Not many women can get up in front of a nasty MSG crowd and give them the middle finger salute. She is awesome. The 1988 Pink Pop version of this song goes right up there with 2 other epic live performances in my life time. One being from Eddie Vedder unplugged "Black", the other 1991 Miami "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains and the late Layne Staley. I'm in awe of this women for what she stands for and her undeniably epic and brilliant voice.
To be clear. Im not a teen anymore. Damn near 30. Its been getting harder and harder to find good music. Im lucky to have noticed her after all this time.
If you like her, you should look up the band VAST
This video has not really been watched by over 40.000 people ......... it was a group of about 40 people like me ................. we all watched it about a 1000 times.... this is where music comes so close to perfection that it's not fair to the other songs anymore. thx sinead.
@gilmancrush this song is about an on and off again relationship, where both people get hurt and hurt each other in a cycle of love / hate . She starts out referring to herself as the subjects "troy" to be burned, then she refers to the subject as her "troy" to be burned. Most young adults go through this with there first loves, not knowing when its over and coming back until its doomed and destroyed.
She's simply BRILLIANT.. mind blowing... I've played her cd's countless time .. .had to replace one of them from over playing.. Seen her many times..... She simply one of the best "under played " artist ..... and she looks FAB.... ....
this is an amazing song but they kill it at 4:40 for me, drums and flute or whatever turn it into some pop cheesy background music. I'll get back to the raw versions (sinead, her anger and the guitar and nothing else)
holy fucking shit, how does she still have that voice? Its been like 20+ years...she's incredible. My daughter was just born when I was on Military deployment and I first saw Sinead in concert. So I know its been over 20 years...blows my freaking mind.
oh, wow this is one of my all time favorites. she is still amazing, Sinead is. the voice, the arrangements. there is so much depth!!!!! i love that my last name is close to hers...I'm CONNER. can you hear the colours and heat of her voice, even now...I'm 28 and i many of her music since my school girl days...you are a PHOENIX
@TheOnlyGoddess81 just a classic...this story is my life at this moment...i saw here when she came to the states for the first time, an amazing voice...just awesome this woman is
@annahrwth242 So easy for you to say "Grow up". LOL I could say the same about you and your very negative comment. Furthermore, karma doesn't exist. It is an idea for the simple-minded, much like religion. The truth is, much of life is random. Good and bad things happen to everyone. And the seemingly "bad" things should be seen as a way to grow. I think it is YOU who needs to grow up. I've just dropped some knowledge on you. Think about it. Class is over, dismissed. I'm finished with you. :)
@TheZandram i am also mexican..yet we are told in our culture to name our children after someone we admire...thus i have my daughter sinead...she is half irish, half mexican....spitfire like sinead o'connor..
@annahrwth242 Bless you! I've been strongly considering naming my daughter (the day I procreate) Sinéad as well. She's such a strong woman, full of character and intellectuality, extremely critical and independent, as well as conscientious. Even if she suffered depression through most of her life, she's remained an extremely strong individual – the strongest among the crowd, when push comes to shove. Love Sinéad; may she sing beautifully and express her thoughts for many more years.
@Rogosuki You are strong as well! Praying for u and your angel to come!...stay strong...When I feel funky...I listten to Sinead...her lyrics just blow me away...
The only performances of this song are 20 years apart. Because it hasn't evolved over the years, we're left with two starkly contrasting images of the song. Watching them both back to back, we see that this performance is painfully, yet beautifully mediocre. It shows us that physical beauty and physical talents are are fleeting. Because she puts forth such a raw humanity when she sings, she proves that it's only the glimmering human spirit that can live on.
Hey, it's someone who can't do anything creative on their own so they must insult someone who makes them feel inferior!
Just another cunt who is afraid of their own creativity so they post negative comments about someone who has the ambition and strength to be artistic in the public view. Yes, you are impressive.
at the end of the song you see her smile for just a moment and then you can see the young girl she was before
i dind recognize her in the beginning but that smile did it to me she sings the song again after 10 years but she sings it with the story of her life there is no other troy thats correct and there is no other sinead o connor
Put her in a prison and make her release a song a week. Not prison. She should make an album a year for five years. I think country is next for her. She could tear apart some patsy cline. Some Elvis.
