Sinead O'Connor: C/D?

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Jump in the River is amazing. I wish she wrote more songs like that.

― Sara Sherr, Friday, 4 March 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

If she'd found goth instead of God, I'd probably be her number 1 fan.

I loved that EP she put out in '97 or so.

― ian in brooklyn, Friday, 4 March 2005 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

no mention of 'three babies', doesn't it follow 'nothing compares to u' and it's so good it makes me forget how great that song was. for a short time in my life it was all sinead and the house of love's butterfly album.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't really think of Universal Mother as a radio-friendly compromise, mainly because it's hard to see what's supposed to work on radio (the more obvious choices "Fire On Babylon" and "Thank You For Hearing Me" are both great though so it's not a case of a failed attempt I don't think). My favourite track on that album is this gorgeous ballad "A Perfect Indian", which is pretty heartbreaking I reckon. Most uncomfortable track lyrically is "Scorn Not His Simplicity" (a track about children with intellectual disabilities) which funnily enough Sinead didn't even write!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 March 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember seeing her perform "Mandinka" (?) on the American Music Awards (?) when I was a little kid, way, way before Nevermind changed things. I remember her combat boot dance on stage. I'd never seen a bald chick besides the one in that one Star Trek movie. Crazy.

― Smooth Gold, Saturday, 5 March 2005 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Grammys I think. That was the legendary Jethro-Tull-wins-for-heavy-metal ceremony.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 March 2005 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The post-SNL backlash in this country was pretty lame.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember never once being able to turn away from the vid for "Nothing Compares 2 U" no matter how many sqaudrillion times it had been played on MTV. I remember it stopping my step-father dead in his tracks.....rendering him positively still and silent until its finish. "Hot damn!" he said softly, afterwards.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

First two albums are great, and she also was pretty amazing when I saw her live (right after I do not want... came out). She closed with "Troy" and it was gut-wrenchingly cathartic and crazy and good.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 5 March 2005 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Well this thread has caused me to dig out The Lion and the Cobra again for the first time in a long while. Amazing how mainstream this sounds like retrospect, and I don't mean that as casting aspersion on O'Connor at how the standards have shifted (for the better, I'd think). Something like "Mandinka" could probably be reworked into something for Avril or Ms. Clarkson, for instance -- the arrangement may be dated (to an extent) but the construction is not.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 March 2005 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, it was fairly mainstream -- "Mandinka" got prime-time MTV play, and of course I do not want... sold a zillion copies.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 5 March 2005 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

(oops, I see you mean the first album specifically; but yeah, she was pretty pop-accessible for a mad baldie)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 5 March 2005 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

my inner muso has to note that, on the ealier stuff, she tended to sing a mcirotine flat which drives my ears nuts

― ianinbrooklyn, Saturday, 5 March 2005 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked the first album, sure. But I can't say I ever felt a burning need to return to her work. I did get that Heroine soundtrack thing, though, but more because I was excited about Michael Brook or the Edge or whatever it was.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

most of the songs on the captive soundtrack are really great, including the one with sinead vocals. i wish the edge would do more albums with brian eno and michael brook. a U2 album with sinead instead of bono would probably be pretty great.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Saturday, 5 March 2005 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cos of this thread I picked up Lion & Cobra when I saw it cheap 2nd hand (although I already knew it from the early 90s when I heard it first). Jackie, Just like you said it would be, and jerusalem sound great again, while a few others (like Mandinka) haven't aged well - like Ned says, cos of the sounds and arrangement. It's also not nearly as iddicult an album as I remember it. Maybe when I was younger I found Troy a lot weirder than I do today - and I give her credit for opening up a 16 year old's ears to stuff like Troy.

― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 6 March 2005 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

I am seriously thinking this could be one of the year's best albums. Tracklisting:

Massive Attack -- Special Cases (Radio Edit)
Asian Dub Foundation Featuring Sinéad O'Connor -- 1000 Mirrors
Bomb The Bass Featuring Sinéad O'Connor & Benjamin Zephaniah -- Empire
Ghostland -- Guide Me God
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart Featuring Sinéad O'Connor -- Visions Of You
Afro Celt Sound System -- Release (Album Edit)
Sinéad O'Connor With The Blockheads -- Wake Up And Make Love With Me
The The -- Kingdom Of Rain (Album Version)
U2 & Sinéad O'Connor -- I’m Not Your Baby
Conjure 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 -- Harbour
Aslan -- Up In Arms
Damien Dempsey Featuring Sinéad O'Connor -- It’s All Good
The Edge & Sinéad O'Connor -- Heroine (Theme From “Captive”)
The Colourfield Featuring Sinéad O'Connor -- Monkey In Winter
Sinéad O'Connor & Terry Hall -- All Kinds Of Everything

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 May 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow! All that compilation is missing is "You Made Me The Thief of Your Heart" from "In the Name of the Father."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 22 May 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Her version of "All kinds of everything" always makes me very Christmasy. Like I get an urge to run through snow while wearing sleigh-bells on top of my head.

