Alive Torrents

- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -

  Artist:      James Blunt
  Album:       All The Lost Souls
  Label:       Custard/Atlantic Records
  Playtime:    38:35 min
  Genre:       Rock
  URL:         http://www.myspace.com/jamesblunt
  Rip date:    2007-09-12
  Street date: 2007-09-18
  Size:        50.71 MB
  Type:        Normal
  Quality:     VBR kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo

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   James Blunt?s family have served in one kind of army or another since 995A.D.
   A long line of warriors. Savages really. Not a musical bone in any one of
   their bodies. The only music he heard growing up was ?Happy Birthday? and
   ?Silent Night?. His father considered all music, even classical, to be
   unnecessary noise. Although James was not one to rock the family boat, he
   didn?t really think he was going to join the army ? it sort of crept up on
   him. Plus his family didn?t have a boat. Aged fourteen he just held the
   teenage conviction that he would have an interesting life ? maybe that?s why
   he picked the guitar? Then again, maybe if he hadn?t, he would have tripped
   over it. He went to University and studied Aerospace Manufacturing
   Engineering and Sociology, spending most lectures asleep on the floor at the
   back. In much the same way, he ended up in the army. In essence, one day he
   was sleeping off a hangover at the back of a sociology lecture hall and the
   next thing he knew he was in Kosovo with a gun and a guitar strapped to the
   side of a tank, wondering who he could possibly sleep with to get out of this
   war. To break up the super attenuated monotony, James would sometimes stroll
   through Serb villages wearing an East German cap singing, ?All we are saying
   is give peace a chance?. ?We were peace-keepers at that point,? he explained,
   shrugging helplessly.

   So how did the music get into him, you might ask? Well if you were sent to
   boarding school aged seven, studied Engineering by mistake (?I thought we
   were going to fly planes, but we just pulled metals apart ? the brochure was
   very misleading.?), joined the army by default, guarded The Queen, buried The
   Queen Mother and pranced around London like a tit for Japanese tourists to
   photograph, what you?re going to want to do very much after that, besides
   getting stoned and laid, is put your gun down, pick up a guitar and make an
   album in America with Linda Perry. So James came to Los Angeles in September
   2003 to record with Tom Rothrock et al. At night he?d go to bars, bringing
   with him his valuable British accent (in the U.K., too posh for some people ?
   in LA, the best thing she?d heard all night) and the fact that like 50 Cent
   he?d been shot at numerous times, but unlike the Cent, had dodged the
   bullets. One song, ?Goodbye My Lover?, was recorded in his landladies?
   bathroom (?She was a frequenter of mental hospitals and in general, a freak ?
   but pleasant?) where, naturally, she kept a piano.

   From birth in a military hospital in Tidworth, to Harrow School, to Aerospace
   Manufacturing Engineering, to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, to The
   Household Cavalry, to Kosovo, to Buckingham Palace, to a recording studio in
   Los Angeles. How did James get from there to here? Only James Blunt?s
   hairdresser knows for certain, and either he isn?t talking or James cuts his
   own hair, and it?s up to you to join the dots ? there are ten of them on the
   album.

- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -

  01. 1973                                                              ( 4:40)
  02. One Of The Brightest Stars                                        ( 3:11)
  03. I'll Take Everything                                              ( 3:05)
  04. Same Mistake                                                      ( 4:58)
  05. Carry You Home                                                    ( 3:56)
  06. Give Me Some Love                                                 ( 3:36)
  07. I Really Want You                                                 ( 3:30)
  08. Shine On                                                          ( 4:26)
  09. Annie                                                             ( 3:28)
  10. I Can't Hear The Music                                            ( 3:45)

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