James Blunt, have i missed something?

mr jones · 29-12-2005, 10:38 PM

what is it with james blunt?

he sings like hes speaking through a vo-coder

his songs are really poor (and every single one includes the word "beautiful")

hes mediocre at best playing the guitar

hes lets face it an ugly git

hes attempting to be appealing to the same audience as the likes of damien rice, sadly he has not even 1 ounce of the talent or ability that damien rice has.

so why so big?

i can only think of 1 reason. hes found the theramone that attracts bored housewives, hes manufactured it and spread it all over the cd packaging, housewives in there droves have flocked to buy it and liked it, not for the music, simply because of the theramone, and what they think they like in the music is actually the theramone.

hes appealing to the same audience as david gray, but again, david gray has talent and writes some alright songs, but even he cant seem to appeal to the housewife as much as james "dull as dishwater in a mauve washing up bowl" blunt.

and what the hells going on with "goodbye my lover" its even more gutwrenchingly painful than will youngs epic whinge song thats currently getting radio air play because it scares off rats.

kids have an excuse for buying dross like the pussycat dolls and the likes, what excuse to adults have?

Floodedstatue · 29-12-2005, 10:40 PM

Does it feel better now you've got that out of your system?

mr jones · 29-12-2005, 10:44 PM

not really, hes still got a record contract

30-12-2005, 9:08 AM

Can't adults (well, red-blooded males, at any rate) have an excuse for 'liking' the Pussycat Dolls?

I agree about Blunt though. Whingy music with naive lyrics and no real substance.

mr jones · 30-12-2005, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by shadowritten

Can't adults (well, red-blooded males, at any rate) have an excuse for 'liking' the Pussycat Dolls?

yes, but only i the volume is on mute and the music video is playing

30-12-2005, 2:17 PM

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Originally Posted by mr jones

yes, but only i the volume is on mute and the music video is playing

Applause for Mr Jones, please ...

overkill · 30-12-2005, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by mr jones

what is it with james blunt?

he sings like hes speaking through a vo-coder

his songs are really poor (and every single one includes the word "beautiful")

hes mediocre at best playing the guitar

hes lets face it an ugly git

hes attempting to be appealing to the same audience as the likes of damien rice, sadly he has not even 1 ounce of the talent or ability that damien rice has.

so why so big?

i can only think of 1 reason. hes found the theramone that attracts bored housewives, hes manufactured it and spread it all over the cd packaging, housewives in there droves have flocked to buy it and liked it, not for the music, simply because of the theramone, and what they think they like in the music is actually the theramone.

hes appealing to the same audience as david gray, but again, david gray has talent and writes some alright songs, but even he cant seem to appeal to the housewife as much as james "dull as dishwater in a mauve washing up bowl" blunt.

and what the hells going on with "goodbye my lover" its even more gutwrenchingly painful than will youngs epic whinge song thats currently getting radio air play because it scares off rats.

kids have an excuse for buying dross like the pussycat dolls and the likes, what excuse to adults have?

You obviously haven't seen the thread about blunt in the chat section? There is an ace spoof of the snivelling one on the web. Had the kids in fits.............

mr jones · 31-12-2005, 1:43 AM

link.me!

*RMCF* · 31-12-2005, 1:46 AM

Blunt is the 2005 equivalent of Dido and David Gray in earlier years.

Never off the damn radio and you were obliged to like them, if you listened to the press.

There must be millions of copies of Dido's album out there in trendy apartments and flats that never get played now. But people felt they had to own it.

To defend David Gray, he is back with some decent enough music at present.

Robbie Williams also fell into this category for a while - EVERYONE seemed to like him (except me!!)

per-Sony-fied · 31-12-2005, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by mr jones

Have I missed something....

Luckily yes........ Try retuning, your ears will love you for it

mr jones · 31-12-2005, 12:36 PM

say what now? are you trying to support james bland or something?

shahedz · 31-12-2005, 1:12 PM

there are worst artists out there than james blunt. not a fan by any means but know plenty of people who are.

per-Sony-fied · 31-12-2005, 6:17 PM

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Originally Posted by mr jones

say what now? are you trying to support james bland or something?

Nah..... I mean, in laymans language, go and listen to something else while your sanity is still intact ....... was trying not to be to offensive in my wording against those who like/love him.

huwg · 31-12-2005, 8:41 PM

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Originally Posted by mr jones

link.me!

here you go...

James Blunt.

**unique** · 31-12-2005, 9:20 PM

the james blunt and daniel poweter albums aren't that bad, they might be reasonably safe AOR, or even easy listening, but i'd rather listen to them than half the crap being pimped by the bbc and other commercial channels

even the pussycat dolls have a couple of reasonable tracks (so they should with the line up of writers and producers, they went out there way to make an album with wide appeal), and the new girls aloud album ain't that bad either

theres a lot more worse crap out there that warrants slagging off before JB or DP. dildo and david gray are far more sickly sweet crap than either of them

the new robbie williams album is pretty crap anyways, his last wasn't much better either

what surprised me this year was that a lot of the "oldies" like macca and the stones and santana turned out half decent albums this year, rather than the crap they released the last time around

31-12-2005, 10:36 PM

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what surprised me this year was that a lot of the "oldies" like macca and the stones and santana turned out half decent albums this year, rather than the crap they released the last time around

Re: Macca, wasn't all that imressed with 'Chaos & Creation ... ' Some decent tracks, but nowhere near as good as the hype I'd heard from some quarters.

Sorry -

per-Sony-fied · 01-01-2006, 11:15 AM

James Blunt was on Jool's Hootenanny last night and struggled there very much to spit his words out and stay in tune.... however I don't think it really verged on total disaster. At least he made an attempt at live singing which is more than can be said for a lot of chart artists of today.

KT tunstall was brill.

russ123 · 01-01-2006, 12:53 PM

I saw him on Jules as well. Looked like he was absolutely bricking himself! Found that funny given he used to be a tank commander

Floodedstatue · 01-01-2006, 2:35 PM

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I saw him on Jules as well. Looked like he was absolutely bricking himself! Found that funny given he used to be a tank commander

Maybe mr jones was in the studio audience heckling him!

"YOU SUCK, BLUNT!"

mr jones · 01-01-2006, 7:42 PM

nah i was sat on the headstock of his acoustic guitar twiddling the tuning pegs :D

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shadowritten Guest Posts: n/a	Can't adults (well, red-blooded males, at any rate) have an excuse for 'liking' the Pussycat Dolls? I agree about Blunt though. Whingy music with naive lyrics and no real substance.
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