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The Big Breakfast
This IS A Rebel Song
Coming Releases
Private Revolution
Diana Tribute Info
CNN Web feature on Sinead
Big Breakfast update
Releases Update
'gospel according...' reaired without redemption song
U.S. Album Release
Sinead in Oslo
Sinead's Gael Force Performance on TV
"Live on Letterman......."
NEW cd-single
"End of Violence" starts in Germany
"Best of Sessions"
john water's letter
Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace
Rebel Release
U.S. Best So Far
Another tracklist; So far...the best of Sinead
O'Connor
Yet another version again.
(handed by; ross)
The Big Breakfast
This coming week (Mon 10th) the UK programme "The Big Breakfast"
(7-9am) on Channel 4 will have some special sinead footage.Last
week they mentioned this but didnt say if it would be interviews or
what! I'll keep you posted, and if its anythink interesting (live an
interview) perhaps you would like to trade again?
(handed by; Mars-L)
This IS A Rebel Song
Weird but true according to my CD-shop....The release of cd singles (part 1 and 2) of This
Is A Rebel Song has been moved to November 10th...... Weird because that's the same day as
the one which is set for the So Far The Best... (Of which yesterday was shown a
TV-commercial during the European MTV Awards.....)
(Handed by Mars-L)
Coming Releases
Here is a list of all coming releases.......
So Far...The Best Of Sinead O'Connor
Out in Holland Nov. 10th / UK Nov 25 /... /
This IS A Rebel Song Part 1
Release date = delayed till unknown date....
- - This IS a Rebel Song
- - Redemption Song (live)
- - Fire on Babylon (live)
This IS A Rebel Song Part 2
Release date = delayed till unknown date.....
- - This IS a Rebel Song
- - Thank You For Hearing Me
- - The Last Day of Our Acquaintance
Although it doesn't state that these last two are live, I suspect that they
will be...
Diana memorial 2CD
Release date unknown !! Not even recorded entirely !!!!
This album will be a compilation album containing artists like The Spice
Girls, Michael Jackson and many others.....
Sinead's song will be the song "Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace" !
Irish In America
Chieftains-Sinead collaboration.
I don't know any info !!!!
Live at David Letterman
Coming soon......
Several artists who performed at David Letterman's Late Show.
Includes a song by Sinead and Van Morrisson entitled "Have I Told You Lately"
U2/Sinead - I Am Not Your Baby
Although the song already appears on the album for The End Of Violence and
the single entitled "Please" of U2 contains a instrumental dub version of
it as a bonus track it seems U2 is thinking of releasing the duet with
Sinead as a stand-alone CD-single with it's own remixes.
I need info about the soundtrack for Matchmakers
Also info about the Rememberrance play
And does Sinead sing in Butcher boy ???
In a recent interview Sinead mentioned that there will be a Russian remix of the song
"This Is A Rebel Song" Does anyone have more info !???
(Handed by Mars-L)
Private Revolution
As most collectors know, Sinead appears as a background singer in the clip for World
Party's song "Private Revolution" (Probably the first clip of Sinead, she looks
very young with a whole lot of make-up).... But when you listen to the album you can't
hear her (at least I can't). So I always thought Sinead just appears in the clip lipsynch
the vocals of someone else.
But it seems that she really is on this track. At least the UK magazine Record Collector
seems to mention it in one of their issues... And knowing they're very detailed and very
accurate and detailed I am 99% sure they're right. So this makes "Private
Revolution" the thirth song of Sinead together with World Party. (together with;
"Haiwaiian Island World" and "Sweet Soul Dream")
(Handed by Mars-L)
Diana Tribute Info
LONDON--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 28, 1997--The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund
("the Fund") confirmed the final track listing for its album due to be released
on 1st December 1997. It will include "Miss Sarajevo" as performed by the
Passengers.
The album titled ``Diana, Princess of Wales - Tribute'' will be released on the Fund's own
label.
Track 4 of disc one of this 2CD-album will be Sinead O Connor - "Make Me A
Channel of Your Peace"
(Handed by Michael C. Berch)
CNN Web feature on Sinead
The CNN Web site has a short (syndicated from the L.A. Times) interview with Sinead, along
with some links, including Mars-L's Sinead page (which is probwably taking a zillion hits
today).
The story can be found at (if it still exists):
http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9711/12/sinead.lat/index.html
(Handed by stephen john miller)
Big Breakfast update
This Morning Sinead (& Jake!) appeared on the Big Breakfast, as i told you last week.
