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December 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Thinking of Sinead O’Connor: Happy 50th

Just as I think about the album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got – the breakthrough, the first Sinead O’Connor record I heard – I go back to the album before that, The Lion And The Cobra. And then I think about 1992’s set of torch ballads and jazz standards, Am I Not Your […]

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March 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 922

The Family, The Family (1985) This was Prince’s album – he wrote it, conceived it if you like, he planned it – orchestrated it as his first real chance to hide behind (inside) his own music. So you have this “band” – The Family – and, sure, they carried on, “reformed” even…but you arrived at […]

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May 30, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1983

 Sinead O’Connor, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (1990) It felt so different when I heard Feel So Different. I was quite frightened by that sound at first; well, not frightened – but definitely on edge. But Nothing Compares 2 U was written by Prince so that – above all else – made it […]