Sinead O'Connor - Theology
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Artist: Sinead O'ConnorEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-06-26
Music Label: Koch Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Something Beautiful
- We People Who Are Darker Than Blue
- Out Of the Depths
- Dark I Am Yet Lovely
- If You Had a Vineyard
- Watcher Of Men
- 53
- The Glory Of Jah
- Whomsoever Dwells
- Rivers Of Babylon
- Hosanna Filio David
- Something Beautiful
- We People Who Are Darker Than Blue
- Out Of the Depths
- 53
- Dark I Am Yet Lovely
- I Don't Know How To Love Him
- If You Had a Vineyard
- The Glory Of Jah
- Watcher Of Men
- Whomsoever Dwells
- Rivers Of Babylon
Free Music Notes for Theology
Free Music Review: One Extra Star for Daring
Hit: 4 Stars
Of course, Sinead has always been nothing if not daring. Still, a life journey that includes tearing up the Pope on SNL, "Black Boys on Mopeds" and comes round to "I Don't Know How to Love Him" and "Rivers of Babylon" here is a life journey of considerable interest. Interesting too that three of the most distinctive and stylistically unpredictable female singers of the last couple decades -- O'Connor, Michelle Shocked, and Rickie Lee Jones -- have each released a CD imbued with spirituality in the last year or two. All three have value, but are really erratic. On Theology, you definitely don't need both versions of all songs. As many have noted, the Dublin set is acoustic, the London includes a band, but is still not especially loud. I took both versions of Something Beautiful, because it is flat-out beautiful as the title promises, and Rivers of Babylon, because I'd probably like that song even if Jim Nabors sung it. My other downloads were If You Had a Vineyard and The Glory of Jah from Dublin and Out of the Depths, Dark Am I Yet Lonely, and (cheesy though it may be) I Don't Know How to Love Him from London. Others will make different choices, but if you like Sinead O'Connor, you will certainly find something. Even if you haven't previously been impressed there are things of interest here. Still, it will be a rare person who buys the whole CD, I think.
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The uncompromising Irish artist, spiritualist, and provocateur gives a twist to the critical truism that double albums would generally be stronger if edited into a single disc. With what she terms her "attempt to create a place of peace in a time of war," Sin?ad O'Connor consciously risks charges of not merely padding but redundancy, as the two discs feature practically the same set of material recorded in different settings. The "Dublin Sessions" are more minimal and acoustic, and the "London Sessions" incorporate full-band arrangements including harp, strings, horns, and percussion. Finding dual inspiration in Jerusalem and Jamaica, the material proves all the more revelatory in the contrasting settings, as the minimalist approach underscores vocal intimacy while the band arrangements build to majestic intensity. The opening "Jeremiah (Something Beautiful)" ranks with O'Connor's loveliest music to date, with "Job (Watcher of Men)" among her most tormented. The cover(s) of Curtis Mayfield's "We Are People Who Are Darker than Blue" fits perfectly, though a misguided attempt at "I Don't Know How to Love Him" (from Jesus Christ Superstar, mercifully featured only on the second disc) proves that some musical miracles are beyond even Sin?ad's power. The second disc sounds more like pop; the first disc sounds more like prayer. --Don McLeesePop Music CDs
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