James Blunt
 

Anyone picked up his CD Back to Bedlam?



It's really quite the time.

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ive been listening to that "You're Beautiful" song lately.

not bad, not bad at all.

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I love him.


I actually do.

He's my idol, and I would sex him pretty darn hard if the chance arose.

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Not only did I grab Back To Bedlam but I grabbed his live Bedlam Sessions thingy on the Internet.

It's basically the audiorip of this DVD.

James Blunt = The Dave Matthews of the UK.

It's a good album. It'll be on the top 100 charts for a while, so I'll probably hate it next week from overplay. But meh.

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Gross...That just made me avoid ever attempting to listen to him.

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That's harsh.

He's a lot less jammy, I'm just comparing his texture.

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You're Beautiful is overplayed. Haven't heard any of the other songs yet.

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Hahaha


So great!

Edit: Hahaha it looks like the monkey on the bottom left corner of the album cover is casting sith lighting

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I don't really like James Blunt because he's so overplayed in Australia.

http://forums.vogue.com.au/showthread.php?t=174307

Plus, he has an incredibly whiney voice... which is alright for the first time but when it's being played on loop can get a bit brain damaging :S However, I have to say I love the lyrics to 'Goodbye My Lover' as I'm a sucker for sad break up songs... So I guess it's his voice that gets to me the most.

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I think he and the lead singer from Coldplay should go eat the action end of a shotgun.

Just my opinion...

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Chris Martin is a good singer though.

Same with James Blunt.


And some of the music is good.

The dont need to Cobain themselves.

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sweet, i just may download some of his songs

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The first time i saw " you're beautiful" video i thought it was Chris Martin. They look similar.

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The first time I saw that video a repeatedly stabbed myself in the thigh with a fork and poured battery acid in my eyes. It was the only way to dull the pain from that whiny, affected voice.

BTW, I don't really hate his music, its just not my taste... and I'm having a little fun being an honorary member of the Player Haters Ball right now.

Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate....

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That's my cue to stay as far away as I possibly can.

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Oh snap, too mainstream for you?

I find that a good balance of unknown and known makes my ears happy.

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Really? What happened to listening to music based on the talent of the artists?

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:unsure: :Puke: :errr: :eek3: :shakehead :distress:

Let's pray it never does

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Comparing him to Dave Matthews is really NOT fair. I hate Dave Matthews but I love James Blunt. He's more like a modern day Elton John.

I have the Back to Bedlam album...and every song on it is just incredible. Not only are the lyrics great, but his voice is angelic. I could sit and listen to him sing without any music.

Does anyone know where I could go to download a live performance of him? I'd like to hear him live.

He begins his tour of the US on March 17...too bad the closest he gets to my house is about 6 or 7 hours away.

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Oh burrrrn.

Would you like to sift through the 24,000 songs on my computer, or the 900 unripped CDs sitting in my room? That's been one of my mantra for about 15 years, thank you. Talent isn't the only determing factor, I think sound should be first. Kurt Cobain was a bum. He ripped off countless musicians, including The Mevlins (same high school, i'm sure you don't listen to them), he wasn't particularly great at guitar, but he still sounded good.

And if that comment was directed at me, that's really unfair. You should have pointed that at the people shooting down the James Blunt album because I made a comparison to Dave Matthews. I hold my comment valid, because if all you listen to is mainstream music, then you are missing out on a lot of cool stuff you won't ever hear on MTV or the radio. And 99% of the "talent" lies outside the mainstream box. Drumming, guitar playing, bass playing, the virtuoso crap lies outside the box.

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I'll admit that I was shooting down James Blunt initially based upon your comparison to Dave Matthews. That was unfair, I should have given him a chance.

I was in the car listening to XM radio yesterday and that James Blunt song came on, so I turned to it. Now I've actually listened to it and now I know that it sucks...Fair enough?

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Yes. :D

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Whoa now, I didn't mean to be offensive.

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Greatest use of smilies...maybe ever.

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I didn't take offense. And that wasn't meant to be a harsh reply. I'm just telling you I listen to a lot of music, mainstream, not mainstream, and I listen to it because I like the way it sounds, and because I appreciate the talent behind it.

But, if I just went, "I like Dave Matthews," I bet I would be subjected to a lot of negative criticism. Which is fine. It's happened to me before. But I also listen to a lot of other stuff, from Stravinsky to the Secret Chiefs 3 to the Buena Vista Social Club, and I guess that's the stuff that maybe defines me more as an individual.

That long post was more of a defense for my original post in this thread, not as much rebuttal to your reply, which I mostly agree with. Talent more often than not equates to good sound.