DoublePlusGood Thu Jul 27 with Lizbot on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Hello!

Can’t wait for the show tonight. Hi Lizbot!

Hi Addie, I'm glad you're here and I hope you're feeling better!

@Addie - I'm happy to play 3 hours of Sinéad today, but sad it's for such a heartbreaking reason

This song is so beautiful and there's a great video of her performing it live with The Chieftains.

It’s the worst reason 😔

And thanks, I’m feeling much better.

@Addie - I know. I don't like doing a lot of tributes for artists' birthdays, cuz there's always good artists' birthdays every day and it's too limiting to the playlist, BUT I will 100% pay tribute to an artist I respect when they die, especially if it's shortly before my show, but I felt so glum putting this together for today

Gosh she just had the most beautiful voice.

@Addie - I know...achingly gorgeous

My best friend in high school was a huge Sinéad fan and I always think about driving around Jersey and going on roadtrips with her to the Berkshires when she left high school early and started going to Simon's Rock to finish high school in Great Barrington, Mass.

The guitar in that one short bridge sounded like whale sounds!

i just read on wikipedia that one of the guitarists on this album played and co-wrote with Adam Ant

Thanks for this tribute. Randomly tuned in while driving around Philly today. Love local radio!

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One of the other guitarists is a whale

Boy can that whale wail

Hi Lizbot, I never really listened to Sinéad, but did think she had a beautiful voice. Enjoying this tribute

My Sinéad memories are weirdly hyper focused on the time period when I worked at an exhibit production shop and the boss weirdly had a copy of Universal Mother.

Hi Rob F! I'm glad you're enjoying it. It's an excuse to take a Sinéad deep-dive!

Hi Marshall! I'm glad you're enjoying it. Thank you for tuning in!

Deep dive 🐋

Looking back, what an unlikely choice for a construction shop manager it was!

Hi George! - oh weird (regarding Adam Ant guitarist!)

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@George - The Whaling Wall is the wall in that church at the beginning of Moby Dick. The preacher is a humpback

my favorite sinead track!

Dropping in to say thank you for the tribute!! RIP Sinéad 💕

@Addie - It's funny how certain albums/artists are so intrinsically tied with certain very specific memories! We played a lot of Bikini Kill in the bookstore I worked in at the Phila Airport...pissed off a lotta people haha!

@Addie - But artists I heard a lot when I first got my license are especially lodged in my memories from that time. This album I listened to during one of my first roadtrips ever (that I drove myself)

You always have the best curated shows, Lizbot! I knew it was you DJing before even checking online or hearing your station ID announcement. Your awesome and rad for locking us all in with this tribute!

Hi Richard lyons! Thank you for tuning in

Hi Lizbot and chat!

@Addie - More Universal Mother to stoke the flames of those shop memories!

@Marshall Deerfield - Aw thanks so much! I really appreciate that! I am sad she's gone too soon, but happy to share her music on prb

@lizbot yessss, road-trip albums are indelible!

Hello Lizbot and doubleplusgooders! We're enjoying this show even though it is a sad occasion

@Addie - for real! Early ones were especially heady!

Greetings all! Still here in Spain for a few more days.

Ooh I like this red football

Hi Rob from Maryland! I'm glad you're tuned in. I'm loving listening to Sinéad nonstop this last day and a half, despite the sad circumstances

chomp!

@George - Is this part with the la's the gator singing?

Lyle Lyle Crocodile?

Hi Number 6! Wow, I am envious! Where are you now?

Is this the part where he finally snaps and snaps the head off of Hector P. Valenti, star of stage and screen?

@George Korein - haha, it's Lyle: The True Story

Santiago has been my home base, and I have been traveling to other cities by bus for day trips.

Yes the "la la" is the croc-chorale

@George - Lyle is singing Red Football to Hector P. Valenti, star of stage & screen

now the truth can be told

Re: "The Whaling Wall is the wall in that church at the beginning of Moby Dick. The preacher is a humpback" The most famous whale in church is the humpback of Notre Dame

@Number 6 - Nice! I haven't been back to Spain since my friend got married in madrid in 2008

@George - croc-chorale sounds like a type of Cadbury chocolate bar

@George - HA! And The Humpback of Notre Dame's only friend is New Zealand Tom

It's been nice and cool here, unlike hot Philly, I've heard.

@Number 6 - Philly has been downright tropical

At night you can open the window, no fans or AC here!

