Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25701 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

CD Description
Because of her adamant political message and strong voice, coupled with her repudiation of the stereotypical image of women in pop, Sinead O'Connor is, in many ways, the Joan of Arc of modern pop music. Additionally, the trademark nature of her voice and lyrics has made O'Connor one of pop music's most inspired collaborators.
COLLABORATIONS showcases O'Connor's most notable collaborative efforts from 1986 through2003, many of which appeared on import singles as B-sides. O'Connor's voice injects emotion into the dark trip-hop of Massive Attack's "Special Case", as well as the haunting South Asian dub of Asian Dub Foundation's "1000 Mirrors". On theEastern-tinged "Guide Me God", a dance hit in 2002, O'Connor duets with Natacha Atlas (Ghostland), while delving further into worldbeat on Afro Celt Sound System's dub-influenced "Release". "Harbour" by Moby features O'Connor at her most melancholy, begging "sink me in the ocean, to sleep in a sailor's grave", before resolving in quiet, downtempo majesty. O'Connor reachers her zenith with Peter Gabriel's "Blood of Eden", on which she compliments Gabriel's throaty baritone for a powerful atmosphere. Additional collaborations with U2, The The, Colourfield, Conjure One, and several others prove O'Connor's ability to infuse her signature style into any genre without overwhelming the song itself.

Customer Reviews

At last - all these tracks together!
What a pleasure it is to see the music business make a compilation that makes sense! Sinead O'Connor has done some of the best collaborations I've ever heard - from the haunting Heroine with The Edge to Special Cases with Massive Attack, some of these tracks would feature in my Top 20 tracks of ALL-TIME!
So it's great to see so many hard to get tracks from such a a variety of sources put together.
It's a small pity that Massive Attack's Prayer for England and the 14 minute Lord Baker with Christy Moore didn't squueze on as well, but that's a small gripe about an excellent addition to the discography of Ireland's best female artist ever and one of the most important artists of the past few decades.

Diversity is the Spice of Live
The only thing that strings all of these great songs together is Sinead O'Connors beautiful voice.

There are some truly uplifting greats here with Jah Wobbles 'Visions of You', Moby's 'Harbour' and Damian Dempseys 'It's all Good' being the best examples here. It is possible that you won't like all of the songs first time round. I didn't, and I'm a great fan of her voice. But the one thing that really struck me about this album was the diversity of the songs and how this remarkable woman can lend her voice to almost anything and still sound fantastic.

Great stuff. And an absolute must for Sinead completists.

Where are the songs with Rick Wright???!!
This album is fantastic.Sinead is one of the best singers and sonwriters of modernity... but where are the 2 songs that she performed with Pink Floyd's Keybordist Rick Wright for his 1996 solo album Broken China?"Breakthrough" and "Reaching for the Rail" are fantastic tunes that David Gilmour himself claimed that could had fit in a Pink Floyd album....