Don`t read this if you like James"Rat Boy" Blunt:)

[harry hackedoff]

Heyup, as we`ve discussed before , there`s more to music than Kiss FM, Beyonce and James "does my head in" Blunt. Surname`s nearly right though
I`m a big fan of certain bits of World Music. Some of it I`ve mentioned, Norge Folk Music, French Jive, Jacques Brell, through to Tex Mex Cajun and Zydeco. I can stand bits of Mali stuff, Ladysmiff Black Mombassa and the odd Youssif N`Dour so a fairly eclectic selection there, hey?

Well when I an I was de youf ya naw me sayin, me was hinto dat Skear an hall, me say.
Me was hinto dat Blue Beat and de whine an grine Reggae befor dat ras clart Bob Mar Lee an im Wailers me talkin man, me say dat Prince Buster Han De Hall Stars ya naw me say? Jimmy Cliffe an hall dem ragamuffins.
Ooops sorry, thought I was still pm-ing Owdun,
Well as a young man, interested in the roots of Ska and Blue Beat of the sixties and early seventies I went on a musical journey of exploration of what was then called "Caribean" music. I found that the whole of the Carib had it`s own distinct versions of calypso or reggie or skear ,which isn`t surprising I s`pose
What did surprise me was how widespread similar music types are down in South America. Particularly in Brazil. Brazil was the Portuguese center for the import of black slaves into South America and today it has the highest population of black "Africans" anywhere outside of Nigeria. They have had subtle influence over popular music for years, samba salsa, bosa nova, on and on it goes.
I`ve been a fan of several styles but my fave is the style developed by a percussion based band called Olodum( pronounced oh low doom ) they mix African and Portuguese vibes with native Sarf American rhythms and the result is fantastic. Great background music for your barby, it`s impossible to listen to this and keep still They`ve been around twenty odd years and many western musicians have copyed their stuff, from Mick "fat boy" Hucknall to Mick "who you calling a kiddy fiddler" Jackson

I looked around the net for some samples and this is the best, it`s from Olodum`s site and it`s an mp3 player, I`ve got it on now
I prefer the instrumentals they do, but a nice chewn to hum along to is Acima del Sol. Listen to I miss Her " darleeeng Hi misser you, darleeng" and you can see the common root with reggae
This music will get right into your soul


http://olodum.uol.com.br/Radio/radio.html

[harry hackedoff]

Listen to this. This is talent
http://olodum.uol.com.br/Radio/radio.html




Shouldn`t there be another arrow pointing to the right which says "To the Talent"
I nicked this, nice to see someone else realises what a total waste of space this arsewipe is!

1. Last year James sold 2.37 million copies of his debut album, Back to Bedlam, a figure which, coincidentally enough, is exactly equal to the number of people in this country who suffer from hearing problems.
2. James doesn't like poor people, and insists on an exclusion zone at all of his gigs and public appearances, for fear he might catch poverty from one of his fans.
3. As his biography is desperate to inform you, James fought in Iraq for a bit and, while he might be home now, peddling his music, he's still doing his bit for the war effort by allowing his songs to be used to help torture Iraqi prisoners of war.
4. Goodbye My Lover was written shortly after James played his then girlfriend You're Beautiful for the first time.
5. He's distantly related to the Queen, which may explain why his music is an outdated, irrelevant, yet seemingly immovable institution, liked only by Daily Mail readers and people with moustaches and pipes. And their husbands.
6. James is actually Dido with a pair of socks stuffed down her jeans and a slightly more feminine edge to her music.
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7. There are only two experiences in life more painful than listening to a James Blunt album in it's entirety; one of them is being in attendance at a James Blunt gig, the other is actually being James Blunt.
8. No one else in the UK has the surname Blunt, or at least they won't once the Deed Poll office finishes processing all the applications by those ashamed that people might think they're in some way related to him.
9. James once heard some music that was exciting and interesting, moving both the heart and the feet with its expertly crafted lyrics and melody. He didn't much care for it.
10. And he has shit hair.
I`d like to add that he can`t sing, can`t write and is gobshite personified
And it`s not illegal to iron your tee shirts you cnut

