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.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 18:29 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiEcut07GrM
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 18:32 (nine months ago) link
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
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 18:42 (nine months ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 18:46 (nine months ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 18:48 (nine months ago) link
i'm crushed
― ivy., Wednesday, 26 July 2023 18:52 (nine months ago) link
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.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 18:53 (nine months ago) link
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
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 18:58 (nine months ago) link
RIP and to hell with the catholic church.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 18:59 (nine months ago) link
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
― mark e, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 19:15 (nine months ago) link
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
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 19:27 (nine months ago) link
she was only 20 when lion and the cobra came out, and she'd already lived so much
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 19:28 (nine months ago) link
Search: The Gospel Oak EP (1997). A gorgeous little collection (Josh linked its best song above).
― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 19:29 (nine months ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 19:46 (nine months ago) link
guys, I’m so sad. she deserved a lot better. what a fucking genius.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:01 (nine months ago) link
She was right. About everything.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:03 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
What a great spiritual for her style
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:13 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
("As a...")
― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:15 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
godddamn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wMZvznTTGg
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 20:20 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
A heroic figure. rip.
― treeship., Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:04 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
“And you should’ve let the light onnnnn” fuck I’m so depressed
― treeship., Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:13 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
lol
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:21 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
oh man no. I'd been thinking about her this week.
― kinder, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:40 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
She deserved better from the world. RIP
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:50 (nine months ago) link
this is just heartbreaking. rest in peace, Sinead.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 22:09 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
― paulhw, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 23:25 (nine months ago) link