I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got

“It’s been seven hours and fifteen days/since you took your love away.” While it was her stunning cover of the Prince-penned ‘Nothing Compares To You’ that broke Sinéad O’Connor in America (helped no end by the most memorable music videos of 1990), there were even better tracks featured on the singer’s second long-player. Deep, dark and introspective, most of the songs dealt with doomed relationships and the reservoirs of inner strength required to survive their fallout, notably the marvellous ‘The Last Day Of Our Acquaintance’. She sounds beautiful and ethereal on some songs, emotionally wrought on others. For many, it remains her masterpiece.

No 32 in 2009, as voted for by over 200 Irish musicians. Up from No 41 in 2004.