James Blunt decided to come out with a
greatest hits album with two discs which is a great idea for a successful
musician with six studio albums but the twist was he released some new music on
it. The new music is his first new release since the end of 2019 just before
the pandemic.
He has four official new songs on the
album(Love under pressure, Unstoppable, I came for love and Adrenaline) and all
have the same tone of his music style-emotional lyrics sung well/catchy
choruses and the music is well put together with him either on guitar or piano.
One of those songs “Adrenaline” hit #1 on the charts in China which proves he
was never a one hit wonder. Songs like “Smoke signals” and “Cuz I love you” are
songs I am not familiar with is because they were considered bonus tracks on
previous albums with the later being a live version. That is one of the few issues with this
greatest hits collection-by putting bonus tracks on it when most fans only have
the original album version to go by, adding a song he did on someone else’s
album with the song “OK” with someone I never heard of, and adding a cover by
the Pixies “Where is my mind” as well is not how you put together a greatest
hits album.
If he wanted to come out with new
material he could have done what the Foo Fighters just did with their latest
album and make it like an EP where they only did eight songs for “Medicine at Midnight” which was a great album. By adding four new songs, a cover and two
bonus tracks is very similar to what 3 Doors Down did with their greatest hits
album by having nine number one hits but with three new tracks.
He pretty much got most of his best
songs picked for this greatest album collection but he missed out on plenty of
tracks from his 2010 album “Some kind of trouble” only picking one track, two
of the best songs off his 2017 album “The Afterlove”, picked the three singles
off his 2013 album “Moonlanding” instead of picking the best tracks and a few
tracks off his 2007 album “All the lost souls”. This is what happens with four
wasteful tracks and the four new songs taking up spots on the greatest hits
collection. It was about time he had a greatest hits collection but most of the
time a record label comes out with it and decides what is on there so this time
at least he decided what would go on it.
James has come a long way from being
just discharged from the British army playing his guitar singing sad songs with
his writing skills and musical genius over the past 17 years as his music has
grown more positive with each album he puts out. This is just another great
addition to his discography of music even with the blemishes.
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