Product Description

'All The Lost Souls' is the second album from singer-songwriter phenomenon James Blunt. A winning mixture of 70's-influenced pop and acoustic rock, the album is sure to appeal to fans of artists such as Carly Simon and James Taylor. Includes the single '1973'.

Track Listing

1. 1973
2. One Of The Brightest Stars
3. I'll Take Everything
4. Same Mistake
5. Carry You Home
6. Give Me Some Love
7. I Really Want You
8. Shine On
9. Annie
10. I Can't Hear The Music

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #101 in Music
• Released on: 2007-09-17
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk 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--his voice quavers as sweetly and with the same delicate reach. Stand-outs on a brief but dud-less set include "I Really Want You," in which the sound of Blunt's breaking heart is set sparely and elegantly to something approximating the chirp of a cricket, the poignant and desperate "Give Me Some Love", and the VH-1 ready "Same Mistakes." -Tammy La Gorce

Vicky Newton (The Sun)
"All the Lost Souls is a collection of seventies-inspired classic pop songs with emotional heart-rending lyrics and melodies that you simply can¹t get out of your head once you¹ve heard them"

"He is a very ordinary bloke with an extra ordinary talent"

Adrian Thrills (Daily Mail)
"All The Lost Souls is dominated by deft songs, clever arrangements and a fragile yet forceful voice"

Customer Reviews

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..

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!

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!