Conference marvin::uk_music

    Have you seen the vid to this?!
    She REALLY looks sad, trembling lip, BIG watery eyes that eventually
    cry! She kept looking down and then straight up at me. I felt terrible!!
    I didn't think she was going to get through the song. Yes,
    I know it's mimed!! 8*)                                                 
    
    Anyone know if there is an extended version?
    
    David

Nothing Compares 2 U was recorded by a Minneapolis group called The Family.
Richard...the name of the album?

--Patrick--

    One of the best songs that has been in the charts for ages!
    
    Well done Sinead.
    
    
    
    Paul

    I also like this one a lot. There is a 12 inch available, although
    I don't know if it's an extended version. Apparently, Prince has
    never recorded the song.
    
    Bob

    RE. .2
    
    David,  I really know what you mean about the video.  I thinks she
    looks georgeous, really caring, my type.  I think the video actually
    got the record to number one but I still think it's a great song.  I'm
    surprised that so many like it.
    
    
    Mattyb

    No, I don't think that Prince actualy recorded it.  I think what makes
    the record is Sineads voice.  Her voice and phrasing really make it
    stand out.  If you listen to the backing track, its really a very
    standard plodder ( in come the drums, dde dum, just like any FM radio
    style song).  I think the producers hsould have had more courage, and
    left out a lot of the backing track.
    
    Mikef 

    mm,
    
    is there an accoustic version of the song - AKA the way Eurythmics
    tend to perform alot of their more ballad type songs..
    
    Paul

    Ahh vindicated at last. I bought the original of this song about four 
    years ago when it was first released on the Paisley Park label, and
    have been abused and much maligned about my music tastes ever since. 

    It didn't sell very much in this country i.e. two, and I picked one
    of those in a cheap bin. I think if I'm not mistaken the album is 
    eponymous, check that out ! Prince was involved with them to the
    extent of assistant producer or consultant and as a result the album
    has a definite Prince feel. IMHO it can be compared to the mould of 
    Paisley park, if you have heard any of the music Wendy and Lisa
    produce you will have a sense for what to expect. There are about
    three to four good 'Prince' style songs on the album, overall it 
    was worth the two punts.

    The album first came to my attention when Mark after Dark, bringing you home
    on the night train, aired it quite regularly. I think 'Nothing
    Compares 2 U' was actually released as a single, and I definitely
    remember that was the tune which prompted me to buy the album.

    Well, there you go kiddies.

    Shockers in Sinead record stealing shockers

     Richard O'Shaughnessy
    

    Sinead is one of the most passionate artists around at the moment.
    None of the soundalike-sony-walkman-SAW stuff here.
    This song is really something of a departure for her, as her first
    album (THe Lion and the Cobra) can be seen as 'violent' in style. 
    Its raw, strong, and has some rather pointed lyrics. But is her
    octave flipping style that really grabs. Her new song is a complete
    anthithasis to the track on 'The Lion and the Cobra' called 'Troy'.
    This is the crowing song of her career and is REALLY moody,
    ie; line one says "I remember, Dublin in a rainstorm...." ,the mood
    then becomes more and more accusitory until the end when she says...
    "Your still a liar!!!". Thus makes anyone feel a little uncomfitable,
    but imagine how the bloke who it was about feels!
    
    She has a new album out in March as well.
    
    Also for all you lochenvars out there, she's married and has a son
    called Mark.                          
    
    Jules (who also thinks shes cute)
     

    Sorry, I heard it on the radio yesterday and I don't like it at
    all!
    
    Yours, Divin' for cover,
    
    James
    PS...If you can get it, Nothing Can compare to you by the Velvet
    Satins (circa '66) is much better and the title is nearly the same.

    JB

    James - I'm shocked!  I almost thought at one point that you had
    musical taste  - but really!
    
    Paul

    Yeah Paul, I'm a really crrrrrazeee kinda guy yu know!!! Hey Paul...Me,
    Viv and Neil stayed up watching TV til TWO in morning!!!!
    Pretty strange huh???!
    
    Now seriously, she's a *very* pretty girl with a pretty good voice
    but I just don't like the song at all. I may be judging her wrong
    as I haven't heard anything else she's done. I guess after listening
    to a diet of 60's soul and Dexys Midnight Runners for about 4 years
    I have become deaf to most types of music.
    
    James

    We have the radio on all day at work and they keep playin' it.  I still
    love it.
    
    
    
    Mattyb

    At lassstt..
    Sinead's new album is out (well, almost... I got a CD off the
    production line before its out on the streets - pays off to know
    people at the right places...).
    It's called I DO NOT WANT WHAT I HAVEN'T GOT, and it's totaly
    different than the first one.
    It's very quite, very moody, very good!
    10 tracks, 7 of these are very quite songs.
    I have to admit I was a little disappointed at first 'cause
    I expected something like THE LION AND THE COBRA (which i LOVED)
    and this is SO different.
    After hearing the whole thing 5-6 times, I can't stop.
    Well, I can talk and talk, so in short- if you like her
    voice and the general mood of NOTHING COMP..., 
    GO AND GET IT! (as soon as it's out).
    
    Happy landings, 'cause your gonna fly!
                 
             E.W.

    This is a simply wonderful album - a classic.
    
    Gone is the angst of 'The Lion and The Cobra', this is more
    considered, more adult but a little sadder.
    There is one appauling song (No.2 - I can't remember its name) cos'
    its almost rap. Another is in 'The Lion...' style whilst she also
    has quite the best 'protest' song I've heard for years in the form
    of 'Black Boys On Mopeds' - this fairly destoys the style of the
    increasingly samey Tracey Chapman.
    
