Track Listing

1. Special Cases [Radio Edit] - Massive Attack
2. 1000 Mirrors - Asian Dub Foundation, , Sin�ad O'Connor
3. Empire - Bomb the Bass, , Sin�ad O'Connor, Benjamin Zephaniah
4. Guide Me God - Ghostland
5. Visions of You - Sin�ad O'Connor, Jah Wobble,
6. Release [Album Edit] - Afro Celt Sound System
7. Wake Up and Make Love With Me - Blockheads, , Sin�ad O'Connor
8. Kingdom of Rain [Album Version] - The The
9. I'm Not Your Baby - Sin�ad O'Connor, U2,
10. Tears from the Moon [Album Version] - Conjure One, , Sin�ad O'Connor
11. Blood of Eden [Album Edit] - Peter Gabriel, , Sin�ad O'Connor
12. Harbour - Moby, , Sin�ad O'Connor
13. Up in Arms - Aslan
14. It's All Good - Damien Dempsey, , Sin�ad O'Connor
15. Heroine - The Edge, , Sin�ad O'Connor
16. Monkey in Winter - The Colourfield, , Sin�ad O'Connor
17. All Kinds of Everything - Terry Hall, , Sin�ad O'Connor

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24299 in Music
• Released on: 2005-06-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Album Description
An outstanding lineup of collaborators makes this Sin‚ad O'Connor release an essential purchase for an incredibly broad range of contemporary music buyers, The appeal of huge names such as U2, Terry Hall and Moby is tempered by an eminently cohesive and listenable collection of music. Standout tracks - Massive Attack 'Special Cases', Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart 'Visions of You', The The - 'Kingdom of Rain', Peter Gabriel 'Blood of Eden'. EMI. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Maybe her best CD
Pity she stopped singing professionally, because as this disc so clearly demonstrates, O'Connor is one of the most powerful voices in music. This is a collection of appearances she made on other CDs and while they tend to be largely techno or world-dub with very heavy bass, once O'Connor rises up out of the mix, the songs themselves take on an incredible viatlity that is compelling, dramatic, essential. These are great tunes, whether Sinead is working out with Asian Dub Foundation, Afro-Celts, U2, Edge, Aslan. Some of the songs you'd be familiar with. I was less aware of most of the material on this disc. Along with I DO NOT WANT, I think this is her best CD.
Equally impressive is that her command of the material doesn't overwhelm it. Sinead knew what the song needed to get the heart pumping and the soul soaring and she hits it each time out. The Peter Gabriel selection was perhaps her most infamous, pressaging as it did her meltdown, but set in the contexts of these other songs, you see what an incredible contribution she made to Gabriel.
I hope she reconsiders her career, as there were just so many great things about it. Not easy though. It was not lost on me that O'Connor's new disc should arrive just after the Legacy Edition of Janis Joplin's PEARL. Not since Janis has there been a singer of such command as O'Connor, not withstanding Lennox, Hynde, laing or Emmylou. Maybe you get too close to the edge. In which case if Sinead has stuff in the vaults, that would be enough. For now, this is an incredible coda to an incendiary signer's career.

Excellent collection
The great thing about Sinead O'Connor is that you really can't believe a word she says. No one loves to speak her mind and contradict herself more than O'Connor. So when she announced her retirement a couple years ago, I was bummed not because I thought for a second she'd be gone forever, but because I wasn't sure how long this particular whim of hers would last. Luckily, it hasn't been a long wait. Earlier this year, she started performing again, and now she's setting the stage for her comeback with this release of her stray tracks (of which the liner notes indicate will very likely be the first of a few releases over time).

As with She Who Dwells, this is a long (17 songs) collection, though not exhaustive. This is not claiming to be a "best of" cd, merely a collection of collaborations that work well to demonstrate O'Connor's work with others over time.

Her voice is uniformly terrific. The songs work well together, despite the huge variety of personnel represented. It sounds as fresh today as a whole as each song (some I'd encountered before, some I hadn't) did when they first came out.

The bottom line is: Sinead O'Connor fans will love this cd. Compilations and collections can often be hit or miss, even with the best of artists, but, as with She Who Dwells, Collaborations does exactly what it sets out to do.

(footnote: This is an excellent candidate for a 4 1/2 star rating, were it available on this site.)

Yep, she can still do the trick...
After a few definitely forgettable albums, Sinead O'Connor shows she can still pull it off. Even if it isn't her own material here, as she colloborates with some of the most relevant current new artists.

The winning element in this album isn't just the excellent choice of songs or even the intriguiing combos she forms with the other artists, but, as ever, her charismatic voice in re-interpreting these songs.

The highlights are many, but i was surprised to finally see one of the most underrated songs ever finally covered: that of Ian Dury's "Wake up and make love with me". It's easily one of the show-stealers on the whole album.

But elsewhere too it's mostly high quality stuff. "Special cases" with Massive Attack is an eerie and bombastic opener that kinda sets the tone. Interestingly the stronger songs are somehow packed in in the first half of the album, without this meaning that the latter lags far behind.

Other standouts include that with Jah Wobble ("Visions of you"), "Empire" with Asian Dub Foundation and "Guide me God" with Ghostland, and even the U2 colloboration actually hits the target rather unexpectedly.

It would be great if she could return with a strong album of her own creations but noone should complain with this here. It's packed with great tracks and it puts her among some seriously creative minds where her talent seems to come alive again.
Musically this is absolutely gripping stuff, and the misses are actually sparse if any at all.

Those that claim "Collaborations" might be O'Connor's best album yet, have a strong point and even stronger evidence backing them up in this album. In her recent albums the songwritting has been suffering and it's been left up to the vocals to carry the albums through. Predictably it wasnt enough.

Hopefully we wont have to wait years before she releases something relevant again.