SINEAD O'CONNOR Vinyl Records and CDs

Sinead O'Connor is one of the key artists of the 1990s, but oddly, considering her abundant talent and charisma, it is more for style than substance. O'Connor had plenty of attitude, a shaved head, and an abundant willingness to speak out on controversial topics. Alongside straightforward rocker Joan Jett, O'Connor helped pave the way for everyone from Courtney Love to P.J. Harvey and the entire Lilith Fair generation. Her debut album was a mainstream alternative radio hit, but the superior follow-up I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, fueled by the Prince-penned single "Nothing Compares 2 U," deservedly became one of the hottest albums of the early '90s. While she was busy getting plenty of tabloid press for badly thought-out political statements, her subsequent albums stopped selling and O'Connor has been gun-shy since her respectable 1994 release Universal Mother. It is time for O'Connor to pick up the pieces and concentrate on music. There are a multitude of O'Connor clones littering the Adult Alternative landscape -- one of them should be Sinead O'Connor herself.