- “I hope there’s peace for Sinéad at last,” Jason Isbell says
Sinéad O’Connor, the Irish singer most famous for her recording of a Prince song and for ripping a photo of the pope on “Saturday Night Live,” has died at 56.
O’Connor’s family announced her death to Irish media without giving the date or cause.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad,” the statement says. “Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.”
“This is such a tragedy,” Melissa Etheridge tweeted. “What a loss. She was haunted all her life. What a talent.”
“I hope there’s peace for Sinéad at last,” Jason Isbell tweeted.
O’Connor released 10 LPs and an EP between 1987 and 2014.
“I’m wishing Sinéad O’Connor safe travels through the astral world … what a voice,” Valerie June wrote on social media.
She had her biggest hit in 1990 with Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” and gained notoriety in 1992 after tearing a photo of John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live.”
That protest against child abuse in the church was immortalized in Todd Snider’s “Alright Guy” and made a fan of Queensrÿche’s Todd La Torre.
“RIP to this talented person,” the singer wrote on Facebook. “I always admired her stance and her means of protest against the child abuse being protected by the Catholic Church.”
I’m thinking of being more active on here (this may or may not actually happen) so here’s a little about myself.
I go by Hyacinth, Starlight, Domino, whichever. I’m 21 and I love old people music (mostly rock & metal from the 60s-80s) I also draw and paint and like cartoons and cats.
My current hyperfixation band is Armored Saint and if you like them you are immediately my best friend!!! This band has literally no young fandom and I’m trying to change that! They’re so amazing and the members are the greatest guys I promise you won’t regret joining me if you give them a listen (I’m literally on my knees begging I’m so lonely here)
Besides them some other bands I’m really into rn are:
Electric Light Orchestra (my favorite band since birth)
The Monkees / Michael Nesmith (my favorite since highschool) - I have a sideblog dedicated to that! @firstnationalbandaid
W.A.S.P.
Queensrÿche
Steve Miller Band
Cauldron
(These are subject to change depending on what I’m listening to / obsessing over at the time lol and some other bands I like will be included in the tags to give an idea of what I’m into!)
For the ask game, please. 💜🤭 14, 19, 29, 31. Sorry if you've done any of these so far. 😊
Thank you for the ask!!💗 I have done the last two, but I’ll go ahead and switch up my answers for them<3
14. What are your favorite apps besides tumblr?
Pinterest, Youtube, and Spotify. Those are also pretty much the only places I’m regularly on. I have Instagram but hardly use it. Also the Pinterest and Spotify combo is soo good, just scrolling through pictures of my favs while listening to their music🥰❤️
19. A time you told a lie.
When I was 13/14 I told my mom that my friend and I were gonna take our quad out for a spin just around the block. Instead we opted to drive around 3 miles away from my house and down onto the main road (mind you it’s already dark out). That honestly was so stupid to go out on a main curvy road, where someone could’ve quickly turned a corner and hit us😭
29. Favorite song lyrics right now?
My favorite lyrics right now are from Queenrÿche’s Suite Sister Mary - “Don’t turn your back on my disgrace, the blood of Christ can’t heal my wounds so deep.”
31. Describe yourself with 3 singers.
I honestly still don’t know how to answer this so I’ll just apply my traits to those most similar to 3 singers (hopefully that makes sense😭)
1.) Joe Elliott for the trait of how talkative I am (once you get to know me I will never shut up😭)
2.) Joan Jett for my attitude (the “I’m gonna do whatever I want” type of attitude)
3.) James Hetfield for my sense of style. I often opt for looks similar or adjacent to his, especially with my battle vest<3
“My Global Mind” immediately recalled “Real World” in its opening moments, and like that radio hit the Promised Land track was composed by most of Queensrÿche’s members in collaboration (“Real World” was written by the entire band and Michael Kamen, whereas Geoff Tate, Chris DeGarmo, Michael Wilton and Scott Rockenfield put this one together). But whereas that earlier tune was largely atmospheric and esoteric in nature, “My Global Mind” was more immediate, with Rockenfield’s busy percussion clearing a path for a relatively streamlined bridge before the chorus went full prog metal. Tate’s pretentions had definitely gotten the better of him, but there was still a certain majesty to Queensrÿche in the mid ‘90s: Promised Land wasn’t as big a hit as Empire, and the band as a whole got caught up in the hype and too big for their britches, but the record went Platinum and charted higher than any of their albums before or since, and has since become a sleeper favorite among the fanbase, and “My Global Mind” fit this dichotomy, as it had a distinct blend of technicality, power, hooks and pseudo-intellectualism.
The Anchoress - Confessions of a Romance Novelist: The Kitchen Sessions
Angra - Aurora Consurgens
Angra - Reaching Horizons
The Answer Lies in the Black Void - Thou Shalt
Armored Saint - Armored Saint
Autarkh - Emergent
Ayreon - "Epilogue: The Memory Remains"
Baroness - Purple
Bewitcher - Midnight Hunters
Caligula's Horse - Bloom
Chiaroscuro - Brilliant Pools of Darkness
Dare - Sacred Ground
Dark Tranquillity - A Moonclad Reflection
Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer
Dokken - Back for the Attack
Evergrey - The Storm Within
Fates Warning - Night on Bröcken
Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
Peter Gabriel - i/o
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Gojira - Magma
Haken - Affinity
Iron Maiden - The X Factor
Iron Savior - Iron Savior
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Killing Joke - Pylon
Left Cross - Upon Desecrated Altars
Lynch Mob - Babylon
Morne - Engraved with Pain
Mortuary Drape - Black Mirror
Opeth - Sorceress
Robots of the Ancient World - 3737
Royal Hunt - Devil's Dozen
Rush - Moving Pictures
Symphony X - Underworld
Tremonti - Cauterize
Y Kant Tori Read - Y Kant Tori Read