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Old 10-06-2011, 06:06 PM   #345 (permalink)
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Random Track of the Day
Thursday, October 6 2011
Personally, I always found Dido to be a real moany little cow, but that's just me. I did buy the album, and liked one or two tracks on it, but so many of them came across as moody and sullen to me, I don't play it anymore. Which is my roundabout way of telling you that today's Random Track of the Day comes from her, and is in fact her big hit from that album.

Thank you --- Dido --- from "No angel" on Arista
A huge hit for her, and later popularised further by Eminem and Elton John, “Thank you” is one of the better tracks on the album, but then like so many songs that become famous, it was overplayed on the radio till I was just sick of it. However, the random-o-meter doesn't care how I feel, so here it is...

This album became one of those 'must have' albums for people who didn't really listen to music but wanted to own a popular album at the time. Commonly classed as coffee table music like Sade's Diamond Life in the 80's and Moby's Play in the 90's this was everywhere in 2000 and it's a real shame that it has it's detractors.

It is certainly understandable as there is some absolute pap on the album but when her brother Rollo (Faithless) gets involved and introduces Electronica then it really does go up a notch and there are some standout tracks on the album:




are all really good tracks in my eyes and wouldn't be out of place on an ambient Trip Hop album but she never capitalised on this sound and continued to give us the moody and sullen sound that you mentioned.

Her last album found it's way into the ubiquitous poundland which is never a good sign but I will listen to anything for a pound so gave it a go. I could not find one single redeeming thing about the album. It was bland insipid crap on the highest level. Shame as I like a lot of her lyrics and I find her quite attractive too (not that this a reason to like an artist) but there is absolutely no progression in her music at all.

The only decent stuff she does these days is her continuing work with the aforementioned Faithless:
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