Sinead O'Connor: C/D?

Universal Mother is underrated in my lonely opinion.

first record: "Let me try a bit of everything." Second album: "Let me try rock-inflected chamber music."

I really dug Faith And Courage -- No Man's Woman has stayed with me for a long time.

I think "Fire On Babylon" might be her best track.

I listened to "No Man's Woman" and "Jealous" a lot last February; I think my antipathy to Dave Stewart tainted my opinions in 2000.

unrelated: I love in Emperor's New Clothes the way she sings 'and how a *praaaaagnancy* can change you' :)

I love the lyrics to "Emperor's New Clothes" but I am not particularly into the melody or the arrangement, which is the exact opposite reaction I usually have to music

xpost Tim I'm not sold on best but Steve otm "fire on babylon" is, on certain days, absolutely crushing.

ugh phone posting. Tim "agreed on underrated and I'm not sold..." etc

I like how in the first verse she sings the high notes w falsetto but then after that she just fucking waaaaails

The song sounds so fucking huge and explosive and the dubby reggae vibe is perfect. Also, in the live versions on YouTube the harmonies during the chorus are p killer

Those unexpected drum fills over the "Emperor" outro -- after a steady chug-chug -- still make me swoon after all these years.

yeah it's killer

speaking of chug, her electric rhythm strums all over "Jump in the River."

xps Oh yeah that too, it's like a minute long!! What an awesome outro!! It reminds me of "Pervesion" by Stereolab.

Have any of y'all heard the "Main Mix" that Hank Shocklee/The Bomb Squad did? It rivals the orig.

xpost stevie otm x2 fire, brimstone, both barrels, etc. for righteous fury, i kinda pair it with "a prayer for england"

alfred otm x2 as well on possibly my two fave trax from that record tho in fairness it's easy to forget due to overplay just how astonishing "nothing compares 2 u" really was when you heard it for the first time.

this revive has made me happy today

IT'S ALL BEEN A GORGEOUS MISTAKE

nothing compares still makes me teary - every time I hear it it's like the first time for me, her voice is just so beautiful it kills me

p.s. here is a link to that v hard to track down Bomb Squad remix of "Emperor's New Clothes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Bm9g6ceKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88wL8oRf45U

There's an old article on <a href="http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2002/10/argentina1/";>Freaky Trigger</a> where Tom reviews a bunch of covers of Don't Cry For Me Argentina and nails why hers is the best.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/sinead-oconnor-calls-kim-kardashian-6066869

Ha! She's always great when she kicks off!

anyone take a gander at her facebook meltdown? ugly stuff...yet reading back over it all in detail.... she sounds like she has some very legitimate concerns about her son. what ugly family business.

yeah harrowing stuff. i hope she get help. constant dram with sinead unfortunately.

drama

I feel like everyone's always been cruel to her, especially in the american media. Not an earth shattering revelation I know, just happened to be listening to Troy today

The peak of Sinead's fame and my SNL fandom both occurred at the same time, but even though I was a kid, I still got that the show (taking a cue from the larger media, of course) was especially brutal to her, both before and after the infamous pope thing. It made me all the more determined to root for her, and I still do.

She was calling attention to child sexual abuse over a decade before anyone else cared! That's what that whole thing was about! Fuck america seriously

Everyone thought it was just some sort of "edgy" stunt because they're morons

Perfectly irrelevant time warp for today, granted

I honestly remember Andrew Dice Clay getting more sensitive treatment from the media at the time.

I dont remember directly bc i was like four, but i've always known about that whole saga. Wikipedia says that madonna trashed her at the time

I remember thinking it was kinda cool but not thinking much of it & them finding out that american media was all flipped out about it was weird, like omg youys really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhUzMGQLid4

Wow...that is hard to watch.

I see she's back on FB, having erased her plaintive frightening posts about being committed last year; and she also appears to be on tour? there's a rather great version of her doing Life on Mars from the other day. She looks fucking tough now, like, I would not fuck with this lady, she might put a bottle through my face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkI6lzreh4w

oh that's a shitty version. Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNXYFOPRuQ0

^goosebumps^

Yeah, that was from a Bowie tribute concert here.

I think she's massively been treated like shit, and then every few years she does something great and people are all, huh, maybe we shouldn't have treated her like shit. I even liked her Sly & Robbie album.

goddamn that was so good

she's a total classic. i still love the incredible ballsy pope photo shred move and still hate how madonna kinda mocked it shortly thereafter.

Her reggae covers album is my go-to Christmas record.

Wish it included her Asian Dub Foundation jam, because this is so good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUVErnrbVEc
Awesome vocal, could imagine it sung by Kirsty MacColl.

pretty sure troy is one of my favorite songs

gotta be one of the most dramatic performances ever.

Was sinead the wellspring of the "growly vowel" phenomenon that has been a favourite affectation of a certain kind of female singer from the 90s til now?

more or less yeah