Mr Subways
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Post by Mr Subways on Jul 9, 2005 16:23:37 GMT -5
I like him.
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Post by ulick on Jul 18, 2005 18:36:55 GMT -5
Total shite
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Post by klee on Jul 19, 2005 3:20:01 GMT -5
Number one single AND album? Oh dear.
James Blunt gives singer songwriters a bad name. He sits there with his 'guitar' (thank you, Mr PJ) pretending to be Jeff Buckley when he's quite simply Dido with a Y chromosome.
It's boring £50 Man music for people who can't be bothered to broaden their horizons beyond White Ladder and O. Music to drive a Ford Mondeo to a sales meeting by.
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Tuna Fish
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Post by Tuna Fish on Jul 19, 2005 13:44:28 GMT -5
And what is wrong with Dido? Or a male Dido for that matter?
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Post by ninefootjoe on Jul 20, 2005 6:14:49 GMT -5
James Blunt: Rubbish. He did a cover of Where Is My Mind at the Wireless Festival and it made me want to shoot him in the face. Noooo! Death To Bad Pixies Covers! Is it worse than Placebo's version? I'm still recovering from hearing that one....
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Post by xolondon on Jul 20, 2005 11:02:44 GMT -5
He is sort of like Coldplay lite, better than Blue Merle of course. It's kind of background music, IMO. He might sound okay on a compilaton or soundtrack, but I don't want a whole CD of him.
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Mr Subways
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Post by Mr Subways on Jul 20, 2005 11:20:44 GMT -5
Anyone who comes out now who doesn't sing about sex and have a computer-electro sound is the new Dido. It really does piss me off. We've had Kristian Leontiou the male Dido, KT Tunstall the new Dido, James the male Dido. Face it. THERE IS NO MALE DIDO.
Back To Bedlam is one of the best albums I've heard all year. It's not the most exciting of albums, but it's extremely well written, it isn't just one long ballad, and his voice isn't as irritating as you all make it out to be. Thankyou.
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Post by SuperFunTastic on Jul 21, 2005 5:43:20 GMT -5
Urgh, this kind of music should be left for those people who don't really like music, but want to buy a CD every once in a while to "keep up with the times". For people that like, and are interested in music, there is so much more out there. I don't understand why anyone would choose this over other exciting, interesting stuff.
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klee
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Post by klee on Jul 21, 2005 6:06:52 GMT -5
The 'Dido' epithet is, I think, meant more to apply to singer-songwriters clearly chasing the adult MOR market than as a contrast to sex and electro singers.
Dido, as one of the biggest breakthrough artists of the past five years, is inevitably going to invite comparison. It's also inevitable that record companies will, in the light of another artist's success (Dido in this instance) fight like with like and push a number of similar artists at us. Hence the rash of singer-songwriters being milked as album cash cows.
My complaint about James Blunt is not that he sounds like Dido, but rather that his music is aimed squarely at the same people who bought White Flag, and as such lacks imagination and substitutes a sheen of accomplishment and maturity for anything of interest.
So-called sensitive singer-songwriters are hardly thin on the ground. What enrages me is that people like James Blunt are held up by the unimaginative as the pinnacle of their genre when he couldn't hold a candle to the people he's trying to imitate. I'd rather listen to Nick Drake, Tim Buckley. Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Joni Mitchell, Johnathon Rice, Cass McCombs, Stephen Fretwell or Jose Gonzalez, thank you very much. Just because it's got a 6 figure advertising budget behind it doesn't make it good.
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Post by mumbojumbo on Jul 21, 2005 11:57:03 GMT -5
worst number one of all time.and im taking Cliff,Joe Dolce and Renee and Renata into consideration here!
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Post by emma1111 on Jul 21, 2005 12:42:02 GMT -5
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Tuna Fish
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Post by Tuna Fish on Jul 21, 2005 13:26:08 GMT -5
Well said Mr Subways. A to the point summary.
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Mr Subways
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Post by Mr Subways on Jul 21, 2005 14:24:55 GMT -5
See, now I would say he's imaginative. Not exciting, but for someone to write a song like Billy, or Wisemen, it takes a lot of imagination and songwriting talent. His skills aren't best shown on You're Beautiful.
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Tuna Fish
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Post by Tuna Fish on Jul 22, 2005 12:30:27 GMT -5
Christ you are good at summaries!
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Post by drbastard on Jul 22, 2005 13:08:32 GMT -5
Back To Bedlam is one of the best albums I've heard all year. It's not the most exciting of albums, but it's extremely well written, it isn't just one long ballad, and his voice isn't as irritating as you all make it out to be. Thankyou. You have obviously been working with too much glue if you think that is the best album of the year. It's mediocre at best, totally bland at worst. You don't need an electro beat to be good (it helps) but you don't need to be boring either. Blunt is a horribly apposite epithet for Mr Melua As A Man. Single mother music. It's bloody ghastly! Yet diversity is a good thing and if you want to enjoy it, very well, a few of my friends do but please don't ask me to like him or his crappy music. No singing soldiers in my house. Especially with lyrics as bum hum as his. Just because you write your own stuff doesn't make you any good.
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Storm
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Post by Storm on Jul 22, 2005 14:50:51 GMT -5
Awful.
