Sin�ad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra

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Album Details

Title: The Lion and the Cobra
Artist: Sin�ad O'Connor
Release Date: 1987
Re-Released On: 10/1/1999
Label: Ensign/Chrysalis, EMI Music Distribution
Duration: 42:21
UPCs: 094632161222, 0094632161253, 044114161226, 094632161215, 094632161246, 094632161253, 2600000000666, 5013136161229
Genre: Rock
Styles: Alternative Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, College Rock
Moods: Fierce, Angry, Bittersweet, Earnest, Fiery, Intense, Intimate, Passionate, Provocative, Reflective, Sensual, Sophisticated, Stylish, Ethereal, Cathartic, Confrontational, Theatrical
Total Copies: 21
Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

Track Listings

Jackie
Mandinka
Jerusalem
Just Like U Said It Would B
Never Get Old
Troy
I Want Your (Hands on Me)
Drink Before the War
Just Call Me Joe

Additional Releases

Year	Type	Label	Catalog #
1999	CD	EMI Music Distribution	1612
1990	CD	EMI Music Distribution	1612
1987	CD	Ensign/Chrysalis	F2-21612

Other Editions

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Album Review

Sin�ad O'Connor's debut, The Lion and the Cobra, was a sensation upon its 1987 release, and it remains a distinctive record, finding a major talent striving to achieve her own voice. Like many debuts, it's entirely possible to hear her influences, from Peter Gabriel to Prince and contemporary rap, but what's striking about the record is how she synthesizes these into her own sound -- an eerie, expansive sound heavy on atmosphere and tortured passion. If the album occasionally sinks into its own atmospheric murk a little too often, she pulls everything back into focus with songs as bracing as the hard-rocking "Mandinka" or the sexy hip-hop of "I Want Your (Hands on Me)." Still, those ethereal soundscapes are every bit as enticing as the direct material, since "Troy," "Jackie," and "Jerusalem" are compelling because of their hushed, quiet intensity. It's not a perfect album, since it can succumb to uneven pacing, but it's a thoroughly impressive debut -- and it's all the more impressive when you realize she only topped it with its immediate successor, before losing all focus. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Credits

Name	Credits
Chris Birkett	Mixing
Enya	Voices, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
Fachtna O'Ceallaigh	Mixing
Gavyn Wright	Director
Jack Adams	Mastering
John Maybury	Art Direction, Cover Art
John Reynolds	Drums, Programming
Kate Garder	Photography
Kate Garner	Photography
Kevin Moloney	Engineer, Guitar, Mixing, Guitar (Bass), Producer
Kevin Mooney	Guitar, Guitar (Bass)
Kim Bowen	Photography
Leslie Winer	Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Voices
Lloyd Phillips	Mixing
Marco Pirroni	?, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Mike Clowes	Keyboards, Synthesizer, String Arrangements
Rob Dean	Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Sean Pencil	Cover Art
Sin�ad O'Connor	Vocals, Mixing, Producer, Guitar (Electric), Arranger
Spike Hollifield	Guitar (Bass)
Steve Horse	Cover Art, Art Direction
Teeroy Morris	Arranger, Mixing

Member Reviews

Greg B. wrote on 9/7/2008...

This is the BMG manufactured release.

Aileen R. (aileen) wrote on 5/21/2008...

"To quote her fellow Irishman, poet William Butler Yeats, when Sinead O'Connor's debut, The Lion and the Cobra, was released, a terrible beauty was born. O'Connor has a haunting voice as dark as the Irish bogs, and her unwavering delivery simultaneously inflames and chills. She sings in two ranges: her soprano ('Never Get Old,' 'Jackie') is a nearly monastic chant that's angular and breathy like a pan flute or a tin whistle, while her alto, reigning in 'I Want Your (Hands on Me)' and 'Mandinka,' is a suspended, forceful spoken-word tone that never quite yells. By switching back and forth between these two vocal modes, she yanks the listener into her turmoil, giving you no choice but to empathize. She was only 20 years old during this recording, and her difficult relationships with lovers, motherhood, her parents, and the Catholic Church were traumatic and fresh. But rather than mellow with maturity, she gained notoriety with publicly unfavorable political antics that would accompany and often overshadow her equally astounding follow-up, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got." --Beth Bessmer (Amazon.com)