Sinéad es una cantante increible, pese a que esta gordita y su voz hacambiado por el cigarro aun puede cantar esta cancion impresionantemente, la amo!!
Be what you ARE!!!! THERE IS NO OTHER CHOICE!!!! Spoken like a true grown woman....claim thyself. Only a woman can have the wisdom and self confidence to say it, and so passionately.
What an amazing performance. Love the huge smiles she has at the end. She was nervous to sing this song and she knows she did well....thus the huge smiles!!! Incredible singer, incredible songwriter!!
My name is László Troy Pierre Versteeg (I'm dutch^^)
seriously, I asked my father (mother r.i.p.) if it was a coinsedence that the names are the same, but it wasn't. My mother really gave me my name Troy because of this song...
its interesting because her voice has changed so much yet vocally she is still in complete control, sounds amazing and has such a depth of emotion and a controlled range that she is extraordianry in the current music landscape, that song if you allow yourself to get caught in its magic, with her performing it now, is one of the greatest works of all time
Magistraal. Klassiek voor dummy's
TV299 2 days ago
KILLED IT---FUCKING KILLED IT.
Rockunstank 6 days ago
unik wife!
39000olivier 6 days ago
WOW!!! I love you!!
lorren25 2 weeks ago in playlist favorites
this would be my funeral song , its such a good piece of music
temmesik 4 weeks ago
I used to think she was the most beautiful girl ever, maybe time took her beauty, but her voice still knocks me over
pennenbuisje 1 month ago
I admit, she got old. but she sitll has the same, young and warm smile. I'm moved.
TheEm616 1 month ago 2
O h M y G o d.. What a rendition!!! Got knocked off by the sheer power of emotion!!!
Sinead you are SINEAD!
ileeshmach 2 months ago
in one word PERFECT Sinead,orkest,song my favorite son
astriddavis1 2 months ago
Haunting and beautiful...
shm52442 2 months ago
Still amazing. raw emotion
shm52442 2 months ago
perfection....she dedicated to us this song......we are still a liar
AZ097221 2 months ago in playlist Altri video di ogmuk
OMG!!!! I got goose bumps! Terrific performance! I just LOVE her!!!!
MegaUtuber456 3 months ago
thank you Sinead...
Rockunstank 3 months ago
Not many women can get up in front of a nasty MSG crowd and give them the middle finger salute. She is awesome. The 1988 Pink Pop version of this song goes right up there with 2 other epic live performances in my life time. One being from Eddie Vedder unplugged "Black", the other 1991 Miami "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains and the late Layne Staley. I'm in awe of this women for what she stands for and her undeniably epic and brilliant voice.
westy44cal 3 months ago
so simple. just two chords, but it's the most hearbreaking song i've ever heard.
FCLMfan 4 months ago
21 years after and it still sounds the same, she's amazing!
deanriam 5 months ago 6
Is there a recording of this concert floating around that can be purchased? Absolutely beautiful!!
anemalcam 6 months ago
There is no woman more beautiful than this
librarianscales 6 months ago
First of all AMAZING !!!! Secondly, time for a hair cut !! :)
tripleverified 7 months ago 3
To be clear. Im not a teen anymore. Damn near 30. Its been getting harder and harder to find good music. Im lucky to have noticed her after all this time.
If you like her, you should look up the band VAST
Nazraq04 8 months ago
I love her first album so much. I missed out on it when I was a kid. I listened to dire straights when this was out.
Then as a teen I was (and still am) a fan of nin, ministry, primus, kmfdm, skinny puppy, etc.
I walked in to a local head shop and heard "put your hands on me" bought the cd that day.
I will defend my enjoyment of sinead o'conner no matter who says im lame.
Nazraq04 8 months ago
This video has not really been watched by over 40.000 people ......... it was a group of about 40 people like me ................. we all watched it about a 1000 times.... this is where music comes so close to perfection that it's not fair to the other songs anymore. thx sinead.
