James Blunt Sets The Bar Higher - Simply said, do yourself a favor and discover James Blunt, as an artist like this does not come along everyday.You won t be disappointed and in fact may find yourself addicted to his heartfelt yet intellectual lyrics and that voice which is full of naked emotion just like the songs themselves. I saw Blunt at Radio City for the Bedlum Tour. If you ever get a chance to see him live do it! You will be happily surprised.James Blunt is a very special artist in time of vacuous releases when it looks like the end of quality music. Thank God for James. He has given us all hope again. Like many fans I also can not wait for the 3rd album.
Great album, but... - Blunt s voice admittedly does take some getting used to, although You re Beautiful is such a tantalizing, mesmeric song. For me, it evokes a distant memory of a long lost love. A very powerful song, indeed. There should be a website about this album, and about the YB song, especially!
Intensely Soft and Massively Appealing - James Blunt s Back to Bedlam comes at a time when people seem to have taken to rock and rap music. This album is a throwback really to the notion that vociferous music intinsic to commercially directed songs is the norm of this age. This is the debut album of a man who was in the British army a few years back. Back to Bedlam is a compilation of intensely soft songs dissolved in forceful meanings and implications. The songs invoke a personal tone and their charm lies in their massiove appeal to the listener s heart. James Blunt himself admits that this his maiden album is actually a personal documentary of himself and no song is as personal or more tragic than the lovely track You re Beautiful. This single was the third highest selling track in the UK i 2005 and with this single,Blunt became the first British pop star to lead the US Singles Chart since Elton john. You re Beautiful is a tragic love song that arises out of a host of feelings that crowded on the artist s heart when he perceived his ex-girlfriend in a London subway with another man. This song is easily the best of the album and trembles with longing,sorrow and pathos,a feature that ripples across the album.Goodbye My Lover and No Bravery are two songs that bear ample bearing to James Blunt s exquisite ability to resound his most intricate feelings with a graceful force in the listener s bosom. Goodbye My Lover was voted a funeral favourite in Great Britain and follows a very,very gentle rhytm and simple but power lyrics and the song probably reflects the singer s pangs of separation from his lover. No Bravery exposes the harsh and disturbing effects of war and blood and death and misfortunes and hopelessness on a soldier and James Blunt s personal experiences in Bosnia coupled with his brilliant and uncommon voice paints a vivid picture of life in the army.The other songs are grat and follow a similar pattern. They re infused with a regular and smooth rhythm and never reach a mid-tempo proper. Billy,High,Tears and Rain,Out of My Mind,So Long,Jimmy and Cry are all good songs but somehow disappoint the listener should he compare them all with You re Beautiful. The album is very much romance driven but the stunning song Wisemen with its philosophical intonations brings some kind of avariety into this undisputably great album.The best aspect about Back to Bedlam,barring the romanticism that James Blunt s career switch evokes,is the unique endearing and appealing nature of all the songs. Emotions and personal experiences are perfectly harmonised in the songs and really few eyebrows would be raised by the amazing success this album has have had all around the world and mainly in the UK where it was rated as the thurd highest selling album in 2005. James Blunt is the new pop music star to hit the music industry and,given the male solo vocalist s elegance and a smart gentleness underlining his songs,one is invariably led to suspect that this army officer-turned-singer s unprecedented success with Back to Bedlam is not going to be a one-time wonder.
Do you actually listen to music???? - Firstly, how many of the people that have bought this album heard a track or two on the radio?Maybe you saw him on TV?Maybe you bought it because it s cool to like this kind of music at the moment?That s right, you probably listen to any kind of music (no matter the quality) that has been forced down your throat repeatedly.James Blunt (and many other mainstream acts) represent what is wrong with the world today.Most people don t five a f**k about music when it comes down to it, and are quite happy to listen to what is paraded in front of them.I urge you (if you ve read this far), to try and find music YOURSELF. Distance yourself from the media machine - you might just be suprised.As for this album: It s completely derivative, with every element done 100 times better 30 thirty years ago.James Blunt has a terrible voice - the comparisons to a cat being strangled mentioned elsewhere are accurate, although it sounds like the cat is also passing out razors.The songs are dull and predictable, the emotions having been well planned out in an A+R meeting at the record company.Yet this album is extremely popular and acclaimed by many.A sad state of affairs indeed....
Addicting - After seeing James Blunt perform on Oprah, I got his CD. I have been singing his praises ever since. I cannot stop listening to it. He sings with such raw emotion and his songs are so intensely personal. Every song on this CD is great. If you like Coldplay and Neil Young, you will love this!