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One of the Best Concerts on Film I've Seen
Cinematically, it's fabulous, with shifting cameras matching the music and mood. Not hand-held jerky or flashy-for-no-reason, but something any student of video or film could learn from. (Sarah Mclachlan's "Mirrorball" concert comes close to it.)

Musically, it's stunning. Sinead, still in raw form, putting it out there right on the heels of her first two albums, which are still among her best. She doesn't dance to perform, but to get lost in the music. Riveting all the way.

As a side note, Sinead was born in '66, the Year of the Horse. It was even the year of the Fire Horse, and a book of mine on Chinese astrology says that "Whatever unbridled passions the Horse possesses, they will be multiplied many times over when he or she is born in the year of the Fire Horse... The Fire Horse will consume everything in her path and wreak havoc wherever she goes." But she'll make damn good music along the way.

Great music, great performer
Believe me, you need it. Pity it's still not available on DVD. I've had it for years now and I think it's worth much more than I paid for it -whatever that was-. You're gonna love her dance 'I am stretched on your grave'. A must for any fan. ... Read more

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Beautiful performance ruined by terrible art direction
THE VALUE OF IGNORANCE is a concert film by Sinead O'Connor. It was released in the early 1990s and contains songs almost exclusively from her first album, THE LION AND THE COBRA.

Sinead's singing is beautiful, but this video is ruined by the terrible art direction; you don't get a "clear" picture of Sinead in all of this video. What you get, instead, are "negative" images of Sinead (like holding a film negative to a light bulb), psychedelic swirls, and bizarre images, superimposed onto Sinead, making for a very disorienting experience. Sinead's beautiful vocal performance is all but ruined by the bizarre effects. It's very frustrating. ... Read more