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Back to Black |  | Artist: Amy Winehouse Label: Republic Category: Music
List Price: $13.98 Buy New: $7.84 as of 2/9/2010 23:12 EST details You Save: $6.14 (44%)
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Seller: Innuendo_ent Rating: 557 reviews Sales Rank: 344
Format: Explicit Lyrics Media: Audio CD Discs: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 000842802 UPC: 602517229679 EAN: 0602517229679 ASIN: B000N2G3RY
Release Date: March 13, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Rehab | | • | You Know I'm No Good | | • | Me & Mr. Jones | | • | Just Friends | | • | Back to Black | | • | Love Is a Losing Game | | • | Tears Dry on Their Own | | • | Wake Up Alone | | • | Some Unholy War | | • | He Can Only Hold Her | | • | You Know I'm No Good [Remix] |
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From Amazon.co.uk Amy Winehouse's second album, Back to Black, is one of the finest soul albums, British or otherwise, to come out for years. Frank, her first album, was a sparse and stripped-down affair; Back to Black, meanwhile, is neither of these things. This time around, she's taken her inspiration from some of the classic 1960's girl groups like the Supremes and the Shangri-Las, a sound particularly suited to her textured vocal delivery, while adding a contemporary songwriting sensibility. With the help of producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, "Rehab" becomes a gospel-tinged stomp, while the title track (and album highlight) is a heartbreaking musical tribute to Phil Spector, with it's echoey bass drum, rhythmic piano, chimes, saxophone and close harmonies. Best of all, though, is the fact that Back to Black bucks the current trend in R&B by being unabashedly grown-up in both style and content. Winehouse's lyrics deal with relationships from a grown-up perspective, and are honest, direct and, often, complicated: on "You Know I'm No Good", she's unapologetic about her unfaithfulness. But she can also be witty, as on "Me & Mrs Jones" when she berates a boyfriend with "You made me miss the Slick Rick gig". Back to Black is a refreshingly mature soul album, the best of its kind for years. --Ted Kord
Album Description 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."
Album Details Ivor Novello Award Winner, Mercury Music Prize and Triple Brit Nominee Amy Winehouse, Follows the Release of her New Single "rehab" and Recent Sell-out Mini-uk Tour, with the Hugely Anticipated Release on October 30th of her New Album "back to Black". On "back to Black", the Follow-up to her Platinum Debut "frank" which Established her as One of the Most Exciting and Challenging Artists in Pop Music, Amy Confirms, Beyond Any Reasonable Or Unreasonable Doubt, What a Truly Remarkable Talent She Is.
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Tortured talent January 23, 2010 J. Shin (Hawaii) Got the album download last week for $8. I already have her other album, Frank, which I also enjoy immensely but I feel this is a superior album overall. The songs have a more old time classic blues/jazz sound to them and Amy is just masterful in her renditions. In my opinion,she's the BEST I've heard in the last 10 years. If you only know her from her off stage antics and troubles, PLEASE do yourself a favor and give her a listen. Only can such beautiful music come from such a tortured soul.
An astonishing album of updated 60s soul/jazz January 22, 2010 ILikeAmazon (Arlington, VA USA) Amy Winehouse sounds incredibly authentic as the Detroit-via-London chanteuse who infuses each song with 60s Shangri-Las doo-wop plus some jazz and blues. It's as if some time machine dropped on your CD player, pushed you back 40 years, and ten lost gems just tumbled out. However, the lyrics don't speak to bubblegum sensibilities -- heartache, relationship upheavals, and personal downfalls inhabit these songs. Amazing that she wrote or co-wrote all the songs. An incredible emotive talent with the perfect voice for this project. I did want to note that the tracks produced by Salaam Remi (ex: Me & Mr Jones) sound much cleaner than those produced by Mark Ronson (ex: "Rehab") who tries a bit too hard to recreate that mono-ish 60s wall of sound. This is not a high-fidelity release.
WINEHOUSE CAN SING December 31, 2009 James L. Woolridge (Sunny Florida) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Amy Winehouse can really belt out a tune. Now if she could stay sober and drug free. This CD rocks and is worth owning. Josh Stone gets all the credit but Winehouse has soul.
Reminds me of a modern Dinah Washington November 6, 2009 Cherry Bruns (Castle Rock, Co) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't remember what prompted me to look at this album. Previously, I was only aware of Amy Winehouse from what the news reported. Regardless, I listened to the sample tracks and decided to get the CD. I'm very glad I did, what a voice! Because of the sexual content, I only listen when kids aren't around. Since the clean version just blanked out the words (vs substituting them), I opted for listening to the explicit version in a more private setting.
Terrible production October 11, 2009 Edward Kottmeyer (St. Paul, MN United States) 2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Terrible production mars an otherwise good album. Highly compressed music falling victim to the "louder is better" philosophy and breaking up into obvious static in the high frequencies is immediately apparent on anything but lower quality audio systems. Some claim this was an attempt to achieve a "retro" or "vinyl" sound, but all it did was make the album unlistenable on better stereo and headphone systems. A shame.
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