I honestly remember Andrew Dice Clay getting more sensitive treatment from the media at the time.
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Sunday, 28 February 2016 23:34 (eight years ago) link
I dont remember directly bc i was like four, but i've always known about that whole saga. Wikipedia says that madonna trashed her at the time
― Treeship, Sunday, 28 February 2016 23:39 (eight years ago) link
I remember thinking it was kinda cool but not thinking much of it & them finding out that american media was all flipped out about it was weird, like omg youys really
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 February 2016 23:43 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhUzMGQLid4
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 February 2016 02:13 (eight years ago) link
Wow...that is hard to watch.
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 29 February 2016 11:49 (eight years ago) link
I see she's back on FB, having erased her plaintive frightening posts about being committed last year; and she also appears to be on tour? there's a rather great version of her doing Life on Mars from the other day. She looks fucking tough now, like, I would not fuck with this lady, she might put a bottle through my face.
― akm, Monday, 7 March 2016 14:46 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkI6lzreh4w
― akm, Monday, 7 March 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
oh that's a shitty version. Here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNXYFOPRuQ0
― akm, Monday, 7 March 2016 14:59 (eight years ago) link
^goosebumps^
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 7 March 2016 18:48 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, that was from a Bowie tribute concert here.
I think she's massively been treated like shit, and then every few years she does something great and people are all, huh, maybe we shouldn't have treated her like shit. I even liked her Sly & Robbie album.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 March 2016 19:21 (eight years ago) link
goddamn that was so good
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 March 2016 19:24 (eight years ago) link
she's a total classic. i still love the incredible ballsy pope photo shred move and still hate how madonna kinda mocked it shortly thereafter.
― nomar, Monday, 7 March 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link
Her reggae covers album is my go-to Christmas record.
― dinnerboat, Monday, 7 March 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link
Wish it included her Asian Dub Foundation jam, because this is so good:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUVErnrbVEcAwesome vocal, could imagine it sung by Kirsty MacColl.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 March 2016 20:47 (eight years ago) link
pretty sure troy is one of my favorite songs
― Treeship, Sunday, 24 April 2016 00:37 (eight years ago) link
gotta be one of the most dramatic performances ever.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 April 2016 12:25 (eight years ago) link
Was sinead the wellspring of the "growly vowel" phenomenon that has been a favourite affectation of a certain kind of female singer from the 90s til now?
― hardcore dilettante, Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:52 (eight years ago) link
more or less yeah
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 24 April 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
Wait was that Reggae album all Burning Spear covers?
― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 April 2016 21:28 (eight years ago) link
reported missing outside of Chicago
Police in a suburb of Chicago are searching for Irish singer Sinead O'Connor who has been reported missing for more than a day.Wilmette Police "are seeking to check the well-being" of the 49-year-old, they said in a brief press release.Police were called after Ms O'Connor "left the Wilmette area" for a bicycle ride at 0600 local time on Sunday, and had not returned after more than a day.No more information is currently available, police say.
― hunangarage, Monday, 16 May 2016 16:37 (eight years ago) link
Arsenio got her
She posted on FB two days ago that she was heading to North Carolina to protest
― akm, Monday, 16 May 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
i see she's deleted that though
― akm, Monday, 16 May 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
That's a long way to cycle.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Monday, 16 May 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
Have it on pretty good authority she's been found safe.
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 16 May 2016 19:16 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, despite the URL this is good news.
http://wgntv.com/2016/05/16/sinead-oconnor-reported-missing-in-chicagos-northern-suburbs/
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 16 May 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
Listening to the Bowie tribute above is amazing, but watching it is a really strange effect - she's an old slightly dangerous looking granny on the mic, and then she'll turn and the profile + the lighting (+ the fact that it's generally when she's really going for the note) - she's reborn in her own skin, it's like Troy was yesterday.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 16 May 2016 19:36 (eight years ago) link
Which isn't to say that she's best when she's harking back to the flush of youth - far from it, she's one of the artist where surviving would be its own worth, but she's done so much more than survive.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 16 May 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
glad to hear she's safe. one of my favorite singers.
― Treeship, Monday, 16 May 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
agreed. so wish I didn't have to click with dread every time this thread gets bumped.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 16 May 2016 20:18 (eight years ago) link
I did give Lion and the Cobra a heavy listen after hearing about her disappearance. Like, okay, this might be the last time I get to hear this all without the thoughts of memorial and sorrow. But the next thing I did was google up DJP's Paul Mooney post.
― how's life, Monday, 16 May 2016 23:43 (eight years ago) link
Story is so tragic that even finding her has apparently not resulted in a happy ending (see: her most recent Facebook rant).
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
Top tip: don't see.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
I hate to be all "won't someone think of the children" but any time I see Sinead news I think about how weird it must be to have her for a mother
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
the current situation seems weird. like, her 28 year old son is refusing to remove her 12 year old son from foster care and take him into custody or something. (the state won't allow her to take custody, it seems.) i would probably be mad at him too.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
the thing with sinead is that she spoke up against child sexual abuse in the catholic church before anyone else in a similarly visible position did so. she took flak from basically everyone, who chalked it up to her being an "irrational" "crazy" woman.
i still think of her as an essentially principled, brave person who now seems to suffer from some kind of tragic mental illness which i don't know the details of.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
never heard this before
For Sinead O'Connor, Love Willie - Don't Give Up - https://t.co/xbFXnQsH3i via @YouTube— Willie Nelson (@WillieNelson) August 16, 2017
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 August 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link
After that video she put up last week, this thread popping up made me think "oh no" - glad to be listening to that instead, her voice works perfectly.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 18 August 2017 22:49 (seven years ago) link
^same, my heart in my mouth for a second.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 18 August 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link
New song, streaming exclusively on The Irish Sun.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Friday, 3 August 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
https://heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/trouble-of-the-world-2
― djh, Saturday, 3 October 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
There was a weird thread in my dreams last night where I kept reciting lyrics from I do not want what I haven't got, then a stretch where I listened to the album "in full" (in dream time). So I had to play it today. Definitely the album with the highest percentage of songs that make me burst into tears, though I can never predict which moments will do it.
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Sunday, 7 March 2021 00:02 (three years ago) link
amazing new interview
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-rememberings.html
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
also, very afraid to read old posts in any sinead related threads tbh
Later, when “Nothing Compares 2 U” made her a star, O’Connor said the song’s writer, Prince, terrorized her. She had pledged to reveal the details “when I’m an old lady and I write my book,” and now she has: She writes that Prince summoned her to his macabre Hollywood mansion, chastised her for swearing in interviews, harangued his butler to serve her soup though she repeatedly refused it, and sweetly suggested a pillow fight, only to thump her with something hard he’d slipped into his pillowcase. When she escaped on foot in the middle of the night, she writes, he stalked her with his car, leapt out and chased her around the highway.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
i love her so much <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
harangued his butler to serve her soup though she repeatedly refused it
The mental image of this alone is incredible...
― Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) stan (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
reminds me of the Stevie Nicks story about Prince visiting her while sick, fluffing pillows and stuff until she demanded cough medicine. "I'm not here to get you hooked on another drug!" he yelled and walked out.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
yikes
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 18:34 (three years ago) link
suddenly doesn't seem as strange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIIAQME1Uhg
― piscesx, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
the photo of the pope being her Mother’s is a detail i never knew & it makes me love her morealso shaving her head when the exec tells her to dress more pretty is VERY much my energy and maybe my entire reason for her being my ride or die for 30+ years
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link