She was on for the full second hour of the show! She said she is writing the next LP &
they showed a bit of the new video to "This is a rebel song"!!!
(Handed by Daniel)
Releases Update
Just an info for all the Sinead gurus in Germany: the SO FAR album is available
since monday and a friend of mine who is working in a record store told me that the cd
sells good...
Finally, the END OF VIOLENCE is released as well (this one includes a version of the
Sinead-Bono duet "I am not your baby").
Some people were asking for details concerning the IRISH IN AMERICA thing: I only know the
following at the moment (i heard it on the radio two weeks ago): Chieftains want to
release a new album on January, 13th (worldwide release date, they said) called "the
Irish in America". This will be a cd with a lot of collaborations (they mentioned
Elvis Costello, Van Morrison and Sinead).
(Handed by "marcus m")
'gospel according...' reaired without redemption song
i noticed that MuchMusic (canada's music video station) reaired 'gospel according to
sinead' (supposedly aired on MuchUSA as well) this morning (10:30 A.M. EST), but for some
reason they did not show the 'redemption song' performance - instead replaced it with
'nothing compares 2 U' video.
(Handed by Max)
U.S. Album Release
The u.s. release date of "the best of so far" is nov 25. hopefully a promo will
come in earlier.
(handed by Tom Mohr)
Sinead in Oslo
>From mtv.com --
November 17 [7:55 EDT] -- On Monday, Mariah Carey is expected to announce that she will be
joining Jewel, Sinead O'Connor, and Boyz II Men in Oslo, Norway next month to honor this
year's Nobel Peace Prize winner.
(Handed by Denis Healy)
Sinead's Gael Force Performance on TV
Some fine footage of Sinead was shown on Irish T.V. on Sunday night last. Four songs from
the Gael Force series of concerts recorded at the Point Theatre last Summer.
You made me the thief of your heart
I am stretched on your grave
Thank you for hearing me
(S)he moved through the fair
(handed by MAPLE1312)
"Live on Letterman......."
Yesterday in the U.S., the album "Live on Letterman: Music From the Late Show"
was released, that of course includes
the Sinead/Van Morrison duet of "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You". I'm
sure many people have this song already, but I thought in case you don't, or the quality
of your recording is not good, you might want to pick this up. Everyone might be aware of
this already, but just in case you're not, I told you!
The album also includes performances by Jerry Garcia, Patti Smith, Aretha
Franklin, Paula Cole, and many others.
(handed by Eduard)
NEW cd-single
The Dutch release of 'this is a rebal song' is finally released.
It's a 4 track cd single containing:
- - This is a rebel song
- - Fire on babylon (live)
- - Thank you for hearing me (live)
- - Last day of our acquintance (live) [with the add. lyrics]
There is also a 2 track cd single available but i did not see that one yet.
(Handed by Daniel)
"End of Violence" starts in Germany
This Thursday, the "new" Wim Wenders movie "the end of violence"
starts in Germany. The critics say it would be a good movie...
(Handed by Sumiko Keay)
"Best of Sessions"
This is from the 'Sessions at West 54th' Website schedule of upcoming sessions. I imagine
that the cd will be the same.
Best of Sessions Part 1
The Best of Sessions featuring performances by K.D. Lang, Sinead O'Connor, Joe Jackson and
Jane Siberry, Beck,
Keb' Mo', Sheryl Crow, Yo-Yo Ma, Zap Mama, David Byrne, Patti Smith, Daniel Lanois and
Emmylou Harris.
That Best of Sessions show is scheduled for December 6th.
(Handed by Wir113)
john water's letter
as taken from the CD jacket of so far. . .the best of: short disclaimer: iapologize for
any spelling errors as this is written on the cd jacket in that scroll lettering used on
most of sinead's recent releases. . .so here goes. take care all and enjoy. -shannon
Voice of the Dead Unburied
I remember when i first moved to Dalkey on Dublin's south side in the early 1990's, having
the same thought every time the train stopped at Glenageary. It was the last stop before
mine. The station seemed indistinguishable from several others along the line. It was
always dark- even, my mind tricks me into believing, in summer. other than to pass it on
the train like this, i had never been there, and i had some vague sense that the station
wasn't even in Glenageary proper. I knew nothing about Glenageary except that the singer
Sinead O'Connor, came from there. As far as i knew it was just a small jungle of three and
four bedroomed middle-class houses, between someplace and someplace else. In Irish it is
gleann na gcaoracn--the glen of the sheep, as far from the connotations of the English
version--bourgeois, bland, built-up-- as it is possible to imagine.
