It's... I'm not sure yet. It's a very warm album, she's obvious profficient beyond stairs, but... is it just me or... does it sound like Mariah Carey in places?
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)
norah jones comparisons are apt as NPR was a big booster for both and they both appeal to the same sorta crowd.
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)
If she'd covered 'Bad Cover Version' I might have had some respect...
― Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 29 January 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)
i don't give a fuck about those con artists the white stripes; she has improved on the whiney original.
amy winehouse needs to get out more.
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 29 January 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 January 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)
*remembers her rubbish songs*
OK perhaps they have a point
― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 29 January 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)
Joss Stone hasn't written a song in her life, as far as I know. The album is all covers, but before you dismiss it out of hand on that note alone, they're all (with the obvious exception of FILWAG) fairly obscure old 60s & 70s album tracks and suchlike.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 29 January 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 29 January 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 January 2004 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)
Amy Winehouse is great too, she sounds like she had a lot of fun making her album. Better at uptempo than the ballads, but lyrically she's sharp as fuck. Is she really playing the Barfly, Mencap? I say 'put her on the cover' as well!
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)
Super Furries, Supergrass and, wait for it, Gary Numan are the other three in our locale, should any of those interest you.
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)
That's funny. She might not do the melisma thing all that much (at least compared to her contempories) but there is that BIG voice thing. She sounds like a less screechy Janis Joplin to me.
And I fucking love Amy Winehouse (my album of the year). Wish she'd get her arse over to the States.
― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― the pinefox, Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)
Her album has the right people, right songs, right production but it sounds wrong. As LondonLee said it's too respectful, she should take note of the way the White Stripes have messed around with blues rock and use that as a pointer for her work. If she's going to work in a soul idiom she's going to have do more than be a carbon copy of the Muscle Shoals sound, otherwise she'll be nothing more than the next Andrew Strong.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 29 January 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― SCE, Thursday, 29 January 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 January 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 January 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 29 January 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 29 January 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 January 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)
Isn't the Joss Stone alb a sort've 'preliminary' intro/taster rec before we get the first big studio alb (w/ some of her own songs on it)?
Katie Melua, anyone?
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 29 January 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)
I'm still digesting the idea that Lena Zavaroni recorded for Stax. That's like finding out Lieutenant Pigeon were on Motown or something.
― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)
We are told that she's from Devon but nothing more specific. Please God let it be Sidmouth.
On the plus side, it did make me listen to my Miami Sound compilation, which I hadn't taken much notice of before.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)
Sounds anything but. Previously it was just a bunch of buzzing.
― lee ward (lee ward), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)
Just downloaded the White Stripes thing, not my cuppa really but better than I thought it would be.
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Venga, Friday, 30 January 2004 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Venga, Friday, 30 January 2004 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 30 January 2004 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 30 January 2004 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 30 January 2004 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 30 January 2004 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)
It's always good to see a new Devonian pop sensation, though, and I think Joss Stone is currently at number 2 in the DevonPop charts, which line up like this:
5. Muse (Teignmouth)4. Chris Martin (Exeter, or more properly Pinhoe)3. Appliance (Exeter)2. Joss Stone (Uffculme)1. Duncan out of Blue.
Duncan out of Blue actually is from Sidmouth, bless him.
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 30 January 2004 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 30 January 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)
None of these people would thank me for mentioning them on a Joss Stone thread, I fear, and none of you will either so I'll stop now.
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 30 January 2004 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Friday, 30 January 2004 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)
― blueski, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)
― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)
― deej, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)
― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)
― danzig, Friday, 30 March 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)
― The Reverend, Friday, 30 March 2007 02:35 (nineteen years ago)
― blueski, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:36 (nineteen years ago)
― whisperineddhurt, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:46 (nineteen years ago)
― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)
― deej, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)
Well.
http://www.holymoly.com/celebrity-news/joss-stone-video-leaks-online-it-worst-thing-have-ever-been-made40832
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:04 (sixteen years ago)
lots of WTF moments thats for sure.
has she actually been dropped yet ?
― mark e, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:30 (sixteen years ago)
hahahahahahaha dammit, was just about to post this here
kind of the definition of UH imo
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Friday, 13 November 2009 18:48 (sixteen years ago)
worth a repost
http://blogs.suntimes.com/derogatis/assets_c/2009/10/joss%20stone%20color%20me%20free-thumb-350x368-12632.jpg
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:52 (sixteen years ago)
I just want to know who introduced Joss to EBM imagery
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Friday, 13 November 2009 18:54 (sixteen years ago)
what the actual fuck
― lex pretend, Friday, 13 November 2009 19:21 (sixteen years ago)
lol what
― becky & robbie's bogus journalism (The Reverend), Friday, 13 November 2009 19:27 (sixteen years ago)
If that video is supposed to out the singer as an S/M dominatrix, then it's kinda awesome! However, if it it's supposed to depict a "put his love to the test before marrying him" kind of a scenario, then it's pretty wtf... Whatever it is, the guy's face in the end is worthless!
― Tuomas, Friday, 13 November 2009 19:34 (sixteen years ago)
Whoops, I meant "priceless".
