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The album was recorded in Kingston, Jamaica at Tuff Gong Studios and Anchor Studios in 2004 and released by Chocolate and Vanilla on 4 October 2005. In her memoir Rememberings, O'Connor said that she felt so strongly about making Throw Down Your Arms that she personally paid $400,000 of her own money for the record's production.
The extended play Gospel Oak (1997) and live album Live at the Sugar Club (2008) were also issued, and O'Connor's compilations consist of five sets—So Far... The Best Of (1997), Sinéad O'Connor: Best Of (2000), She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty (2003), Collaborations (2005) and ...
This rendition of the Prince song reflected on O'Connor's mother, who had died in an auto accident five years earlier. [8] [9] The single "Emperor's New Clothes" found moderate success, although it did top the Modern Rock Tracks chart in the US. The first song on the album, "Feel So Different", starts with The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr.
Later that year, when she won three 1990 MTV Video Music Awards, she made a speech "connect[ing] her experience [of radio censorship] with the industry’s censorship of Black artists". [3] She boycotted the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards and refused to accept the Grammy Award she won a few months later, after writing a letter to the Recording ...
Bob Geldof may have disavowed his 1984 new wave carol, but the lesser-heard all-star remakes from 1989, 2004 and 2014 have their time-capsuled charms.
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The reggae album Throw Down Your Arms appeared in late 2005. [91] On 8 November 2006, O'Connor performed seven songs from her upcoming album Theology at The Sugar Club in Dublin. Thirty fans were given the opportunity to win pairs of tickets to attend along with music industry critics. [92]
The song was released as the album's second single on 5 June 1990 by Ensign and Chrysalis Records and reached number three in Canada, number five in Ireland, and the top 20 in Australia, Italy and Switzerland. In the United States, the song topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart for a week. Its music video was directed by John Maybury. [3]