and Jed is OTM on the don't cry for me argentina..some how lighthearted and cutting at the same time...I think she got a bit of a raw deal for being so forceful with her politics, to the point of amost being cheap. I recall a huge scandal when she played Saratoga one summer when I was in jr. high (i think) and refusing to have the national anthem played before the show...that seemed, even then, a bit childish, but the young fresh foolish me got chills when she ripped up the pope.
― b b, Friday, 4 March 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
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― ffirehorse, Friday, 4 March 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
(Otherwise, I'm with everyone else who rates her first two as unassailable Classics).
― David A. (Davant), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link
That "Gospel Oak" EP, short though it may be, shows that she remains an amazing songwriter. Her last two albums proper, though - "Universal Mother" and "Faith and Courage" - seem too set on the by then impossible notion that she might get played on the radio, and therefore she makes the attendant compromises. To be honest, I'm worried Kate Bush may fall prey to the same delusion.
Frankly, I wish Sinead realized (assuming she doesn't) that she could maintain her ideals on the folk/cult circuit, a la Marianne Faithful or someone like that, rather than aim for pop appeal.
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link
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― David A. (Davant), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Sara Sherr, Friday, 4 March 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
I loved that EP she put out in '97 or so.
― ian in brooklyn, Friday, 4 March 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 March 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Her version of "The Butcher's Boy" in the film of the same name is pretty special.
"I Am Stretched On Your Grave" was teh jammm at the time. Haven't heard it in years.
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Saturday, 5 March 2005 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link
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― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 6 March 2005 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Massive Attack -- Special Cases (Radio Edit)Asian Dub Foundation Featuring Sinéad O'Connor -- 1000 MirrorsBomb The Bass Featuring Sinéad O'Connor & Benjamin Zephaniah -- EmpireGhostland -- Guide Me GodJah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart Featuring Sinéad O'Connor -- Visions Of YouAfro Celt Sound System -- Release (Album Edit)Sinéad O'Connor With The Blockheads -- Wake Up And Make Love With MeThe The -- Kingdom Of Rain (Album Version)U2 & Sinéad O'Connor -- I’m Not Your BabyConjure One Featuring Sinéad O'Connor -- Tears From The Moon (Album Version)Peter Gabriel & Sinéad O'Connor -- Blood Of Eden (Radio Edit)Moby Featuring Sinéad O'Connor -- HarbourAslan -- Up In ArmsDamien Dempsey Featuring Sinéad O'Connor -- It’s All GoodThe Edge & Sinéad O'Connor -- Heroine (Theme From “Captive”)The Colourfield Featuring Sinéad O'Connor -- Monkey In WinterSinéad O'Connor & Terry Hall -- All Kinds Of Everything
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 May 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
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― brittle-lemon, Sunday, 22 May 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
i happened to catch this one today on an internet radio station i listen to at work -- it was as stunning now as it was 15 years ago (when i first heard it). and i'm enough of a softie to get still choked up when i hear "nothing compares 2 u" (much less see that video).
i guess i should root around my cds to see if i stil have i do not want what i haven't got.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alicia Silverfuck (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alicia Silverfuck (sexyDancer), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Shinehead O'Connor by miles and miles.
Bjork can mince around all she likes and be mad elfin, but Sinead is a very angry Irish woman chock full of raw intensity. [...] Shinehead is so badass that she could rock her own comic book.
-- Mike Taylor
(sadly I still haven't investigated a great deal of Sinead's music... but as a human being I respect her enormously).
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I wonder what it would sound like if she covered Kate Bush, like Night of the Swallow, or Jig of Life.
― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Thursday, 20 July 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
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― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 12 May 2007 00:04 (seventeen 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!
Is there a link to the podcast that doesn't require me to login/create an account?
― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 13:05 (nine months ago) link
Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRz2XiwgHoo
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 13:16 (nine months ago) link
Listened this morning: really good stuff, Alfred!
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 13:29 (nine months ago) link
enjoyed listening alfred! especially nice that you helped steer the convo past the usual pope/nothing compares stuff, the b52s cover was a really great surprise
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:40 (nine months ago) link
A very touching poem from her brother that was read at the funeral yesterday.
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/08/09/blackbird-in-dun-laoghaire-a-poem-by-joseph-oconnor/
― droid, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 13:42 (nine months ago) link
The London Inner South Coroner's Court has issued a statement that says O'Connor died from natural causes. The court added that they have now ceased their involvement in O'Connor's death.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 15:12 (four months ago) link
Yep.
― droid, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 16:32 (four months ago) link
"Mere hours before her cause of death was shared on Tuesday, it had been announced that a special tribute concert to O’Connor and the late Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan will be taking place at Carnegie Hall in New York in March. Irish singers Glen Hansard, David Gray, Dropkick Murphys, Cat Power and Amanda Palmer are among the musicians taking part, with more to be announced."
Apologies to Cat Power but I may have to bomb this.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 17:02 (four months ago) link
The Irish singer died by natural causes
Is this going to change the narrative that everyone seems to have adopted, based on certain assumptions?
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 17:44 (four months ago) link
Because that linked yahoo article (and the term "natural causes") are still pretty ambiguous, here's a more unambiguous statement from WaPo:
Most deaths from natural causes are not reported to any coroner but if a coroner found natural causes it would never be a suicide.” If someone dies of “natural causes,” this means that they did not die by suicide, or in an accident, or by a drug overdose, he said.
― enochroot, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 17:58 (four months ago) link
So what then was the cause of death? Presumably this means she had some kind of sickness, but what was it?
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 18:01 (four months ago) link
xxxp that carnegie hall tribute show includes a $20,000 "nothing compares 2u" package where you get to weigh in on the order of the songs being played? https://citywinery.com/new-york-city/events/nothing-compares-2-u-wjs0ta
― BrianB, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 18:12 (four months ago) link
aren’t coroners different in every state? I think there was a Frontline about that. Natural causes may be more or less ambiguous depending on the locality.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 18:14 (four months ago) link
I bet the boys of the NYPD choir don't even be there (especially since there's no such thing)
― StanM, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 18:59 (four months ago) link