UM | News -- [December 2000]

[ December 2000 ]

[December 22, 2000 - Handed by Christian] Faith and Courage is getting the attention it deserves in the year's end polls, in both sides of the Atlantic. This one is from UK's The Sunday Times and Faith and Courage scores a very respectable number 2! Read the entire article.

[December 22, 2000 - Handed by Kai Chai] Atlantic Records website has a press release concerning Faith and Courage's brilliant success in Time magazine's Best Of 2000 selection. Click here to read the press release.

[December 22, 2000 - Handed by Kai Chai] A new Christy Moore biography called One Voice features an unseen one-page picture of Sinéad and Roisin at a Dublin demonstration in May 2000, and a write-up by Sinéad herself on Christy. In This Heart is printed in full on the left margin.

[December 15, 2000 - Handed by Kai Chai] Sinéad's first full-length album in six years, the ass-kicking comeback opus Faith and Courage has been chosen as no. 3 in Time magazine's Top 10 albums of the year! In the article which appears on the mag's Dec 18 issue, the best album was chosen as D'Angelo's Voodoo and the runner-up is Kid A by Radiohead. Comfortably seated at number 3, Faith and Courage has the following write-up in the article:

            This time round, the defiant Irish singer delivers not
            a sermon of fire but a psalm of forgiveness. Her pop
            songs bear weighty spiritual messages about loving
            oneself, but they carry themselves lightly, as if
            lifted by seraphim's wings.

The entire Top 10 is as follows; congratulations to Sinéad and everyone who worked for and believed in the Faith and
Courage project.

            1. Voodoo - D'Angelo
            2. Kid A - Radiohead
                3. Faith and Courage - Sinéad O'Connor
            4. Shostakovich String Quartet - The Emerson Quartet
            5. Lovers Rock - Sade
            6. I Am Shelby Lynne - Shelby Lynne
            7. You Were Here - Sarah Harmer
            8. Allegresse - Maria Schneider
            9. Chasin' The Gypsy - James Carter
            10. The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II A Book - Wyclef Jean

[December 9, 2000 - Handed by Eduard] According to a book which gives detailed info on the origins of thousands of songs, there's a musical song called The Impossible Dream covered by Sinéad in 1992. Unreleased and unknown so far; the songs's details as published in the book are::

            The Impossible Dream
            (Original 1965 by Richard Kiley from the Broadway musical man of la mancha (Don Quixotte)
            Covered in 1992 by Sinéad O'Connor

            It's highly possible that the song was recorded by Sinéad for Am I Not Your Girl? project, but didn't actually made its way
            into the album. Judging from the fact that there are a bunch of songs that appeared as b-sides and on the Japanese release
            of the album, the song was really recorded but unfortunately never saw daylight up to this day.

[December 1, 2000 - Handed by Christine] Click here to read detailed info on the Tibetan tribute album, to which Sinéad contributes with This Is To Mother You.

© 2000 Deniz Cebe
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Last updated on January 7, 2001