SINÉAD O'CONNOR “Nothing Compares 2U” /12” Maxi-Single/

The fourth full-length studio album by legendary Irish Alternative/Chamber Folk/Pop Rock singer.
Sinéad O'Connor's first album of original material since her breakthrough, "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got", is nearly as confused as her big-band album, "Am I Not Your Girl?". 
O'Connor explores the uncharted depths of "the real loveless family traumas", which mainstream, predominantly male, Rock music tends to avoid, and her journey is made more intense by her identity as both a mother and a daughter.
O'Connor painted the cover art herself, which was inspired by a rebirthing session she experienced, and her song "All Babies".
Listening to the album can be "unnerving", as O'Connor "can still sing like an angel, but she also sometimes writes lyrics like an emotional dyslexic.
Track 1 written and performed by Germaine Greer, under licence from BBC Enterprises Ltd. (P)1970.
Track 5 written, produced and performed by Jake Reynolds, the son of Sinéad O'Connor.
Chrysalis/Ensign Records Ltd., 1994 (7243 8 30549 2 3). Made in Germany. Re-press.


Tracklist:
1. Germaine 0:38
2. Fire On Babylon 5:12
3. John I Love You 5:31
4. My Darling Child 3:10
5. Am I A Human? 0:24
6. Red Football 2:48
7. All Apologies (Nirvana cover) 2:38
8. A Perfect Indian 4:23
9. Scorn Not His Simplicity 4:26
10. All Babies 4:30
11. In This Heart 3:11
12. Tiny Grief Song 1:56
13. "Famine" 4:57
14. Thank You For Hearing Me 6:26
Total playing time: 50:12 min.

Rare Special Promotional Edition of “The Emperor's New Clothes” Single by legendary Irish Alternative Rock/Hip Hop singer.
For Promotional Use Only, this 12” vinyl made especially for the clubs.
Real rare and musthave for every collector of Sinéad O'Connor's releases.
Issued in generic white die-cut jacket with info sticker. 33 ⅓ RPM.
Ensign Records Ltd., a sub. of Chrysalis Records Inc.,1990 (SPRO 23568). Made in US. First press. Used (cover/disc): NM-/NM-.


Tracklist:

Side A
1. The Emperor's New Clothes (Main Mix) 4:37
2. The Emperor's New Clothes (Dub Mix) 4:55
3. The Emperor's New Clothes (Instrumental) 5:06

Side B
1. I Am Stretched On Your Grave (Apple Brightness Mix) 5:39
2. I Am Stretched On Your Grave (Night Until Morning Dub) 3:21
3. I Am Stretched On Your Grave (Earthapella) 0:58

The third full-length studio album by legendary Irish Jazz/Pop singer.
The follow-up to the hugely successful "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" and her contribution to the 1990 Cole Porter tribute / AIDS benefit album "Red Hot + Blue", with a cover of "You Do Something to Me", Sinéad decided to cover some more standards and do something completely different for her third record. "Am I Not Your Girl?" is a collection of covers of mostly Jazz standards, which O'Connor describes as "the songs I grew up listening to [and] that made me want to be a singer".
The album title comes from the song "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home". The album is dedicated to the people of New York City and especially the homeless, whom O'Connor met at St. Mark's Place.
The album did not gain much critical acclaim, perhaps because O'Connor had become a major artist in the modern pop genre due to her previous album, "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got", and this album was composed of songs written from 1936 to 1978. This, coupled with the Garden State Arts Center controversy and an introduction on the album in which she mentions sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church, addiction, emotional abuse, and led to O'Connor losing much of the commercial momentum her career had built up until then.
The album's promotion was marked by a controversial appearance on Saturday Night Live, where O'Connor tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II. O'Connor's action led into a public and media frenzy. NBC received more than 500 calls on Sunday, and 400 more on Monday, with all but seven criticizing O'Connor; the network received 4,400 calls in total. NBC did not edit the performance out of the West Coast tape-delayed broadcast that night. As of 2016, despite the now well documented thousands of child sex abuse cases proving O'Connor's accusation, NBC still declines to rebroadcast the sequence, with reruns of the episode using footage from the dress rehearsal.
With highlights like "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home" and "Don't Cry for Me Argentina", this record showcases much more of Sinéad's talent and showed that she was much more than what she had showcased on her prior two records.
Ensign Records Limited, a division of Chrysalis Records Limited, 1992 (0946 3 21952 2 7). Made in UK. Repress.


Tracklist:
1. Why Don't You Do Right? 2:31
2. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered 6:15
3. Secret Love 2:57
4. Black Coffee 3:21
5. Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home 4:29
6. Don't Cry For Me Argentina 5:38
7. I Want To Be Loved By You 2:45
8. Gloomy Sunday 3:56
9. Love Letters 3:07
10. How Insensitive 3:28
11. Scarlet Ribbons 4:15
12. Don't Cry For Me Argentina 5:09
Total playing time: 47:53 min.

