*cue cartoon wars peter griffin voice* YOU THINK THATS BAD?!

*ahem* ... try getting about 5-6 of your best friends, and sing along with him in the theater premiere of X-men 3, while he was playing on the theater screen, and cue everyone else chiming in, *was 30 seconds of togetherness* ..erm *was also a 10 second more of togetherness for Jugger's famous quote* :D

Since it hasn't been said yet....


RADIOWNED!!!!

God, I can't stand his music. His stupid whiny voice... ugh.

Oh and I'm female.

Oh and my boyfriend likes his music.

/wait, now I'm worried

While most of us can agree he sux, I think we can all agree that guys like James Blunt and John Mayer are pulling in more ass than all of us combined.

When my 6-year old daughter asks to hear "I saw your face in a crowded place" (aka "You're Beautiful") when we're in the car, and proceeds to sing it at the top of her little voice, I dig it.

Quick quiz... how much do the bands who appear on SNL get paid?

1, 2, 3... GO!

Hopefully this ban of his music will go global. I for one could do without hearing it again, and I almost never listen to radio because of the repetitive crap on it.

Other bands/people that get played a lot and I never want to hear again include AC/DC, Matchbox 20/Rob Thomas, Coldplay, Creed, Santana, Nickelback, Led Zepplin, Guns n' Roses, Bon Jovi, and the most overplayed band on earth: Aerosmith!

If I never heard another Aerosmith song in my life I would be a happy guy.

Since I happen to live in Canada I also get subjected to assaults of old tired songs by Tom Cochrane, Bryan Adams, and Alanis Morrisette.

Of course this is only on the one radio station I listen to maybe once a week on my drive to work.

He sounds like that noise that a giraffe makes when you dunk his testicles into a vat of boiling power-steering fluid while you take a carrot peeler to the inside of his nostrils and kick him in the larnyx. Also, he looks like a muppet with a touch of the Downs.

Kangaroo_Ralph

Ok, I'll bite. How much??

I've never knowingly heard this guy's music, and I'm glad to see that he apparently sucks. According to Wikipedia, his real surname is "Blount." My guess is that he changed it to "Blunt" because it sounds more trendy. For that reason alone, I wouldn't listen to him.

Is it just me, or does that 'You're Beautiful' song sound like a something a stalker would hum to himself while hunting his next victim? A song like that gets stuck in your head when you're camping in the bushes.

/It's kinda like a stalker anthem

What's so bad about this guy? In an age of synthetic kareoke acts, here we have a guy who plays guitar, writes his own songs, and even sounds pretty good singing straight into a microphone. His genre isn't my favorite, but I have a lot more respect for him than any American Idol winner.

Just as annoying as Five For Fighting, maybe even moreso.

Milli Vanilli, now there is some GREAT song writers!!

I heard him do a cover of "Where is my mind?" on INHD. It wasn't terrible. At least he has decent taste in music, aside from his own.

His music makes me sad. I actually sort of like his music, but I don't listen to stations he is on. I listen to xm 46 and 49 and I am pretty sure he wont ever get on there. Kind of sounds like a new, more mellow REO speedwagon without the rock part.

I concur - James Blunt is terrible.

anal brazil men: Crap-tastic James Blunt video.

Wow, what a phony! Looks like he's practicing being pretty in front of a mirror.

pixistick: Ok, I'll bite. How much??

Heck if I know. My wife said she read somewhere that bands actually have to PAY $50,000 to appear on SNL, so we made a bet. If I win, I get anal. No matter how neat I want the house, she has to clean it*.

I was hoping some industrious or wise Farker would know.

/*Family Guy

Oh come one, I like the fact that day after day people come in with bleeding ears. We can charge the insurnace $189 for a visit, and all we have to tell is to stop shoving pencils in their ears with "You're Beautiful" is playing

//listens to the voices in her head singing in chorus

I like him a lot.
I just wish he was manly like that Rick Astley guy.

Kangaroo_Ralph

I side with you brother. You win!! Tell her you won.

I think James Blunt lasted me all of one trip to South Carolina. When you hear the unedited version of "You're Beautiful" you realize just how wrong it sounds for a man with such a high-pitched voice to say the f-word... not to mention the fact that he was implying that the chick he saw on the train could tell he was wasted.

Obviously you have never heard the John Mayer Trio Live CD.

You are right, I haven't. It's hard to find a radio station (that plays music I like) that isn't playing "Daughters" for the umpteenth time that day, or "Unwritten" or "You're Beatiful" or "Black Horse and a Cherry Tree." I don't want anything to do with any of these artists, trio or no trio. I've had my fill of them. I might listen to it if he doesn't do any singing.

I'm not knocking whether or not the artists are talented or not, I'm just sick of their songs being overplayed so much.

Radio has actually inspired me to NOT buy music. There are songs that I like at first, but after hearing them played a million times while at work, I see no reason to buy it. I've had enough for my lifetime.


I agree. If you get a chance check out the album.