So sorry to hear about Sinéad O'Connor, she was very talented!:(

@Number 6 - She was, it's heartbreaking. I cannot believe both she and Dolores O'Roirdan of The Cranberries, both Irish woman singers with achingly gorgeous voices who were big in my teen years, died far too young

I love this epic, Troy

Fire and strings

@George - for real

The Cranberries were definitely an epic group,for want of a better description.

Oooooo, this one.

Chills

@Addie - Good on Peter Gabriel! This is about him

I never knew!

@Number 6 - The Cranberries first album came out when I was 15, and it was huge in the art room of my high school, where i spent a lot of time cutting block prints! The 2nd album came out the next year, and the popularity of the track "Zombie" came in handy in giving at least SOME framework/familiarity with the Irish Troubles to my classmates before I presented my senior project on Irish history!

Thanks for this tribute, Lizbot! She was such an original artist and so passionate and uncompromising. I don't know a lot of her work so I am loving this. TROY, wow!

Hi Arlene! Thank you for listening!

First time I've heard you play that ID! I forgot about it. It is long!

Hey Liz! Just got home from a HOT soccer practice for my son.... Sad that I have missed over an hour of this Sinead tribute.... good stuff.

BAAAAAAAM!

pretty sure Prince wrote Nothing Compares 2U

yes, that he did

did he write it for her? I think I remember hearing that.

@George - I've played that ID once...maybe twice...before ever! It's good but it IS long!

Hi Parrscream! oh boy! yeah sports practices in the summer are ROUGH. My daughter has a tennis intensive the last two weeks of august and I don't know how she's gonna manage it, the courts get SO hot! I'm glad you're here now!

Hi Chef!! BAM, indeed!

Hi Paul Ianctot - Yup, Prince Rogers Nelson!

Hi Space Bot Liz!

Hi Ossy!

This freaking song is so gorgeous, i can't even deal with it

@Ossy - How's your day going?

@Paul Ianctot - Prince wrote Nothing Compares 2 U for his side project, The Family. I have played his original version on the show before, last time I remember playing his version was for the tribute I did for him when he died! :(

Hi Lizbot & all my DoublePlusBetters! My favorite Sinead song is also 'Mandinka' -- "great minds, etc."... Although Sandy Denny is my favorite all-time vocalist, I prefer Sinead's 'He Moved Through the Fair' to her version. Sinead's voice vacillates between strong and dramatic and fragile, almost to the point of the sung note being swallowed in a sob. No one does that better than Sinead did.

Really enjoying the tribute! I hope it doesn't sound trite, but all I could think of as I was driving home and listening was that she wrote her lyrics in blood and sang them with knives in her throat.

Just remembered there was a time period when my sister called me Sinéad. I don’t remember how that came about.

Hi Teresa! Mandinka is just perfect. Wow, I agree, it's like she's swallowing a sob. There was no one like her. Strong words that Sandy Denny's version of He Moved Through the Fairs pales in comparison, but I agree! Love Sandy too

Liz - Great! How for you? Preparing for a family vacation travel adventure in August!

Hi Bob Borowsky - I'm glad you're listening. She didn't shy away from powerful imagery, that's for sure. There is a beauty but also a pleading urgency in there

@Ossy - Going down the shore in august. Where are you headed on yr trip?!

oh this is a beautiful song!

I cannot hear this cover without thinking of my dad playing Ralph McTell's original version of Streets of London constantly in our living room growing up

@Addie - You have to ask her! There was a period my brother called me "David Cassidy," but we WON'T get into that! (It had to do with a bad haircut I got in the 4th grade.)

Liz - Nigeria 💚🤍💚

@Arlene - A cover of Ralph McTell! A far better song about homelessness than the one that got popular in the U.S., Phil Collins' Another Day In Paradise

@Ossy - Oh wow! Have fun! How long are you going for?

Liz - ITil late August and thanks, sure will do!

*Till*

Lagos is very lavish there. Hear they have a pizza hut and mall shopping centers

@Ossy - Huh, I'd want puff-puffs and those swallows starchy dough balls I got at a Nigerian place in Detroit last summer! Came with a really tasty sauce to dip it in!

WOW, I knew there's African stores in USA, but never heard of that particular Nigeria place! Puff puffs are nostalgic yummi, like chin chin(a type of fried dough cookie shaped like a diamond)

Ever head a dish called shawarma, which is on the rise of Nigeria and just learned it's Middle East origin? https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tTP1TcwSkqqsjRgdGDw4ijOSCxPLMpNBABLJwbP&q=shawarma&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS1068US1068&oq=shrawm&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j46i10i512j0i10i512j0i10i457i512j0i402i650j0i10i512l2j46i10i175i199i512j0i10i512.3486j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

@Ossy - mmm, chin chin sounds good! Crunchy diamond!? The Nigerian restaurant recommendation I got from Dabls Mbad of the African Bead Museum. Listened to him talk for over an hour about Detroit history on his front porch

@Ossy - I've had Indian and middle eastern versions of schawarma many times, esp chicken. Lamb is common too. Haven't had a Nigerian version! WOuld like to try that!

