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Hobo!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 6 February 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

he's so stylish!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 6 February 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago) link

I haven't been drinking.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 6 February 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago) link

I quite like Dido except for that song 'I Want to Be a Hunter Again' because it makes her sound sexually predatory.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 7 February 2004 12:21 (twenty years ago) link

She makes Everything But the Girl sound like Throbbing Gristle.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 7 February 2004 12:25 (twenty years ago) link

I remember that there was a double bill of her and Travis that packed out a local arena near here. Insomniacs were the audience, I guess.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 February 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

I'm a sometime insomniac and there's no way in hell I'd go unless there was a chance of a stage invasion!

― Barima (Barima), Saturday, 7 February 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

I kinda liked the Insomniacs but why would they be at a Travisido show?

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 7 February 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

Well, they had this one good single on Estrus.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 7 February 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

My wife is quite keen on her singles....which thus receive a worrying amount of airplay Chez in NYC....much to my grumblingly restrained chagrin.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 7 February 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago) link

hey that pic of Angel looks kinda like Alex!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 7 February 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago) link

he's wearing a hat and everything!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 7 February 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago) link

I woudl never wear a hat like that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 7 February 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

Perhaps you should.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Sunday, 8 February 2004 03:40 (twenty years ago) link

What PJ Miller said.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 8 February 2004 03:53 (twenty years ago) link

Enrique likes his music like he likes his cocks.

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Dido is great and bless her little funny way when she goes in and out of falsetto, and she sounds so dumb when she goes "the tea's gone cold i'm wondering why-aye-aye" i want to give her a hug.

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 8 February 2004 11:27 (twenty years ago) link

who knew she was a Tyne lass?

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 8 February 2004 11:58 (twenty years ago) link

was she ever in Byker Grove?

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 8 February 2004 12:48 (twenty years ago) link

Enrique likes his music like he likes his cocks.

STEP OFF while you still have legs, muthafuck.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 9 February 2004 09:50 (twenty years ago) link

Dido is the Phil Collins of bland pop songs, but with tits. And more hair.

― C J (C J), Monday, 9 February 2004 09:58 (twenty years ago) link

I'd say Phil Collins is bigger chested.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:12 (twenty years ago) link

From my 'experience' of working in a big rec shop, as many men as "chardonnay-swilling chick-lit fans" buy Dido albs.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:15 (twenty years ago) link

I bought 'No Angel' -- for my mum.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:17 (twenty years ago) link

but copied it before giving it her, natch

― chris (chris), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:18 (twenty years ago) link

Not that men can't be "chardonnay-swilling Chick-lit" fans, obv

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

Alang to thread!

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:06 (twenty years ago) link

A dido thread really fits on ile.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:08 (twenty years ago) link

I think music threads are starting up here since ILM has big unwieldy warning signs like on a 15-year-old boy's bedroom door at wanking hour.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:09 (twenty years ago) link

no there is always an odd music thread started here bcz some ppl are 'scared'. I'm not too surprised that barry 'hardman' lasagne started it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link

If you look at the thread it's not strictly a music thread, it came about from an argumenent that Internet hardman Barry lasagne had in the pub based around Dido that questioned the assumptions you can make about a person if you have limited knopwledge of them ie "they like the new Dido album"

― chris (chris), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago) link

Julio, ppl are right to be scared, it's a fucking freak-fest out there on ILM.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:24 (twenty years ago) link

ooga booga

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:25 (twenty years ago) link

I was thinking about this over the weekend and was wondering whether, if you mapped all the chart-friendly female singers, Dido would appear in the middle, the bland spot. I don't know what to label the axes but here's the idea:

http://ilxor.petfield.com/images/bland_graph.gif

― Alfie (Alfie), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:32 (twenty years ago) link

Interesting... where does Ms Dynamite fit on that?

