Deep Album Cuts Vol. 356: Sinead O'Connor

 




Sinead O'Connor is nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, alongside Mary J. BligeMariah Carey, CherDave Matthews Band, Eric B. & Rakim, Foreigner, Peter FramptonJane's Addiction, Kool & The GangLenny KravitzOasis, Ozzy Osbourne, Sade, and A Tribe Called Quest.  

Sinead O'Connor album cuts (Spotify playlist):

1. I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
2. Jerusalem
3. Black Boys On Mopeds
4. The State I'm In
5. Drink Before The War
6. Love Letters
7. This Is A Rebel Song
8. Dense Water Deeper Down
9. I Am Stretched On Your Grave
10. Just Like U Said It Would B
11. In This Heart
12. You Cause As Much Sorrow
13. Jackie
14. Where Have You Been?
15. Emma's Song
16. Last Day Of Our Acquaintance
17. Red Football
18. Your Green Jacket
19. Black Coffee
20. Never Get Old

Tracks 2, 5, 10, 13 and 20 from The Lion And The Cobra (1987)
Tracks 1, 2, 9, 12 and 16 from I Do Not What What I Haven't Got (1990)
Tracks 6 and 19 from Am I Not Your Girl? (1992)
Tracks 11 and 17 from Universal Mother (1994)
Track 7 from the Gospel Oak  EP (1997)
Tracks 4 and 15 from Faith And Courage (2000)
Tracks 8, 14 and 18 from I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss (2014)

Sinead O'Connor released 10 studio albums, and unfortunately only 6 of them are on streaming services today -- Spotify doesn't have any of the 4 albums she released from 2002 to 2012. Still, I was able to put together a pretty strong playlist with the albums that are available, plus an EP she released in 1997. 

The week she died last year, I wrote a list of Sinead's 10 best songs for Spin, and it had a couple deep cuts on it, "Black Boys On Mopeds" and "Dense Water Deeper Down." Karl Wallinger of World Party, who also just passed away, arranged "Black Boys On Mopeds," and apparently also did uncredited work on The Lion And The Cobra. My Chevelle deep cuts playlist also included their excellent cover of "Black Boys." 

Natalie Imbruglia's 1997 hit "Torn" was famously a cover of a song by the obscure Los Angeles band Ednaswap. A couple years later, Sinead O'Connor covered "The State I'm In," another pretty good song from Ednaswap's 1995 debut. "Drink Before The War" was prominently featured on HBO's "Euphoria" in 2022, and has become the most streamed song from The Lion And The Cobra since that episode aired. Enya, who released her own debut album a few months before O'Connor, did the spoken intro on "Never Grow Old" before they both became two of the best-selling Irish artists of all time. 
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