First officially tried that at my cousin's house, for her daughter's christening and party!

About chin chin, looks like they're in different shapes. The ones I see are usually diamond shaped

https://www.google.com/search?q=chin+chin&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjZvo2K_K-AAxWqMVkFHbtLDZMQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=chin+chin&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIKCAAQigUQsQMQQzIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDoGCAAQCBAeOggIABCABBCxAzoHCAAQigUQQ1DtB1jzEmCgFWgAcAB4AIABQIgBxASSAQIxMJgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=G_TCZJnFCarj5NoPu5e1mAk&bih=845&biw=1034&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS1068US1068

@Ossy - You're taunting me with all these delicious foods, I can't get dinner until after I leave the station after 8, and most likely not until 9:45ish when I get back to Philly!

I was waiting for this one!!!!

@Bob Borowsky - Good! I'm glad I played it!

Oh yessssss

Now songs on other artists' albums that Sinead sings on, for the next four songs

I love her song, 'Last Day of Our Acquaintance'. Thanks for playing that one!

@richard lyons - That is one of my all-time Sinead favorites!

Liz - Ikr, LOOOL and all of them smells great!!! Speaking of Philly and foods, Patty Jackson is a food auntie and on that wdas Gone But Not Forgotten series, learned that singer Billy Paul is from Philly like Phyllis Hyman!!

Lizbot... Thank you soooo much for this show. Thank you for going thru the trouble of the deep dive. It is in times like these, the deaths of cherished musicians, that we really need tributes done by fans and very capable DJs. I am pretty sure there are plenty of listeners loving the tribute who might not be taking the time to chime in.

Hi Shane Navoy! You're welcome, I'm happy to do it, and I'm very much enjoying bringing three full hours of Sinéad to the airwaves, sad as the occasion that instigated it is. I really relished revisiting a lot of these songs in the past two days to put this tribute together

So Phyllis Hyman is also Phillies Hyman

I didn't know this existed! Her voice is perfect with Massive Attack production.

@George - Philly's own

@richard lyons - I know! It's SO good! And she wrote these songs! Massive Attack collabs with Sinéad and with Elizabeth Fraser are so great

Wow! Gotta find that!

@richard lyons - separately. The Fraser one is of course Teardrop, from the album Mezzanine, which is better known than this Sinead collab

Hi Lizbot and friends - Thanks for this poignant tribute to Sinéad! It's a blessing ! My condolences to all who appreciate her speaking truth to power and her gorgeous voice and spirit! ❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🩹 💔

George - Phillies like Jazmin Sullivan, which people want her to play Sullivan in a biopic

Hi Readie! Well said! She was a force, truly.

And hi Readie Rainbow!

@Ossy - huh, that movie needs to be made!

Liz - Meant to say Sullivan should play Hyman in a biopic and yes, Hyman ABSOLUTETLY needs one! Hyman in wdas Gone But Not Forgotten summer series are one of my faves, along with Gerald Lavert and Billy Paul!

Hi Ossy- Readie Rainbow, I like that!

@Ossy - Billy Paul! I love 360 degrees of BP!

I had to write a serious educational comment on the NYT obit, written by TWO men, insensitive, specious and a disservice to her memory...I am stil a little angry - but I said my piece respectfully and thoroughly.

And Billy Paul is pure butter!!

Fight the good fight, Readie!

BTW, 5 other Sinéad articles in the Times redeemed them, I'm happy to say...

You know it, my radio sister!!!

Your tribute, Liz, is a balm to my soul, thank you 🤗

@Readie - Phew! Yeah, nobody needs that specious hateful crap. She took enough of that in her lifetime.

Thank you!

Liz - The past Sunday of Billy, his songs has heavy deep meaning like "One Man's Junk Is Another Mans Treasure" and "When Love Is New'!!

Yes, Liz, it was a lazy editorial choice on the part of the Times, which isn't what it used to be...

And forever adore his classic "Lets Make A Baby"

Readie - BP as butter like Patty's happiness every Sunday night on the airwaves...and HER TEETH!!!

I didn’t see the times obit. Will have to go see what’s up.

Bright like the memory of Sinéad!

