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Title: Great Voice Sabotaged by the Wrong Material
Review: Sinead O'Connor took it on the chin, both critically and commercially, when she released this album of show tunes in 1992. While her voice is'nt the problem, these songs are simply not her forte. Sinead never gains command of most of the material and the big band that backs her is jarring. The are a couple of exceptions: the opening track, "Why Don't You Do Right" is familiar Sinead material (perhaps the quality of this song raised my expectations of the album) and her version of "Don't Cry for me Argentina" is superb - Sinead's lets her anger ebb and allows her vunerability to show. But the rest of the album never gels and borders on unlistenable. It took Sinead nearly a decade to recover from this mess.
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