VulpesJulzse 8 months ago 14
So many years after this song first came out, and she STILL puts her entire being into this song... She's such an inspiration :D
XxKotovSyndromexX 8 months ago
@XxKotovSyndromexX So many hard years and she is still the same amazing talent.
micc69 8 months ago 2
@gilmancrush this song is about an on and off again relationship, where both people get hurt and hurt each other in a cycle of love / hate . She starts out referring to herself as the subjects "troy" to be burned, then she refers to the subject as her "troy" to be burned. Most young adults go through this with there first loves, not knowing when its over and coming back until its doomed and destroyed.
sailure1 9 months ago
She's simply BRILLIANT.. mind blowing... I've played her cd's countless time .. .had to replace one of them from over playing.. Seen her many times..... She simply one of the best "under played " artist ..... and she looks FAB.... ....
Photopaul15 9 months ago
Gosh, each time this song drives me to tears!
benjo972 9 months ago 2
Still amazing!
Bartolomeus007 10 months ago
She tried... bravo for bravery...
BloodTrucksandBeer 10 months ago
@ gilmancrush hahaha!! Like this song didn't have an orchestra in the first place? Is it missing from your copy of the song?
BloodTrucksandBeer 10 months ago
I didn't know that Joe Brand could sing.
andrew67 10 months ago
Makes me want to slit my wrists.
She has also lost her looks.
andrew67 10 months ago
just awesome!
ErickPaul33 11 months ago
Strikingly beautiful, as she sings that song, straight from her heart. Wonderful to hear her sing again. And far too little.
doortje6 11 months ago
That smile at the end; get's you every time. Sinead you STILL kick azz.
DancesWithCowDogs 11 months ago
This is amazing...you've still got it beautiful lady. That voice...that VOICE!!!!
FullCircleHoops 1 year ago
so powerful, Sinead is awesome!
MWingy1 1 year ago
Te amamos Sinéad!!!!!!!!
TheZandram 1 year ago
Impressionante! Che mito!
benjo972 1 year ago
this is an amazing song but they kill it at 4:40 for me, drums and flute or whatever turn it into some pop cheesy background music. I'll get back to the raw versions (sinead, her anger and the guitar and nothing else)
davidvanelslande 1 year ago
Einfach nur verdammter Wahnsinn ihre Stimme ! Gänsehaut zwischen 0:00 und 6:50 Min ! ♥ her...
GrinSeba5tian 1 year ago
holy fucking shit, how does she still have that voice? Its been like 20+ years...she's incredible. My daughter was just born when I was on Military deployment and I first saw Sinead in concert. So I know its been over 20 years...blows my freaking mind.
sailure1 1 year ago
really amazing, Sinead the best!
nehdar 1 year ago
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sramkam 1 year ago
Sinead kochamy Ciebie i twoją twórczość. Odwiedź fanów z polski!
Sinead love you and your works. Visit of Polish fans!
sramkam 1 year ago
you've made me so very happy!! i love to sinead forever
jvanmanuel 1 year ago
Oh.God...
koszmarnykarolek 1 year ago
So sad how she lost it
4rot 1 year ago
how old is she now?
relfexreaction 1 year ago
I forgot that song kicks in to high gear so late in the piece and she then has the strength to rev it up and close it. Wow! Just Wow!
psylocke7 1 year ago 2
she's REAL .
mademoisellelitchi 1 year ago
This is a really good rendition.
greenman9951 1 year ago
Sinead,,I love you forever you are the best..I miss you Every Day( ********** stars)
Gentelmann01 1 year ago
oh, wow this is one of my all time favorites. she is still amazing, Sinead is. the voice, the arrangements. there is so much depth!!!!! i love that my last name is close to hers...I'm CONNER. can you hear the colours and heat of her voice, even now...I'm 28 and i many of her music since my school girl days...you are a PHOENIX
TheOnlyGoddess81 1 year ago 2
@TheOnlyGoddess81 just a classic...this story is my life at this moment...i saw here when she came to the states for the first time, an amazing voice...just awesome this woman is
annahrwth242 1 year ago 3
@annahrwth242 You talk/type like Yoda. For example, "Hungry, I am." Der.
