Sinead O'Connor: C/D?

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

Terrific tribute by Dave Holmes: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a44655422/sinead-oconnor-death-tribute/

no words yet. I can’t.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LhIkAKJzs8

Don'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

Listening to “I Feel Different” this evening broke me

like being swamped by an emotional wave

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

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

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

That KEXP link mentioned some recent tweets - turns out she opened a new account this month, and it's heartbreaking to read. It's like she was trying to restart her life - she mentions moving back to London for the first time in decades, posts a video of herself and announces a new album close to completion - but also still in mourning over her son.

https://twitter.com/786OmShahid

I didn't realize there was a video to that song she did with Terry Hall. Love how she smiles in the background when he takes his first verse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqk4qzmRpS0

Speaking of playlists, one of those tweets links to a playlist by her: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tJNA0rDI3sdlO5fF2f4jW?si=b5e44c459e7b4847

Looks excellent. Tons of reggae, assorted other things. I'm going to put it on.

Thanks for pointing that out! FWIW here's her playlists in general, including one called "Songs I Wanna Cover 2023":

https://open.spotify.com/user/jahismykeeper

wow at that Terry Hall duet, lovely vid that <3

Thanks for pointing that out! FWIW here's her playlists in general, including one called "Songs I Wanna Cover 2023":

https://open.spotify.com/user/jahismykeeper🕸

“Here But I’m Gone” by Curtis Mayfield as the final song in her covers wishlist is particularly heartbreaking.

...and to think what she could have done with "Sign Your Name"!

Heartbreaking loss. The ilx community does provide some solace for which I’m thankful.

Adding a live solo version of Danny Boy from 1993. Just Sinead and her haunting voice.

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

Letterman's official account has uploaded all of her appearances today in tribute.

I haven't seen this put up here, so here's her U.S. television debut from Late Night with David Letterman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnUI4a7BKpE

I mentioned this for her on the Schaffer/Letterman thread, but that a snippet of that "Mandinka" performance was included in a "Musical Guests" clip package during his 10th(?) Anniversary Primetime special (filmed in the same of the notorious SNL appearance in '92) , and the fucking audience booed and the goddamn network left it in.

'for her'="over" & 'in the same of'="in the wake of" damn phone.

Seemingly against many odds this works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJy77VV4okk

The Chieftains, Van Morrison & Sinead

I’d forgotten she’d done this, though I wish her voice was more prominent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KX05v4dpss

Angry. I feel like all of us let her down

She sings on a couple tracks on Richard Wright's solo album from 1996 - this one is better. It's an interesting pairing and I wish she could have contributed more - otherwise it's just 1990s era Floyd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Zg_znrZtk

Morrissey made a blistering post arguing the same, even more furious than Beth Orton's, though it doesn't help that he draws parallels between himself and O'Connor.

xxp the performance of "Mother" at the Berlin Wall is surreal - herself, Roger Waters, and 3/5 of The Band (Danko, Helm, Hudson).

Found this, where she appears on Jon Stewart's old show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPOM20kgWlc

Forgot to mention, I didn't realize this song was inspired by her brief relationship with Peter Gabriel.

Yeah Morrissey can stfu, he’s a racist piece of shit and O’Connor actually cared about racism, refugees and helping people.

Don't know about her recorded work but some of the footage of her singing on TV shows has been breathtaking to watch.

Sinéad O'Connor and Shane MacGowan performing Haunted on the White Room in 1995. Magical pic.twitter.com/MRIqzJFMGN

— Birmingham 81 (@Birmingham_81) July 26, 2023

This is something

1993 pic.twitter.com/xMY7XuO93R

— KillianM2 TV Archive (@KillianM2) July 26, 2023

Sinead O’Conner shaving the Public Enemy logo onto her head to protest the rap category not being televised at the Grammys was an incredible move pic.twitter.com/N9GEIxw3XC

— Moody Waters (@aniconic_) March 25, 2022

in tears reading orton

Almost too obvious to say but "Nothing Compares 2 U" really is one of THE great cover versions isn't it?

xpost - Morrissey's post was completely self serving as always

Almost too obvious to say but "Nothing Compares 2 U" really is one of THE great cover versions isn't it?

― bain4z,

I mean, even goddamn Prince couldn't figure out how to perform his own song (and he was a hateful bastard, according to O'Connor herself).

