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Favourite on the album Letters (favourite live song as well) and Walking on Water. Least favourite Slowly and All for Nothing (which bores me for some reason) Kids like Amazing and Starlight. Hope Starlight does well. It is a great radio track, just hope radio stations see that.

There is an artist bashing forum in the UK charts forum. You can have a pop as Sir Paul there. Does that mean you loathe John Lennon too? Bit of a fan if you must know....small clue in my name perhaps. Buzzjacks is good for chart info and I will defo pop in from time to time but will stick out the DS and keep the home fires burning against the strange Matt haters on the MF. Fight the good fight....onwards and upwards etc.

ha ha JaMak I posted on the weather thread too. Very interesting indeed. Love talking about the weather. Thank you the advice about snow gloves. Wish I had the album to enthuse about and therefore earn the right to blush. Have nothing :( Looking forward to his programme after X Factor tonight. :cheer: Dermot refers to Darius after HMBOMT. "Doing a Darius" He was a Pop Idol contestant.

Same here. What is the idea of a proto - Darius thread about? Are we to blame? Is it a good or bad thing?

I agree JaMak. 80,000 in todays current climate for the first week is quite high. The hatred on that site is so bad. You can just go round in circles trying to defend Matt. People just aren't willing to see the other side. To be honest if it sold 200,00 in total I would be very happy indeed.

Looking forward to hearing what you think as I don't think I'll be hearing it until Monday :(

I have thought about it...so tempting especially as I've already ordered it. May have to do it. I can't say that I haven't done this in the past. So not breaking some horrible moral code. You're fairer than I have been in the past Liam.

Same here. Non of my physicals came today. I will chance it at midnight. If not "need a little patience" :lol:

Thank you Regina, I will download it tonight. :)

I tried really hard to like RFYL when it came out. But it is formulaic and bland. When you listen to Matt's songs it takes a while to really get to know them. I love that. You can really dig deep into them (not sure if I've made myself clear there!) With RFYL after you've played it five times or so there is no where to go with it. It just stagnates as a song. I see no dimensions to it. Really heavy stuff I know but Matt's own songs don't do that. People often say it takes quite a few listens to get into Matt songs, and that favourites change over time and I think that illustrates how good a song writer he is. Anyhoo that's what I feel about the songwriting styles of GB and Matt Cardle. I'm not saying one is better than the other generally it's just that I prefer songs that don't just hand themselves over to you complete and sealed as a finished product. Finally just need to add in the Matt Factor. When Matt sings his own songs another dimension is added. The emotion and understanding of the song just adds to the song especially when you see his live performances. There is no doubt Matt is a live performer and I can't wait to seem him live.

I honestly believe that Starlight was meant to be the first single but Matt was made to do the GB song. GB success as a song writer has been mixed at best. All I can say is Matt can now move on. I am so jealous of you all listening to the album. Does anyone know when I can download it off iTunes?

Lucky,lucky you. I ordered mine from Amazon which means it's on a slow boat to China, via Milton Keynes! Did order the signed copy from Play but that is not the deluxe version. Would love to be reading the little booklet too. Let me know what you think about the tracks. Enjoy it Purple.

Hi Amber, I thought the video was a bit silly really. I would just like to see the band for the next video, but what I gather from twitter more girl models involved. Hope no rolling around on sheepskin rug...really not ready for that :D

Love Sparks too - currently my favourite. Hope you like the album, hope I like it. Would love to hear what you think about the album.

I could be paranoid and not cynical and decide that maybe Matt and Columbia had no choice. Syco contracts are notoriously evil and maybe a deal was done where Syco decided on the first single to be released and GB was tied into somehow because of his X Factor connection. Columbia may have been made to use it but like a rebellious child decided to handle it as badly as possible to get it over and done with and that is why Starlight has been prepared for release so quickly. I think Starlight was originally the single but with GB joining X Factor maybe a deal was done behind closed doors and Matt became the victim in the deal. Conspiracy theories all over the place. Sounds ridiculous really. Maybe Matt thought RFYL was a great song and wanted to sing it. I don't think the song is as bad as people think it is and I am surprised at how badly it did in Ireland considering how well Matt did there with WWC.