Siobhan Donaghy - Revolution In Me

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Out today. I'm in love. This is very strange. Dwonloaded a few tracks over the weekend and then today I rushed out and grabbed it, just cos I'd fallen totally head-over-heels for "Nothing But Song" and "Overrated". The rest of it could be complete tosh and it'd still be worth getting just for those two, but as it happens it's all pretty good. Lyrically a bit weak at times, but that just makes it all the more compelling somehow, totally projectable-into. I shan't say anymore cos I've gotta save it for review on Stylus... But yeah. Siobhan Donaghy; I love you. At least right now.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 29 September 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

No one but me cares. Swygart will care. Swygart - go and buy it.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 29 September 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

It's got a nice production job, but her voice isn't too strong.

― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Monday, 29 September 2003 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Swygart has got it and is in love also. Overrated in particular is an utter gutwrench... it's a beauty.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 29 September 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Review on Stylus tomorrow.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 29 September 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been listening to it for about a month now. It's fantastic, easily the best debut I've heard this year. The lyrics wobble occasionally, but her delivery of them saves it, especially on "Iodine" where she just belts out some very odd lyrics with total conviction. "Little Bits" is my favourite, though. And Overrated is still a thing of twisted, angular beauty.

I just find it odd that close to 30,000 people downloaded "Twist Of Fate" off mp3sfinder, but no bastard went out and bought it. By the same token, an awful lot of people have been downloading album tracks off me, but I bet nobody buys it.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 29 September 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Siobhan I love you.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

It seems like every thread on Ms D just dies.. this must not happen. The title track is the one doing it for me right now, it seems endlessly expansive and airy, but at the same time lush and dense, not a bad trick to pull off, though it doesn't quite skirt so gracefully around the wallowing-in-depression as the show-stopping "Little Bits". Could do without XY, she should have dumped that as a B-side and put "Those Anythings" on the album, really.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i was listening to bits of this LP in HMV last night. it's very strange. i think it's probably one of those records that rewards patience, and i'm not sure i can afford the time.

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

Hey!!!!!!!!sombody!!!I need HELP!!! Can you Halp me??????? There where I living no one know Siobhan Donaghy ! Can You get me "Revolution in me"?????? Please!!!!!! I need iT!!!!!!!!

― j.c, Monday, 23 February 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

new album being outsold by Pharoan Monch. oof.

― blueski, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

apparently quite a lot of pressings went out as a 21-track easy listening CD.. oops

― fandango, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

hardly a surprise given that the dishwater-bland single missed the top 40.

i'm rather amused by the ease of mutya's success compared to this (not that mutya's single was all that good either, but she's got the stronger voice/personality)

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

Mutya's single is "DO YOU SEE?" ringtone friendly, tho.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

You've gotta factor in that Siobhan jumped-ship after the first album, and the cultural capital of Sugababes went through the roof after that - I doubt many casual fans even know she was ever in the band.

Bits of the new album are great, bits are good, bits are meh - she REALLY needs to not try for major-label bland-pop, and go full-on Kate Bush / Cocteau Twins, get in actual bona fide talented producers / arrangers / collaborators rather than Keane's prgrammer. She's got masses of potential, creatively if not commercially.

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

ok wtf is with the kate bush comparisons? i've heard three songs from the album - two are extremely boring wishy-washy blandpop, one is a reasonably good stop-start country/acid thing, none of them are remotely close to kate bush in terms of sound, and i have heard absolutely nothing to suggest that donaghy has anything like bush's creative visoion, if anything she's stuck at the andrea corr level

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

apparently quite a lot of pressings went out as a 21-track easy listening CD.. oops

really !? off to go see if i was one of the lucky ones, as i only ever listened to the promo.
i wish she had gone off the deep end with some more experimental backing that is sometimes hinted at in the production.
but too much of the album is just all right, and not special enough to validate a return visit.
apparently though, there are some mighty remixes doing to the rounds, so if the label repackage this with an extra cd of the remixes then they could be onto a winner.

― mark e, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/siobhan-donaghy/ghosts.htm

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

yes, the carl craig rmx of 'don't give it up' is INCREDIBLE

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

haha nick if only siobhan was making songs as good as most sugababes ballads! 'too lost in you' and 'stronger' pwn every solo donaghy song ever

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

See I don't think they get near Nothing But Song or Man Without Friends or Ghosts.

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

SOMETIMES is ace.

― pisces, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

She was bloody AWFUL at Popstarz a couple of weeks ago. Terrible sound quality probably didn't help, but she frequently sounded way off key. And no stage presence neither.

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

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