Sinead O'Connor: C/D?

Yeah, it's fascinating to realize Prince never ONCE got "Nothing Compares 2 U" right.

I love Prince, but he's always been a real dick to O'Connor over that song. It's like O'Connor did something to it that he didn't/couldn't and that hurt his ego.

I'd drop the "it's like."

*shakes head* Fuck, man.

Oof, terrible. Way too young. I'll be honest, I just never really clicked fully with her music, but I always respected the hell out of her and understood why people did fall so hard for her. RIP, hope she's found some degree of peace.

RIP little bird. You'll be missed.

I kept hoping she'd have her late-career renaissance moment.

This is a terrible loss. RIP.

horrible, horrible news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_GXwF6GE4

damn. she was a real one. that's all I can say about it.

This is terrible news and makes me sad

the documentary on showtime was very affecting...some amazing footage of her as a young performer.

i thought a lot about it, like i feel like most musicians, or a least i feel this way, have a certain knack for something, or at least a clever way of going about it...but not to sound uh rockist or anything, but there's something about people like her

it's beyond regular musical talent, like a pure thing, that pure voice she had, whoever gave it to her, i guess sinead would say god did...just a pure pure pure thing, that sound that came out of her, like something so profound you are born with it, that ability...not to say you don't learn how to sing better or have craft but it's got to be there, inside you when you were born. it's just a really deep thing to think about, how it must be to have that.

I know I posted it well upthread somewhere but this performance has lived with me for years, and years.

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

The Lion and the Cobra was one of the first two CDs I bought, back in...1987? Early 1988, probably, 'cause I bought it after seeing the "Mandinka" video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNXYFOPRuQ0

awful yet unsurprising news; given her life in some ways I can't even say I blame her, but I wish this had been different

man, i remember seeing that grammy performance of "mandinka" when I was 10 years old or so and just being amazed — nothing else like that.

i've always loved this one, not sure if I could actually listen to it today, though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRgnU4C1S-g

that moment when she almost whispers the words..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km64pT6bDXs

Sinead deserved so much better than she got. And we all know it. And I think we're all grieving for that too.

— Gino Fellino 🤌🤌 🔪🦀🤌🤌 (@Bubblenoma) July 26, 2023

Damn RIP. Truly wish she is at peac.e

Unjustifiably canceled for shining light on the dark evils of the Catholic Church, sacrificing her career/mental health/financial security in the process.

The cassingle for "Mandinka" was in my cassette player for months (b/w "Drink Before The War") back in the good old days.

Wow, RIP

I saw her perform on the Universal Mother tour; she was a warm & powerful presence. And I still pull out Throw Down Your Arms every Christmas. Such a sad & terrible way to end. RIP

There are few artists I admired more in this world, RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGSaWR-DCQ8

This is one of the prettiest songs of all time. My wife used to sing it to each of our kids when they were babies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chv1JkArc4g

nooooooooooooo
i have nothing to say, she was the best, i hope she is at peace <3 xoxo

I was lucky enough to see her on her first North American tour. I'll never forget it. She was so intense as to be almost frightening. Taken too soon after too much hardship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiEcut07GrM

that 89 grammys performance was one of the first things i remember seeing of her, just unforgettable.

shaved head, torn jeans & boots with that amazing voice. she hooked me for life. never got to see her live & so wish that i had

A story I read once from her producer/engineer that in a way really summed her up.

The only difficulty we had took place during what should have been a relatively easy mix on the SSL at Eden Studios, because there wasn't much instrumentation. For some reason, Sinéad hated compression, and when I'd come in each morning there would be a piece of white A4 paper on the console saying 'NO FUCKING COMPRESSORS!' The problem was, she had a reverse mic technique. When most people sing loud, they back off the mic, but she used to do the opposite — she would stand away from the mic when singing quietly and then scream right into it.

I’m at a loss for words. Her records were tremendously important to me. I was lucky to see her live in 1990, and it was a movingly contradictory combination of slightly-uneasy-on-a-large-stage (Chicago Theatre) and absolutely commanding the full attention of everyone in the building. I’ll never forget it.

i'm crushed

I just watched the Showtime doc this month. The making of the video for Nothing Compares was really moving. I hope she is in a better place.

There are few artists I admired more in this world, RIP

― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, July 26, 2023

really this. I'm reeling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yuQLPkdRsI

RIP and to hell with the catholic church.

i saw her at camp bestival in 2014.
to hear that voice in a gorgeous live setting was rather special.
this song was built up and up, and made me totally get something in my eyes.
i always hoped she would find peace and a good and happy life.

rest in peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXyGEw8lHG8

haven't explored much beyond the first two albums, but both had such excellent songwriting to accompany the incredible vocals. she was so young then, really a shame what she had to go through.

rest in peace

she was only 20 when lion and the cobra came out, and she'd already lived so much

Search: The Gospel Oak EP (1997). A gorgeous little collection (Josh linked its best song above).

ALL her stuff is worth hearing, there are good songs everywhere. So sad to hear this, really hits hard not least because to follow her for the past 36 years has been to necessarily immerse yourself in her emotional landscape and — often — to sense how much pain underlay it. Has there ever been a Sinead fan who didn't understand how hard happiness was for her to find, and who didn't wish it for her?

I really worried about her after her son died last year. I was afraid it would be too much for her. R.I.P.

So glad I did get to see her in 1990, she was mesmerizing, one of my top 10 shows.

guys, I’m so sad. she deserved a lot better. what a fucking genius.

guys, I’m so sad. she deserved a lot better. what a fucking genius.

She was right. About everything.

Damn right she was.

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

wow....

https://heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/trouble-of-the-world-a-cappella

"The Emperor's New Clothes" has one of my favorite fadeouts.

What a great spiritual for her style

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.