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Mr Subways
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Post by Mr Subways on Jul 22, 2005 17:15:20 GMT -5
You have obviously been working with too much glue if you think that is the best album of the year. It's mediocre at best, totally bland at worst. You don't need an electro beat to be good (it helps) but you don't need to be boring either. Blunt is a horribly apposite epithet for Mr Melua As A Man. Single mother music. It's bloody ghastly! Yet diversity is a good thing and if you want to enjoy it, very well, a few of my friends do but please don't ask me to like him or his crappy music. No singing soldiers in my house. Especially with lyrics as bum hum as his. Just because you write your own stuff doesn't make you any good. I don't get the glue thing. Anyway, I'm not asking you to like it, I just think calling him bland is a very easy, and inaccurate word to use for him, and used far too casually for aritsts. Melua is crap, yes, but James' lyrics are very interesting, and I'm trying to tell you that music isn't all about fancy sounds and stuff, and I think James has helped it come back to the lyrics, which is good. As I said, I'm not asking you to like it, and it's good that you're not being really insulting and questioning why I like him etc, like certain members here, and I respect you for that. Christ, look at me getting all serious. Sorry!
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Post by zozzyj on Aug 24, 2005 10:42:50 GMT -5
I get the feeling a few people may want to shoot me for this, but James Blunt is up there with my favourites right now. I agree that his voice is one of those that doesn't grow on you - you either love it or hate it. I love it, personally. I'm also heavily into lyrics. If I listen to any song, I could tell you at the end what the lyrics mean to me, but I probably couldn't tell you if there was even a guitar in it. I've gone off the point. I love his lyrics, especially those of "No Bravery." But I suppose that's just what happens when my taste tends to be solo males who write songs from the heart, and from personal experience. Emotion in a song is important to me, and it has always confused me how artists can write such emotive songs, on such personal subjects, and then perform them live without the slightest hint of sadness. James Blunt was the first person I saw live when this changed. During No Bravery, I could see the tears in his eyes.
And if you skipped over my rambling, yes. I like James Blunt. Perhaps too much. His album stayed in my CD player for a month, played at LEAST 4 times a day. Probably unhealthy, but there you go.
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Post by richie on Aug 25, 2005 3:40:39 GMT -5
I listened to Maximilian Hecker and Ed Harcourt yesterday. I wish I could stop every idiot who walks up to the counter with a James Blunt album and let them hear some stuff by Max or Ed. I wager at least 10% could be saved and will go and put James back. Experiment #1
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Post by agrippina on Aug 30, 2005 7:14:09 GMT -5
If there were better songs on the album than You're Beautiful, which has terrible lyrics chosen seemingly for their rhyming qualities rather than their meaning, why didn't he release one of those as his first single instead? It's hard not to see it as a PR exercise, trying to sell bland MOR crap to people who only buy about one album per year and don't like anything too challenging. I haven't heard any of his other songs, so I'm not going to pass judgement on his album, but You're Beautiful is an abomination. His voice is like nails being scraped down a blackboard, too.
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Post by Alex on Aug 30, 2005 13:22:49 GMT -5
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Post by nnnumb on Aug 30, 2005 20:42:39 GMT -5
I listened to Maximilian Hecker and Ed Harcourt yesterday. I wish I could stop every idiot who walks up to the counter with a James Blunt album and let them hear some stuff by Max or Ed. I wager at least 10% could be saved and will go and put James back. Experiment #1'Kate Moss' versus 'You're Beautiful'. No contest. I notice with faint disgust, that my local HMV has now introduced a 'Singer/Songwriter' section. Now all the 'real' music lovers don't have to dirty their hands flicking through those awful electronic-pop CDs. How kind.
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Post by NumanumAnzej on Sept 4, 2005 9:30:23 GMT -5
He comes from the David Sneddon school of lyric writing. No that would be Daniel Powter. "You've had a bad day, you see what you like, so how does it feel, one more time". What?
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Post by VeryKind on Sept 7, 2005 5:43:57 GMT -5
I don't like his voice so I can't listen to him. 'You're Beautiful' tortured me, everywhere I went someone was playing it. I can see why people like him though.
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Post by ScissorSister on Sept 7, 2005 10:05:42 GMT -5
I hate the video for High already. I mean, I don't mind the song on the album but i've already heard it a lot on music channels and am sick of it.
I am sure I will come to loathe the sight of him running through the woods for no apparant reason even more though.
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Post by drbastard on Sept 9, 2005 8:37:47 GMT -5
OH GOD PLEASE HELP ME MAKE IT STOP!
That whiny little singing soldier, I hate him so, who will end his career?
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agrippina
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Post by agrippina on Sept 12, 2005 7:13:37 GMT -5
My local radio station played You're Beautiful TWICE in the space of HALF AN HOUR yesterday. OK, I can sort of understand that if it was still at number one (although it would still make me want to gouge my brain out through my ears with a pointy stick), but it's had its day in the sun now, and I'd like it just to FUCK OFF AND LEAVE ME ALONE if it's not too much trouble. And look, he's made me shout.
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Post by nickinoo on Sept 12, 2005 17:15:52 GMT -5
I predict that no-one will give a toss about him within a year. He will win a Brit, then that'll be it until the next pile of boring turd comes along.
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