^same here. I was surprised myself at how much I liked this. I've always liked Sinead's voice, but didn't know what to expect.

Thank you, Kronos! I checked it, and I think it's working fine. The site has been acting really weird. Once again, Thank You soooo much!

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I thought I had repaired your dead Sinead O'Connor "Mandinka" video, but it doesn't appear to be working right. Go here to grab the embed:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1xr7t_sinead-oconnor-mandinka_music

I thought I had repaired your dead Sinead O'Connor "Mandinka" video, but it doesn't appear to be working right. Go here to grab the embed:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1xr7t_sinead-oconnor-mandinka_music

I can't believe I have to *beg for Sinead! One more vote, Sifters, please!

I, too, remember when this happened. As well as another bit that hasn't seen the light of day since it's original airing; this one was an episode of Wayne's World where they were listing ugly chicks (or some variant) and Chelsea Clinton was named. Myers and Carvey immediately started back-pedaling in the skit and I remember SNL issuing an apology. I've seen the Sinead/Pope clip before but haven't seen the Chelsea clip since it's original airing.

I live in Ireland and have been listening to Sineads pronouncements for 20 years or more. She lives down the road from me and she is nuts. She takes out full page newspaper adds to appeal for privacy or announce her retirement (shortly before a tour or new album etc.) The latest is people are leaving poison cakes outside her house for her kids...

Its revisionist nonsense to say this was about one thing or another because at the time I only heard her refer to abortion and "patriarchy" when defending this. She was pissed at catholics because the Irish had voted against allowing abortion in Ireland (whom she described as "too childlike to understand what they were voting on"), this having a lot to do with religous opinion.

Dont forget that after all this she later became a catholic priest(!). Then she got tired of that and she became a rasta priest. This only scratches the surface with Sinead. She made lengthy (and very graphic) statements about her own sexual abuse at the hands of her mother in an irish paper. The sex abuse had profoundly religous characteristics and was quite horrific. Her brother happened to write for the same paper and this resulted in a public back and forth between them, with both he and her father insisting it was all lies.

You might not believe I'm a fan of Sineads, but I am. Shes very talented but she is on a different planet. I long ago learnt to listen to her music and ignore the rest.

Go right ahead, it's your soul, after all.

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would you be opposed to me promoting this video?

would you be opposed to me promoting this video?

I just noticed this sweet irony: Only seven minutes before this video escaped queue, Issykitty's "Mandinka" video was published. (For those of you who don't see the irony yet, Kunta Kinte from "Roots" was the son of a Mandinka warrior.)

Tags for this video have been changed from 'love song, prince, 1990' to 'love song, prince, 1990, sinead oconnor' - edited by dystopianfuturetoday

I really like Afro Celt Sound System, but I have to disagree with you, definitely not their best song IMO. I think Release is much better

Like Sinead, but of all her work to date, she only hits every once in a while.....the issue is sincerity and soul, perhaps, she has the voice......maybe she sold her soul at some point or another.....or perhaps she needs to fire her manager......maybe it was a pixie she pissed off, and her curse is a dull combo of mediocrity and popularity.....bet her house smells like cat pee.......and WTF is Lord Franklin, and why should we care????? Apologies Ms. O'Connor, really do like your voice......

I was going to promote the sinead o'connor video for a side-by-side comparison on the unlikely chance that the Brel made it to the front. Personally, I find these kinds of performances to be almost unbearable, but I simply cannot look away.

Still kicking myself for not posting this in Ball-Flexin' and incurring the Wildman's wrath. . .

if he would just start crying it would be the sinead o'connor video...

It wasn't about war, she was protesting the Church's views on birth control, abortion and its' general ill-treatment of of women and children.

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Perhaps Sinead O'Connor is angry with the pope because, in 1988, he and Carlo Caffarra of the Pontifical Institute for Marriage and Family Matters suggested that, if an AIDS-stricken hemophiliac husband could not abstain from intercourse, it was better to infect his wife than to ever resort to using a condom. Perhaps it was such systemic misogyny, ensconced in the civil laws of her native land, that gave rise to the "breach of faith" committed by O'Connor on "Saturday Night Live."

Unfortunately, such facts aren't at the disposal of the average "SNL" viewer. In a nation with a long history of nativist anti-Catholicism, it wasn't surprising that blue-collar ethnics would shortly thereafter boo Sinead O'Connor off the stage at a Bob Dylan tribute. Few (if any) reporters took the time to provide a context for O'Connor's seemingly inexplicable actions, leaving them seemingly inexplicable. (And this is not to say that O'Connor herself can't say some truly stupid things. Her defense of rapist Mike Tyson in a recent interview with Rolling Stone as a "little boy" persecuted by a "bitch" is difficult to comprehend; and, like many militant ex-Catholics, she is prone to see the sinister hand of the church everywhere - even running the World Bank - without a shred of evidence to support such beliefs.)

But without this frame, the Catholic hierarchy was able to turn ignorance to its advantage, decrying Sinead O'Connor as simply an anti-Catholic bigot - or worse. One week after the "SNL" episode, Cardinal John O'Connor wrote a rather loopy column in the archdiocesan paper Catholic New York in which he likened the Irish singer's performance to "voodoo" and "sympathetic magic." In short, his eminence resorted to an old but effective tactic long used by the Catholic church to silence and condemn unruly women: he simply called Sinead O'Connor a witch.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_n1_v53/ai_13307994