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« Reply #20 on: December 08, 2005, 01:00:26 AM » |
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i have no problem with folk becoming more universally popular and commercialy successful.
but i personally dont class this as folk. its certainly more listenable than most of the charts but it wouldnt sit next to eliza carthy in MY cd rack.i'd like to see her in the top ten singles chart on a regular basis.
what worries me is the people who have got into the james blunt type stuff being of the mistaken idea that it IS folk.
(cue rotten eggs and tomatoes being thrown from the 'what is folk?' thread)
and to pick up on the david gray ref, i have lloved him from the start, have 3 albums which get played regularly but i dont class HIM as folk either, and, IMO the new boys and girls have a long way to go before they match up to him.
hmmm why are you so convinced people are suggesting that Blunt is Folk!!!!! I dont think Blunt is classed as folk at all!!! never heard him being classed as folk either - by anyone, he's a singer songwriter. Would you class Elton john as folk? similar feel - different instruments. Mik |
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« Reply #21 on: December 08, 2005, 10:41:47 AM » |
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if you go back to page 1 you'll see how this whole thing got started - it was not i who suggested he were folk. in fact i protested quite the opposite!  |
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« Reply #22 on: December 08, 2005, 10:56:35 AM » |
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Is John Martyn a folk/rock artist? He certainly booms.
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« Reply #23 on: December 08, 2005, 12:05:28 PM » |
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M of F. Argument (2), very good. I hadn't thought of it that way.
Think I need to change my signature line. People here know where to find Maart by now...
Alex, dig it out & listen to "No Bravery", the last track. I can't disagree that it's all a bit samey in some ways but he can write good lyrics. I was trying to think of who to compare him to the other day and came up with Eagle Eye Cherry. David Gray's a good comparison too.
I've been reading recently about how little he actualy wrote of the lyrics on his album isn't Guy chambers in on some of them? and that You're Beautiful was actually written by a woman songwriter called Amanda Ghost when he was living in USA. Oh and his name has now entered the rhyming slang venacualr - "he aint 'alf a right James"  That aside though his music is Ok in a non threatening Radio2 Dido type of way. Can't get on with his whiny singing though  |
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« Reply #24 on: December 09, 2005, 10:11:23 PM » |
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Hey i posted 3 or 4 times on here yesterday? where have they all gone? is this discussion board or a fascist state?
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« Reply #25 on: December 09, 2005, 10:58:36 PM » |
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Hey i posted 3 or 4 times on here yesterday? where have they all gone? is this discussion board or a fascist state?
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« Reply #26 on: December 09, 2005, 11:06:31 PM » |
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Hey i posted 3 or 4 times on here yesterday? where have they all gone? is this discussion board or a fascist state?
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It could have been during a server glitch (hark at the not very expert  ) I say that because the board has had a few problems recently (Colin explains in members Feedback) not that it makes any sense to me! but it might to you |
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« Reply #27 on: December 09, 2005, 11:30:28 PM » |
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Hey i posted 3 or 4 times on here yesterday? where have they all gone? is this discussion board or a fascist state?
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Rob. I can't find any posts of yours that have been deleted. You did make some posts in the'One Hit Wonders' thread. Sure you have not been a bit too *happy* in the last 24 hours  Sandra |
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« Reply #28 on: December 10, 2005, 12:14:05 AM » |
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Cannot see that thread Sandy, any way Im certain it was on this thread that i posted.
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« Reply #29 on: December 10, 2005, 12:22:43 AM » |
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« Reply #30 on: December 10, 2005, 12:25:22 AM » |
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If its not that one then I am afraid that Mix is right and they are lost in the ether Sorry I can't help. Sandra |
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« Reply #31 on: December 10, 2005, 09:15:21 AM » |
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Thanks for that Mix, my original posts were on here, but I had no idea where they had been moved to!!!!! From Rob |
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« Reply #32 on: December 17, 2005, 08:40:32 AM » |
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For the avoidance of doubt... James Blunt? Turgid middle-class ersatz angst junk... discovered by the guy who discovered Christina Aguileira... This is the guy who warbled "You're Beautiful" isn't it? Crucifixion is too good for some people. Pile this awful MoR pap on the junk heap along with the execrable Katie Melua and Norah Jones... I don't care what people call this music to be honest, MoR, pop, jazz, folk... The term arid junk seems to cover the ground so much more adequately. And don't even get me started on Coldplay...
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« Reply #33 on: December 17, 2005, 09:13:08 AM » |
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Crucifixion is too good for some people As tolerant as ever, I see. |
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« Reply #34 on: December 17, 2005, 01:14:08 PM » |
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Hmm? I like James Blunt, Katie Melua and as for Coldplay.........wow!!!! Sometimes different is good Mic |
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« Reply #35 on: December 17, 2005, 04:12:18 PM » |
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For the avoidance of doubt... James Blunt? Turgid middle-class ersatz angst junk... discovered by the guy who discovered Christina Aguileira... This is the guy who warbled "You're Beautiful" isn't it? Crucifixion is too good for some people. Pile this awful MoR pap on the junk heap along with the execrable Katie Melua and Norah Jones... I don't care what people call this music to be honest, MoR, pop, jazz, folk... The term arid junk seems to cover the ground so much more adequately. And don't even get me started on Coldplay...
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« Reply #36 on: December 17, 2005, 07:26:29 PM » |
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Folk Rock makes me think of Fairport first, then Led Zep. Well, LZ IV at least As for What Is Folk Music? Isn't it the pop music of the time? Ten years ago it was Oasis, Blur. Nowadays Franz, Kaisers, ... |
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« Reply #37 on: December 19, 2005, 10:10:58 PM » |
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For the avoidance of doubt... James Blunt? Turgid middle-class ersatz angst junk... discovered by the guy who discovered Christina Aguileira... This is the guy who warbled "You're Beautiful" isn't it? Crucifixion is too good for some people. Pile this awful MoR pap on the junk heap along with the execrable Katie Melua and Norah Jones... I don't care what people call this music to be honest, MoR, pop, jazz, folk... The term arid junk seems to cover the ground so much more adequately. And don't even get me started on Coldplay...
Crucifixion is too good for some people As tolerant as ever, I see. tolerant and quite correct, burn em all Go for it Jimbo! Rage against the dying of the light ale! |
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« Reply #38 on: December 19, 2005, 10:12:35 PM » |
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Hmm? I like James Blunt, Katie Melua and as for Coldplay.........wow!!!! Sometimes different is good Mic And always garbage is gabage!  |
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« Reply #39 on: December 20, 2005, 01:18:59 AM » |
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And always garbage is gabage! But let's not talk about the Tremeloes... |
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