I dunno if this belongs to this forum lol but i heard it and think its quite good -_-

Is there a youtube link or anything? Ive heard OF it but not heard it yet.

This is alright I guess. One of the better songs on a very poor album. We shall see whether it does any kop for the album though.

 

Here's the video:

 

 

It's alright but i wouldn't have released it as a single.

Edited March 26, 200718 yr by Keisha's Boi

This song REAKS.

 

It lacks any sort of melody or enjoyment factor to it. Its uninteresting, uninspired, MoR and tbf DULL.

 

I'm glad to see its had minimal take-up so far in-terms of downloads :D

I think he'll be a one hit wonder.

This song REAKS.

 

it probs would make a good record for blazin' squad :lol: however too much jazz-funk evil bollocks and it has been said that Galliano does this thing better.

 

btw heres the article 'Just Jack: The hip-hop artist with a difference' you might like to read :

 

Just Jack: The hip-hop artist with a difference

 

He calls himself 'typical London middle-class' and he likes his songs to send out positive vibes. Tim Cooper meets Just Jack, the hip-hop artist with a difference

 

Published: 04 April 2007 Indepednent

 

It's just another one of those glory days in the life of Jack Allsopp: on stage in Amsterdam, grinning like crazy, spreading good vibes with his feelgood brand of tuneful, dance floor-friendly tales of the city. Just Jack, as he prefers to be known, has got plenty to smile about, too: his infectious single "Starz In Their Eyes" has just hit No 2 in the charts and his album Overtones, full of cautionary tales set to a breezy blend of funk, jazz, soul, rock and dance beats, followed it into the Top 10.

 

It sounds like an overnight success story, but it's been five years since the north Londoner, now 31, launched his career, only to watch it stall due to bad timing, and bad luck. His dark, dense debut album, The Outer Marker, was released in 2002 on a tiny label started by the former Madness member Chas Smash. Sadly, the label did not have the clout to get the songs played on the radio and the album had the misfortune to come out a few weeks after Mike Skinner's landmark Streets debut, to which it bore striking similarities. Then, the label folded just as Allsopp went into the studio to record a follow-up. Things were looking bleak until Elton John, a fan of that little-heard debut, brought Allsopp to the attention of his management company, 21st Artists.

 

In contrast to much hip-hop, Just Jack's songs exude a positive vibe, even when they contain dark subject matter. The new single, "Glory Days", for example, is ostensibly a celebration of life, but beneath its apparently banal surface lies a fierce critique of the dark days its author spent wasting his life in a drug-filled haze after his first album flopped - a contradiction typical of Overtones.

 

"The way I always saw it was that if you made music that seemed quite friendly and quite nice, then you could always sneak round the back door and put messages in there as well, rather than having to kick the door down and let everyone know you're there," he explains. "The last thing I want to do is preach to people."

 

Joyful exuberance may be a scarce commodity in the world of hip-hop, but Allsopp isn't putting it on - he really is a happy guy. "I've never been a particularly angry person and I've never been into music that's threatening," he says. "If when I was a kid I'd hated my parents, hated school, hated this and hated that, maybe I would have got more into that music. Actually, I was reasonably happy; I had my ups and downs, but I'm quite positive about things. I'm not a testosterone junkie - to be honest, I'd rather go out with a group of girls than a bunch of geezers. I think being around other blokes all the time is sometimes a little bit detrimental, because no one ever talks about the things that are bothering them - they just get on with it." He adds: "I think there's an element of wanting to appeal to the feminine within the music; I grew up with quite strong women in my family and I've always quite liked music I knew girls would like."

 

Allsopp describes his background as "typical London middle class" - his parents, now retired, were an architect and university lecturer - and he grew up in a house that was filled with the sounds of Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits, and James Taylor. "Then I got into electro and hip-hop stuff, got into raving, then into US house music and techno, and ended up really loving hip-hop. After that, I diversified into all the music people told me when I was young that I'd get into later, like old soul and funk and disco. Now I listen to all kinds of things, including good pop music."

 

Secondary school at a tough north London comprehensive came as something of a shock to a boy who, at the age of eight, had applied for a choral scholarship to public school. "I passed the choral bit but totally flunked the mental part," he recalls. "At the time a lot of my friends were going to public school but I'm so glad I didn't." Not that it was all plain sailing at the local comprehensive. "At first, it was an absolute nightmare. I wasn't ready for a quite tough London comprehensive. I don't like football and it was literally, if you didn't like football or fighting you must be a poof, so I was called 'the little poof'."

 

After school, Allsopp took a degree in furniture design, but on graduating took a series of jobs to finance his growing interest in making and mixing music. "I've done a lot of jobs," he grins. "I've done pot washing, I've been a gardener, I've been a cleaner, I've arranged flowers for a company that did floral arrangements for restaurants, I've been a runner for a TV company, I've worked in HMV and in a small indie record shop, I've been a painter and decorator, I've worked in a Gap. I used to love working because you met different people all the time and they were always quite inspiring. I wrote quite a few songs for my first album in the stock room at Gap. I've still got some lyrics written on the back of a stock sheet."

 

There are those who would have us believe there is some sort of new genre of British urban story-telling that encompasses Just Jack and The Streets, Jamie T and Plan B, Lily Allen and Arctic Monkeys: all white, British and interested in narrative songs. Allsopp believes it's simply that they all grew up, as he did, listening to hip-hop, and are filtering that influence into different musical genres. But he doesn't feel any affinity. "If I was 10 years younger I might, but there are songs on my album about getting too old to be messing around any more, which none of them are gonna write for nine or 10 years!

 

"There's a lot on the album that's more about thinking about the future of things and the responsibilities you have to take on as a grown-up, things about mortality, things that seep in as you get older, and your focus isn't so much on you and your mates and what you do." His face lights up as he looks around. "There's a whole world out there!"

 

The single 'Glory Days' is out on 16 April

RIVETING.

 

He's so utterly DULL. His story is the same as every other urban white street "rapper" :/

Edited April 6, 200718 yr by Jake

I quite like this. Yer, it aint no Starz In Their Eyes but you gotta think he'll never have another huge hit like that - this aint bad...

Don't like this new song, very boring

 

The only 2 good songs on the album imo are Writer's Block and Starz In Their Eyes