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Christgau's Consumer Guide	B+
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
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NME	8/10
Pitchfork	7.8/10
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I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got is the second album by Sinéad O'Connor. It was released in March 1990 on Ensign/Chrysalis Records. The album was nominated for four Grammy Awards in 1991, including Record of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Music Video, Short Form for "Nothing Compares 2 U", winning the award for Best Alternative Music Performance. However, O'Connor refused to accept the nominations and award.

The critically acclaimed album contains her most famous single, "Nothing Compares 2 U", and was one of the best selling records in the world in 1990, topping the charts in the US, UK, and Canada. This rendition reflected on O'Connor's mother who lost her life in an auto accident five years earlier. The single "Emperor's New Clothes" found more moderate success, although it did top the Modern Rock Tracks chart in the US.

The album includes O'Connor's rendition of "I Am Stretched on Your Grave", an anonymous 17th century poem, originally written in Irish and translated into English by Frank O'Connor and composed by musician Philip King in 1979. The first song, "Feel So Different", starts with by Reinhold Niebuhr.

The inner sleeve notes acknowledge Kabbalah teacher, Warren Kenton: "Special thanks to Selina Marshall + Warren Kenton for showing me that all I'd need was inside me."

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got received critical acclaim. In 2003, the album was ranked number 406 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

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