― brittle-lemon, Sunday, 22 May 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

"I Am Stretched On Your Grave" was teh jammm at the time. Haven't heard it in years.

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 (twenty years ago)

Oddly enough I heard this yesterday as well. It actually sounded like a remix!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Possibly the only ILM thread on which the various warring nations called a truce for the sake of a common cause.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwQlmnNyWak

― Alicia Silverfuck (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn5uY9etyEo

― Alicia Silverfuck (sexyDancer), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

O'Connor vs. Güdmundsdöttir---FIGHT!

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 (nineteen years ago)

Her version of traditional Irish song "He Moves Through The Fair" is probably the most moving version i've ever heard.

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 (nineteen years ago)

I only just learned she was the one who sang the song in Nightmare on Elm St. 4 when the girl's working out and turns into a cockroach.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 21 July 2006 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.snlarc.jt.org/arc/imp/JaHo-Sinead%20O

― Ben Crazee (Ben Crazee), Friday, 21 July 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

One of the few artists who inspires such an immediate response from me, that I have difficulty trusting 100 per cent in the humanity of those who don't like her music.

― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Revived: I heard "The Emperor's New Clothes" on iTunes radio quite by accident and it soundes STELLAR. I'm struck by how she transforms this sanctimonious lyric into a shit-kicking anthem.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to hear some Sinead. I'd also like to see a TS: Sinead vs. kd lang thread.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

You've never heard her???

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure the only Sinead I've heard is "Nothing Compares 2 U," "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart." Haven't heard any albums.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'm listening to "Mandinka" right now, and I've definitely heard that one, too. I think I probably assumed it was Edie Brickell or something.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'll burn you a CD and give it to you at EMP.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

(and you can stop this Edie Brickell nonsense)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

I was never much of a fan of neither "Mandinka" nor "Nothing Compares 2 U". Thus, when I heard some of her less famous work I was pleasantly surprised. Some great moody and sophisticated pop in there for certain.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

her has-been status is so richly deserved. dud.

― gershy, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

her has-been status is so richly deserved. dud.

No.

― Lostandfound, Thursday, 1 March 2007 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

She was really very nice!

― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 12 May 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

good lord 'fire on babylon' is all kinds of fierce.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 11:27 (sixteen years ago)

FIIYYYYRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEE

also, that bassline!

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 11:27 (sixteen years ago)

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 (sixteen years ago)

the most awful song on massive attack's "100th window": "a prayer for england". DESTROY!

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:59 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Sinead, an acoustic guitar, Dutch festival crowd, 1988 -- "Troy":

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

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 October 2009 05:04 (sixteen years ago)

I'm telling ya, people need to see this clip.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:02 (sixteen years ago)

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 (sixteen years ago)

It's stuff like "Troy" that got us interested in the later genre experiments in the first place.

― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:06 (sixteen years ago)

I KILLED A DRAGON FOR YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND

i love this song for reals

― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:08 (sixteen years ago)

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 (sixteen years ago)

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― fluffy tufts university (f. hazel), Thursday, 30 April 2026 15:47 (one month ago)

picked up a couple Sinead CDs this week -- Faith and Courage, and Sean-Nós Nua. She was generally happy w/F&C except for one track the record company pressured her into including, and she hated it ("The State I'm In"). Sean-Nós Nua is incredible, it's almost an unchallenged layup for her, taking on Irish traditional music with a modern sheen, but even in that context she absolutely kills it.

― omar little, Thursday, 7 May 2026 17:01 (one month ago)

F&C suffers from Dave Stewart's production but it's got jams like "Jealous."

― boners for bombs (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 May 2026 17:23 (one month ago)

I haven't listened to that album in many years, but "Jealous," "No Man's Woman" and "Daddy I'm Fine" were definitely highlights.

― birdistheword, Thursday, 7 May 2026 23:29 (one month ago)

"Lord Baker" from Sean-Nós Nua is a nearly 12 minute vocal duet w/Christy Moore (they trade off verses) which has only a simple synth keyboard as an accompanying instrument. It's an epic love narrative which is already vv intense and moving, and with these two performing it, it's just on an entirely elevated level which is almost cinematic.

― omar little, Friday, 8 May 2026 01:14 (four weeks ago)

Sean-Nós Nua is a helluva headphones album

― Cow_Art, Friday, 8 May 2026 10:50 (four weeks ago)

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