But we shared a moment that will last till the end...
We've had a tough couple of weeks, but I've decided that a country that can send "You're Beautiful" to the top of the UK Singles Charts can't be all bad can it?
posted by swisslet @ 08:29
24 Comments:
At 8:47 am,
Mark said…
James Blunt is a wet sack of shit, though.
At 9:09 am,
swisslet said…
James Blunt
Crazy Frog
You choose.
At 9:23 am,
Teresa Bowman said…
"James Blunt
Crazy Frog
You choose."
I choose not to choose.
When I was about 18 I used to listen to the Top 40 every week and actually write it down. (Yes, I was that geeky.) But that was back when the charts were ... you know ... remotely interesting.
Closest I get to it now is occasionally listening to the 6 Music chart. Andrew Collins is a top bloke.
At 10:22 am,
John McClure said…
A friend suggested the other day that this song wasn't all that far removed from the Incredible Hulk TV theme tune. I'm not so sure myself.
It'd be an interesting premise though - Coldplay release their next single and we're all delighted to discover that the B-side is a thinly veiled reworking of the Grange Hill theme tune.
A week later, Keane feel moved to do something similar and release an old session recording of their favourite warm up number - the theme tune from Inspector Gadget.
The lunacy is only completed when the Futureheads - Sunderland born and bred - bring the music world to its knees with a shocking mangling of the theme tune from Jossy's Giants.
Got the rest of the day free? Find more TV theme tunes here.
At 12:08 pm,
Damo said…
I'm going to offer a stoic "no comment" on this one.
:-)
At 12:09 pm,
Damo said…
I may write a song about the James Blunt phenomenon though. But I'm struggling with the rhyming bit if anyone can offer help.
At 12:15 pm,
adem said…
Damo, I just burst out laughing. Very witty.
At 12:27 pm,
swisslet said…
I was rather alarmed to hear Stephen Fretwell described as "The New James Blunt" in the same week as the current James Blunt was clocking a number one single and a number one album.
James Blunt himself is the "new Damien Rice" and "You're Beautiful" has been described as "The new 'Babylon'" or (by Elton John) as the "new 'Your Song'" (and of course as "The Theme tune to 'the incredible hulk' by John above... which I can hear in the intro, actually).
What's with this obession? Does it actually help? I don't think James Blunt is much like any of those people really. I like the album, I thought he was very good live at Glastonbury, and I think "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover" are lovely songs.
That's it.
I like the fact that in this age of singles going straight in at number one and then disappearing, it's nice to have a real, old-fashioned slow burner that has been in the charts for 7 weeks before hitting the top spot.
Would you seriously rather listen to the frog?
(and Mark - I know what you mean, but describing a man who was a tank commander and was the first British soldier into Kosovo as "a wet sack of shit" seems a bit odd)
ST
At 12:56 pm,
LB said…
considering it's fairly easy to listen to lowbrow pop music, it will come as a surprise to entirely no-one to hear that I really like it.
i agree with ST, "goodbye my lover" (especially in my present climate) is beautiful. and "you're beautiful" is probably the best record to hit the top of the charts in a long time. rather that than any of the assorted bland R&B shite that is knocking about. Usher, anyone? Nelly? Fiddy? J-Lo?
no, thought not.
At 1:24 pm,
Flash said…
It's a decent tune & I'm with Swiss that it's nice to see a record actually climbing to No.1.
At 2:34 pm,
LB said…
well, what I meant was all that cack rap/R&B shite. it is quite a comprehensive list and includes everything from The Game through Mario through R Kelly through 2Pac. all unmitigated cack.
blimey, there's a sweeping generalisation if ever there were one.
At 2:53 pm,
John McClure said…
To be fair to Blunt, despite this new-found fame, he's remained Jamesie from the block.
He was the first man into Kosovo? Blimey. And people say the British Army is in trouble. Pah! No wonder Saddam capitulated in the end... Blair probably threatened to send Chris Martin over for a sort out if he didn't.
At 3:27 pm,
swisslet said…
it's the british masterplan - emote dicatators to death. Get them talking about their feelings, help them to understand that their jigsaw is missing a piece, and before you know it, they'll be taking time out to "swim in lake me" and writing drippy ballads.
Actually, that might be a worse form of WMD than the ones we didn't find in Iraq....
[pictures a scene in a bunker buried deep in a mountainside:
"shit. Move to DEFCON ONE - we are under attack by ballads. "Fix You" is striking the west coast, and the East Coast has been destroyed by "You're Beautiful".... prepare to realiate. Is David Gray primed and ready for launch? Is the new Keane album ready for takeoff?"]
ST
At 4:05 pm,
Mark said…
he must have done all his macho stuff in the army, because his music is bland and blah. very very much so. better than crazy frog, but choosing between Frogs Legs and old Big Macs isn't much of a choice either.
At 5:27 pm,
red one said…
I'm radioless. Someone hum it for me. Oh, go on.
RedOne
At 5:47 pm,
Robin said…
James Blunt? That's the one with that guitar plucking bit in, isn't it? the just-distorted "PLINK.......PLINK PLINK" guitarstring twanging bit.
Christ, that jars my spine every time I hear it.
John - I cherish my mp3 of Metallica doing the Charlie Brown theme.
At 6:00 pm,
swisslet said…
Right. So pretty much no one here likes it. More people came out in favour of the crazy frog on this blog than James Blunt.
Jesus.
You get the readers you deserve, I suppose....
ST
At 7:11 pm,
Mark said…
fuck crazy frog, by the way.
At 8:06 pm,
swisslet said…
just sayin'..... didn't mean nuthin by it.
At 11:15 pm,
Damo said…
(tumbleweed)
At 2:48 am,
Ben said…
Sorry to side with the consensus of opinion Toni, but it's drab bollocks. He hasn't even got a good voice - just the sort of strangulated over-emoted trill that seems to pass for a "good voice" these days. ("These days"? Jesus I'm getting old. I'll be shaking my fist at youngsters soon...)
At 9:00 am,
LB said…
leave ST alone, it is a great record. it may be sentimental, but who cares?
yes, I'll class rap and R&B together. take, say, R Kelly. surely blurring the lines between rap and R&B? Either way, as I say, it is all shite.
At 9:07 am,
swisslet said…
I'm not saying it's the greatest song ever written, but I like it and it's better than almost everything else in the chart, and is the best number one we've had for ages....
So there.
("apply some pressure" is great though, isn't it? A worthy nomination for the Mercury)
At 11:59 am,
weenie said…
Not being the girly type, 'You're Beautiful' brings tears to my eyes. It's a great song.
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