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Back to Black by: Amy Winehouse List Price: $13.98 CD-Charts Price: $12.99 You Save: $0.99 ( 7%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0602517229679 Format: Explicit Lyrics Label: Republic Manufacturer: Republic Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Republic Release Date: March 13, 2007 Studio: Republic Sales Rank: 28 MPN: 000842802 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: 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. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - musically brilliantBack to black is so brilliant musically, both Amy's songs and her performance of them. The only weak spot is the use of needlessly explicit lyrics, for example in Me and Mr. Jones, "mockery" would have been so much more timeless than "f-ckery", and really would have made as much or more sense. The needless use of the f word grates a bit, and simply makes it impossible to play this song in public or in front of most audiences, and it's such a shame not to be able to play this musically brilliant song for one's kids. Amy Winehouse is an absolutely amazing talent, her rapid descent into drugs and anorexia has been so heartbreaking. If only she can get free of the drugs, alcohol, and the severe anorexia (she now looks nursing-home thin, like ... Read More: Rating:  - Only one interesting songThe first song has fun lyrics and is musically interesting. The second cut is just OK. Every one of the remaining cuts are real nothingness filler. Rating: - Can't Get Enough of Winehouse!I love this CD and play it over and over in the car, my iPod and at home. This is funky, soulful jazz, the kind that you sing along with. I love the lyrics and the songs are retro-sounding. Clean up Amy, we need more of you! Rating:  - A New Artist With Old Demons (4.5 stars)Sounding for the world like a record straight out of the Motown era, "Back to Black", Amy Winehouse's second major LP, debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200 and quickly went double platinum after winning five Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year (producer Mark Ronson even took home a Grammy for Producer of the Year). The cover of the album features an alluring photograph of Winehouse, her face sporting pale lips, heavy charcoal eyes and a dramatic beehive, looks au courant of 60's fashion that have become the singer's trademark. Her powerhouse voice brings to mind the voluptuous, sensational pipes of yesteryear singers Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughn. The rousing brass section, toe-tapping beats, tsee-tsee-tsee of cymbals and seductive ... Read More: Rating: - Amy Winehouse: Listen Without Judgment.It is a sad comment on our society that English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse's self-destructive lifestyle is receiving more media attention than her astonishing, critically-acclaimed singing. Just today she became the focus (and the newest poster girl) of the world's anti-smoking hysteria. Back to Black follows Amy Winehouse's jazz-influenced, 2003 debut album, which drew immediate comparisons to Billie Holliday, Etta James, Sarah Vaughan, and Macy Gray. Back to Black reveals Winehouse's more distinctive, classy-yet-hip, sultry, retro style. The album resulted in several international hits, "Rehab," "You Know I'm No Good," "Back to Black," "Tears Dry on Their Own," and "Love Is a Losing Game," and has a jazz/soul/R&B/hip-hop sound. "Tears ... Read More: |
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