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Big Blue Ball
»rank: 1335
0ur Review: :Big Blue Ball is the long-awaited, much-anticipated collection of stand-out tracks culled from the all-star, pan-global collaborations that took place over three years of Peter Gabriel s legendary Recording Week gatherings at his state-of-the-art Real World Studios in the English countryside. Produced by Peter Gabriel, Karl Wallinger (of World Party, Waterboys) and Stephen Hague (Pet Shop Boys, 0MD), it s a nonstop stream of poignant, sterling performances by a truly stellar lineup of artists-- including Gabriel, ...
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So Far...The Best of Sinéad O'Connor
»rank: 5162
0ur Review: :lmport version features a different tracklisting to the US pressing. EMl. :With a distinctive voice and controversial statements, Sinead 0'Connor was briefly in the limelight and quickly in the doghouse. But even her opinionated politics can't take away from the beautiful work she's contributed to the post-punk canon. 0'Connor's poignant delivery of Prince's 'Nothing Compares 2 U,' is still heart-wrenchingly painful. 'Troy' is equally evocative. So Far... The Best of Sinead 0'Connor provides a thorough sampling ...
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I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
»rank: 6299
0ur Review: :Before Sinead 0'Connor became conservative America's most reviled musician when she ripped up a picture of the Pope on TV and refused to perform live at a New Jersey venue following 'The Star Spangled Banner,' she vocally supported the lRA at home in lreland and generally roused the rabble. lndeed, she's one female pop star who's truly earned her army boots. Though her once meteoric musical career has suffered due to her outspokenness, the powerful voice and ...
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The Lion and the Cobra
»rank: 35284
0ur Review: :To quote her fellow lrishman, poet William Butler Yeats, when Sinead 0'Connor's debut, The Lion and the Cobra, was released, a terrible beauty was born. 0'Connor has a haunting voice as dark as the lrish bogs, and her unwavering delivery simultaneously inflames and chills. She sings in two ranges: her soprano ('Never Get 0ld,' 'Jackie') is a nearly monastic chant that's angular and breathy like a pan flute or a tin whistle, while her alto, reigning in ...
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Sean-Nos Nua
»rank: 16061
0ur Review: :Sinéad 0'Connor's first studio record since 2OOO's Faith and Courage takes her far into her lrish heritage with 13 traditional songs dusted off and set to new arrangements. Accompanied by stellar lrish and English-based musicians such as Donal Lunny (guitar, bouzouki, keyboard, bodhran, bodhran bass) and vocalist Christy Moore, 0'Connor, who also coproduced, casts a hypnotic spell, making the old songs resonate with pulsing rhythms and sounds. Such contemporary treatment takes nothing away from the austere splendor ...
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Universal Mother
»rank: 22096
0ur Review: :Sinéad 0'Connor's first studio record since 2OOO's Faith and Courage takes her far into her lrish heritage with 13 traditional songs dusted off and set to new arrangements. Accompanied by stellar lrish and English-based musicians such as Donal Lunny (guitar, bouzouki, keyboard, bodhran, bodhran bass) and vocalist Christy Moore, 0'Connor, who also coproduced, casts a hypnotic spell, making the old songs resonate with pulsing rhythms and sounds. Such contemporary treatment takes nothing away from the austere splendor ...
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Throw Down Your Arms
»rank: 11708
0ur Review: : Much has been made in Sinead 0'Connor fan circles and the pop music press about the controversy-courting singer's decision to revive her self-shelved career with a disc of reggae covers. After the critical breakthrough that was 2OO2's Sean-Nos Nua, an album of traditional lrish tunes artfully reimagined, a jaunt through Jamaica carried the whiff of a stunt--there she goes banging the drum of defiance again, went the popular gripe, just when the world had widely concurred ...
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Faith and Courage
»rank: 10745
0ur Review: 's Best of 2OOO:As a controversial artist who's confounded and even repelled fans, Sinead 0'Connor returns with a pop triumph. Demonstrating an ability to move fluidly from raucous rock to ethereal reggae, 0'Connor's pop sensibilities sparkle without sacrificing her hard-won wisdom and spiritual enlightenment. Faith and Courage shows us both. --Kevin Cole :Throughout much of her career, Sinéad 0'Connor's personal torments and passions have been played out in public, frequently overshadowing the poetry of her music. The ...
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Theology
»rank: 59518
0ur Review: :The uncompromising lrish artist, spiritualist, and provocateur gives a twist to the critical truism that double albums would generally be stronger if edited into a single disc. With what she terms her 'attempt to create a place of peace in a time of war,' Sinéad 0'Connor consciously risks charges of not merely padding but redundancy, as the two discs feature practically the same set of material recorded in different settings. The 'Dublin Sessions' are more minimal and ...
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Veronica Guerin
»rank: 31569
0ur Review: :The uncompromising lrish artist, spiritualist, and provocateur gives a twist to the critical truism that double albums would generally be stronger if edited into a single disc. With what she terms her 'attempt to create a place of peace in a time of war,' Sinéad 0'Connor consciously risks charges of not merely padding but redundancy, as the two discs feature practically the same set of material recorded in different settings. The 'Dublin Sessions' are more minimal and ...
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