David Condos -- your thoughts?
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This kid handed me his demo over the weekend. I'm floored. I had to call and ask him to be sure, but apparently this is an unmastered demo.
http://www.loudersoft.com/?p=3128
Think Keane or Athlete or Coldplay or something. I'd love to hear your thoughts. -
from this one song it's too much like coldplay, and for me not the good coldplay but the newer slightly lamer coldplay
with that said if this song were on the new coldplay it'd be the best one of the bunch -
Unfortunately for David Condos the inevitable comparisons to Chris Martin (Coldplay) will probably put him at a serious disadvantage. From what I have read and heard he does have some serious talent and at the young age of 21.
It's pretty impossible these days to not compare a new talent to some other established or liked artist. I try to avoid it but the first thing that came to my mind was Coldplay and Chris Martin when I listened to Condos.
Maybe Condos is trying to copy Martin or maybe his voice just sounds like that. I still like what I hear, Chris Martin in the head or not...
Too band Coldplay weren't put at a serious disadvantage when all they have really done is clone the sound of another band who actually established that sound (U2 anyone?). Just listen to Coldplay's last album and you can hear The Edge's arpeggio guitar playing all over it.... makes you wonder if there is justice in the music world... -
really? i hear a lot of jeff buckley in his voice, but in the song i hear coldplay. i just think for an unmastered demo, it's pretty mind-boggling. i would think that sounding like chris martin could really only help him, even though coldplay really ain't my cup of tea either. but i couldn't get past how this was a demo and how he isn't signed or anything. that's what caught me off guard.
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i went ahead and streamed the other three tracks on the demo so you can see that the martin-isms were a bit of a fluke. way, way more buckley.
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I don't hear Chris Martin, I think a Jeff Buckley comparison is a lot closer to his sound and style - but the Martin similarity shows itself in "I should be lost without you" - that strain to sing at a higher pitch.
I still dig it though. -
Nice voice but the production is way too slick for my taste. I can see this boy being quite popular with MOR set though. I wouldn't mind a few shares.
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I second the James Blunt comparison. I like it, but in the same way I like Ben Folds: good music, but (as Tim said) waaaaaaaaayyyyyyy to slick of production.
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"James Blunt" is now my favorite piece of cockney rhyming slang
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James Blunt = the UK's fault.
nice, going, guys.
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On behalf of everybody in the UK (who says I can't represent them all?) I'm very, very sorry about James Blunt.
Now apologise for Creed! -
I hereby take responsibility for Creed and all other Scott Stapp projects. There.
... how do I know his name?!?!?! :' ( -
somebody's obviously never listened to Ben Folds Five.
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I like the Ben Folds Five a lot more than Ben Folds solo.
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The first Ben Folds Five album is a classic .. then there was 'Brick'.
Don't bother with the rest.
Can I just note here that I know a girl that once slept with James Blunt.
She said that he has a ..... hang on this is public forum isn't it? -
it's okay
i'm sure it is. it would have to be. also, i disagree with the james blunt comparison, though i understand it. i just think this kid has some chops. according to his myspace page, he also plays most of the instruments on all of this.
let's see james blunt try that shit. -
... especially with his sm... still a public forum ... sorry.
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James Blunt, for me, is doing a purposefully creaky, annoyingly coy and delicate version of whatever it is Chris Martin does with his voice, which I find incredibly annoying. This dude's doing the exact same thing---whether it's more Blunt or Coldplay, I don't know (I've only heard that one song by Blunt), but I find it both derivative and calculated. That said, the kid's due to be a multi-millionaire by this time next year, unless the prevailing mega-pop winds change dramatically.
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... perhaps he has a small ... dammit!
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James Blunt sounds like an empty, hollow vacuum to me. this kid has soul in his voice -- real, actual soul and not some half-assed scratchy imitation soul either.
but he doesn't even have a record deal or anything. i guess if bloggers hate him, marathonpacks is right, it's destined to be platinum. thanks everyone who responded. -
.. and I assume we all agree that sucessful guys like this all have small ...
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indeed, marathonpacks, i was being ironical
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