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Top Amazon Review
In 2005, James Blunt was everybody's favorite overnight success story. In 2007, he's the guy who's making rock meaningful again. All the Lost Souls, the sophomore effort from the Brit responsible for restoring the seriousness of "beautiful" as a compliment, brims with big build-ups, epic-sounding ballads, and lyrics to lose yourself in. The vibe, laid out neatly on first single and opening track "1973", is clear-eyed and heavy-hearted; in anybody over 35, it'll produce nostalgia tempered by hopefulness. Here's a set that suggests rock has got its head screwed on straight again, that the path to real feelings need not necessarily be led by Norah Jones. In anybody younger, it'll cause the unsinkable suspicion that a lot of modern balladeers should be digging deeper. But in both cases it will satisfy. Compared with David Gray and Damien Rice last time out, this time Blunt seems to owe a debt to Barry Gibb
Customer Review 1
Love It!. If you are a James Blunt fan, you will love this CD. Just like his other albums, it consists of brilliant songwriting and vocals. Buy it!
Customer Review 2
Better than the first album. This album is twice as good as his previous effort and I have therefore given it two stars. His voice is still annoying though. Maybe someone should suggest to him (nicely) he does an instrumental album. Yikes..
Customer Review 3
Didn't like 'Beautiful' but this is so beautiful written and performed. I have to admit that from the first time I heard James Blunt first hit (played endlessly and everywhere), I was put off listening to any of his material. I heard '1973' one day on the radio and loved it, then the next single - eventually I had the chance to hear the whole album and it is up there with the very best. I am not sure why James Blunt gets dismissed as a bit of a light weight, but he does. Its a bit like David Gray, you look at him and cannot believe what he can conjure up. Every track on this album is perfect and will hook you from the first play. The songs seem to be deeply personal and you imagine. I am writing this review to exercise my guilt over how I dismissed JB after that initial single!
Customer Review 4
Don't alf get on my nerves....... ...I've noticed that a couple of the 1 star reviwers have only ever reviewed this album. Obvioulsy got their own personal agenda and haven't listened to the music anyway, so I'm discounting them (perhaps they're not getting the same amount of "notches on bed post" action as soldier Blunt, eh?;)
I didn't enjoy it as much as his first stuff, and a few listens hasn't changed that.
Although "carry me home" is a song I blubbed at.With lyrics "I'm watching you breath now - for the last time.." which appears to be a song of someones dying moments, in action maybe? Heart moving, I would say...
"I really want you" "same mistake" and "shine on" stand out to me also. All over worth listening to? Of course!
Customer Review 5
If you liked Back to Bedlam, then you'll love this too!. Back to Bedlam was such a fantastic album which did really well so All the Lost Souls is bound to be over-critiqued. I've read some iffy reviews on sites and I personally think it's fashionable to slate James Blunt because of who he is (i.e. posh and well-spoken) rather than actually listening to his music, which is a shame because the UK should be proud that we've got an exceptional singer-songwriter again who manages to put emotion and feeling into what he sings. Anyway, I think that All the Lost Souls is a well-written and well produced album with some great songs such as Carry You Home and I Really Want You. I am a big fan of both albums and would say that if you liked Back to Bedlam, then you'll love this.
