She was right. About everything.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:03 (ten months ago) link
Damn right she was.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:04 (ten months ago) link
this is one of the old posts that is nice to read now:
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), Friday, March 4, 2005 8:57 PM (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:10 (ten months ago) link
wow....
https://heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/trouble-of-the-world-a-cappella
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:12 (ten months ago) link
"The Emperor's New Clothes" has one of my favorite fadeouts.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:12 (ten months ago) link
What a great spiritual for her style
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:13 (ten months ago) link
A more or less apolitical Canadian child during the 80s and on into the very early 90s, Sinead taught me that Thatcher sucked even before I learned that Reagan sucked.
― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:14 (ten months ago) link
("As a...")
― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:15 (ten months ago) link
And it's worth emphasizing: she produced her fucking debut album on her own.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:15 (ten months ago) link
godddamn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wMZvznTTGg
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:20 (ten months ago) link
Some tributes being collected here, from the prime minister of Ireland to Ice-Thttps://deadline.com/2023/07/sinead-oconnor-tributes-reactions-billy-corgan-outlander-susanna-hoffs-1235448768/
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:33 (ten months ago) link
Alfred, yes, I was just playing the first two albums again and marveling at the last couple minutes of that song...
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:38 (ten months ago) link
I always loved Jump in the River, which is the lead track on the Married to the Mob soundtrack. Something about it really sounds ahead of its time.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:43 (ten months ago) link
I love her electric guitar on "Jump in the River."
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:47 (ten months ago) link
Fiercely honest and sweet and funny, she was talented in ways I’m not sure she completely understood.
oh fuck you Billy Corgan
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:48 (ten months ago) link
yeah I noticed thathere is what someone who isn't a loser would say
Respect to Sinead….. She stood for something… Unlike most people…. Rest Easy..🙏🏽 https://t.co/3nbO3w22zv— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) July 26, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:03 (ten months ago) link
A heroic figure. rip.
― treeship., Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:04 (ten months ago) link
I play the lion and the cobra all the time. Very few albums go as hard as that one.
― treeship., Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:12 (ten months ago) link
“And you should’ve let the light onnnnn” fuck I’m so depressed
― treeship., Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:13 (ten months ago) link
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, July 26, 2023 9:48 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
He was not talented in ways i'm sure he never understood at all.
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:20 (ten months ago) link
lol
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:21 (ten months ago) link
don't know what to write at all, just chiming in to say how saddened i am by this just like all of you. the lion and the cobra was such an important record for me in the first year that i started caring about music. a friend of mine and i would write various lyrics from it on notes that we would pass to each other in school. just straight out writing the lyrics down. why? it felt powerful somehow to write the words she sang. her songs were like incantations. spells. and they worked! they summoned these feelings from deep down inside me. they still do. i'm scared of her records. i don't put them on much. i can't handle the rawness, how i know i'm going to feel when i listen to them.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:29 (ten months ago) link
oh man no. I'd been thinking about her this week.
― kinder, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:40 (ten months ago) link
mum saw her at the Port Fairy Folk Festival in Australia a few/many years back - i remember mum just complained that she “talked too much” between songs and “why can’t she just sing” hmm yes but also counterpoint why can’t YOU stay home & listen to the album if you’d prefer not to engage w a human performer its such a dilemma roll my damn eyes all the way back forever to my own grave lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:45 (ten months ago) link
She deserved better from the world. RIP
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:50 (ten months ago) link
this is just heartbreaking. rest in peace, Sinead.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 22:09 (ten months ago) link
I've been playing a lot of her 'featured artist' singles this evening - no slur on her own work, once you've written Troy you have nothing to prove, but a) they are her own work too and b) I loved how generous she was with her amazing voice, and how she would lend it to often nakedly political stuff. I won't bombard you with YouTubes, but consider visiting or revisiting 1000 Mirrors (with Asian Dub Foundation), A Prayer for England (with Massive Attack), Empire (with Bomb The Bass and Benjamin Zephaniah) and from 1991 Visions of You with Jah Wobble:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuG1JN_pIUU(also Haunted with Shane McGowan, just because I love a soppy love song)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 22:21 (ten months ago) link
"A Prayer for England" is an imprecation whispered in the ear of every prime minister.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 22:25 (ten months ago) link
I also really really love this version of "Haunted," with Trevor Horn production and a video all optimistically designed to make it a hit. It should've been!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q7307IWwr4
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 22:33 (ten months ago) link
Her final live performance was February 12, 2020 in Santa Cruz, CA at a small theater.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwluxHHP1vU
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/sinead-oconnor/2020/rio-theatre-santa-cruz-ca-6b98362a.html
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 22:37 (ten months ago) link
I'm also upset. Just chiming in to say that when I heard the Lion and the Cobra at 13 years old, I was astounded. I'll admit that it informed my vision of a future girlfriend. The shaved head and passion. And I guess she was really pretty. It sounds dumb, but I'm just channeling 13-year-old me.
