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 (eighteen years ago) link
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― brittle-lemon, Sunday, 22 May 2005 15:15 (eighteen 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
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― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
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― 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!
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 (fourteen years ago) link
the most awful song on massive attack's "100th window": "a prayer for england". DESTROY!
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Sinead, an acoustic guitar, Dutch festival crowd, 1988 -- "Troy":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeIHZvZTJTg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 October 2009 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm telling ya, people need to see this clip.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
It's stuff like "Troy" that got us interested in the later genre experiments in the first place.
I KILLED A DRAGON FOR YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND
i love this song for reals
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
WOW.
For the first time I wondered what this song is about specifically (obv it's pretty clear what it's about generally). Is Sinead playing a woman who's in a relationship with a married (or at any rate attached) guy? That seems to be the only explanation that makes all the different bits scan consistently.
― Tim F, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, that clip is unreal. The Troy performance on the bonus disc of the Do Not Want reissue is possibly even more intense.
― Mark, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
That line, "You should have left the light on," is so brilliant. That's exactly the kind of thing someone might say when they're overcome with anger and not thinking very clearly. If the light had been on, none of this would have happened. That's how the mind works.
― Mark, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
She performed it last year for first time in almost 20 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyqvQVeVK9A
― Mark, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post Totally. Except for the first time I've thought maybe the song is kinda rational throughout. She's been having an affair with him, he said he was gonna leave his wife but now he's changed his mind, she's furious that he ever encouraged her to the point that now she's totally lost in love/hate.
― Tim F, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link
love that pinkpop clip. she did it the same way as a final encore when i saw her in '91. totally riveting.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I've never thought of the song as being about an affair with a married man specifically. He's obviously an emotionally unavailable asshole, but there could be any number of reasons for that.
The soul-killing line for me is "but I knew you wanted me to be there" -- so, despite all her yelling and screaming and white-hot anger, she's still trying to convince herself that everything is really OK.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
This helps:
WHY should I blame her that she filled my daysWith misery, or that she would of lateHave taught to ignorant men most violent ways,Or hurled the little streets upon the great.Had they but courage equal to desire?What could have made her peaceful with a mindThat nobleness made simple as a fire,With beauty like a tightened bow, a kindThat is not natural in an age like this,Being high and solitary and most stern?Why, what could she have done, being what she is?Was there another Troy for her to burn?
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032502363.html?hpid=topnews
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
that was an excellent read; she is an incredibly evocative writer
― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Friday, 26 March 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Very heavy.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2011/08/sinead_split_a_p.jpg
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
45 year old woman in not-looking-like-when-she-was-20 shocker
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― jon/via/chia/pet 2.0 (kkvgz), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
tbf it's nothing to do with age, but more that she looks radically different from the image of her that many of us carry around in our minds. i know that i wouldn't have been able to identify her in the absence of clues
― dell (del), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
tbf 45 yo Sinead looks more like she's 13
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Wait... the woman in black is Sinead?!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link