Every time the train stopped, i found myself thinking about Sinead O'Connor. It wasn't
that i had any special obsession with pop stars. I am not one of nature's groupies. It was
more an idle curiousity born of unanswered questions. I had never met her nor seen her
perform. I had a cassette of her second album, "IDNWWIHG" I liked it a lot, but
for various reasons had never got around to buying the first one. I had heard most of the
songs from "TLATC" on the radio, and, while liking what i heard, had never been
sufficiently convinced that this wasn't just an amazing singer who "just
happened" to come from Dublin. I realize now of course that there is no such thing as
an amazing singer of modern rock 'n' roll. There is always
something else.
"I do not want..." was in a different category to its predecessor. The anger was
more channeled, more focussed in the words. It was one of those rare albums which did not
seem to have any of those tracks which you end up trying to skip after a few listens. The
songs were closer, somehow, less a drift on the idiom. They spoke rather than played.
Sinead O'Connor's voice had lost its initial hint of Americanisation. It had come home,
wherever that was. The album raised those unanswered questions I mentioned before. I
played it a lot and tried to comprehend it without thinking too much. It grew on me more
and more, as the questions emerged.
In a way, none of it made sense until it all did. When she spoke, it was in the voice of a
young woman from South Dublin, which, in the conventional semiotics of the moment,
suggested rootlessness, airiness, semi-detachment and self-possession. But when she sang
she summoned up a history which the existing perceptions did not allow as having plausibly
been hers. How could this woman sing as she did? How could she so invigorate a song like
"I am stretched on your grave?" Was this merely craft or artifice? It did not
seem humanly possible. Ostensibly, in the public absorption of her persona, Sinead
O'Conner belonged to an Ireland which had detached itself from its past. From the start,
the voice belied this, even before the songs and the story.
I wasn't a great one for taking the tabloids, but gradually the narrative of her life
began to seep through; her childhood nightmare and its enduring aftermath. The standard
ideological model had it that the darkest Irish Shadows had been cast in places where
there were the trees and the steepest mountains, but this woman bore witness to the even
darker shadows cast by joined-up housing. The Glen of the sheep began to take on a new set
of meanings. And so did Sinead O'Connor.
In the beginning, dawning on the consciousness, she had seemed like a neat little package:
an extraordinary voice and an arresting appearance, at once beautiful and strange. She
suggested an idea whose hour, in the zeitgeist-obsessed world of giddy pop music, had come
round at last. She was one of those artists who make you think that you were just about to
imagine
her yourself. And this made it all the more extraordinary to discover that she had never
been an "idea" in the first place, at least not in the sense that this might be
commonly understood. Nobody had "created" her, not even herself. Everything
about her was at once accidental and inevitable. Even her name was so right that it just
had to be invented--half shared with the
iconic wife of the godfather of the Irish nation-- Sinead de Valera--and half the name of
the last high kings of Ireland. Sinead O'Connor. YES! It was her real name. . . . . by
john waters
She was one of those rare individuals who seem to embody the hidden story of their times,
the repressed narrative of a surface denial, the screams of the dead unburied, artists who
do not simply emerge, but rather erupt, with an air of inevitability, into the world. Art,
in a way, is a means of accessing history, of walking into the world in a manner as to
make total and irrefutable sense. If Sinead O'Connor had ever been an "idea" at
all, she had been an idea of the firmament itself. And when she said that the family was a
microcosm of the world, her voice and its origins in the screams of childhood made a sense
that was all but perfect in its desolation. She lived in a house that was called Ireland,
and refused to stop screaming when she came out the front door.
Now, she is my family. She always was, of course, but now literally as well. I don't know
what we are to one another, what queve we will be sent to on the day of judgement--husband
and wife, brother and sister? I don't know. I think of her sometimes as my sister-outlaw.
It was January 1995 when this woman who would be the mother of our beautiful daughter
first came to the house where i live. She had read something i had written about her song
about the Irish famine, and wanted me to write some more about her life and work. By
"U.M." her anger seemed to have dissolved into a quiet sorrow tinged with a
crusading purpose, and this
was leading her to be viciously attacked by some of those whose pain she sought to
express. I had written simply how wrong this was.
