Ed Sheeran

Good god.

thats all thats required.
lock thread.

this dude is the WORST and i have no idea why so many people are pretending he's any good - i remember seeing him support devlin a year ago and being utterly horrified, and now he's the next big thing. WTF people get some damn taste.

and how did grindie sneakily happen after all? GTFO

It's like this guy was born to have his name drawn in shaky hand-written capital letters in the credits to a quirky coming-of-age movie.

He's fucking horrific.

board needs some fresh blood, this guy isn't marketed at jaded 30 yr olds tbf

^ booming t-bomb regardless of sheeran

basically everything uk from 05/06 unfondly remembered times is hot right now, it's... disturbing

where's sam, like

mitchell bros would probably get a number 1 in this climate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whLdoIXAzmM

mnml sheeran content but this is my shit, when the last time you heard two dudes go like the clappers toe 2 toe comme ca?

Yeah for that and for (writing) "Could Just Be The Bassline" at least I can't fully hate Sheeran.

In fact probably the best non-club-remix version of "Could Just Be The Bassline" is the one that interweaves Kai Lavelle's vocals and Sheeran's unreleased vocals to make a duet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTUIpS4-Aoc

wow why has someone not released that as a main thing already

Sheeran's record label won't let his vocals near it apparently, hence the female vocalist replacing him.

Which is ridiculous b/c it's far and away the best thing he's been involved in.

i beg to differ: http://open.spotify.com/album/43yGRbMKLAjdA0l45HAX7N

some bangers on that.

This thread...

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Sheeran's record label won't let his vocals near it apparently, hence the female vocalist replacing him.

Which is ridiculous b/c it's far and away the best thing he's been involved in.

― Tim F, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:12 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

the uk's innate resistance to making great big piles of cash money never ceases to amaze

interesting suggestion of how tightly frankenpresentation is managed tho

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S1sJdlxUL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

otoh who on GODS GREEN EARTH thought this was a halfway decent cover?

Yeah it looks like a self-released-on-itunes-promoted-on-facebook effort.

i think you have happened upon the diabolical logic there actually

Sheeran's record label won't let his vocals near it apparently

would that this outbreak of good sense had occurred re: his album as well

Well the good news for you Lex is that you can enjoy "Could Just Be The Bassline" without him.

"and in a pipe she sails to the motherland / or sells her love to another man" = worst lyric of 2011?

flies to the motherland even (disbelieving subconscious improving it already)

haha.

His fans seem to love "they say I'm up and coming like I'm fucking in an elevator".

This analogy doesn't actually work as well as he and they seem to think.

so guess which psychopath thought he'd listen to this album?

next time anyone feels they must surely have now heard the worst shit ever i urge them to seek out 'wake me up', an excruciating litany of student bedsit twee cutesyisms in the vague form of a song. just staggering.

i would transcribe something from it for delectation but for a very real and grave fear i'd instantly be turned into a pillar of salt

Do it.

And I know you love shrek
Because we've watched it 12 times

And maybe you're hoping for a fairy tale too
And if your dvd ever breaks today
You shoulda got a vcr because I've never own a blue ray, true say

I know I've always been shit at computer games because your brother always
Beats me
And if I lost, I go across and chuck all the controllers at the tv

And you laugh at me
And be asking me
If ima be home next week
Then lie with me, till I fall asleep
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/e/ed_sheeran/wake_me_up.html ]
And flutter eye lash at me between the sheets
And you will never know just how beautiful you are to me
And maybe I'm just in love when you wake me up
And I think you hate the smell of smoke
You always try to get to stop

But you drink as much as me
And I get drunk a lot

So I take you to the beach
And walk along the sand
And I'll make you a heart pendant
With a pebble held in my hand

And I'll carve it like this necklace
So the heart falls where your chest is
So a piece of me is a piece of the beach
And it fallls just where it needs to be
And rests peacefully

So you just need to beathe to feel my heart against your now
Maybe I'm just in love when you wake me up
Maybe I'm just in love when you wake me up
Maybe I gfell in love when you woke me up

in all seriousness is this guy ripping off those match.com adverts or vice versa

Fuck me in the eye.

blue ray, true say

:oooo

somehow "blue ray, true say" stands out as the very worst thing in that LOL XP

you know you've got problems if even southall is clowning your studenty game

First person since Mumford and Sons to helpfully crystallise dozens of hateful things about British culture in one despicable package.

PS I am old.

new most revolting thing i've ever seen:

@Nandos_Official: created @EdSheeran his very own sauce, has had 30k views in 40 mins lockerz.com/s/138651733

ps i don't follow nandos on the twitter.

Every artist gets the product he deserves.

There's probably an excellent Nando's Skank from 2yrs ago that is getting cruelly ignored here.

Oh my god I just Googled 'Nando's Skank' and ED SHEERAN ACTUALLY TURNED UP.

