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The most amazing album I have bought or heard yet

2008-05-11
Now, my parents made me buy the CLEAN version and really that's the only downside to this album: the clean. The explicit is so exciting and good it's so awesome. Anyways, Amy is an amazing artist and the songs are so catchy and good, I can't stop listening.

The only other problem with the album which is not that big of a deal is that every track is depressing. There isn't anything about getting together, it's all about breaking up and cheating and drugs. But the thing the depressingness so "not so big" is that they were all written from her heart and what she believes in.

An amazing album by an amazing singer. The beat to the songs go so great with her voice and it makes the songs sound great.

GOTTA LOVE 'ER

2008-03-22
I really like this music, and if you like Amy, you gotta like this one. Highly recommended for Amy fans. If you haven't heard her, give her a try--she's a very talented artist. A little crazy, maybe, but aren't we all?

Great on every level

2007-11-23
I first heard of Amy Winehouse as a drunken idiot who consistently fouled up live performances. But I kept hearing about her.

This record is a revelation. The best album of the last 15 years. Amy Winehouse is a drunken fool the same way Janis Joplin was. Amy Winehouse has the talent to be the best soul vocalist of this era - if she lives.

I love Amy now. Took a while but I'm so here! 4.32 stars.,

2007-11-17
--Rehab*******1/2 Overplayed to the high Heavens and is one of the worst tracks here. However, love the line: "Ooo/I just need a friend!" 7.5/10

--You Know I'm No Good********** One of the, if not the best tracks on the entire thing! Like the video. But love the lyrics! 10/10

--Me & Mr. Jones********1/2 This is the first time I've heard this one. I like it, it's superior to Rehab in almost every way (save for my favorite line) and I think it's one of my favorites. 8.5/10

--Just Friends**********1/2 Love this one now! 10.5/10

--Back to Black*********1/2 Loving the lyrics. The symphony, violins and the piano. And the atmosphere it creates. Definitely my third favorite song here. "You go back to Her/And I go back to Black." \m/ 9.5/10

--Love is a Losing Game********* Love this one. Heard it before. It was my favorite but I think that You Know I'm No Good takes it by a hair. This track is much more laid-back though. 9/10

--Tears Dry on their Own*******1/2 I like this one. Not a favorite, but it's OK. 7.5/10

--Wake Up Alone*********** I am obsessed with the title. I feel the same about the song. The lyrics are real and somewhat gritty. The production sounds like something extremely dreary and seems as if someone will commit suicide quite soon. I LOVE it!! Guess this is my new favorite!!!!!!!!!!! 11/10

--Some Unholy War***** Bored me to tears. The only track that is terrible and I don't understand how it made the cut. Glad it's shorter than 2 1/2 minutes. 5/10

--He Can Only Hold Her*******3/4 Again, I love the title. Decent closer and the lyrics are decent as well. However, the highlight is actually the beat; Upbeat and lovely. That's where it's at! 7.75/10

86.25 ÷ 10 = 8.625

8.63 = 4.32

4.32 stars.

Eight Deletions

2007-09-24
I bought this clean version for a co-worker's 5th grader who had been skipping the roughest words when she sang along with her mother's uncut version. I wish I had known that the clean version did not have new words to replace the harshest words, just audio masking of the rough words from the original.

For the 'tweener kids, better to decide whether they should listen to a particular song at all (viz., Me and Mr. Jones).
Otherwise, the album is great, a beautiful channelling of the 60s R&B style with Amy's sense of loss in her own love life.

A MUST HAVE CD!

2007-08-26
Hailed by Newsweek Magazine as a cross between Billie Holiday and Lauryn Hill, British soul singer Amy Winehouse's U.S. debut, Back To Black hits the US amid a flurry of accolades, radio and TV buzz unprecedented in recent years for a young siren.

Her brassy mix of emotive vocals tinged with 60's girl-group stylings, sly funk, and anguished jazz, sparked the New York Daily News to crown Back To Black a "marvelous debut that would do Etta James proud" while New Yorker Magazine called her "a fierce English performer whose voice combines the smoky depths of a jazz chanteuse with the heated passion of a soul singer," and Spin Magazine affirming "there's never been A British star quite like her."

Back To Black smolders with a bristling fusion of old school doo-wop/soul inflected uprisings, (the charismatic singer/songwriter wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album) brewing instant classics such as the Shirley Ellis influenced "Rehab," the Supremes tinged title song "Back To Black," the aching "Wake Up Alone," and the album's closer, "Addicted."

Loved this, give it a try 2007-08-23
I really enjoyed this cd.I love to listen to it as background music when I'm driving around or even if I'm jsut stuck in the house. Tears dry on their own [track 7]was probably my favorite, but i liked pretty much all the songs. There's also a bonus track not listed on the cd, a remix of I'm no good.

You Know You're Too Good 2007-08-21
Amy Winehouse. What to say about her? We could go take a visit to the tags - retro soul, fresh, funky, blues, all of them being accurate descriptions. Possibly the best is "Grammy" which I think is the best tag of them all, for she surely has a few already being scribed with her name. But why is it that none of these seem to be the perfect description of the amazingly talented singer that's a true bad girl [Listen to the title track, "Rehab", to get a sense on why she's got that naughty in her. Not in the same vain as Britney, though]. I think the best way to find the perfect description is to take a look at the music that's on the cd.

The first track, "Rehab", hits with the infectious series of "No no no's", and it seems like the highlight of the album has been used already. Not true - the next track, the midtempo "You Know I'm No Good", is probably the catchiest track on the album [even more than Rehab!], although the remix with Ghostface Killah is skippable. "Back to Black" sums up the mood of the album - dark, and definitely a topic to sing the blues on. But the uptempo tracks take the cake, especially the bouncy "Tears Dry On Their Own". The low point on the album is hard to find, as the album sags the most at the end, but "Just Friends" is a boring track that clearly doesn't fit the puzzling entity that is Amy Winehouse.

So, in conclusion? There really are no words to describe such a talented vocalist as Miss Winehouse unless you talk about her personal life, but really, with such feeling and a truthful-feeling disc, who really cares about her personal life? The music is way too good to even care.

Nice ..... nice ..... nice! 2007-08-07
Great CD. I like the focus on the vocals rather than a synthesized background or overly aggressive mixes. The rap part on one track is the only arguable blot on an otherwise idyllic landscape! But hey, if Blondie could do it with Rapture, then why not Winehouse?

Second Favorite CD everrr 2007-07-27
At first I was a little iffy about buying the clean version, but I couldn't even tell there was a difference between the explicit and non-explicit versions the first few times I listened to it (except "Me & Mr.Jones"), meaning, I couldn't tell straight away where they had cut out the swear words.

Music itself is top-notch. The more you listen to this CD, the better it gets, and the more you come to appreciate the singing more than the songs themselves. My favorites are "Tears Dry On Their Own" and "Back to Black".