had a reason to write about it specifically, he'd just hold it up as a masterpiece whenever he was doing some kind of overview or look back at the '90s for the Tribune. I already knew "Nothing Compares 2 U" but that whole album is amazing - just raw, brave and exposed.
I'll have to find it again, but I wasn't happy with the first "best of" they made so I burned my own. The first two albums may be her best, but there's great stuff on pretty much everything up to and including Faith and Courage. (Like Alfred mentioned "No Man's Woman," and "Jealous" and "Daddy I'm Fine" are probably my other two favorites.)
― birdistheword, Saturday, 22 May 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
To realize she's ending a major second album with TWO acoustic ballads and an a cappella wonder stroke, my god.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 May 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
It really shows how incredible her singing and her voice was at that time - it's very tasteful in terms of phrasing, but it never feels too little or restrained because that voice just carries so much in it.
Forgot to mention, if you can, check out her live performances from 1990. I didn't realize how good she was on-stage until I saw a re-run of her first appearance on SNL from September 1990. She doesn't do "Nothing Compares 2 U," she does two other songs from I Do Not Want.... Both are great, especially the second number ("The Last Day of Our Acquaintance") which is a cappella for a large part of it until she hits those chords on her acoustic guitar really hard for the last verse.
Capitol later reissued her first two live videos on a single 95 minute DVD in 2003, newly remastered. The first video (The Value of Ignorance) was from June 3, 1988, and the second (The Year of The Horse) was edited from two shows in late October 1990. If you have a player, it's worth tracking down, but there's both NTSC and PAL versions out there so make sure your player can handle the right one.
You can find VHS rips and probably DVD rips on YouTube if you want to go that route.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 22 May 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
I saw her in '90, she was terrific. "Troy" was shattering.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 23 May 2021 04:50 (two years ago) link
man do I love her guitar on "Jump in the River."
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 May 2021 09:29 (two years ago) link
another great interview around the book. I'm deeply disillusioned about Prince's treatment of her. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/29/sinead-oconnor-ill-always-be-a-bit-crazy-but-thats-ok-rememberings
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 7 June 2021 04:52 (two years ago) link
She just announced her retirement from recording & touring: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9583210/sinead-oconnor-retirement
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Monday, 7 June 2021 06:05 (two years ago) link
We are coming up to the 20th anniversary of her first retirement.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 7 June 2021 08:14 (two years ago) link
🎵 This is the anniversary of my first retirement 🎶
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 7 June 2021 08:22 (two years ago) link