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- Posted: 12/12/2025 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#5472): The Lion And The Cobra
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Today's album of the day
The Lion And The Cobra by Sinéad O'Connor (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1987.
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Overall rank: 1,314
Decade rank: 210
Year rank: 24
Discography rank: 2 (out of 15 albums on BEA)
Average rating: 78/100 (from 204 votes).
Tracks:
1. Jackie
2. Mandinka
3. Jerusalem
4. Just Like U Said It Would B
5. Never Get Old
6. Troy
7. I Want Your (Hands On Me)
8. Drink Before The War
9. Just Call Me Joe
Top voted comments:
"Though her subsequent work often leaves me cold, O'Connor's debut is a brilliant, eclectic collection in which even the love songs, such as the gorgeous "Just Like U Said It Would B," sound fiery and raw. "Troy," one of the finest songs of the decade, is a devastating entreaty to an ex-lover she can't—or won't—shake free of. "Drink Before the War" is a passionate anti-war cry housed in a lovely ballad. "I Want Your (Hands On Me)" is a lusty little dance, catchy and about as subtle as the title would suggest. Songs such as "Jackie," "Just Call Me Joe," "Mandinka," "Never Get Old," and "Jerusalem" show an extraordinary array of subjects, styles and influences. These songs are deep and literate and often sound as if they cost O'Connor a piece of her soul to get them on record."
- subtleman22 (Rating: 90/100)
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"With this album, Sinead O'Connor combines hard-rock riffs, discordant electronics, neoclassical arrangements, funk grooves and hip-hop. These elements emphasize the full impact of her expressive and 'acrobatically' intense emotionally charged vocals that fuse Gregorian chants, African-American spirituals, Celtic ballads, middle-eastern Litanies and Laurie Anderson's and Meredith Monk's experiments on the human voice. The result is a masterpiece of an album that resembles a hallucinatory psychodrama that exudes vulnerability and loneliness."
- hairymarx1 (Rating: 70/100)
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About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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DommeDamian
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MadhattanJack
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- #3
- Posted: 12/12/2025 23:04
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Very good record indeed, but did we ever decide if it's totally sexist to prefer the US version of the album cover?
I do, but neither of them are all that great, to be honest.
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albummaster
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- #4
- Posted: 12/13/2025 08:42
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| MadhattanJack wrote: | Very good record indeed, but did we ever decide if it's totally sexist to prefer the US version of the album cover?
I do, but neither of them are all that great, to be honest.
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The record industry is sexist is something I never expected to hear 🤥 . Wasn't aware of the backstory until now "The covers of the United States and Canada issues differed from the European release, as it was decided a more subdued pose would present a "softer" image of the star." (from Wikipedia)
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Romanelli
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- #5
- Posted: 12/13/2025 14:59
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| MadhattanJack wrote: | Very good record indeed, but did we ever decide if it's totally sexist to prefer the US version of the album cover?
I do, but neither of them are all that great, to be honest.
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In many cases, we do get better music from the UK. And, in many cases, we also get much worse album cover art from the UK.
I don't think preferring the North American cover of this one is sexist at all. It's simply a better photo of the artist, and is, as Wiki says, a "softer" image of her. It's less grating, and to me anyway, is a more accurate picture of who she was over the picture of who she was presenting herself to be. My opinion.
Great album. Glad mine has the North American cover.
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DommeDamian
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Gender: Male
Age: 24
Location: where the flowers grow.
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