I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

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Before Sinead O'Connor became conservative America's most reviled musician when she ripped up a picture of the Pope on TV and refused to perform live at a New Jersey venue following "The Star Spangled Banner," she vocally supported the IRA at home in Ireland and generally roused the rabble. Indeed, she's one female pop star who's truly earned her army boots. Though her once meteoric musical career has suffered due to her outspokenness, the powerful voice and presence found on her second album is beyond reproach. Best known as the source of O'Connor's breakthrough cover of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U," this is a moving, intensely passionate work full of dark beauty and longing, constructed with a fierce independence and a taste for the unique. This undeniably pop album (albeit with modern-rock and folk elements) has more than held up through the years. --Lorry Fleming --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Sinead C
  • Sophomore anti-slump
  • A real artist
  • Truly one of the best Pop-Rock albums in history
  • Fans can never be objective...
 I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Sinéad O'Connor
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003JB7
Release Date: 1990-02-28

Tracks:

  1. Feel So Different
  2. I Am Stretched On Your Grave
  3. Three Babies
  4. The Emporer's New Clothes
  5. Black Boys On Mopeds
  6. Nothing Compares 2 U
  7. Jump In The River
  8. You Cause As Much Sorrow
  9. The Last Day Of Our Acquaintance
  10. I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

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Before Sinead O'Connor became conservative America's most reviled musician when she ripped up a picture of the Pope on TV and refused to perform live at a New Jersey venue following "The Star Spangled Banner," she vocally supported the IRA at home in Ireland and generally roused the rabble. Indeed, she's one female pop star who's truly earned her army boots. Though her once meteoric musical career has suffered due to her outspokenness, the powerful voice and presence found on her second album is beyond reproach. Best known as the source of O'Connor's breakthrough cover of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U," this is a moving, intensely passionate work full of dark beauty and longing, constructed with a fierce independence and a taste for the unique. This undeniably pop album (albeit with modern-rock and folk elements) has more than held up through the years. --Lorry Fleming

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Sinead C.......2007-07-25

I had the tape as a cassette, and re-purchased the CD. I very much like the song I am stretched on your grave".

5 out of 5 stars Sophomore anti-slump.......2007-06-18

I vividly remember picking up "The Lion and the Cobra" on vinyl while I was visiting my grandparents as a college sophomore, 17 years ago. For most of that week, I was plunking it down on their ancient turntable and listening on headphones after everyone else had turned in. I adored it then and still do, and there was clearly no way that Ms. O'Connor was ever going to top it, except...

Oh. Wait. It gets better?

Yes, it does. From the moment she launches into the Serenity Prayer in the stunning orchestral opener, "Feel So Different," you get the sense that this might not be your typical pop album. You might even worry that it intends to bash you over the head. Fortunately, she's much smarter than that.

While O'Connor's big Pope controversy was yet to occur, you can hear it brewing in the form of "Black Boys on Mopeds," when she sings, "These are dangerous days / To say what you feel is to dig your own grave." She knew that her words were going to get her into trouble sooner or later, and they did, and it sent her spiraling off, as far as I can tell.

And then she recovered, and came back with more seriously wonderful music. But that's another story. This album crystallizes a moment in time: it's about a woman struggling to find her voice and doing a dangerously good job of it.

5 out of 5 stars A real artist.......2007-05-03

What can I say about this record, it's one of the best in history. A real voice that has a lot to say.

5 out of 5 stars Truly one of the best Pop-Rock albums in history.......2006-12-29

Forget everything you (or the media) seem to know about O'Connor. She didn't win a Grammy (Best Alternative Rock Performance) or Rolling Stone Artist of the Year for nothing in 1990. One of the amazing things about this album was that it was even better than her stunning, million-selling 1987 'Lion & Cobra' debut. THAT was the album that made her an alt-rock star....this one made her a mainstream, Madonna-sized superstar (lest we forget O'Connor's 1990-91 "Bald Ambition" tour?). Her Prince cover (Nothing Compares 2 U) remains truly immortal, but it was the collection of 9 other, BETTER songs that made the mainstream realize that this woman was something else. Brilliantly self-written, arranged, and sung, the album is a song cycle of loss and redemption that is as good as anything Dylan or Morrison ever created. Every song is a masterpiece. Every one. In fact, 'Nothing Compares' is the most "out of place" track here--and the obvious reason the whole set "snuck" into such mass-market consciousness. Yet, it is songs like "Three Babies," "Emperor's New Clothes," "Black Boys on Mopeds," and "Last Day of Our Acquaintance" that generated for O'Connor a lasting fan-base that would allow her to keep selling millions of records around the world long after she rebelled against mega-stardom with the political posturing so unbecoming of what the post-modern world "desires" in its mega-stars.

Moreover, this album begs to differ with the crass VH1 classification of O'Connor as some "one-hit wonder" -- "Emperor's New Clothes" wound-up as the No. 1 Billboard Modern Rock hit of 1990, reminding us that this vibrant, tortured, influential artist has really always been an alt-rock artist with a string of notable hits in her true genre. "Nothing Compares" was simply a 'crossover' hit on an undeniably classic modern rock masterpiece-of-an-album.

5 out of 5 stars Fans can never be objective..........2006-04-21

From the OBJECTIVE point of view...forget her hit song "Nothing Compares 2 U" written by Prince, with songs like "You Cause As Much Sorrow" (a masterpiece), "Last Day of Our Aquaintence" and "Three Babies" this is nothing short of perfect.

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