music.wikisort.org - Composition"Troy" is a song by Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor from her debut studio album The Lion and the Cobra (1987). It was released by Chrysalis Records as the lead single from The Lion and the Cobra in 1987. Written by O'Connor, the lyric is based on the poem No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats. In 2002, a dance version of the song was released as "Troy (The Phoenix from the Flame)", becoming a top-ten hit on several international dance charts, including the US Dance Club Songs chart.
1987 single by Sinéad O'Connor
"Troy" |
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B-side | "Still Listening" |
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Released | 1987 |
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Recorded | 1986 |
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Studio | Oasis Studios (London, England) |
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Genre |
- Baroque pop
- alternative rock
- pop rock
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Length | 6:34 |
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Label | Chrysalis |
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Songwriter(s) | Sinéad O'Connor |
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"Heroine" (1986) |
"Troy" (1987) |
"Mandinka" (1987) |
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"Troy" on YouTube |
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Critical reception
AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted in his review that songs like "Troy", "Jackie" and "Jerusalem" "are compelling because of their hushed, quiet intensity".[1] Mark Richardson from Pitchfork described the song as an "epic and visceral psychodrama", adding it is "lushly orchestrated, painting the story of desire and betrayal on a wall-sized canvas".[2] Sal Cinquemani from Slant wrote: "...the fierce melodrama of young love and betrayal is imbued with the surrounding violence in "Troy", the song's crumbling romance equated with the burning of the famous Greek city." He added the song "is, perhaps, the album's defining moment, exhibiting all of the traits — vulnerability, fury, conviction, theatricality — the infamously outspoken singer-songwriter would become known for in the years that followed".[3]
Music video
The video featured O'Connor, completely bald and covered with gold and silver body paint, singing to a background of moving images including flames. The building featured in several shots is on Montpelier Hill, just south of Dublin, known as the Hell Fire Club.
O'Connor sang "Troy" live only during the year after it was released, subsequently refusing to do so [citation needed] until 2008, when she performed at the Night of the Proms in Belgium and the Netherlands.
"In Dublin I was doing this show one night," she recalled, "and somebody yelled out, 'Troy, Troy.' And I went, I'm fucking troying."[4]
Charts
Weekly charts
Chart (1987–1988) (Original version) |
Peak position |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[5] |
12 |
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[6] |
5 |
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[7] |
8 |
Chart (2002) (Remix version) |
Peak position |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[8] |
35 |
UK Singles (OCC)[9] |
48 |
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[10] |
3 |
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Year-end charts
Chart (1988) (Original version) |
Position |
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[11] |
79 |
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References
External links
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Discography |
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Poetry | Volumes |
- The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889)
- The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892)
- In the Seven Woods (1903)
- Responsibilities and Other Poems (1916)
- The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
- Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
- The Tower (1928)
- The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
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Poems |
- "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
- "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
- "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
- "Adam's Curse"
- "Blood and the Moon"
- "The Circus Animals' Desertion"
- "Down by the Salley Gardens"
- "A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety"
- "Easter, 1916"
- "Ego Dominus Tuus"
- "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz"
- "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
- "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen"
- "On being asked for a War Poem"
- "Politics"
- "A Prayer for My Daughter"
- "Remorse for Intemperate Speech"
- "The Rose of Battle"
- "The Rose-Tree"
- "Sailing to Byzantium"
- "September 1913"
- "Song of the Old Mother"
- "The Fiddler of Dooney"
- "The Gift of Harun Al-Raschid"
- "The Scholars"
- "The Second Coming"
- "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"
- "The Stolen Child"
- "Swift's Epitaph"
- "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time"
- "The Tower"
- "Under Ben Bulben
- "The Wanderings of Oisin"
- "The Wild Swans at Coole"
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Plays |
- Mosada (1886)
- The Land of Heart's Desire (1894)
- Diarmuid and Grania (1901)
- Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)
- On Baile's Strand (1903)
- The Countess Cathleen (1911)
- At the Hawk's Well (1916)
- The Resurrection (1927)
- Purgatory (1938)
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Other works |
- The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical (1893; co-author)
- A Vision (1925)
- "The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows"
- Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 (editor)
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People |
- Georgie Hyde-Lees (wife)
- Anne Yeats (daughter)
- Michael Yeats (son)
- John Butler Yeats (father)
- Susan Pollexfen (mother)
- Jack Butler Yeats (brother)
- Elizabeth Yeats (sister)
- Lily Yeats (sister)
- Maud Gonne (lover)
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На других языках
[de] Troy (Lied)
Troy ist ein Lied von Sinéad O’Connor, das 1987 als Debütsingle von ihrem ersten Album The Lion and the Cobra erschienen ist.
- [en] Troy (song)
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