wcduke 1 year ago
@wcduke fuck off dick head...take your negative shit and shove it up your fucking ass
annahrwth242 1 year ago
@annahrwth242 LOL... And your comment isn't negative? Ignorance is bliss, I suppose. Cheers!
wcduke 1 year ago
@wcduke Grow up luv...having a bad day...may karma rain upon u...i am getting mine..xo...peace to u...
annahrwth242 1 year ago
@annahrwth242 So easy for you to say "Grow up". LOL I could say the same about you and your very negative comment. Furthermore, karma doesn't exist. It is an idea for the simple-minded, much like religion. The truth is, much of life is random. Good and bad things happen to everyone. And the seemingly "bad" things should be seen as a way to grow. I think it is YOU who needs to grow up. I've just dropped some knowledge on you. Think about it. Class is over, dismissed. I'm finished with you. :)
wcduke 1 year ago
@annahrwth242 she is a real true singer and artist...her emotion. raw emotion and passion keeps her music alive...happy listening!
TheOnlyGoddess81 1 year ago
Gorgious, tears in my eyes...
halamadrid1973 1 year ago
you touch my soul
astriddavis1 1 year ago
very nice!!!!!!! -- I lovE U sinead!!!!!!!
prettykiray 1 year ago
I've seen a life preformance of this song once a long while ago. That was brilliant. Unfortunately i can't find it anywhere. This1 is amazing aswell
bart3339 1 year ago
I saw her preforme live on NOTP...
It's beathtaking....
All the crowd went absolutely crazy afterwards!!
Senéad, you're a hero to music history!!
tigerbullit 1 year ago
Gracias Sinéad! you are the best... from hispanic girl
TheZandram 1 year ago
@TheZandram i am also mexican..yet we are told in our culture to name our children after someone we admire...thus i have my daughter sinead...she is half irish, half mexican....spitfire like sinead o'connor..
annahrwth242 1 year ago 3
@annahrwth242 Bless you! I've been strongly considering naming my daughter (the day I procreate) Sinéad as well. She's such a strong woman, full of character and intellectuality, extremely critical and independent, as well as conscientious. Even if she suffered depression through most of her life, she's remained an extremely strong individual – the strongest among the crowd, when push comes to shove. Love Sinéad; may she sing beautifully and express her thoughts for many more years.
Rogosuki 7 months ago 2
@Rogosuki You are strong as well! Praying for u and your angel to come!...stay strong...When I feel funky...I listten to Sinead...her lyrics just blow me away...
annahrwth242 6 months ago
The only performances of this song are 20 years apart. Because it hasn't evolved over the years, we're left with two starkly contrasting images of the song. Watching them both back to back, we see that this performance is painfully, yet beautifully mediocre. It shows us that physical beauty and physical talents are are fleeting. Because she puts forth such a raw humanity when she sings, she proves that it's only the glimmering human spirit that can live on.
gpwhitem 1 year ago 2
chickentits!!!!!
anco61 1 year ago
Absolutely BREATHTAKING!!!!!
JTMason001 2 years ago 2
she wrote Troy when she was just 16--my god she's a genious....and so damn gorgeous
prettykiray 2 years ago 2
brilliant
kazarre 2 years ago
love this
lonlonz11 2 years ago 2
damn, girl - thank you for finally doing this song live with an orchestra! A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!!
ftcfan2 2 years ago 2
im still in love with those gorgeous eyes....
troy made me cry...thanks sinead for your music--you're a genious
prettykiray 2 years ago 5
wow her voice is still amazing.. perfect.
she is just perfect i love her.
maritree 2 years ago 3
This Irish woman drives me crazy! When is she going on tour again? Will she return to Southamerica?? Please! I have to see her before I die lol
hrbr1990 2 years ago 2
this song made me cry. after so many years, she is still amazing, even her voice is almost destroyed by cigarettes.
always love her``````
willfox13 2 years ago 4
That smile is priceless.After 20 years of singing,this woman still shines with ferocious talent and beauty.
respitesearcher 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
hey, it's Susan Boyle!
davidvg 2 years ago
Hey, it's someone who can't do anything creative on their own so they must insult someone who makes them feel inferior!
