Blunt’s voice is just slightly too distinctive to make this work as a relaxing background album, something Dido and David Gray have in their favour, instead it just isn’t as easy of a listen as it should be. That was, of course, against poor Blount’s wishes because he only wanted to follow a career in music. There’s glimmers of some talent in here, the emotion heard in Goodbye My Lover for instance, but it never quite pans out how I wanted it to. Only thing I really know for certain about this James Blunt is he went to an academy for like arts or something of that aesthetic and then graduated with a mandatory obligation to serve in the army. I probably complain a bit too much about ‘nice’ music, saying that it’s boring or tedious, but sometimes ‘nice’ just isn’t enough. It’s probably the best track here, the rest just plods along being ‘nice’.
Things get a bit more Coldplay on Out Of My Mind, while opener High takes this to a new extreme it could easily have appeared on Parachutes.
With follow up single Goodbye My Lover being along the same lines, my hopes weren’t high to enjoy the full Back To Bedlam album. James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, 22 February 1974) is an English singer/songwriter whose debut album, Back to Bedlam, and single releases especially the number one hit 'Youre Beautiful' brought him to fame in 2005. Everyone reading this knows the song, it was a radio smash that never seemed to go away. Said big hit is of course You’re Beautiful, a sickly sweet ballad that manages to sound heartfelt and creepy at the same time. The ‘soldier with the beautiful voice’ story was all you heard throughout his promo in 2005, the typical lead in to one of the millions of plays the big hit would have received on UK radio that year. It’s easy to see why people would be bored of someone like James Blunt, he’s the blueprint for a Simon Cowell ‘success story’. I’ve never managed to hide how I feel about certain artists, Blunt being one of them. It is all a matter for the public record," Blunt's publicist told the Independent.Completing the boring trinity of this list, Dido and David Gray if you aren’t keeping track, we have James Blunt. This claim has always been disputed by Blunt, who - along with his publishing company EMI - has decided to take the matter to court.
"It would probably be an overstatement to say that in terms of his professional musical aspirations James had nothing going on," Burton wrote in a blog published last year, "but he definitely had next to nothing going on." James Blunt - Back To Bedlam music album.
The latest sales figures (or at least those reported yesterday, you could probably add a few more now) show that Back to Bedlam has sold 3,020,490 copies since its release in 2004, eclipsing the 3,015,703 sales of the similarly groundbreaking work by Dido, No Angel.īut while the staff might be breaking out the finest Krug to celebrate Blunt's achievement, his management have also confirmed that they are to ask the High Court to adjudicate on a claim from a Los Angeles record producer demanding songwriting royalties for six of Back to Bedlam's tracks.Īccording to the producer, Lukas Burton, Blunt was a decidedly raw talent before the pair met and it was Burton's influence that turned him into a star. James Blunt - Back To Bedlam Song - Download James Blunt - Back To Bedlam mp3 song free online. James Blunt is heading to the High Court at the same time as his ubiquitous debut album reaches the top of the list of the millennium's most popular albums by UK artists