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nothing compares 2u is a sinead o'connor song and not bloody american

Sorcha_27Sorcha_27 Posts: 138,791
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Sinead O'Connor is irish not american so why this?

where is Louis's rule book! :D
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 4,679
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    Didn't Prince write it?
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 2,961
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    It's a Prince song.

    Nevermind.
  • SneakyBooSneakyBoo Posts: 7,850
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    Old.Tallen wrote: »
    Didn't Prince write it?

    yes he did
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,076
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    Written by Prince.


    This is a song that should NEVER be covered.
  • ogg monsterogg monster Posts: 5,347
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    It's Prince FFS!!!

    Edit: sprry, see I was beaten to it :o
  • cezzycezzy Posts: 4,840
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    I think Aiden did it justice but agree it should never be touched.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 9,560
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    DenizenOfSW3 wrote: »
    This is a song that should NEVER be covered.

    Unless you are the Stereophonics and do a really awesome version of it!
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,217
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    DenizenOfSW3 wrote: »
    Written by Prince.


    This is a song that should NEVER be covered.

    Oh hell, I will agree with that. Aiden murdered it and completely lost the emotion of it. What was with the odd smirks here and there?
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 217
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    DenizenOfSW3 wrote: »
    Written by Prince.


    This is a song that should NEVER be covered.

    apart from by sinead yeah ?
  • Sorcha_27Sorcha_27 Posts: 138,791
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    DenizenOfSW3 wrote: »
    Written by Prince.


    This is a song that should NEVER be covered.

    My Bad! thought sinead wrote it- esteem for prince has just gone up a noptch

    I thought Sinead wrote it herself- however I think she sings it brilliantly so that's probably why I assumed she was the writer
  • 21stCenturyBoy21stCenturyBoy Posts: 44,506
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    Prince wrote and released it way before- and its his version that is better known in the US.
  • JennylooJennyloo Posts: 14,142
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    sorcha_healy27 wrote: »
    Sinead O'Connor is irish not american so why this?

    where is Louis's rule book! :D
    Its a Prince song so there. she didnt write it:rolleyes:
  • Scarlet O'HaraScarlet O'Hara Posts: 6,933
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    To be fair to the OP, it was never an "anthem" for Prince; and O'Connor turned it into an anthem for the broken-hearted not America.
  • sheddy99sheddy99 Posts: 5,760
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    sorcha_healy27 wrote: »
    My Bad! thought sinead wrote it- esteem for prince has just gone up a noptch

    I thought Sinead wrote it herself- however I think she sings it brilliantly so that's probably why I assumed she was the writer

    FAIL!
  • Sorcha_27Sorcha_27 Posts: 138,791
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    Jennyloo wrote: »
    Its a Prince song so there. she didnt write it:rolleyes:

    I didn't know that obviously
  • duffsdadduffsdad Posts: 11,143
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    however Prince has said that O'Connor's is the definitive performance of this song. It's hers, much the way Johnny Cash has taken Hurt from Reznor.
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    Let me be one of many say it's by Prince.

    I don't know of a single song by Prince that I don't prefer a cover version of. Kiss by Tom Jones, this one by Siennead O Connor (sp?) and of course Ruth's Purple Rain.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,076
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    thumbandit wrote: »
    apart from by sinead yeah ?

    Yeah, Mr Pedant.
  • Sorcha_27Sorcha_27 Posts: 138,791
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    Scarlet O'Hara wrote: »
    To be fair to the OP, it was never an "anthem" for Prince; and O'Connor turned it into an anthem for the broken-hearted not America.

    thank you scarlet

    does anyone actually think I would have started this if I had known who the writer actually was
  • Since YesterdaySince Yesterday Posts: 5,051
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    21stCenturyBoy wrote: »
    Prince wrote and released it way before- and its his version that is better known in the US.
    No he didn't. He gave it to one of his acts, The Family, and it wasn't even released as a single. Sinead O'Connor's cover was a US #1.
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    duffsdad wrote: »
    however Prince has said that O'Connor's is the definitive performance of this song. It's hers, much the way Johnny Cash has taken Hurt from Reznor.

    Johnny Cash's version of Hurt is one of just two C&W songs that don't make me want to poke red hot needles in my eyes (the other is Patsy Cline's "Crazy"). I had no idea it was someone else's song.
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    Sinead's version is brilliant but I heard Prince sing it live many years ago and the song was made for him, he sang it beautifully.
  • Dorkus_Dorkus_ Posts: 3,366
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    sorcha_healy27 wrote: »
    thank you scarlet

    does anyone actually think I would have started this if I had known who the writer actually was

    God forbid you make a mistake on here, you will be ripped asunder. Haha.. :D

    I think it was because you were so determined in your opening post that it was a Sinead song that people couldn't wait to jump on you. :D

    Oh well, everyone makes mistakes.
  • Sorcha_27Sorcha_27 Posts: 138,791
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    Dorkus_ wrote: »
    God forbid you make a mistake on here, you will be ripped asunder. Haha.. :D

    I think it was because you were so determined in your opening post that it was a Sinead song that people couldn't wait to jump on you. :D

    Oh well, everyone makes mistakes.

    thanks for the love!

    to be fair I have jumped on alot of people myself :D

    (whoops talk about a double entendre :p)
  • pixxyypixxyy Posts: 1,216
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    SoapyJo wrote: »
    Unless you are the Stereophonics and do a really awesome version of it!

    Totally agree, then again Kelly Jones makes everything sound great. Even 'You Sexy Thing'
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