Great source for good music www.pandora.com

Farktastic

"Guns n' Roses, Bon Jovi, and the most overplayed band on earth: Aerosmith"

wow, those are top 3 for me!

/ex-jersey girl
//that's my excuse anyways

Why is everyone hating on James Blunt? I got his CD, it's really good. This guy is really talented and honest. I much prefer his music to that stupid ass corporately produced pop shiat, where they find someone with a pretty face and have their team of writers / computers compose songs and then digitally alter her voice to make her sound good (*cough* ashley simpson).

Seriously, this guy writes songs that have meaning and he is really talented. I can respect him for that. And like I said, his music is actually really good.

But also, I may be biased because I never listen to the radio. I don't have a car so I haven't listened to a radio station in a couple years. Of course if I heard "you're beautiful" everyday on the radio I'd probably get sick of it, but luckily I can listen to it whenever I want on my iPod.

Some local TV station ran this story, and ran B-roll of him performing with a farking RAMONES shirt.


/Joey wept...wherever he is...

This song is absolutley shiatastic! The lyrcs were written by a farking fourth grader for crying out loud! The entire concept of the song is awful. "Oooh, I am writing a whiny song about some bint on a train that noticed me! oooohh!" TWIZZOT!

At least John Mayer, in all his suckiness, has poked fun at himself, owning the fact that some people think he's tool.

However, this tool needs to die. Yes, in a fire. Slowly.

Kangaroo_Ralph: Back in the 90s when I was in a band (small time - you've never heard of us) we joked with our manager about getting us on Letterman. He told us that for bands to play on shows like Letterman, Leno, SNL, etc., the fee the bands (or record labels) pay ranges between $20K - $50K.

It's straight PR for the bands so they pay for the advertising.

He's actually worse than 'Theory of a Nickel Default'

http://rapidshare.de/files/9332100/Where_Is_My_Mind__Live_.mp3.html

where is my mind

What James Blunt would sound like if he grew a pair.

REO Speedwagon and that guy from Foreigner need to sue this guy for stealing their act.

Dennis DeYoung, too.

Rick Astley has a greatest hits album?

Crap, I gotta go to Wal-Mart!!!

Never heard him.

Never heard of him.

But if Top40 thinks you're a bland annoying git, Jebus Farking Christ.

eps: where is my mind

That was totally uncalled for...
/cockpunch

Kaotik_Kid This song, and the damn "Had a Bad Day" song, should both almost die in a fire, then go through the painful process of skin grafting, just to get cock-punched to death.

You took the thought right out of my head!

mbanana: does that 'You're Beautiful' song sound like a something a stalker would hum to himself

Yes.

I'd never heard of this guy until this thread. I would have been perfectly happy to keep it that way... I guess there will always be a market for sugary sweet crap music though.

Farktastic :Other bands/people that get played a lot and I never want to hear again include AC/DC, Matchbox 20/Rob Thomas, Coldplay, Creed, Santana, Nickelback, Led Zepplin, Guns n' Roses, Bon Jovi, and the most overplayed band on earth: Aerosmith!

The sad thing is, that AC/DC, Zep, GnR, and Aerosmith are (or were)actually decent bands -- it's just that they got SOOOO played out. And it's gotten to the point where I can't even listen to Zep anymore, one of the best bands ever in the history of rock, because I wind up thinking it's a frigging car commercial... The Who is becoming victim of the same problem.

The rest of the bands you mentioned, of course, are all pre-packaged crap.

Back when Creed was in its hayday, one of the stations in Philly would run "Creed-free Music Marathons" Yes, twenty songs in a row without pseudo-Christian rock!

Yay.

Radio, as an industry, needs to die.

I thought you all were exaggerating in typical fark fashion.
But then I heard. Jesus... you could not purposely make a more annoying song.

BeeeUterFarhl! BeeeUterFarhl!

I want to punch my girfriend now for being female and thus being a reason this "music" exists.

Never heard of Jame's song "You're Beautiful?"

Okay, take the theme song from The Incredible Hulk series (ya know, the one with Bill Bixby and Lou F.). And then add some gibberish whiney crap lyrics about a looser who can't have the beautiful woman that he wants.

Lollipop165: ex-jersey girl

No such thing.

You think maybe he'd get the chick if he wasn't such a whining pussy?

Naah, probably not.

Waaah.

Madtv Parody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKzgUGAlviY&search=James%20Blunt%20mad%20tv

/too sexy for HTML
//not really, just too lazy

I want to punch my girfriend now for being female and thus being a reason this "music" exists.

Hey man, James Blunt is the reason that "music" exists. Punch him.

hey Farktastic, I know you won't believe this, but once upon a time, before craptacular albums like "Pump," Aerosmith was a band that flat out rocked. get yourself a copy of "rocks" or another album from the early 70's and you will feel morally obligated to cut them some slack.

/even if Janie deserves to be hit by a bus
//dude doesn't looks like a lady, dude looks like Mick Jagger after an especially spectacular weekend