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Song of the Day #5,508: ”Til I Whisper You Something’ – Sinéad O’Connor

Six years separated Sinéad O’Connor’s fourth and fifth studio albums, with Faith and Courage dropping in 2000, exactly a decade after I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.

O’Connor suffered plenty of personal and professional turmoil during those ten years, but she managed to emerge from it with what I consider her best album. A strong case can certainly be made for The Lion and the Cobra and I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got — and those are her career-defining albums, no doubt — but song for song I find this one even better.

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Song of the Day #3,726: ‘Daddy I’m Fine’ – Sinead O’Connor

When today’s song popped up as my next random selection, I was shocked to discover I hadn’t written about it already. It’s one of my favorite tracks on a really great album by an artist I’ve featured fairly often.

‘Daddy I’m Fine’ appears on Sinead O’Connor’s 2000 album Faith and Courage, her fifth and quite possibly her best. It’s a quick and clever piece of autobiography with half-spoken choruses building to a thrashing chorus.

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Song of the Day #4: ‘Jealous’ – Sinead O’Connor

I was really into Sinead O’Connor when she first hit it big back in 1990. ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ was on constant MTV rotation — that mesmerizing video where O’Connor stared right at you with those big beautiful eyes and sang her heart out until she teared up — and this bald, lanky Irish woman had put out the best album of the year, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.

I remember my Dad dismising her as a flake and once when I was going on about what a talent she was, he said something like “Just wait, in ten years I bet nobody will even know who she is.” And I said, yeah… I’ll take that bet.

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