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Post by Lily on Mar 29, 2005 10:39:46 GMT
I heard the song My Lagan Love for the first time last night (and was bewitched by it)and forgot to look at the album cover this morning to find out what it was called so I looked on the net and I found this forum.
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Post by Adey on Mar 29, 2005 15:21:11 GMT
Nice that you got here anyway.. Welcome, and I hope to see you around.
Lagan Love is brilliant of course, but I'd love to have heard her performing "She Moved Through the Fair" another very similar celtic piece..
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Post by Al Truest on Mar 30, 2005 1:02:44 GMT
As much as I love Kate's a capella rendition of My Lagan Love, I actually prefer, and don't lambaste me for this please, Sinead O'Connor's version. That being said, Kate by far is a better, and my favorite, artist. [click here]See and hear the entire video (select your modem speed and then right click to zoom in to fullscreen ) and then tell me what you think. There are also two other videos at this link that are amongst the best of Ms O Connor's work. But, while we're on the subject, you must also hear my favorite traditional Celtic ballad of her's (from Sean-Nos Nua as well) ''Her Mantle so Green'' I'll post a link for a sample if you'd like, or you can find it @ Amazon unless you can find it for download (legally please ) Go ahead and find ''Universal Mother" too. btw. as you may know, Kate and Sinead have both contributed on two compilation projects ("Common Ground" and "Two Rooms) Maybe my favorite of Ms O Connor's of all is on the Elton John ("Two Rooms") tribute album. Her performance of ''Sacrifice'' brings tears to my eyes.
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Post by Adey on Mar 30, 2005 21:54:13 GMT
Yes indeed.
No-one suffers quite like Sinead.. At times her work is like that of a wounded animal, which makes her a perfect a capella singer of these emotive/evocative ballards. Even with a band behind her she doesn't lose the emotion - who can forget her defining version of Prince's Nothing Compares To You? And let's not forget that Sinead refers to Kate as the greatest..
Sacrifice in Elton's hands was an unremarkable song - pleasant but nothing more than that. I agree that Sinead invested in it the emotion it needed to make it fly. Can you believe that Sacrifice was Elton's first and only solo number 1 in the UK? - unbelievable I know
I loved the 2 Rooms project - but I'm a longstanding EJ fan anyway. John Bon Jovi's version of Levon was another highlight, as was Sting's version of Come Down In Time. Interesting that virtually everyone selected old material - says it all really..
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Post by Al Truest on Mar 30, 2005 22:18:20 GMT
Yes indeed. No-one suffers quite like Sinead.. At times her work is like that of a wounded animal, which makes her a perfect a capella singer of these emotive/evocative ballards. Yet her hyper-sensitivity and unyielding emotional commitment spent in such efforts cost her in terms of image and perception. I'm reminded of Jack Nicholson's line in ''As Good as it Gets'' i.e. Sell crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here, as her eventual public personna. And that's a shame to lose such a talent to ignorance or hatred.
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Post by saloldgal on Mar 30, 2005 23:44:48 GMT
Well since you mentioned Sinead...
I remember that the night I "discovered" Kate, I spent quite a bit of time on a big Sinead fan site. In fact, I am pretty certain that I saw a reference to Kate on that site (maybe about some event that they both attended?), and that is what started it all! A while ago I went back to the Sinead site looking for that reference to Kate, but couldn't find it.
I wish my memory about this was better, but I ended that night so awe-struck by Kate that all the "pre-Kate" stuff just sort of disappeared into the background.
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