SINÉAD O'CONNOR “Universal Mother” /CD/

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

The sixth Single by legendary Irish Alternative Rock/Hip Hop singer.
"Nothing Compares 2 U" is a song written by legendary American musician Prince as a demo in 1984. In 1985, Prince's Funk band The Family released their sole studio album, "The Family", including "Nothing Compares 2 U". It was not released as a Single and received little recognition. Sinéad O'Connor recorded a version of  "Nothing Compares 2 U" for her second studio album, "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got", with a new arrangement by her and the producer Nellee Hooper. O'Connor's version is in the key of F major. The song was released as the album's second Single in early 1990. Its music video received heavy rotation on MTV. The video won three "Moonmen" at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards: Video of the Year (O'Connor was the first female artist to be awarded it), Best Female Video and Best Post-Modern Video. It was nominated for Breakthrough Video, Viewer's Choice and International Viewer's Choice during the ceremony. The video was also the subject of many parodies and spoofs, such as Gina Riley's parody "Nothing Is There" on Fast Forward, referring to the fact that O'Connor tended to shave her head bald.
O'Connor's version was a worldwide hit, topping charts in O'Connor's native Ireland, Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States (plus Top Five in France). In the United States it spent four weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100; in addition, it was number one on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart and reached number two on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart (held off the top position by Rod Stewart's "This Old Heart of Mine" for three weeks). On terms of its chart performance on the Hot 100, it ranked number three for 1990. In the United Kingdom, the Single ranked number two for the year, behind a re-release of the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody". On April 1990, it was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. At the second of its four weeks at number one, the record's parent album "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" started a six-week run at number one on the Billboard 200. It was certified Platinum in Austria and in the United Kingdom, and Gold in Germany and in Sweden. In December 1990, Billboard named "Nothing Compares 2 U" the "#1 World Single" of 1990 at its first Billboard Music Awards.
In 2019, the Single ranked 97 in a Hot 100 60th-anniversary Top 600, covering the period from 1958 to 2018. In July 2023, days after O'Connor's death, "Nothing Compares 2 U" reappeared on the UK Top 100 at number 45, and charted at number 1 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart.
In 2003, Q magazine ranked "Nothing Compares 2 U" at number 242 in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever".
It was included at number 165 by Rolling Stone in its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
In 2007, VH1 ranked O'Connor's rendition number 10 of the "100 Greatest Songs of the 90s".
In September 2010, Pitchfork included the song at number 37 on their Top 200 Tracks of the 90s.
The song was listed at number 77 on Billboard's "Greatest Songs of All Time".
Time Magazine included "Nothing Compares 2 U" in its 2011 (unranked) list of "All-TIME 100 Songs".
In 2012, Porcys listed the song at number 60 in their ranking of "100 Singles 1990-1999", noting that "it's probably one of the noblest, most dignified slow songs of the decade".
On May 4th 2016, the song was simulcast on radio stations throughout the United States to commemorate Prince 15 days after his death.
In 2019, Stacker placed the song at number 20 in their list of "Best 90s pop songs".
In 2020, The Guardian ranked the song at number 12 in its list of the "100 Greatest UK No 1s".
In 2020, Cleveland.com ranked "Nothing Compares 2 U" the best Billboard Hot 100 number-one song of the 1990s in 2020, calling it "one of the greatest love songs ever written".
The song was included at number 184 by Rolling Stone in its 2021 update list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
In 2024, Annie Lennox, accompanied by Wendy & Lisa, sang this song at the 2024 Grammy Awards, during the "In Memoriam" segment as a tribute to O'Connor.
Ensign Records Limited, a division of Chrysalis Records Limited/BMG Records, 1990 (613 006). Made in Germany. First press. 45 RPM. Used (cover/disc): EX/NM-.


Tracklist:

Side 1
Nothing Compares 2 U 5:08

Side 2
Jump In The River 4:13
Jump In The River (Instrumental) 4:04

Total playing time: 13:27 min.

The first DVD by legendary Irish Alternative/Folk Pop Rock singer.
A collection of urban Folk songs showcasing Sinéad's heartfelt lyrics and powerful voice, capturing her essence beyond novelty.
DVD 9 | PAL | Dolby Digital Stereo | 5.1 Surround Sound | 16:9 | Reg. 0 | Approx. 150 min.
EV Classics/Sony Music Entertainment Czech Republic s.r.o., 2002/2006/2009 (8869745569906). Made in Czech.


Tracklist:
Live at Vicar Street Dublin (69:08)
1. Molly Malone 4:42
2. Óró Sé Do Dheatha 'Bhaile 3:19
3. The Singing Bird 4:25
4. My Lagan Love 5:18
5. I Am Stretched On Your Grave 4:44
6. Nothing Compares 2 U 5:44
7. John I Love You 5:42
8. The Moorlough Shore 5:27
9. You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart 4:39
10. Paddy's Lament 5:37
11. Thank You For Hearing Me 5:11
12. Fire On Babylon 7:43
13. The Last Day Of Our Acquaintance 6:05
Bonus Material
1. Peggy Gordon 5:35
2. Molly Malone 3:31
3. The Moorlough Shore 5:24
4. The Singing Bird 4:28
5. My Lagan Love 4:41
6. Óró Sé Do Dheatha 'Bhaile 3:18
Song Of Hearts Desire (Documentary) (52:10)
1. Molly Malone 13:44
2. The Moorlough Shore 2:23
3. Óró Sé Do Dheatha 'Bhaile 4:21
4. Paddy's Lament 4:25
5. The Singing Bird 3:11
6. Lord Franklin 5:50
7. Lord Baker 8:32
8. Peggy Gordon 5:06
9. My Lagan Love 4:34