I'd never heard of this dude until he was suddenly the lead review in the Graun last week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DussnqvJy1g&feature=player_embedded

makes me want to kill myself. this is typical of the sort of total shit radio 1 scene where everyone appears on each other's tracks to make each other feel credible.

genuinely...if someone can find me a worse piece of music than that, i'll be astonished.

god this country is a shithole

the whole "it's okay and cool to schill for nandos" thing that seems to be part of the uk scene is pretty awful too.

it is ok to schill for nando's, tho

i mean who gives a fuck, tbh? if the music is good, let them schill, let them not, whatever.

can't deny that spicy rice yo

would rather i didn't have bands advertising a national fast food chain. and the music isn't good...

well, i'm not denying the second, i just think the first is....irrelevant, personally speaking.

having trouble understanding what's going on on that cover- radioactive Slumdon Bridge is falling down (due to radiation?) meaning that radioactive deer will fall into the Thames?

i've been hearing him a lot on the radio here too :\ ... not on top 40 (yet) though, just boring "adult pop" kinda stations

The message is: reindeer are evil. Everything on Slumdon Bridge was lovely until the reindeer turned up, trailing radioactivity and earthquakes in its satanic wake

looool

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lol'ing @ the phenomenon of him in the u.s. may it be short-lived

"this guy's from england and who gives a shit"

http://a3.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/profile01/113/6e1b9c915c834ccb905ae214b4c2e8d9/p.jpg

And if your dvd ever breaks today
You shoulda got a vcr because I've never own a blue ray, true say

I had forgotten this, somehow.

Kinda awesome in its awfulness.

aweful

this guy is just the worst

blue ray, true say ;_; ;_;

never 4get

I am annoyed to report that he is infesting America more and more, and I blame you, the good people of the UK, for not drowning him at birth.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, June 12, 2012 2:57 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ for some reason "The A-Team" gets a lot of burn at the all-night supermarket where I've started working, & it is the worst thing I've heard in a long time

i'm guitar shopping and i kinda wish this guitar wasn't an ed sheeran signature guitar cuz i kinda dig how it looks

http://0f9837bb1d8aa610a84a-102a6ca990457d67fd96fbe768cb23f2.r50.cf3.rackcdn.com/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/m/a/martin-lx1e-ed-sheeran-signature-edition-electro-acoustic-guitar.jpg

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(xposts) ... I'm assuming it's because softbatch southerners like the way he sings "it's too co-o-old outside" + namedrops angels (even in the context of their nonexistence) — also, weirdly enough, his pointless jangling rhymes are the closest thing to hip-hop on our store's weirdly sanitized version of top-40

(... not counting Third Eye Blind)

He was unimpressive to me on that Beatles tribute the other night

oh god, just encountered this guy.

one of these dudes (sometimes fronting a band) shows up every few years. i trace a line from dave matthews to jason mraz (sp?) to this guy, with some other folks i'd rather forget filling out the lineage. there's something these guys do with the rhythm guitar, i can't explain it or ID it, but it is supposed to signify "funky" when the music hardly has any bottom and much less any rhythmic interplay that remotely resembles anything i know to be funk.

ugh.

lol u should talk about it in the thread for his new album :P

This was guy was the Ed Sheeran of the 80s, in so many ways...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0YCvsXxZc

read today that he was stabbed in the cheek by a Royal while joking around pretending to be knighted, what a world we live in.

close but no cigar

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/22/09/Ed-Sheeran-Rex.jpg

one eye on the chips, one eye on the change

I used to be able to go about my daily business without hearing anything by this guy or even hearing anyone talk about him. Bring back those days, I say.

Lol

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/nylpm/2017/03/datapanik-in-the-year-sheero/

Is that this year's model of the FT Xanadu shutdown of a decade ago?

Ah, no. But thanks for posting. Hadn't seen that.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/streaming-has-turned-uk-charts-joke-ed-sheerans-16-hit-singles/

Change the charts methodology?

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/nylpm/2017/03/datapanik-in-the-year-sheero/

Ha, we need to post 16 articles about his chart domination, one for each top 20 UK streamed hit

This guy sucks

whenev his name is said i hear "Ned Sherrin"

I get all my pop culture knowledge from Sesame Street these days. when this dude cropped up I could not believe he was actually famous. apparently he is helping redheads get laid so that's good at least.

https://www.facebook.com/portsmouthofficial/photos/a.295433318045659/517945292461126/?type=3&theater

some dude pretended to be Ed in Portsmouth and got away with it at three churches

satire site but i want to believe

i heard you scam churches

you overhear 'thinking out loud' ONCE and the fucking thing's in your head for days

it's made with witchery and evil juices

lol his new video has him dressed as the Joker

not that i'm ever going to listen to it, but still fairly annoyed that his new lp is called "equals" not "minus"

I'm annoyed that Yes never released The No Album

They did, it was called Tormato

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/6179a8ac8863d4d56b12af42/1:1/w_320/100000x100000-999.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuTePCqXAAQAv2i.jpg

https://www.nme.com/news/music/cradle-of-filth-say-their-collaboration-with-ed-sheeran-is-underway-hes-done-some-of-it-3301226

fucks sake

look the man’s got tattoos what do you want

I blame Tracer for starting this thread in the first place.

lol at him doing an album with aaron dessner

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