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James Blunt - "Back To Bedlam". If you haven't heard it yet, get it.

No thanks. He annoys me.

God no.

Never mind then.  :-\

Sorry.

My wife calls him "The Singing Vagina."

He certainly sounds like a coda!

I hate him more than i hate The Darkness.

You guys can listen to the wailing falsetto of the Beach Boys, and you can't take his voice? It's not that bad, and his music is pretty decent, if a little polished.

How about some reasoning, rather than elitist nose-turnuppery? No offense, but so far I'm wondering if I'm supposed to feel insulted.  :-X

Well it's just that his voice, music, videos, lyrics and face are WELL ANNOYING.

Don't feel insulted. In what setting did you listen to his album?

I listened in the car, where I do a lot of my music listening.

I know I probably have differing musical tastes than a lot of the populous of these dual message boards, but I love hearing opinions, and all I really get are two word answers. I guess if that's all people want to give then I should just shut up. :lol:

No, don't!  ;D

When I met my girlfriend, the first night we got together we listened to a Travis album and both enjoyed it. I think the romance coupled with ecstacy tablets made it possible.

Funny, NOT!  :D

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It's all opinions - I just don't like him at all, but not everone will like that stuff I do or agree with what I think. You just seem to have to hit a universal nerve. Never mind.

Well, i don't listen to the radio or watch MTV so i'd missed any hype he had. I didn't even know he existed until he hit number one in the charts. Anyway, one of my housemates bought the album and played it nonstop for weeks over the summer. Having heard it a good 20 times, i can honestly say that mine is not a knee-jerk reaction to his hype or success. It's a strong, true, unwavering hatred of everything on the album.

I find the music completely mediocre in every way and it's polished to within an inch of its life, so it barely exists. It's so completely lifeless and uninspiring, to me. I think the reason i didn't give a longer reply before was because i didn't want to launch into a big trashing of someone you like, but felt i had to register my opinion in some small way. Evil prospers when good people sit back and do nothing. Something like that.

I do often feel that way about "Pet Sounds", so take my opinion with a grain of salt...   But I had to endure a car ride with this Blunt character, not an enjoyable time.  Insipid melodies framed in an emotionally bankrupt voice (just because you can 'sing' high, doesn't mean you should "but hey, look how emotional I'm being"), painful production... Can't remember liking a single second of it.

Still, more power to you GP... it's nice for people to be passionate about their music... but this certainly ain't my thing.

Does that 'qualify' as an opinion?  Or should I've limited to a couple of words?

I wonder if James Blunt is going to be a 'guilty pleasure' of the future.  He's hugely popular (well, in UK he is anyway) but deeply unhip.  He's a bit like the Conservative Party in UK during the 1980s - nobody admiited voting for them but they won election after election!  I can't stand him either but this is what I mean about this 'guilty pleasure' thing - it's always in retrospect.

The very first time I heard his first single on the radio, I thought "sounds like Lady In Red". It´s just bad. Nothing more or less.

I think the songs are quite good. The voice....it takes time to like it..... ::)
I just have to listen to this, since my girlfriend is crazy for that album....

Cunty Blunty ;D

The start of "You're Beautiful" sounds exactly like the end theme music to The Incredible Hulk.

I've heard he's a former British army captain.  And that somehow puts me off him.  I know that's probably quite wrong of me!   ::)

It is, especially as there are so many better reasons to hate him! Have you seen his face? His videos? Heard his music? The lyrics? The list goes on...

I hate him and his banal, souless tunes.

No offense intended.  Each to their own.

I have a strange inner feeling that the album is gonna bite ballz, but that he is a one hit wonder........
 And that song is pretty  catchy, ( at least the hook is anyway... but I dont see him doing more then that.)

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suga