Song · Sinéad O'Connor
“Jump In The River” by Sinéad O'Connor
Released 1988
“Jump In The River” by Sinéad O'Connor appears on 7 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1988 and 2003. It was first released in 1988. Its best result is #59 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 1988. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #197 alternative song of 1988 and #2,569 alternative song of all time.
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Sinéad O'Connor gave "Jump in the River" to the soundtrack of Married to the Mob, Jonathan Demme's 1988 film, a year after her debut album The Lion and the Cobra, and put it out as a single that same year. She wrote it with Marco Pirroni, and it's a restless, rumbling rocker with O'Connor's voice leaping from a coo to a howl.
That year she met performance artist Karen Finley at a Refuse & Resist! concert at the Palladium in New York City and brought her in on a 12-inch remix, where Finley delivers a sexually explicit spoken-word section. A remix of the song later turned up on I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, her second album, in 1990, and on the B-side of the seven-inch single of "Nothing Compares 2 U".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 59 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1988 | 91 |
| 1988 | 99 | WLIR / WDRE Long Island, NY | WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1988 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 845 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 896 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 901 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 901 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 301 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
Also listed as: Jump in the River.
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