Track Listing

1. Beside You
2. Amazed
3. Nothing But The Truth
4. Maggie May
5. Any Time You Fall
6. Love Waits For Me
7. Somebody To Love
8. Don't Wanna Miss A Thing
9. The Last To Fall
10. Bring It On Home To Me
11. Picture Of You
12. With A Little Help From My Friends

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23870 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

forget the X factor: this guy can really sing...
Rod Stewart heard Ben's amazing voice on X-factor and gave him some good advise: "stay focussed". Unfortunately, the music industry is not what it was in Mr Stewart's day and, in spite of his obvious talent, Ben has been forced to sell a little piece of his soul to break through to the mass market. This debut album is a hybrid, part X-factor/part Ben Mills. It has been produced in a great rush, no doubt to cash in on the X-factor circus. Nevertheless, you can still sense the man's tremendous potential - a deep rock-soul voice that can only improve with age and experience. If the moguls at Sony allow him the time and space to develop at his own pace, then we are all in for a treat, 'cos it's clear that Ben has the heart and soul of a real star. I predict this is just the beginning, and X-factor will soon be a distant memory.....

Picture of You
Picture of You is a brilliant album by the Xfactor semi finalist Ben Mills. Ben's voice is very unique and each track is brilliant. Normally on albums that I buy, I listen to only one or two tracks but on this I play it all over and over again! Ben's own song 'Beside You' (track number 1) is probably one of the best tracks on the album and in my opinion it should be number 1 in the charts!

Why did they tame this LION of a singer!?
I bought this CD on Amazon as soon as it was released as I'd been a fan of Ben on X Factor and followed his progress throughout the show. The thing I found most appealing was the gravelly raw of his voice which he was able to control expertly, often tempering it with the softer, more melodic side of his range.- excellent!

The performance I though was genuinely AMAZING was his interpretation of Queen's Somebody To Love complete with clever re-arrangement and gospel choir - It alone would have been worth the price of the CD.

Here's the down side - It would seem that his musical creative team has `tamed' his voice and packaged him up to near `easy listening'. He's a lion of a singer and shouldn't be shaped into anything less - It's what his supporters would have found appealing in the first place.

The CD is just about OK when it could have been so much more - missed opportunity I'm afraid. On a personal note, I'm disappointed by the version of Somebody To Love on this CD, especially as I've heard what Ben can really do.

Ps
Little note on Jessica Stone's comments below - it's refreshing to have talented singers about who aren't Boy Band clones and who haven't been polished, air brushed and manufactured out of reality. Ben is a singer, not an ornament - let's try to applaud real, raw talent in all its shapes and sizes!