He swopped Secret Song for Sexy Individual.

 

Originally secret Song was to be the b-side.

I think I'd have liked it left. Then 'Secret Song' would have been more widely heard and I wouldn't have had to listen 'Devil In You' to get at it. Maybe he could have swopped 'Sexy Individual' with DIY and put DIY as the secret. It

'sone I wouldn't have been bothered finding

Would you think that was a mistake, I thought kinda love was but it did reach 7. (didnt like the production of it) and could see why it didnt get a lot of airplay. Ditto girl in the moon, some of the b sides were so much better and some of the other songs on the album.

I likeed GITM as an album track. It was just the worse track to be released as a single in the climate that was prevalent then

It was almost summer - Dive In would have been perfect or they should have gambled on Mercury Rising.

I'd have liked 'Dive In'

He might have been accused of putting out songs that were all upbeat. He could have lived with that. There was variety on the album. Anyway at least they were all his songs and not covers.

 

Westlife trotted out the same sort of stuff time after time and got number ones with them and Ronan's all sounded much alike to me back then.

That doesn't really bother me. If that's what someone likes - that's fine. I don't want to put them down. I just like D's attitude - it works for me.

What I meant was Darius would have been accused of being a one trick pony because his singles would all have been upbeat pop, but it was the norm for some groups.

I just think that those four tracks are just so different that it'd have only been a case of Darius bashing.

When Dive In came out some people on websites etc said it sounded like one long track, which of course was nonsense.

Someone on buzzjacks said the same about 'Live Twice'. We had a young lad staying with us at the time. Even he said that it just showed they'd never actually listened to the album if they thought the tracks were samey.

The songs were so different on Live twice that it didn't have the overall coherence that Dive In had.

 

I loved the recurring metaphors and themes and the different ways they were applied to the songs. I liked the way the songs could be interpreted very differently and I loved the way Darius used Dive In in the design of the tour programme and again as a structure for his book.

 

He's a very a hands-on guy and I think a lot of that went by the wayside because he had to be with his family. Live Twice's production and presentation was missing the Darius touch.

I think that's exactly why 'Live Twice' didn't instantly appeal. You just couldn't see Darius in it in the same way. It was a mixture of sadder tunes and pop - and, of course, DIY. I didn't find it cohesive. Some of the recording methods just didn't seem right for D.

 

With 'Dive In' the joy in life was the main thing that caught me. This new album will be Darius. Love it or hate it, it will be Darius this time.

I thought Live twice was missing steve lilleywhites touch.

Live Twice would have been so much better if they hadn't over-produced it and left out DIY which didn't fit in with any of the other songs. They should have left the ballads as ballads instead of turning them into musical numbers.

I agree with that completely BT. Some of the tracks were almost boy band -even really good songs can be lessoned by that.

I like boy-band type songs :unsure:

 

but I do love pure Darius :D

I think the way it was recorded most affected me in 'Journey's End'. A truly beautiful song turned into a stand up ballad, It just felt so wrong with the beginning being so good.

I hope the price of D's 3rd album will be more in line this time. Most albums just now seem to about 8 pounds.

 

I think Dive In was 13-99 on release and Live Twice the same. Moreover Dive In was never on one of those cheap deals in Woolworths or HMV.