― paulhw, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 22:42 (ten months ago) link
she absolutely deserved so much better
the lion and the cobra is such a fantastic album, one of a kind
― ufo, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 22:43 (ten months ago) link
RIP. She was a force to be reckoned with. One of a kind.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 23:01 (ten months ago) link
― paulhw, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 23:25 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n14lwdpYkAA
― paulhw, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 23:26 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=318ZDSy3zn4
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 23:33 (ten months ago) link
Black Boys on Mopeds certainly made me lose it today.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 23:39 (ten months ago) link
this is it for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcO0fEabWHI
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 23:40 (ten months ago) link
Listening to I Do Not Want right now — which I don't actually listen to that much, Lion & Cobra is kind of my Sinead go-to — and it is so good. The songs are great, the arrangements are great, and she is such an amazingly present singer. So vibrant and intimate. And I've heard this album hundreds of times, I know all that, but it doesn't fade with familiarity.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:13 (ten months ago) link
Heartbreaking. I haven't even looked at the news yet, but given her struggles over many years, I imagine it's what's been feared for a very long time. Absolutely love her music, and it was wonderful to see something like a resurgence over the past decade as people re-discovered her work or re-evaluated what they overlooked. (There was a stretch in the '00s where I felt like no one I knew ever talked about her, much less put on her records, which was remarkable for someone who had been a household name not too long ago.)
She was probably my favorite singer of the past 40 years, for that amazing voice and for the way she could get inside a song and make it sound like her own thoughts and words, but she's so much more than her records. She never let popularity re-define what she should be or what she should say through her work, and she spoke up LOUDLY for a lot of children who needed it when the world refused to listen. I wish that brought her enough solace, but it meant a hell of a lot to so many people.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:21 (ten months ago) link
Re: Gospel Oak, I especially like this one (though it was released elsewhere too):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GDT-3pARec
― birdistheword, Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:26 (ten months ago) link
Faith and Courage is probably worth revisiting too. "Jealous," "No Man's Woman" and "Daddy I'm Fine" are favorites.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:29 (ten months ago) link
Beth Orton’s Instagram post will burn you. https://www.instagram.com/p/CvLU4kxNd9Q/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:34 (ten months ago) link
Was looking for video from those that went with all the tracks on Red Hot & Blue, but this keeps turning up, from I Do Not Want..., hopefully the same take:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK9dtZSIj-U
― dow, Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:38 (ten months ago) link
Terrific tribute by Dave Holmes: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a44655422/sinead-oconnor-death-tribute/
― Empty Tushy Fills (morrisp), Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:45 (ten months ago) link
no words yet. I can’t.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LhIkAKJzs8Don't argue amongst yourselves Because of the loss of me I haven't gone anywhere But out of my body Reach out and you'll touch me Make effort to speak to me Call out and you'll hear me Be happy for me Reach out and you'll touch me Make effort to speak to me Call out and you'll hear me Be happy for me
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Thursday, 27 July 2023 02:09 (ten months ago) link
Listening to “I Feel Different” this evening broke melike being swamped by an emotional wave
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 July 2023 02:16 (ten months ago) link
great anecdote..."oh, it's you, Russell"
Last year, working in Ireland, having a pint in the cold outside a Dalkey pub with some new friends, a woman with purpose strode past us. Puffy parker zipped to the nape and her bowed head covered in a scarf. One of my new friends muttered an exclamation, jumped up— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) July 26, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 July 2023 02:38 (ten months ago) link
Beth Orton’s post echoes my heart. I was rooting so hard for Sinead, especially the last ten years with her “”embarrassing”” admissions of personal crises, which others saw as fodder for clicks and titters, I felt deeply moved by the bravery of her admissions. I wanted old age and Joni Jam for Sinead, a moment when she could just rest and bask and no longer needed to be in a state of artistic and personal struggle. I am so sad that this never came for her when she was alive but I feel grateful for her incredible works nonetheless
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 27 July 2023 02:47 (ten months ago) link
Missed it but KEXP apparently did a great tribute today - FWIW, here's a link to the playlist:
https://www.kexp.org/playlist/?month=July&day=26&year=2023&hour=2%3A00&m=PM&offset=0
― birdistheword, Thursday, 27 July 2023 03:37 (ten months ago) link