This is how long I was stuck on the M25 yesterday, I listened to James Blunt's BACK TO BEDLAM CD whilst on a small stretch of the M25 yesterday due to an accident.
I read earlier in the day in WORD magazine that David Baddiel had recently listened to it and said; 'I really like it at the moment, but I'm sure I'll tire of it'
Unfortunately I tired of it half way through, his voice, though very soulful and quite extraordinary, is a difficult voice to listen to and I don't like it, too high pitched for me. He also seems to have the ability to write suberb lyrics but then heavily relies on repeating them several times during the course of a song. In fact worse than this is that he repeats a line several times in a vain attempt to use it as a bridge or chorus. And I don't mind swear words in music, in most cases it greatly enhances things but here, the use of the F word in one it's most haunting tracks, YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL, is just misplaced.
And how interesting that the critics have used his stint fighting in Kosovo as a backdrop for their quotes as shown on the CD's cover:-
'James Blunt makes love, not war', The Guardian and 'March to the record stores in battalions', The Evening Standard. Yuk!
The CD's artwork has a 70's look about it and indeed Blunts face on the cover has a kind of Jim Morrison look about it. Curious artwork.
I did see him on the Jooles Holland show singing GOODBYE MY LOVE which is a perfect song to lost love.
The ulitmate track for me and slightly saved the album was NO BRAVERY, a song from his heart, powerful and a song for today.
I am obviously in the minority with this album as it's zoomed to the top of both the single and album charts. Sorry but it really needs a couple of 'lighten up' tracks.

No fave tracks to list I'm afraid, but the most irritating is Track 6, OUT OF MY MIND.