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rfmcdonaldSinéad O'Connor has come up with some very wonderful and powerful songs, but my favourite song of hers is "Fire on Babylon," off of her 1994 album Universal Mother. As this Michel Gondry fansite says, "Fire on Babylon" is very intense, "an emblazoned song about an emotionally abusive mother. Sinéad sings, 'She took my father from my life / Took my sister and brothers / I watched her torturing my child.' At the end of the song she almost screams, 'Fire!'"
With her powerful vocals, the raw lyrics, and the dramatic rolling beats and rhythms and strategic instrumental pauses, it's a fantastic song. All of my favourite songs of hers are have those qualities: "Mandinka", "Troy", "I Am Stretched on Your Grave," "The Emperor's New Clothes," "Famine." Her quieter songs, her less angry songs--or, at least, less evidently angry ones--don't appeal to me so much.
I wonder what that says about me.
With her powerful vocals, the raw lyrics, and the dramatic rolling beats and rhythms and strategic instrumental pauses, it's a fantastic song. All of my favourite songs of hers are have those qualities: "Mandinka", "Troy", "I Am Stretched on Your Grave," "The Emperor's New Clothes," "Famine." Her quieter songs, her less angry songs--or, at least, less evidently angry ones--don't appeal to me so much.
I wonder what that says about me.