― Tuomas, Friday, 13 November 2009 19:35 (sixteen years ago)
No, prickless.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 November 2009 19:38 (sixteen years ago)
I think the best Facebook comment I've received in response to that video is "I might have to have surgery to release my permanently furrowed brow."
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Friday, 13 November 2009 21:21 (sixteen years ago)
Mind = blown
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 14 November 2009 02:29 (sixteen years ago)
The weirdest thing abt that video is she looks uncannily like my sister in it.
― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Saturday, 14 November 2009 02:49 (sixteen years ago)
Bad music for undemanding people.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 14 November 2009 03:37 (sixteen years ago)
apparently the full version of this is 14 minutes long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pac1jpCdIXs
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 14 November 2009 14:00 (sixteen years ago)
And what a title.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 November 2009 15:26 (sixteen years ago)
Cocaine: still a hell of a drug.
― This board has gotten so sissified and sterilized (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 November 2009 15:37 (sixteen years ago)
That is some of the least sincere sounding laughter I've ever heard
― The Execution Of Garu G (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 14 November 2009 16:14 (sixteen years ago)
wants badly to be badu, is sadly instead lulu
― When she is finished, Reader, the vagina has won, hands down. (stevie), Saturday, 14 November 2009 16:21 (sixteen years ago)
More videos should take a light-hearted look at torture imo
― Azzingo da Bass - Dom's Night (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 November 2009 16:26 (sixteen years ago)
Two men were being held last night over a suspected plot to rob and murder singer Joss Stone. Cops found swords, rope and a body bag when they swooped on the pair at around 10am yesterday near the star's isolated country home. The men, aged 33 and 30, also had detailed maps and aerial photos of her rural property in east Devon. The suspects had travelled from the Manchester area 200 miles away.
The men, aged 33 and 30, also had detailed maps and aerial photos of her rural property in east Devon.
The suspects had travelled from the Manchester area 200 miles away.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 09:10 (fifteen years ago)
Tough on musical crimes, tough on the causes of musical crimes.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 09:45 (fifteen years ago)
Any money says one of them got pissed in a pub the previous night and told everyone.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 09:46 (fifteen years ago)
I hated "Fell in Love with a Boy" as much as anybody but this is a bit effed up
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:25 (fifteen years ago)
Lex liked the White Stripes!... Is all I can take away from this thread.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:25 (fifteen years ago)
I love that that's the most surprising thing in a thread where two people walked towards a pop star's house with swords and a body bag.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:30 (fifteen years ago)
But yeah this is all kinds of fucked up considering that Twitter must have made it easier to rob a pop star's house than ever but these guys obviously went all out for brutal murder as part of the plan.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:32 (fifteen years ago)
I like the way the Telegraph is calling her 'the white Aretha Franklin of soul'
Also, lols at the photo they chose.
― NickB, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:39 (fifteen years ago)
She among the guests at the recent royal wedding involving the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
That's a good sentence, Daily Telegraph!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:46 (fifteen years ago)
The trial started todayhttp://www.rickey.org/pair-accused-of-plotting-to-kill-singer-joss-stone/?fb_source=pubv1
"Opening the case at Exeter Crown Court, prosecutor Simon Morgan told a jury the pair, aged 32 and 35, set off from their home in Manchester with a samurai sword, knives, a hammer, black bags and gloves for Stone’s house in Devon."
― maura, Monday, 18 March 2013 22:33 (thirteen years ago)
Jesus jumped up Christ this is bananas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/18/murder-plot-joss-stone-court
― piscesx, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 08:08 (thirteen years ago)
Convicted. This entire thing is beyond batshit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/03/joss-stone-plotters-convicted-murder
― ailsa, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:31 (thirteen years ago)
The pair set off from their home in Manchester with a samurai sword, knives, bags and gloves crammed into their Fiat Punto, bound for Stone's address in Devon.However, their plot immediately began to unravel. They were spoken to by police having been involved in a crash on the journey to the West Country.Bradshaw and Liverpool also asked a postman for directions to Stone's home in Ashill using a picture of the pop star in an attempt to track her down.
However, their plot immediately began to unravel. They were spoken to by police having been involved in a crash on the journey to the West Country.
Bradshaw and Liverpool also asked a postman for directions to Stone's home in Ashill using a picture of the pop star in an attempt to track her down.
I mean, are you kidding me
― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:33 (thirteen years ago)
From 2007 it came.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s6WHJWdD9U
(Apparently Miss S persuaded EMI to let her brother direct a video. This was the result.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 August 2020 14:20 (five years ago)
OH and she was deported from Iran last year because they feared she would put on a stealth concert and I'm still pondering that.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/04/iran-deports-joss-stone-over-show-suspicions
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 August 2020 14:24 (five years ago)
i thought this was going to be about her appearance on GMTV this morning. Apparently she gave a live interview from her Caribbean villa from where she was telling the people of the UK she's discovered the secret of happiness and they need to follow her example.
― calzino, Thursday, 13 August 2020 14:28 (five years ago)
At once blindingly accurate...and not.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 August 2020 14:31 (five years ago)
I can't help but admire that she's chosen to use her reasonable amount of talent and frequently misfiring career in the service of being permanently off her tits on something
― The Scampos of Young Werther (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 August 2020 14:44 (five years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X_e4z13uqQ
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:32 (five years ago)