Gospel Oak [Bonus Track] (1997)

About this title: Gospel Oak's first track, "This Is to Mother You," amounts to both a repentant self-explanation and an earnest, melodic lead into one of Sinéad O'Connor's best recordings. The humble, yet still defiant O'Connor doesn't bury her convictions on this 1997 EP as much as she employs empathy to explain herself and try to reestablish her tattered bonds with friends and fans. During the early '90s, after coming out, she tossed political, sexual, and religious taboos into the sun and fermented the flesh of the sanctimonious, which proved to be a dangerous exercise that heavily taxed all parties ... read more

Tracks:

1. This Is to Mother You [OConnor]
2. I Am Enough for Myself [OConnor]
3. Petit Poulet [OConnor]
4. 4 My Love [OConnor]
5. This Is a Rebel Song [OConnor]
6. He Moved Through the Fair [Traditional]
7. Fire on Babylon [Eternal Recurrence Mix] [O'Connor/Reynolds]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.