I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Explained

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Type:studio
Artist:Sinéad O'Connor
Cover:Idonotwantwhatihaventgot.jpg
Released:[1]
Recorded:1988–1989
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Length:51:09
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Prev Title:The Lion and the Cobra
Prev Year:1987
Next Title:Am I Not Your Girl?
Next Year:1992

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got is the second studio album by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor, released in March 1990 by Ensign/Chrysalis Records. It contains O'Connor's version of the Prince song "Nothing Compares 2 U", which was released as a single and reached number one in multiple countries. The album was nominated for four Grammy Awards in 1991, including Record of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Music Video, Short Form for "Nothing Compares 2 U", winning the award for Best Alternative Music Performance. However, O'Connor refused to accept the nominations and award.[3] The album has sold over seven million copies worldwide. [4]

Content

The critically-acclaimed album contains O'Connor's most famous single, "Nothing Compares 2 U", which was one of the best-selling singles in the world in 1990, topping the charts in many countries including the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada. This rendition of the Prince song reflected on O'Connor's mother, who had died in an auto accident five years earlier.[5] [6] The single "Emperor's New Clothes" found moderate success, although it did top the Modern Rock Tracks chart in the US.

The first song on the album, "Feel So Different", starts with The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr. The album also includes O'Connor's rendition of "I Am Stretched on Your Grave", an anonymous 17th-century poem that was written in Irish, translated into English by Frank O'Connor, and composed by musician Philip King in 1979.[7] [8] O'Connor's version uses a loop of "Funky Drummer" by James Brown.[9]

Critical reception

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got received critical acclaim. In 2012, it was ranked number 408 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[10] The album was ranked number 457 on the 2020 edition of the list.[11]

Track listing

Bonus disc (2009)

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[12]

Technical

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1990)! scope="col"
Peak
position
Belgian Albums (IFPI)[13] 1
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)2
European Albums (Music & Media)1
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)[14] 1
French Albums (SNEP)[15] 4
Greek Albums (IFPI Greece)[16] 1
Icelandic Albums (Tónlist)[17] 1
Irish Albums (IRMA)1
Italian Albums (FIMI)[18] 1
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[19] 3
Spanish Albums (AFYVE)[20] 2
Chart (2023)! scope="col"
Peak
position
UK Album Downloads[21] 6

Year-end charts

Chart (1990)!scope="column"
Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[22] 30
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[23] 3
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[24] 1
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[25] 8
European Albums (Music & Media)[26] 2
French Albums (SNEP)17
German Albums Chart[27] 2
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[28] 11
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[29] 6
UK Albums (OCC)[30] 16
US Billboard 200[31] 19