[harry hackedoff]

James Blunt’s family have served in one kind of army or another since 995A.D. A long line of warriors. Savages really. Not a musical bone in any one of their bodies. The only music he heard growing up was “Happy Birthday” and “Silent Night”. His father considered all music, even classical, to be unnecessary noise. Although James was not one to rock the family boat, he didn’t really think he was going to join the army – it sort of crept up on him. Plus his family didn’t have a boat. Aged fourteen he just held the teenage conviction that he would have an interesting life – maybe that’s why he picked the guitar? Then again, maybe if he hadn’t, he would have tripped over it. He went to University and studied Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering and Sociology, spending most lectures asleep on the floor at the back. In much the same way, he ended up in the army. In essence, one day he was sleeping off a hangover at the back of a sociology lecture hall and the next thing he knew he was in Kosovo with a gun and a guitar strapped to the side of a tank, wondering who he could possibly sleep with to get out of this war. To break up the super attenuated monotony, James would sometimes stroll through Serb villages wearing an East German cap singing, “All we are saying is give peace a chance”. “We were peace-keepers at that point,” he explained, shrugging helplessly.

So how did the music get into him, you might ask? Well if you were sent to boarding school aged seven, studied Engineering by mistake (“I thought we were going to fly planes, but we just pulled metals apart – the brochure was very misleading.”), joined the army by default, guarded The Queen, buried The Queen Mother and pranced around London like a tit for Japanese tourists to photograph, what you’re going to want to do very much after that, besides getting stoned and laid, is put your gun down, pick up a guitar and make an album in America with Linda Perry. So James came to Los Angeles in September 2003 to record with Tom Rothrock et al. At night he’d go to bars, bringing with him his valuable British accent (in the U.K., too posh for some people – in LA, the best thing she’d heard all night) and the fact that like 50 Cent he’d been shot at numerous times, but unlike the Cent, had dodged the bullets. One song, “Goodbye My Lover”, was recorded in his landladies’ bathroom (“She was a frequenter of mental hospitals and in general, a freak – but pleasant”) where, naturally, she kept a piano.

From birth in a military hospital in Tidworth, to Harrow School, to Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering, to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, to The Household Cavalry, to Kosovo, to Buckingham Palace, to a recording studio in Los Angeles. How did James get from there to here? Only James Blunt’s hairdresser knows for certain, and either he isn’t talking or James cuts his own hair, and it’s up to you to join the dots – there are ten of them on the album.

Oooh, gush,
`Scuse me while I heave
Weird Al Yankovic thinks differently though, here`s his take on the excrutiatingly mind numbing youre beautifull shite
My life is brilliant
Your life's a joke
You're just pathetic
You're always broke

Your homemade Star Trek uniform
Really ain't impressing me
You're suffering from delusions of
Adequacy

You're pitiful
You're pitiful
You're pitiful
It's true

Never had a date
That you couldn't inflate
And you smell repulsive too
What a bummer being you

Well you just can't dance
And forget romance
Everybody you know
Still calls you "Fartypants"

But you'll always have a job
Well, I mean
As long as you still can work
That Slurpee machine

You're pitiful
You're pitiful
You're pitiful
It's true

You're half undressed
Eating chips off your chest
While you're playin' Halo 2
Noone's classier than you

La la la la
La la la la
La la la la
Loser

You're pitiful
You're pitiful
You're pitiful
It's true

Your dog would much rather
Play fetch by itself
You still live with your mom
And you're forty two

Guess you'll never grow a clue
Well, it just sucks to be you

James Blunt. What a Cult

[Tam527]

Can anyone contribute to this thread or is it just you Harry.
OK. I realise you may not like the guy. Neither do I . Ossifers
Not listened to any music since Metallica.

[Paratrooper01]

Talking of music... i got introduced to The Automatics - Monster the other day at the pub.

