I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got

Wonderful stuff, which changed the music world in ways we can only see years later - without this I don't think Alanis, Tori Amos or Cranberries have the success they did.

Before today I had never heard of Sinead O'Connor. She is apparently an Irish pop rock singer with Celtic influences. I thought that didn't sound so bad, but man was I wrong.

This is the most angst ridden, melancholic heap of trash that I've ever listened to. Why is she so mad? Have a hamburger ffs.

Upon listening to this album, I couldn't help but think that I had heard of this persona of hers somewhere else before. My mind kept going to an episode of Father Ted, which is called "Rock a Hula Ted". In the episode, a hateful, feminist, anti-Christian, vegan pop star (named Niamh Connelly) comes to Craggy Island to confront the priests because she blasted the Catholic Church on TV for turning potato factories into child labor camps during the Great Famine. During the course of the episode, Father Ted is trying to convince her that he isn't mysogenistic while keeping his housekeeper Mrs Doyle busy doing hard labour tasks, and judging the "Lovely Girls Competition" on the island. Niamh sings a few of her "songs" during the episode, which are just noise with moaning and angry lyrics (which is what I heard on Sinead's album). Upon researching this episode, it turns out that Niamh IS loosely based on Sinead O'Connor!! That's amazing!!!

Anyways, back to this "album". The fiddle breakdown was awesome at the end of "I Am Stretched On Your Grave", and the best song on the record was a cover of Prince's song "Nothing Compares 2 U". These two facts should tell you all you need to know about the album.

Overall, not great. I'll give her a point just because she made me remember that hilarious episode of Father Ted. Thank God that album is over.

Favourite songs: Nothing Compares 2 U, Jump In The River, The Emperor's New Clothes, Black Boys on Mopeds

Least favourite songs: Feels So Different, Three Babies, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, You Cause As Much Sorrow, Last Day of Our Acquaintance

2/5

I do understand a lot of O'Connor's songs are mainly built around the lyrics and what they are about, but that's only one part of a song, and sadly, I usually enjoy the sound of a song before the lyrics, in which these songs really lack for me, even "Nothing Compares 2 U", in which Prince's at least has it's own sound to it.

All I could think while listening to this album is "This sounds like if Enya was the lead singer of The Cranberries, which makes sense, considering they all are from Ireland, but I still couldn't shake that feeling, and it made a lot of songs sound like nothing I've heard before. I don't sound too harsh, but literally nothing here was something I cared about, even pushing it below U2. It's just a nothing album for me. Guess I just don't like Irish singers, except the Cranberries.

Occasionally patchy but decent overall. I was surprised at its more electronica elements.

Eh, en ihan kauheesti välittänyt tämmösestä vähän laiskan kuuloisesta poppiksesta. Kokonaisuudessaan aika tylsä levy, vaikka laulajalla onkin ihan hyvä ääni.

Nothing Compares is certainly one of the best Prince covers out there. The album as a whole is a bit too dramatic for me to want to return to.

Me regalaron este vinilo mis amigos en el instituto. Era el único disco que conocían pero al mismo tiempo les parecía bastante raro como para gustarme. Dudaron entre este y el Solitude Standing de Suzanne Vega (lo volveré a oír en breve). La cuestión es que este disco fue un bombazo y siempre me recordaban:
—Esta es la calva esa de la que te regalamos el disco.
Aparte de las batallitas es un disco interesante que va desde el hip-hop/folk de "I am stretched on your grave", chamber pop en "Feels so different" o "Three Babies", pasando por el rock de "The emperor's new clothes" y por supuesto el clásico "Nothing compares 2 U".