Certifications and sales

!scope="row"|Worldwide||7,000,000[32] |-

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BPI.
  2. Web site: Buskin. Richard. Classic Tracks: Sinéad O’Connor ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’. Sound On Sound. February 2012. 11 July 2024.
  3. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sinead-sings-and-speaks-her-mind/ CBSnews.com
  4. News: Sinéad O'Connor: 'Live with the devil and you find there's a God'. The Telegraph. Neil. McCormick. 1 August 2014. 7 June 2019. 29 June 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180629073343/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/11007782/Sinead-OConnor-Live-with-the-devil-and-you-find-theres-a-God.html. live.
  5. Web site: Stafford. James. 25 Years Ago: Sinead O'Connor Releases 'I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got'. Diffuser.fm. 4 April 2016. So a lot of the songs on this record were really about her. Even the f–ng title I got from having a dream about her, and in this dream she said to me, "I do not want what I haven't got." In my mind, even 'Nothing Compares 2 U' was me thinking about her ...'Feel So Different' was a song about my mother. 'I Am Stretched on Your Grave' speaks for itself really [she laughs bleakly] ...'You Cause As Much Sorrow' was about my mother .... 16 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160416135617/http://diffuser.fm/sinead-oconnors-i-do-not-want-what-i-havent-got-25-years-later/. live.
  6. Web site: Paul du Noyer interviews Sinéad O'Connor . 3 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160413225920/http://www.pauldunoyer.com/pages/journalism/journalism_item.asp?journalismID=260 . 13 April 2016 . dead .
  7. Book: Love Poems of the Irish. I Am Stretched on Your Grave. Frank. Connor. Séan. Lucy. Mercier Press. Cork. 1 August 1967. 978-0853421030.
  8. Sleeve notes to 1979 Album Scullion
  9. Web site: Who Sampled- Sinead O'Connor I Am Stretched on Your Grave . Who Sampled . 1 October 2021.
  10. 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . . 31 May 2012 . 4 September 2019 . 4 September 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190904101916/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/sinead-oconnor-i-do-not-want-what-i-havent-got-68684/ . live .
  11. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . . 22 September 2020 . 13 October 2020 . 13 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201013225456/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/sinead-oconnor-i-do-now-want-what-i-havent-got-1062776 . live .
  12. I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. Sinéad O'Connor. Ensign. Chrysalis. 1990. booklet. CVKW-41759.
  13. Web site: Top 3 Albums in Europe. Music & Media. VII. 14 April 1990.
  14. https://musiikkiarkisto.fi/oa/_tiedostot/julkaisut/sisaltaa-hitin.pdf
  15. Web site: Les Albums (CD) de 1990 par InfoDisc. fr. InfoDisc. 19 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20121027131334/http://www.infodisc.fr/B-CD_1990.php. 27 October 2012. live.
  16. Web site: Archived copy . 19 December 2018 . 26 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210926190044/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1990/MM-1990-04-21.pdf . live .
  17. Íslenski Listinn Topp 10 (11. mai 1990). 11 May 1990. Dagblaðið Vísir. 19 December 2018. is. Reykjavík. 26 September 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210926190050/http://timarit.is/page/2571182#navpanes=1&view=FitH. live.
  18. Web site: Archived copy . 19 December 2018 . 26 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210926190045/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1990/MM-1990-04-07.pdf . live .
  19. Web site: Archived copy . 19 December 2018 . 26 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210926190045/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1990/MM-1990-04-14.pdf . live .
  20. Web site: Archived copy . 19 December 2018 . 26 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210926190156/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1990/MM-1990-05-19.pdf . live .
  21. Web site: Official Album Downloads Chart on 4/8/2023 - 4 August 2023 - 10 August 2023. Official Charts. 4 August 2023. 11 August 2023.
  22. Web site: ARIA Charts – End of Year Charts – Top 50 Albums 1990. Australian Recording Industry Association. 19 December 2018. 10 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130410232035/http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-top-50albums-1990.htm. live.
  23. Web site: JAHRESHITPARADE 1990 . de . austriancharts.at . 3 October 2018 . 3 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181003221049/https://austriancharts.at/1990_album.asp . live .
  24. Web site: RPM Top 100 Albums of 1990. RPM. 12 December 1994. 19 December 2018. 27 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190327202153/http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.9145&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.9145.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.9145. live.
  25. Web site: Jaaroverzichten – Album 1990. nl. MegaCharts. 3 October 2018. 19 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181219182302/https://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1990&cat=a. live.
  26. Eurochart Hot 100 Singles 1990. Music & Media. 29. 22 December 1990. 19 December 2018. 7. 51. 29800226. 26 September 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210926190110/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1990/MM-1990-12-22.pdf. live.
  27. Web site: Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts. de. GfK Entertainment. 19 December 2018. 18 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160318121353/https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/album-jahr/for-date-1990. live.
  28. Web site: Top Selling Albums of 1990. Recorded Music NZ. 19 December 2018. 11 September 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180911152323/https://nztop40.co.nz/index.php/chart/albums?chart=3879. live.
  29. Web site: Swiss Year-end Charts 1990. de. Schweizer Hitparade. 19 December 2018. 15 June 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150615224559/http://swisscharts.com/charts/jahreshitparade/1990. live.
  30. 1990 Top 100 Albums. Music Week. Spotlight Publications. London, England. 39. 2 March 1991.
  31. Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1990. Billboard. 21 January 2021. 17 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180517091718/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1990/top-billboard-200-albums. live.
  32. News: Sinéad O'Connor: 'Live with the devil and you find there's a God'. The Telegraph. Neil. McCormick. 1 August 2014. 7 June 2019. 29 June 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180629073343/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/11007782/Sinead-OConnor-Live-with-the-devil-and-you-find-theres-a-God.html. live.

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