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:37 (twenty years ago) link

Are you including the jazz-lite laydeez on this graph, then? Where does Amy ~~Nelly Furtado~~ Winehouse sit on this bitch?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:41 (twenty years ago) link

Katie Melua should be on the opposite side, between Dido and Eva. I'd add Delta Goodrem just above Amy Studt and to the right. I guess POP is the top left corner, AOR the top right, jazz the low right and YOR the low left?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link

Winehouse would probably be below Norah Jones but nearer Frou Frou?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:46 (twenty years ago) link

Julio, Chris is OTM, but for what it's worth I'd be very tempted to start a music thread on ILE because a) most of the people I like and respect are on here and b) I'm sure anything and everything that could possibly be said about an artist has already been said on ILM and I'd rather avoid either crushing condescension or a series of snippy "look at this thread" answers.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link

A male version of this would be interesting. Please plot:

Will Young
Craig David
Daniel Bedingfield
Lemar
David Gray
Gary Jules

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link

Phil Collins is dead centre, obviously, with David Gray a little to the left. Craig David is way off the map.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:58 (twenty years ago) link

She has that girl next door image.

Obviously not next door to me because she's not a hairy black man with a broken car.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:03 (twenty years ago) link

Girl next door if you live in Archway, or something.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:04 (twenty years ago) link

What are the axes of that graph, where would PJ Harvey, Diamanda Galas or Shirley Bassey fit on it?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:24 (twenty years ago) link

Dido is odd in that she has gone from being extremely annoying to the sort of person you can ignore. When she first came out & J0 Whiley would not shut up about how great No Angel was & I just thought, wtf? IS that it? Nowadays, I can really ignore her music without getting bothered. I don't even hate it. I even sing to it sometimes in the car, but I'd never buy any of her stuff.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:25 (twenty years ago) link

That raises another spectre, pinky. Jo Whiley - has she stopped fancying herself as Voice of the Alternative, then? People like her and Mark Goodier who can just turn on and off enthusiasm for a genre etc. at will - they have no place in any kind of specialist music.

But yeah - this thread seems to indicate a total absense of rage. Strange.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:36 (twenty years ago) link

''If you look at the thread it's not strictly a music thread''

there has been no comprehensive musicological analysis of Dido's songs the last time I checked a dido thread on ILM.

''b) I'm sure anything and everything that could possibly be said about an artist has already been said on ILM''

news to me.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:40 (twenty years ago) link

I always really rated her tbh, but now when she constantly plugs bands like the darkness, I have to wonder. I think all of the day time bands are more conformist, certianly on radio1. Sara C0x plays some hip hop & dance, but nothing that's not on the playlist or in the charts. J0 Whiley loves bands, that everyone seems to love. Mark & Lard will always be great imo & I love the way they take the piss out of new songs & are honest if they like a new song. You believe them because you know how great & varied their music tastes are. Chris M0yles, well he has the worst music taste. I remember hearing him completely slate Missy Elliot, i mean wtf, does this guy know anything about music at all?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:42 (twenty years ago) link

x-post - response to Mark.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:42 (twenty years ago) link

Julio if it bothers you so much I'm sure Mark won't mind if you go and start exactly the same thread on ILM.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:43 (twenty years ago) link

Julio, be my guest! I'm sure you and your fellow music lovers will find many and varied fascinating comments and debates arise.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:46 (twenty years ago) link

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Bland - definition = UB40s "Swing Low Sweet Chariot". Everything about it is designed not to cause offence - everything mid-tempo, mid-pitch, nothing standing out, vaguely in keeping with the pereception of what the people who buy records want to hear.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

what does 'Life For Rent' mean anyway?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

BIG PIMPIN

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

I hear her a lot on R2. I don't think I like her records much. But I don't hate them either; hate can be reserved for other things.

I have heard her... 'speaking voice' and been turned off.

I think Markelby's question is good.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

I'd be more annoyed by Coldplay, nobody treats Dido as some form of high culture/spiritual experience. I dislike the way Dido slating is so often an outlet for a sort of hatred of women, not here really but in music discussions more generally.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago) link

damn their high heels/standards

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago) link

Someone upthread said Dido had covered 'Grindin''. I said: Any cop? Now i'm thinking they were trying to get a rise outta me. Is it true? Did she really? Ma, it don't get more coffee table than this.

― ENRK (Enrique), Monday, 16 February 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago) link

Dido : Fading 35 y/o women
50 Cent : 16 y/o suburban boys.

The identity, problems, struggles of fantasy false self. [/pop-psych bs]

― Hunter (Hunter), Monday, 16 February 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago) link

twelve years pass...

"thank you" is 100% CLASSIC

― flappy bird, Thursday, 25 August 2016 05:04 (seven years ago) link

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