I hate Dido’s album!
I first heard Dido on Jo Whiley’s show on Radio One. My girlfriend had said David Gray
was going to be on, so I decided to tape it for her because she wasn’t going to be back
in time to listen. Jo started to interview someone of whom I’d never heard, who turned out
to be called Dido, so I decided to record her songs so I could set the volume levels
properly, etc.
Anyway, Dido performed a two-song acoustic set and I thought it was absolutely
fantastic, so I cleaned it up and kept it.
Pretty soon I bought the album, and as I say… I hate it. It’s very overproduced with
lots of dance beats and stuff. I don’t like that. I preferred the acoustic versions.
I’ll concede that there are a few decent tunes on it, but I’ll always prefer the
live, acoustic stuff.
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