Hey Y'all,

This has got to be one chick with a strong presence and message!
I completely enjoy Sinead O'Connor, her favorite album of mine is the 1980's classic "The Lion & The Cobra". This album is angry, rockin' and beautiful from beginning to end. Does anyone enjoy Sinead as much as I do! "Troy" has got to be one of the best songs she's ever recorded! What is your favorite?

The song I love the most is "Mandinka". I believe it is off of "The Lion & The Cobra" also.

I don't know many songs by Sinead at all, but I really love the song "Nothing Compares 2 U". In this song, she has a beautiful voice and I love the lyrics. It was written by Prince, I think.

I don't know any of her songs. The only thing I know about her is she looked freaky. lol And how she ripped up that picture. :thumb:

Sinead rocks. You can take or leave her politics as you like but her songs are great. Lion And The Cobra has tons of great tracks and I agree with Trix, Troy is one of her best (lyrics partially borrowed from an old W.B. Yeats poem No Second Troy ).

Other faves:
You Mad Me The Thief Of Your Heart (Name of the Father soundtrack)
Haunted (duet with Shane McGowan)
Stretched On Your Grave (from I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got)
The Foggy Dew (from Long Black Veil with the Chieftains)

And many more. :)

Originally posted by Bogie
Sinead rocks. You can take or leave her politics as you like but her songs are great. Lion And The Cobra has tons of great tracks and I agree with Trix, Troy is one of her best (lyrics partially borrowed from an old W.B. Yeats poem No Second Troy ).

Other faves:
You Mad Me The Thief Of Your Heart (Name of the Father soundtrack)
Haunted (duet with Shane McGowan)
Stretched On Your Grave (from I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got)
The Foggy Dew (from Long Black Veil with the Chieftains)

And many more. :)

You are so right Bogie, "Stretched On Your Grave" has got to be one of the most beautiful and haunting songs Sinead has ever written! That is my favorite track off of 'I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got'! :thumb: Good call Bogie! :)

I like Sinead too, I think she did nothing Compares 2 U very well. I really liked Mandinka a lot and this song has been going non-stop through my head this last week. I was going to put a post on about her and itt's nice to see somebody else has.

Another of her 80's songs which I really liked was a song called Heroine, the Edge from U2 plays the guitar on it, a kind of duet but he doesn't sing lol.

I strongly dislike Sinead O'Connor for her political stance, as well as some of her disgraceful outbursts in front of the british public that tainted her short stay in the limelight during the 90's.

I'm not going to reel out a whole load of examples here, but this is probably the only case where my personal feelings against the individual are strong enough to stop me from buying the music - even if I like it.

Of course I respect her opinion, and even agree that the English should pack up and leave Northern Ireland, but there is the correct way of going about it and the wrong way.

Musically she's fine, I just felt like I wanted to draw attention to the flip side of the coin. I didn't mean to purposly urinate on anyone's bonfire in here! ;)

My favorite songs from Sinead would be "Mandinka" and "Emperor's New Clothes". Chopper, she's done more than her fair share of controversial things on American soil, including tearing up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live and refusing to perform a concert if the American national anthem was played before her appearance! So she hasn't exactly endeared herself to the public, which would explain why she's just sort of disappeared over the past decade!

Originally posted by Chopper
I strongly dislike Sinead O'Connor for her political stance, as well as some of her disgraceful outbursts in front of the british public that tainted her short stay in the limelight during the 90's.

I'm not going to reel out a whole load of examples here, but this is probably the only case where my personal feelings against the individual are strong enough to stop me from buying the music - even if I like it.

Of course I respect her opinion, and even agree that the English should pack up and leave Northern Ireland, but there is the correct way of going about it and the wrong way.

Musically she's fine, I just felt like I wanted to draw attention to the flip side of the coin. I didn't mean to purposly urinate on anyone's bonfire in here! ;)

Good examples you brought up Triv!

I completely agree with you Chopper on Sinead's stances! I was so completely disgusted with her actions, I gave away my cd's. I wanted nothing to do with her, but I began to think that she has an opinion and I can respect that, and as long as I know where I stand, things are fine and I can appreciate her for her music! :)

I never really cared much for her or her music. I think the Prince song was a pain in the butt, but I do admire her for standing up for her beliefs. Too many people are busy kissing arse in showbiz. Sinead never did that and even though she was downgraded by marketing monsters - she's still going strong. :)

Sinead O'Connor = sellout...

enough said !

80strivia, Flix and Trixter - I agree with all of you guys totally.

I respect her opinion and I admire her for standing up and saying so, but thats as far as it goes. Just like Sinead herself, I make a stand for something I believe i so I'm sure she would be the first to respect that.

Nothing personal, but I just don't like her as a person, or her music.

she has the most incredible voice. nobody can wail like she does. I listen to 'the lion and the cobra' on the way to work most mornings. (that and 'smashing pumpkins' 'siamese dream'. ) I love just about all the tracks on her tape. ;)

She was the real deal. Angry, ticked off at the political establishment, sick of the Pope (oh man, she should have tried enduring 13 years of Catholic school in Chicago)and essentially trying to voice her beliefs through powerful, vocal chord traumatizing songs.

Her songs were best played very loudly when you wanted to sulk because your parents made you put on something other than the color black. In memory, the girl who was trying to snake my boyfriend from me at the time, pulled up one night in front of our place blaring "Troy" in her pining need.

It was the perfect choice for getting her point across. Troy starts out tremulous, Sineads operatic voice tentatively following the passivistic strands of music, leading us to the final vein-on-the-neck-standing-out-like-a-finger howling epitaph of "Your still a liar!" Her ability to relate her emotion through her singing is unmatched in my opinion.

This album builds up into a crescendo that packs a wallop like Evander Holyfield with some nice dance music thrown in like "I want your hands on me" and "Mandinka"

The Cranberries were able to come on the scene thanks to Sinead. If you like the Cranberries or Tori Amos, or Edie Brickel and the New Bohemians (where are they now?), then you'd enjoy The Lion and the Cobra.

My favorite song (how shallow I am...LOL) "I want your hands...", not anyone's typical pick. I did enjoy Sinead for a time when she was new on the scene, but her antics, albeit her convictions real, drove me away...and then her sound became to monotonous...so I still enjoy the Lion & the Cobra from time to time, but it doesn't get pulled out of the vault all that often.

~JJ

Originally posted by Bogie
Sinead rocks. You can take or leave her politics as you like but her songs are great. Lion And The Cobra has tons of great tracks and I agree with Trix, Troy is one of her best (lyrics partially borrowed from an old W.B. Yeats poem No Second Troy ).
I agree 100%! This album is incredible. Troy is an amazing song.