Sinead O'Connor rang me up and said she would come round that evening. Even now, the idea
seems faintly ridiculous. But so she did. She sat in the couch and fixed me with her big
blue eyes. She was the most un-rock star person i had ever met. She answered my remaining
questions. I gave her tea and fat biccies and played her Luke Kelly's version of "On
Raglan Road:" 'I saw the danger, yet I walked along the enchanted way, And I said,
let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.' She said she would like to record
the song, and so she did.
I know now that the baby already existed, and not only as an idea. I know that the baby
had existed for longer than either of us, that for longer than i dare to contemplate she
had been waiting for the right moment to emerge from the mists of history, where she had
lain, cradled and solemn, staring at the walls of the universe and smiling when Mr. or
Mrs. God passed
by. Her name is Brigidine Roisin Waters, and she is, as i now know, the reason I wondered
in Glenageary all those years ago. by: John Waters
(inside cover jacket of "So far. . . the best of Sinead O'Connor)
(Handed by Johnnie J. Young)
Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace
The song that Sinead is singing on the Diana Tribute Album is an old religious song
also know as the Prayer of St. Francis.
Yes, that's the same song. "Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace" is an old
Catholic hymn that is very well-known, especially in Ireland. The song was actually
sung at Diana's funeral service right after Earl Spencer's speech. You can listen
to that version of the song by picking up a copy of the CD "Diana Princess Of
Wales: The BBC Recording of the Funeral Service".
Sinead thought about recording the song a cappella for the Diana Tribute Album, but
decided that it gave her more room to put expression into it with a very basic backing
band.
(Handed by Martin Stepanek)
Rebel Release
'This Is a rebel song' has been released in Austria. There are two versions so far:
CD1
This is a rebel song
This is a rebel song (Remix) =>rather very boring
Thank you for hearing me (live)
Last day of our acquaintance (live)
CD2
This is a rebel song
Redemption song (live)
Fire on Babylon (live) =>8min version!!!
Redemption song is of course wonderful and Fire on Babylon is probably the best song of
Sinead's latest tour. Her voice is much more better than on Universal mother and the
arrangement and everything... it's unbelievable how Sinead sings there!!! So I really
wonder, how someone could believe that her voice has become weaker due to smoking.
Personally, I think that her voice has never been stronger and so pure (pure? right
vocab?)!!!
(Handed by Juan Manuel Garcia)
U.S. Best So Far
"So far...The Best Of Sinead O'Connor imported by USA where
includes the complete song "Heroine".
*in the USA by Tower records
SINEAD O'CONNOR
So Far...The Best Of Sinead...
Label: EMI-Capitol Entertainment Prop. 23685
Studio / Stereo
1 disc
Released: 11/25/97 Originally Released: 1997
Track Listing:
1. Heroine
2. Mandinka
3. Jackie
4. Troy
5. Nothing Compares 2 You
6. I Am Stretched On Your Grave
7. Emperor's New Clothes, The
8. Last Day Of Our Acquaintance, The
9. Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home
10. Thank You For Hearing Me
11. Fire On Babylon
12. John I Love You
13. Perfect Indian, A
14. You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart
15. Empire
Notes:
Full title: So Far...The Best Of Sinead O'Connor.
(Handed by Wir113)
Another tracklist; So far...the best of Sinead O'Connor
There seems to exist different versions/tracklists of the Best Of Album; Here's another one;
1. nothing compares 2 u
2. mandinka
3. the emperor's new clothes
4. the last day of our acquaintance
5. fire in babylon
6. troy
7. i am stretched on your grave
8. success has made a failure of our home
9. john i love you
10. empire
11. i want your hands on me
12. heroine
13. don't cry for me argentina
14. you made me the thief of your heart
15. just like u said it would be
(Handed by; Paolo Comoglio)
Yet another version again.
Here's again another version of the The Best Of album, in this case it's the Italian and
UK version)
1) Nothing Compares 2 U
2) Mandinka
3) The Emperor's New Clothes
4) Thank You for Hearing Me
5) The Last Day of Our Acquaintance
6) Fire on Babylon
7) Troy
8) I Am Stetched On Your Grave
9) Jackie
10) Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home
11) Jhon I love You
12) Empire-Bomb the Bass (featuring Benjamin Zephaniah)
13) Don't Cry for Me Argentina
14) You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart
15) This Is a Rebel Song
Copyright owed by Chrysalis Records Ltd.