Just another cunt who is afraid of their own creativity so they post negative comments about someone who has the ambition and strength to be artistic in the public view. Yes, you are impressive.
wcduke 2 years ago
timeless.... sinead gorgious... just wow
blerry55 2 years ago 25
what a performance
at the end of the song you see her smile for just a moment and then you can see the young girl she was before
i dind recognize her in the beginning but that smile did it to me she sings the song again after 10 years but she sings it with the story of her life there is no other troy thats correct and there is no other sinead o connor
chris
chrispoen 2 years ago 5
this is the best song what i've been ever heard! she's still awesome!!!!(L)
taeraaa 2 years ago 31
ohh... she dazzling
23Ithink23 2 years ago 2
Though she needs to hear about yoga.
bigchinasean 2 years ago
Put her in a prison and make her release a song a week. Not prison. She should make an album a year for five years. I think country is next for her. She could tear apart some patsy cline. Some Elvis.
That's the best... I love you, God I love you.
bigchinasean 2 years ago
Unbelievable. Still strong!
SpiderslidePics 2 years ago 4
siempre te amare Sinead!!
you're the best with live symphony orchestra!!
Johnny from Mexico
jvanmanuel 2 years ago 2
magical voice. the power entrances you
keenick1 2 years ago 3
With all the shit on youtube...gems like this make it worth it...wow....how cool. My favorite song by her and so perfect with a symphony
mzzh 2 years ago 3
look at her smile at the end of the song!
alessandrochus 2 years ago
wow what a powerful song and with the live orchestra
denbal87 2 years ago
The best live artist I ever saw, i love all off her work!
Jeffke1980 2 years ago
It is even more incredible because she hadn't sung this in 20 years. Its a hard one to sing.
74jpm 2 years ago 5
fuckin incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bombaxter 2 years ago
Absolutely amazing!!
1600music 2 years ago
I'll never get tired of this beautiful singer.
ScottKilbourn 2 years ago
Oh My God. is she real? Such power, presence, words. She is singing my life, but it´s past now.
The best song I´ve ever heard.
Sinead, I really know where it come from. I know!
christianallston 2 years ago
Amazing!!
Tikoesj 2 years ago
Amazing performance! So many years have past since Sinead released this classic...yet she puts her all into it like it was the first time...Superbe!
louisdechenne 2 years ago
Sinéad es una cantante increible, pese a que esta gordita y su voz hacambiado por el cigarro aun puede cantar esta cancion impresionantemente, la amo!!
deadwood2 2 years ago
Be what you ARE!!!! THERE IS NO OTHER CHOICE!!!! Spoken like a true grown woman....claim thyself. Only a woman can have the wisdom and self confidence to say it, and so passionately.
therealpookie2 2 years ago
loveeeeeeeeeee
aedena636 2 years ago
I love sinead even after what she did to the pope (thought it was wat i will call having GUTTS) but she can still sing!!!!
ghost17casper 2 years ago
What an amazing performance. Love the huge smiles she has at the end. She was nervous to sing this song and she knows she did well....thus the huge smiles!!! Incredible singer, incredible songwriter!!
amd2amm 2 years ago 2
dbl " i do not know what i havent got" just came out.ENJOY
greg26742 2 years ago
beautiful
sharpsponge 2 years ago
Un freaking believable - So Awesome!
hanklease 2 years ago 3
total right
christinamaria36DKQ 2 years ago 2
My name is László Troy Pierre Versteeg (I'm dutch^^)
seriously, I asked my father (mother r.i.p.) if it was a coinsedence that the names are the same, but it wasn't. My mother really gave me my name Troy because of this song...
laszlov2 2 years ago
its interesting because her voice has changed so much yet vocally she is still in complete control, sounds amazing and has such a depth of emotion and a controlled range that she is extraordianry in the current music landscape, that song if you allow yourself to get caught in its magic, with her performing it now, is one of the greatest works of all time
bigsineadfan1 3 years ago 3
Sinead is brilliant!!
kaymiller9 3 years ago 6
Thank you for posting this video!!!
Sinead did a great performance.. I love this song!!!!
lleidabizarre 3 years ago 5