@Addie...it's the obit I objected to, the Appraisal and other articles on her were somewhat of a rebuttal...and much needed.

Thank you so much for this 3-hour tribute to Sinéad, Lizbot. It's been an incredible deep dive! 💔 Rest in Peace, Sinéad (Shuhada Sadaqat).

@Readie - And a LOT of people owe her an apology. She was right about the abuse in the church and boy did people drag her hard for so many years for that. I remember Jan Hooks playing Sinéad on SNL on a finctional Sinatra talk show after Sinatra said some nasty things about her in response to her tearing Pope John Paul II's photo. Jan's impression was a bit harsh

Hi Christine! I'm so glad you were listening!

Hi Mike Rand - You're welcome! Thanks for tuning in!

Yes @Liz, and Joe Pesci and Madonna were disgraceful to her.

@Readie - That's for sure. The paper "of note" has taken a steep dive downwards

@Ossy - Billy Paul is epic. He wrote so many classics!

Sorry I haven't been in the chat tonight. Hi, everybody! I've just been taking in the music. Thank you for this excellence, Lizbot! 💯

Totally agree, Liz...and when they fired their copy editors...well you know what a mistake that was!

Hi Christine! Nice to see you!

Hi, Readie 🌈!

Liz - Harsh of them to come at Sinead like that, similar to people's untrue accusations of Michael Jackson, after his passing

Liz - So for real of BP!!

This has been a wonderful (albeit sad) show tonight, Lizbot. Many thanks for digging through the albums!

@Readie - People shamelessly jumped on the bandwagon of hating on her. I remember plenty of people who hadn't even heard her music, or anything beyond Nothing Compares 2 U, trashing her just because other ppl were, not even because they were offended. And then I think about all those silenced victims of the systemic abuse in the church and I think how much her actions and her songs must have meant to many of them

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Hi Ossy, Shane, Addie, Teresa, George, Rob & all!

Absolutely, Lizbot!

Hi Christine!!

@Liz, yes, and the survivors of the abuse and cover-ups are still owed so much. The hypocrisy is staggering!

Hi Christine!

But hail up Sinéad, and may her music and spirit be a blessing!

Thanks for this great tribute! It's almost 2 AM over here, time for bed. BCNU!

I remember when she tore up the Pope on SNL and how absolutely amazed by her I was, and how as a teen (who survived Catholic school but was in trouble every damn day) I took her side and was so mad at everyone witch burning her, like celebrities, and how it was now cool to mock her. I remember how mad that made me. She was so brave.

Spectacular "Gone But Not Forgotten" tribute of Sinead, Space Lady Lizbot!

Beannacht í a cuimhne!

Thanks for hanging, despite the late hour in Spain, Number 6! Have a great rest of your trip!

Wonderful tribute! Take care everyone :)

Take care, Richard Lyons

Amen, Arlene!

Hi Christine and everyone@!

Hey, Rob! 🦀

This has been fantastic Lizbot. Thank you so much 💚

Hey Rob!

Thanks Ossy, have a great trip to Nigeria!

🙏 Thank you, Lizbot! This show has been incredible.

@Arlene - oh man, yeah it resonated deeply with me. I was raised Irish Catholic

go raibh maith agat Liz!

Really don’t want the show to end! Alas!

