SINEAD O’CONNOR Topped The UK Albums Charts With Her Breakthrough One ‘I DO NOT WANT WHAT I HAVEN’T GOT’ 35 Years Ago Today
Great longplayers from the past
24 March 2025
Today 35 years ago, on 24 March 1990, the legendary, outspoken, controversial
and expressive Irish songstres SINEAD O’CONNOR topped the UK Charts with her
second and breakthrough LP I DO NOT WANT WHAT I HAVEN’T.
Together with her splendid 1994 album Universal Mother the best work she ever accomplished (in my book). A highly evocative record filled with heart-and-soul-touching beauties, and of course, her massive hit single, Prince cover Nothing Compares 2 U
(more than 440 million streams on Spotify) which helped to increase the LP’s sales.
Rolling Stone wrote: “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got is less about O’Connor’s ambitions than the cost of those ambitions, and in almost every regard, it is an even better record than her first. The album seems the work of a transformed woman — someone who has put aside much of the anger and confusion that fueled her earlier songs and has found a hard-earned measure of spiritual happiness.” Full review here. Score: 4.5/5.
Singles/clips: Jump In The River / Nothing Compares 2 U /
The Emperor’s New Clothes / Three Babies
– JUMP IN THE RIVER –
– NOTHING COMPARES 2 U –
– THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES –
– THREE BABIES –
ALBUM
