Author Topic: James Blunt (Read 35956 times)

rinse_master · « **Reply #45 on:** April 27, 2006, 06:47:28 AM »

Quote from: badgermark

Call it emo all you want, I love the proper emo stuff, the whole my chemical romance and their whiney ilk can $%&# right off.

Damn straight, "proper emo" = :) - "marketed emo" = :(

Muttley · « **Reply #46 on:** April 27, 2006, 09:54:49 AM »

Quote from: donovanx

Wow Dakine, they rock. Awsome. Makes me want to go and get a Les Paul ,a bottle of J.D a huge Marshall stack and go on tour. :twisted:

Haha. Just starting to get that together now.

Glam/Sleaze is coming back into fashion, and about time too. :)

Muttley

Sifu Ben · « **Reply #47 on:** April 27, 2006, 10:44:00 AM »

Here's a cool prog band I discovered at a Dog and Duck in Swindon! http://www.soundaloudtv.co.uk/video.php?video_id=45
They're awesome live, and they do have some more melodic stuff www.xi-uk.com .
There's nothing wrong with a bit of emotional content, I'm a fully paid up hard rocker, yet one of my favourite songs is Pain by JEW. It's cynical, hollow, sentimentalist sh*te that's the problem. That's my real problem with JB, if you sat down and recorded a song where the chorus is "you're beautiful" repeatedly in a tortured voice (sudden gratifiying mental image of JB being tortured) , it's going to go to number one. It's not good songwriting, it's the musical equivalent of a Clinton card!

badgermark · « **Reply #48 on:** April 27, 2006, 05:48:53 PM »

I'm with ben here, most 'emo' bands are good song writers with some great pop sensabilities. But James Blunt needs 2 other people to write a song where the chorus is 'your beautiful, your beautiful, its true'.

I know i mentioned 90% of metal vocalists are cr@p singers, but the exceptions are amazing. Bruce Dickinson from iron maiden is the one i think of (I kinda hate metal so i really should be quiet...)

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #49 on:** April 27, 2006, 06:14:36 PM »

Quote from: Dakine

They are alot more country than Skynard to my ears.

Want Southern Rock with a "grin" :) try Nashville Pussy lol, kinda cramps,ac/dc,skynard and quite weird/amusing to boot.

I've heard of them, they have a tasty bird in the band too judging by the photo i saw! I'll have to check them out.

jt · « **Reply #50 on:** April 27, 2006, 11:47:24 PM »

:D Soundaloud TV sound great to me liked that very much great find ! :D My problem with JB wasn`t that it`s emo its that it`s contrived girly rubbish. Totaly & utterly fake. Designed to con. I have no probs at all with EMO stuff when it`s sincere. I was there after all when Marillion 1st broke on the scene. You want emo read the lyrics of there 1st album. "Script for a jesters tear"

:D 8)

indysmith · « **Reply #51 on:** April 27, 2006, 11:56:47 PM »

Quote from: rinse_master

Quote from: badgermark
Call it emo all you want, I love the proper emo stuff, the whole my chemical romance and their whiney ilk can $%&# right off.

Damn straight, "proper emo" = :) - "marketed emo" = :(

The Anniversary, Cursive, Bright Eyes, The Promise Ring, Rilo Kiley, Saves The Day... Yeah thats the route to walk down.

Gets boring though - and i wouldn't wanna play it. i just listen to it because it reminds me of my childhood really - this is what i used to listen to wen i was really little and first got in to music.

dave_mc · « **Reply #52 on:** April 28, 2006, 01:54:24 PM »

Quote from: badgermark

But James Blunt needs 2 other people to write a song where the chorus is 'your beautiful, your beautiful, its true'.

i think you missed out a "you're beautiful"...

man, what a lyricist(s)!

:twisted:

TMitH · « **Reply #53 on:** April 28, 2006, 07:42:43 PM »

Quote from: Sifu Ben

Here's a cool prog band I discovered at a Dog and Duck in Swindon! http://www.soundaloudtv.co.uk/video.php?video_id=45
They're awesome live, and they do have some more melodic stuff www.xi-uk.com .

Well - thankyou kindly Ben. We do try :D Absolutely agree. A good song NEEDS emotional content - but it has to be sincere, and it has to pe part of the music, not something that's "grafted on".

Thanks too for watching the Xi video at Soundaloud TV (hehehe JT - "Soundaloud TV" would make a great band name - but I think the website owners might object). More hits on that link is what we need!!

Cheers

TMitH (Xi manager)

froglord · « **Reply #54 on:** April 29, 2006, 10:15:00 AM »

Quote from: badgermark

James Blunt needs 2 other people to write a song where the chorus is 'your beautiful, your beautiful, its true'.

There must be girls (maybe boys too) who are deluded enough to think he's singing directly to them. And he's not: he's singing to his wallet.

indysmith · « **Reply #55 on:** April 29, 2006, 10:17:07 AM »

Quote from: froglord

Quote from: badgermark
James Blunt needs 2 other people to write a song where the chorus is 'your beautiful, your beautiful, its true'.

There must be girls (maybe boys too) who are deluded enough to think he's singing directly to them. And he's not: he's singing to his wallet.

There's the secret of being a sellout shiteting$%&#er####!!

Jp. · « **Reply #56 on:** May 01, 2006, 02:49:48 PM »

Man....!! I cant beleive you guys have dragged tis conversation out for 4 pages

I'm suitably impressed.

I havent checked the forum for a couple of days an you fellas go nuts!

Last time I turn my back on you guys... Who do you think you are Sambo? :lol:

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #57 on:** May 01, 2006, 03:56:08 PM »

Checked out Nashville Pussy Dakine. Sounds good, funny as well. Listen to Blow job from a rattlesnake lol!

Dakine · « **Reply #58 on:** May 01, 2006, 05:14:04 PM »

Yeah, they are def. different LOL

Kilby · « **Reply #59 on:** May 01, 2006, 07:12:01 PM »

Hmm I have a 13 year old daughter so you can guess what I have to put up with in the house (musically) :(

My appreciatio of Mr Blunt went up when I heard about this Paris adventure, for those who missed it.

Apparently he received an award in Paris (I assume it eas for record sales not any sort of quality based thing), while in his hotel room he heard some noises and when he woke up he saw a figure rummaging through his stuff.

Happily he clocked the burglar over the head with his award, knocking the unwelcome guest clean out, and being commended by the French police for his actions.

Therefore he can't be all bad, though I wish he would give up the so called music career.

Rob...