FUNKYNESS said:

Sinead was a nobody

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Sinead was a nobody??? Boy you weren't following the music scene at that time, were you?

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Before that Prince song came to her, O'Connor's debut album - 1987's "The Lion and the Cobra" - was one of the best reviewed albums of the '80s and also charted high on a number of charts throughout the world. It also sold three million copies. You know how many copies Prince's 1987 album "Sign O The Times" sold? Not as many as Sinead O'Connor's 1987 album.

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Sinead was not "a nobody." Critics loved her, people worldwide bought her record in the millions.

Cloreen said:

FUNKYNESS said:

Sinead was a nobody

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Sinead was a nobody??? Boy you weren't following the music scene at that time, were you?

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Before that Prince song came to her, O'Connor's debut album - 1987's "The Lion and the Cobra" - was one of the best reviewed albums of the '80s and also charted high on a number of charts throughout the world. It also sold three million copies. You know how many copies Prince's 1987 album "Sign O The Times" sold? Not as many as Sinead O'Connor's 1987 album.

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Sinead was not "a nobody." Critics loved her, people worldwide bought her record in the millions.

was it? i wouldn't know. I never followed musical trends myself. In the eighties I saw the quality in george michaels, billy Joel's, Prince's, Michael's and springsteens' work but not everyone listens to pop radio closely, i never did, even though I was a teen then. Most of the stuff that sold well, whether it was duran duran or cyndi lauper, most of it was well beneath the best artists of the era and not worth following. did sinead ever have a hit single before Nothing? Just asking.

PeteSilas said:

but not everyone listens to pop radio closely,

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did sinead ever have a hit single before Nothing? Just asking.

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Sinead wasn't on pop radio. You couldn't find her there. She was a serious artist, not trying to be Madonna or Huey Lewis. My God, she shaved her head, for God's sake. She wanted no part of the pop music circuit. Just so happened she recorded Prince's song, she didn't make it sound like a top of the charts pop tune...but it went there anyway. Good for the public on that one.

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Prior to that she had a college radio hit, "Mandinka." Great tune, great rhythm guitar in that one. I never bought he first album even though it was called remarkable by every top critic in the worrld. She was actually one of U2's first signings to their record label. She pissed them off and went elsewhere. She was always trouble even before she hit it big. Strange girl but a genuine artist. Prince really should have worked with her instead of the Carmen Electras of the world.

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This is not exactly the album cover of a debut album that says the artist wants to be on the "Solid Gold" TV show with Andy Gibb:

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dunno, don't think she was any Kate Bush. I'll pass.