(xp) I seriously wish I'd never read it.

I saw her last in ... 2007? She was incredible, of course. I went back to look how I summed it up at the time: "At its most forceful that soprano of hers could bring armies to their knees, and O’Connor often sang like she believed that was possible."

That night she also dedicated a cover of "Rivers of Babylon" to Britney Spears. Iirc a few people perhaps laughed or something (there was a lot of Britney in the news at the time, most/much of it not sympathetic). She was right about so much.

Died in London it seems, she'd only recently moved there

She was living in Notting Hill at some point in the 1990s. I know because I was working in the Exchange bookshop when she came in one day and sold off her book collection - a life decluttering, I think. The most amazing item was a copy of Dylan's Collected Lyrics, signed by Bob to Sinead, probably for the 30th-anniversary concert. My colleague tried to persuade her not to part with this, but she didn't want to know.

I was always struck by her interaction with Kristofferson at the Dylan tribute, not just by the way he gives her such generous support and comfort but the way she reacts like someone who rarely received such things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4fVxcT00Sc

I swear, someone posted her performing "Fire On Babylon" on one of the late night shows. I thought it was in this thread, but I can't find it. Nor can I now find it on YouTube. A real shame, as that performance was absolute fire.

wow this is great, i know rourke and joyce were her rhythm section on an early tour, but for obvious reasons this means even more coming from her

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

Yeah, that realization hit me when the lights came on. I had no idea until they were standing there right in front of me.

I'm shaking with anger watching these savages at a Bob Dylan show boo her.

I swear, someone posted her performing "Fire On Babylon" on one of the late night shows. I thought it was in this thread, but I can't find it. Nor can I now find it on YouTube. A real shame, as that performance was absolute fire.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux),

Letterman! I watched it at the time.

Sinead singing on ‘visions of you’ , was a huge act of generosity. Typical of her . Refused to take a penny for the session . That track had a massive positive influence on my life . From writing the track with her voice in mind, through to recording it was transcendental

— Jah Wobble (@realjahwobble) July 27, 2023

This is one of those deaths that hit me especially hard. I feel old today. I don't think I've felt like this over the death of a musician since Prince, or maybe even Joe Strummer.

The Dylan clip is surreal - like, how many of those people even knew why they were booing her?

Letterman! I watched it at the time.

When her voice just takes off . . . my god. The only other artist I can think of who (occasionally) has that effect is Bjork.

Something often overlooked, or rarely mentioned, in that Dylan clip is that twice the band tries to start playing, and twice she silences them. Had they started playing and drowned out the crowd, I bet the crowd would have come around. I've seen it happen many times. But she doesn't let them off that easy. She chooses the more difficult, the more confrontational, the more righteous route.

Beth Orton’s Instagram post will burn you.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CvLU4kxNd9Q/

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, July 26, 2023 8:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Ugh. Worth posting her in full for anyone not on the platform:

I am not lost for words, I’m furious. All this bullshit about mental health and supposedly supporting artists yet nothing gets done to protect the vulnerable. Some go to school to learn their craft and some sing for their life because it depends on it. Sinead should have been better taken care of. The cruelty and mockery she experienced over way too many years for being exactly who we needed her to be so we could feel the feelings we would have been unable to know otherwise is appalling. She was an artist in the highest and most righteous form. There is no chart to steer through the songs that come from the soul. The hardest graft is not to learn the lines but to live them. Sinead O’Conner was a seer and she was paper thin, see through, she should have been held with the upmost love and care and respect. She found success and made people money from what tormented her, it was clearly extreme and shocking to find success from doing what came naturally to her. How brutally lonely for someone as in need of love as she was, someone who gave pure love, pure anger and endless forgiveness with all the wisdom and best will in the world. Sinead sang me through losing my mother, she gave me my tears and allowed me to feel a grief I wouldn’t have understood without her honesty and truth. She deserved medals of bravery for her service. I’m glad she got to see some love in the last couple of years, but too little too late to save her health. I hope she finds the peace she was searching for all the way through. Words will now fail me. Thank you dearest hearted brilliant brave women.

“IT IS NO MEASURE OF HEALTH TO BE WELL ADJUSTED TO A PROFOUNDLY SICK SOCIETY”

#sineadoconner