    It's its very difference that makes it wonderful. So quiet - not
    really in the Sunday afternoon mould - yet so powerful.
    
    Run, hop, wheel or trip to your nearest music store and shout
    "Oh Give Me Sinead O'Connor's new album with the long title!!!"
    
    And they will.

    
    Radio News this morning..... "Sinead to Quit Music business" ,
    apparently the last straw was the fuss over her mutilating The
    Picture of the Pope as a stand  against the highly restrictive
    views which are enforced on the catholic population...Frankly
    I find it difficult to believe,given the number of little stunts
    she's pulled over the years ...However it will of course be a loss
    if she genuinely does quit...
    
    Sandie../

    >>>...However it will of course be a loss...
    
    Not particularly.

    
    Good, the sooner the better she's so overrated..Has this anything to do
    with the fact she was booed of the stage at a gig in America ?...
    
    Neil...

    
    RE: "It will of course be a loss"...
    
    Har,Har,Har...I thought that might get a reaction!,The ONLY
    song I liked was "Black Boys on Mopeds" ....
    
    Sandie .../  ;-)
    
    

    Surely it will be a loss. She has one thing nobody can learn at
    music schools or record studios - CHARISMA.
    I only once saw her live on stage, but this was an unforgettable
    evening.
    
    Rainer

Simon Bates said on Radio 1 only last week that he thought she was im for a nervous
breakdown. Her recent outbursts (said Simes) were due to overwork and wasn't 
really in her nature.

I can see his point. She is trying to raise Jake (her young son) on her own - no
easy task in itself. But on top of that, she's been on tour, done tha backing
vocals on the Marxman single and probably a lot more besides.

I hope she recovers. I don't like her music that much but I admire her for her
hard work.

Mark

    I hope she dies.

Re.-1  A few kind understanding words there.  Move over Samaratains (sp)

    I too have seen Sinead at the Playhouse in Edinburgh, she was
    supporting INXS and up until then I had never heard of her.  I was so
    struck with her voice and music that I went and bought her 1st CD.
    
    Can't bear to watch her live performances, read about her antics or
    listen to interviews as this when she really goes down the tubes for
    me.
    
    I admire *ONLY* her musical talent, other than that she has no other
    talent.
    
    
    Tracy W

     Thank U (nice p-name BTW, must have taken you AGES to think of that!)
    
    Jon

  re. <<< Note 589.23 by PEKING::RANWELLJ "Eat your words but don't go hungry" >>>
  
  >  I hope she dies.

    She will. And so will you.
    
    Piers

    Okay, I hope she dies *SOON*
    
    Jon

>>Okay, I hope she dies *SOON*


Why ?   What did she do to you - give you a knockback.

Mark


PS Please, no more PN puns or we'll never here the (nint)END(o) of it. (Groan)

    
    No, I just don't like ugly irish women who think they know all the
    answers!
    
    Jon

    Its interesting that when someone tries to be anything other than a
    vacous pop star, everyone is eager to knock them down.  Have we all
    become so conservative that we can't bear to hear others opinions?  She
    is only saying out loud what a lot of people feel, and Irish women
    badly need a voice at the moment.  Sinead doesn't have the answers, but
    at least she has made some people think about the questions.
    
    Mikef
    
    (no, I'm not a Sinead fan.  I don't have any albums, only a vague
    interest in her latest covers lp.)

    What makes you think shes speaking for Irish women?  Her sulky little
    girl behaviour is what got her booed off stage at the Dylan tribute.
    
    Not much of a spokeswoman IMHO.
    

    
    What got her booed off stage was her tearing up a picture of the pope
    on American TV.  There was no 'sulky little girl' behaviour.  Unless
    you listen to Simon Bates I guess?
    
    Mikef

    
    I admire her guts, she's just saying what she really thinks - is that
    so bad ? I'd never sing the star strangled banner, and I think the Pope
    is a useless pratt and I'm sure there are many other people out there
    who'd agree.
    
    I don't have a lot of time for her music, but she's better than most of
    the boring, miserable indie shit that gets out nowadays.
    
    -Tony

    What a bummer. I agreed with the entire first paragraph of that last
    note. Bye bye street cred.
    
    Piers

    .33
    
    You guess wrong (who is Simon Bates?).  Its based on the admittedly
    reported fact (The Independent - as I wasn't there) that during the 
    finale when everyone else was doing a sing-a-longa-Bob she stood at 
    the back of the stage and had a drag.
    
    She's free to sing what she likes, but she's not an elected
    representative and what she says/does is only her opinion.  As the
    above is mine.

    
       
    Initially I quite liked the melody of ' Thank  you for 
    hearing me' especially after such a Sinead-free period 
    
    ...Now , the lyrics are  just annoying the hell out of 
    me !  :-{ 
    
    Sandie.../
    

    Its worth picking up the CD single of this - I got it cheapie, the bass
    is totally wonderfull.  Dumdumdum dumdumdedum.
    
    Thinking of getting her album if everything else on it is this good.
    
    Mikef

    Possibly, but I wouldn't buy her latest single. It's DREADFUL.

    Is the latest one the 'thank you' one?  I think that one is excellent. 
    She did it liveon the Danny Baker show a few weeks ago, and I was
    totally struck with it.  I've never been really interested in her
    before, but now I'm tempted to check out her new album.  It'll go on my
    'if I see it cheap this weekend' list.  
    
    Mikef

    
    re .-1
    
    I saw the same performance (on DB) and thought 'WOW'
    
    I've put the album on my Christmas list now.
    
    Steve.