If you thought yesterday’s Sinead O’Connor performance was fierce, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

This performance of ‘Troy,’ also from 1988, shows O’Connor at her most raw. ‘Troy’ is a fabulous, biting broken heart song that feels more like a session in the confessional. The album performance is emotionally epic but it’s outdone by the naked ferocity on display at the Pinkpop festival in this clip.

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Like a lot of people, my first exposure to Sinead O’Connor was through her breakthrough single ‘Nothing Compares 2 U,’ and following that through the album that contained it, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.

The woman performing that batch of songs was defiant, to a degree, but mostly delicate. She had an angelic voice and the face of an angel to match.

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