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Sinead Oconnor has passed

Klubber said:
Vanilla Ice? Seriously, that's your comparison? We could talk all day about crappy artists who sold millions of albums. And he's definitely one of them.

Ripping off a sample of "Under Pressure" without permission isn't the same as covering a song (with permission) and putting your own stamp on it where it very well might surpass the original. Which is what Sinead did with the Prince song, "Nothing Compares 2 U".

She also had many other songs that charted highly as well. "The Emperor's New Clothes" hit #1 on the Billboard Alternative Chart as did "Nothing Compares 2 U".

She wasn't a mainstream pop/rock artist either. She was in the "Alternative" genre with her early work getting play mostly on college radio and alternative rock stations.

And again, she had a lot of critical acclaim, and deservedly so.
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Yeah just because you don't like Vanilla Ice don't mean its a bad comparison. He legit has a very similar arch to his career as she did. Actually he has acomplished a lot more. The song he made famous did rip off a riff but his words were original. Sinead just covered a song almost exactly like the original that was written by a musical genious. He was also a white rapper in the days where white rappers didn't exist. He also had another hit with a cover song of "Play that funky Music". BTW not an Ice fan. Just pointing out that she wasn't any better than most other one hit wonders.
 
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Drew0311 said:
Vanilla Ice sold over 8 million with the album to the Extreme and over 500k with extremely live. He’s still a one hit wonder.

I should also mention he is a damn good dancer and his raps were not bad. Yet if he died I would not try and pretend he was something he wasn’t.
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Did Vanilla Ice publically expose something as horrific as what she did on SNL?
 
Every single one of Vanilla Ice's records were god ******* awful, have you ever listened to any of them? O'Connor had a handful of good to decent albums, the idea that they are the same because "they both had one hit" is so stupid it makes sense that knownothing posted it.
 
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3TrueFans said:
Every single one of Vanilla Ice's records were god ******* awful, have you ever listened to any of them? O'Connor had a handful of good to decent albums, the idea that they are the same because "they both had one hit" is so stupid it makes sense that knownothing posted it.
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comparing V. Ice to Sinead? LOL, that is an intellectually challenged exercise
 
KidSilverhair said:
One of my co-workers back in 1988-89 was a pretty big Sinead fan and would talk her up in conversation … this was well before Nothing Compares 2 U and few people knew anything about her. Then I saw her perform Mandinka at the 1989 Grammys on TV - wow. Powerhouse song and powerhouse performance. Sure, I guess she was a one-hit wonder but she recorded some good songs. I hope she’s found peace.
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I loved Mandinka the first time I heard it! Cannot remeber if it was on MTV or SNL, but it blew me away, and I went out and bought the album.

fyi: Annie Lennox sang Nothing Compares 2 U tonight in the lost artists tribute.

 
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Annie Lennox still with the chops tonight. Nicely done.

Wow, lost a lot of big names. Tony Bennett, Jimmy Buffet, Gordon Lightfoot, Sinead, Tina Turner….
 
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