The third full-length studio album by legendary Irish Jazz/Pop singer.
The follow-up to the hugely successful "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" and her contribution to the 1990 Cole Porter tribute / AIDS benefit album "Red Hot + Blue", with a cover of "You Do Something to Me", Sinéad decided to cover some more standards and do something completely different for her third record. "Am I Not Your Girl?" is a collection of covers of mostly Jazz standards, which O'Connor describes as "the songs I grew up listening to [and] that made me want to be a singer".
The album title comes from the song "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home". The album is dedicated to the people of New York City and especially the homeless, whom O'Connor met at St. Mark's Place.
The album did not gain much critical acclaim, perhaps because O'Connor had become a major artist in the modern pop genre due to her previous album, "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got", and this album was composed of songs written from 1936 to 1978. This, coupled with the Garden State Arts Center controversy and an introduction on the album in which she mentions sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church, addiction, emotional abuse, and led to O'Connor losing much of the commercial momentum her career had built up until then.
The album's promotion was marked by a controversial appearance on Saturday Night Live, where O'Connor tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II. O'Connor's action led into a public and media frenzy. NBC received more than 500 calls on Sunday, and 400 more on Monday, with all but seven criticizing O'Connor; the network received 4,400 calls in total. NBC did not edit the performance out of the West Coast tape-delayed broadcast that night. As of 2016, despite the now well documented thousands of child sex abuse cases proving O'Connor's accusation, NBC still declines to rebroadcast the sequence, with reruns of the episode using footage from the dress rehearsal.
With highlights like "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home" and "Don't Cry for Me Argentina", this record showcases much more of Sinéad's talent and showed that she was much more than what she had showcased on her prior two records.
Ensign Records Limited, a division of Chrysalis Records Limited, 1992 (0946 3 21952 2 7). Made in Holland. First press. Used (cover/disc): EX+/NM.


Tracklist:
1. Why Don't You Do Right? 2:31
2. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered 6:15
3. Secret Love 2:57
4. Black Coffee 3:21
5. Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home 4:29
6. Don't Cry For Me Argentina 5:38
7. I Want To Be Loved By You 2:45
8. Gloomy Sunday 3:56
9. Love Letters 3:07
10. How Insensitive 3:28
11. Scarlet Ribbons 4:15
12. Don't Cry For Me Argentina 5:09
Total playing time: 47:53 min.

The second full-length studio album by legendary Irish Alternative/Folk Pop Rock singer.
"I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" became Sinéad O'Connor's popular breakthrough on the strength of the stunning Prince cover "Nothing Compares 2 U", which topped the pop charts for a month. But even its remarkable intimacy wasn't adequate preparation for the harrowing confessionals that composed the majority of the album. Informed by her stormy relationship with drummer John Reynolds, who fathered O'Connor's first child before the couple broke up, "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" lays the singer's psyche startlingly and sometimes uncomfortably bare. The songs mostly address relationships with parents, children, and (especially) lovers, through which O'Connor weaves a stubborn refusal to be defined by anyone but herself. In fact, the album is almost too personal and cathartic to draw the listener in close, since O'Connor projects such turmoil and offers such specific detail.
The first song on the album, "Feel So Different", starts with "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Niebuhr. The album also includes O'Connor's rendition of "I Am Stretched on Your Grave", an anonymous 17th century poem that was written in Irish, translated into English by Frank O'Connor, and composed by musician Philip King in 1979. O'Connor's sings her version over the oft-sampled loop of "Funky Drummer" by James Brown.
The album contains O'Connor's version of the Prince song "Nothing Compares 2 U", which was released as a Single and was one of the best-selling Singles in the world in 1990, topping the charts in many countries, including the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. This rendition of the Prince song reflected on O'Connor's mother, who had lost her life in an auto accident five years earlier. The single "Emperor's New Clothes" found moderate success, although it did top the Modern Rock Tracks chart in the US.
The album was nominated for four Grammy Awards in 1991, including "Record of the Year", "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance", and "Best Music Video, Short Form" for "Nothing Compares 2 U", winning the award for "Best Alternative Music Performance". However, O'Connor refused to accept the nominations and award.
In 2012, "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" was ranked number 408 on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album was ranked number 457 on the 2020 edition of the list.
Chrysalis Records Ltd./Ensign Records Limited, 1990  (0946 3 21759 2 2 | CCD1759). Made in the E.U.


Tracklist:
1. Feel So Different
2. Three Babies
3. The Emperor's New Clothes
4. Black Boys On Mopeds
5. Nothing Compares 2U
6. You Cause As Much Sorrow
7. The Last Day Of Our Acquaintance
8. I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got