5:03 PM		Sinéad O'Connor with The Chieftains The Foggy Dew The Long Black Veil 1995 RIP Sinéad O'Connor - This is the beginning of a tribute show
5:08 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Nothing Compares 2 U Prince Rogers Nelson I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Chrysalis Records 1990
5:13 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Black Boys On Mopeds I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Chrysalis Records 1990 This song is about Colin Roach, a 21-year-old black British man who died from a gunshot wound inside the entrance of Stoke Newington police station, in the Hackney section of London on January 12th, 1983. The the entire "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" album is essentially dedicated to his family, and contains a photograph on the inner sleeve of his sad-faced parents standing in the rain in front of a poster of their son. Below the image is the inscription: "God's place is the world; but the world is not God's place."
5:19 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Jerusalem Sinéad O'Connor Lion and the Cobra Chrysalis Records 1987
5:21 PM		Sinéad O'Connor The Emperor's New Clothes Sinéad O'Connor I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Chrysalis Records 1990
5:26 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Mandinka Sinéad O'Connor Lion and the Cobra Chrysalis Records 1987
5:30 PM		Sinéad O'Connor John I Love You Sinéad O'Connor Universal Mother Chrysalis Records 1994 4th studio album
5:36 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Red Football Sinéad O'Connor Universal Mother Chrysalis Records 1994 4th studio album
5:39 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Just Call Me Joe Sinéad O'Connor Lion and the Cobra Chrysalis Records 1987
5:44 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Germaine Germaine Greer Universal Mother Chrysalis Records 1994 Recording of feminist Germaine Greer speaking about cooperation as an alternative to patriarchy
5:45 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Just Like U Said It Would B Sinéad O'Connor Lion and the Cobra Chrysalis Records 1987
5:49 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Jackie Sinéad O'Connor Lion and the Cobra Chrysalis Records 1987
5:51 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Troy Sinéad O'Connor Lion and the Cobra Chrysalis Records 1987 The title of the album is from Psalm 91:13 "you will tread upon the lion and cobra". "Troy" was her debut single, released in 1987. Written by O'Connor, the lyric is based on the poem No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats. In the documentary Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares (2022), she explained that the song is about a traumatic experience during her childhood involving her mother.
5:57 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Never Get Old Sinéad O'Connor Lion and the Cobra Chrysalis Records 1987 Spoken-word intro by Enya reciting, in the Irish language, psalm 91: " "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." As a psalm of protection, it is commonly invoked in times of hardship. Though no author is mentioned in the Hebrew text of this psalm, Jewish tradition ascribes it to Moses, with David compiling it in his Book of Psalms.
6:03 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Thank You for Hearing Me Sinéad O'Connor Universal Mother Chrysalis Records 1994 about her break-up with Peter Gabriel
6:10 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Lizbot speaks
6:19 PM		Sinéad O'Connor He Moved Through the Fair Sinéad O'Connor Gospel Oak - EP Chrysalis Records 1997 traditional Irish folk song, which exists in a number of versions and has been recorded many times. The narrator sees his lover move away from him through the fair, after telling him that since her family will approve, "it will not be long, love, till our wedding day". She returns as a ghost at night, and repeats the words "it will not be long, love, till our wedding day", intimating her own tragic death and the couple's potential reunion in the afterlife.
6:23 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Three Babies Sinéad O'Connor I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Chrysalis Records 1990 Appeared on the soundtrack to Hush-a-Bye Baby, a 1989 Northern Irish television film directed by Margo Harkin, set in Derry in 1984. The film deals with the story of Goretti Friel, a fifteen-year-old Catholic girl who found herself pregnant during the Troubles.
6:27 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Last Day of Our Acquaintance I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Chrysalis Records 1990
6:32 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Streets of London Ralph McTell Thank You for Hearing Me Chrysalis Records 1994 one of my dad's favorite songs
6:36 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home Sinéad O'Connor Am I Not Your Girl? Chrysalis Records 1992
6:40 PM		Sinéad O'Connor I Am Enough for Myself Sinéad O'Connor Gospel Oak - EP Chrysalis Records 1997
6:44 PM		Sinéad O'Connor I Believe In You Sinéad O'Connor Thank You for Hearing Me Chrysalis Records 1994
6:50 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Scarlet Ribbons Evelyn Danzig / Jack Segal. Am I Not Your Girl? Chrysalis Records 1992 Sung to Sinéad by her father when she was a little girl
6:55 PM		Sinéad O'Connor You Cause as Much Sorrow Sinéad O'Connor I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Chrysalis Records 1990
7:04 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Lizbot speaks
7:04 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Emma's Song Sinéad O'Connor Faith and Courage Atlantic Records 2000
7:08 PM		Peter Gabriel with Sinéad O'Connor Blood of Eden Us Real World 1992
7:14 PM		Massive Attack with Sinéad O'Connor Special Cases Sinéad O'Connor 100th Window Virgin 2003
7:19 PM		Massive Attack with Sinéad O'Connor What Your Soul Sings Sinéad O'Connor 100th Window Virgin 2003
7:26 PM		Massive Attack with Sinéad O'Connor A Prayer For England Sinead O'Connor / Neil James Davidge / Robert Del Naja 100th Window Virgin 2003
7:32 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Feel So Different Sinéad O'Connor I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Chrysalis Records 1990
7:38 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Drink Before the War Sinéad O'Connor Lion and the Cobra Chrysalis Records 1987
7:46 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Lizbot speaks
7:46 PM		Sinéad O'Connor I Am Stretched On Your Grave Sinéad O'Connor I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Chrysalis Records 1990
7:51 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Fire on Babylon Sinéad O'Connor Universal Mother Chrysalis Records 1994
7:57 PM		Sinéad O'Connor Hold Back the Night Sinéad O'Connor Faith and Courage Atlantic Records 2000

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