Worst singer of the year

Michael · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:26 am Post subject: Worst singer of the year

I've heard a lot of "Who was the best artist of the year" - but who was the worst?

Without a single doubt, the British whiner, James Blunt. How on earth did you make this fool from Tidworth? famous, let alone manage to export him here.

1bassleft · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:44 am Post subject:

Blunt is "good officer material" and knows how to keep his cavalry boots clean Laughing

. No, if I had to nominate my worst Brit-singer, it would be Pete Doherty. Not just for his shambolic "Children of the Revolution" on Live 8; everything (Libertines, you name it). He's a mumbling, atonal noise generator. If he were plugged into a socket, I'd have replaced his filter capacitors years ago.

Michael · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:49 am Post subject:

The drugs man.. the drugs are his creative outlet - you stop the drugs and stop the Doherty. Rolling Eyes

1bassleft · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:03 am Post subject:

That's the funny thing. If he didn't, he'd just be universally regarded as rubbish. Because he does, he wets the knickers of the music press. I'm pretty agnostic about drugs; there are users with good songs, non-users with good songs.

However, a non-user with cack songs hasn't got a hope of press attention but a cack singer-writer who snorts like Nelly the Elephant - well that's different. Now we're talking about "an artist". Only "Wolfman" has ever got a decent record out of him, and that's because the song suits his rubbish singing (in the same way that "The Matrix" suited Keanu's rubbish acting ability). Doherty is, basically, rubbish.

Michael · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:08 am Post subject:

Yeah exactly, everyday there is a new story on NME about Petes latest run in with the law, or Petes run in with another band member or Petes run in with a..... He is half their news.

As for Keanu.. Point Break is a classic.

1bassleft · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:09 am Post subject:

Dunno if this refers to "Point Break", but one reviewer said:

"Keanu clutches a surfboard... and the surfboard manages to appear less wooden"

Laughing

Now THAT'S a review.

lee_UK · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject:

I think James Blunt has taken over the cockney rhyming slang previously enjoyed by James Hunt, as in the classic 'Dont be a James Blunt all yer life' , This should not be confused with Berkshire Hunt, which of course means the same thing but has always been shortened to 'Berk' or later 'Bjork' again both mean the same thing, so if someone in the future calls you a 'Berk' they are really calling you a 'See you next tuesday' ..
is that all clear now? i can of course speak from expierence, being the only true Cockney on this Forum, i was born in Bromley by Bow hospital later named St.Andrews.
James Blunt - James Hunt - Berkshire Hunt - Bjork -See you next Tuesday

Apples and Pears my arse..

Michael · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:12 pm Post subject:

Wait, does this tie in with the old favourite, Mike Hunt?

1bassleft · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:54 am Post subject:

I was in a pub once, when the landlady took a 'phone call then shouted over the PA, "Has anybody seen Mike Hunt?"

I laughed so loud, so hard, and so quickly, that the barstaff all assumed it was me that'd placed the call. I got pretty slow service that night. I liked those old "Bart to Moe" calls though - "I'm looking for a Homer Seksyall"

glw · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:22 pm Post subject:

Errrrmmm, Lee, sorry to disappoint you but "Within the sound of Bow bells" doesn't refer to that Bow (as in Bromley by Bow).

"Bow bells" refers to the church of St Mary-Le-Bow, in London EC2.
http://www.stmarylebow.co.uk/

Which is here: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=532575&y=181852&z=0&sv=ec2&st=2&pc=ec2&ar=N&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&sq=3

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