Now im not a big rock fan by any means, but i do like this tune alot...and it was recommended to me by a mate who is ex 3 para, Mt Longdon vet which just makes it that bit more ally

[harry hackedoff]

Post a link P01, I`s never heard it down `yer
I`m going to start saying how ally everything is next time we have a day out with the Para
That`ll be fuggin ally

[Prm]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4v8qae11_-M

^^ Link to 'The Automatic - Monster' video.

[harry hackedoff]

Cheers Prm, not summat I`d listen to for any lenght of time, but pleasant enough.
The best thing I`ve seen on youtube for ages is the "Hello, my name`s Harry the Hamster, I`m a little bit hairy and a little bit cuddly" video. The number of people down here with that as their ringtone is staggering mate. Larf my testicles off everytime I hear it

[irishrotar]

Sigur Ros are brillant Harry. If you like world music etc. The Automatic are pretty good para saw them live at start of summer.

[harry hackedoff]

Cheers Irish, I`ll listen to anything mate, where are they from? The land of Noggin the Nog or Svenske?
Did you try the link to Olodum? Great party music, that off beat base is amazing

Slante

[irishrotar]

No lol they're from Iceland. All there albums are great. Takk or () are the best. Best concert ever Ive been to gotta say that. Hoppipolla was on some advert last year, I think it was sony or something.
Link: http://www.myspace.com/sigurros

Another good one is Kalai, not so much world music though. But his quite bluesy. Canadian
Link: http://www.myspace.com/kalai

Thank god for myspace...get to listen to it all...for free

Olodum=
It sounds very dominican, not bad though. But not my thing. Lived in ny for 6 weeks above harlem which is nearly all dominican...come home from work (bartending) at 5am had to listen to this kinda crap all day and night long! So...most def not my thing lol Dont get me wrong nice ppl...but not good music when u have a hangover.

Remember the days of Safri Duo..what a band/dj set...whatever they were

ps. If you like Sigur ros you'll prob also like The Album Leaf and Myppa.

[harry hackedoff]

Iceland you say. I clocked a Nordic origin with the sigur . Just listened to a few samples, all a bit spacey for me. Great to just chill to though, after you`ve dropped a few E`s. Pardon

The Nog folk music I referred to has some very discordant elements almost like zydeco. There`s nowt like it in English or Irish folk music, which is why I don`t like either
Olodum mp3 link doesn`t always work, persevere.
My purpose with this thread is to see how many can see through the total hype that surrounds the talentless Mr Blunt. Celine effing Dion is another one. The only talent these two have is the talent to spot a good agent



In the lands of the North, where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale and the tale they tell is of an Icelandic Princess. Bjork Bjorksdottir was her name and she was as daft as a brush, even for an Icelandic bird. Punching reporters was her sport.

I thought Noggin the Nog was a sexual act, or was that Muffin the Mule
Naw, it was muffing the Nog

[irishrotar]

haha thats muffin the mule alright...its the welshe that like it though...or Kerry people!
sigur ros...ah it is a bit spacey I guess (kinda like that about it, complete chill), but great music to run 2.
I like my trad so dont be dissing it... lol But then again when your born in Ireland you're given the must do Irish dancing and must play Irish trad instruments hand book. Its beaten into us Ya cant beat a bit of Kila.
Most of the popular chart music nowerdays is crap and all sounds the same. Wish I was born in the 60's....

[Sonne]

Hang on i thought her name was Björk Guðmundsdóttir?

Pronounce that you say? errr... *cough*

Sonne

[harry hackedoff]

Wish I was born in the 60's....

You and me both
Gino Washington and the Ram Jam Band at the Wall City Jazz Club, Chester. or the Wheel in Manchester, both late Sixties
He was the best R&B/Soul man I`ve ever seen, better even than Ben E. King and even the Tops . I sang onstage with Mr Levi Stubbs at the Liverpool Empire whilst three quarters of the Four Tops backed us. Levi was shite, mind If I were a carpenter and you were a lady, would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?
Er, not you Irish, that was the song we sang
Sugar pie honey bunch can`t help myself was next, then the bouncers chucked me off the stage, cheeky barsts
Some people don`t recognise talent when it bites them on the bum. James Blunt`s agent, for one