Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
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Track List: Back to Black
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- 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
- Bonus Track 1
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Album Details: Back to Black
- Release Date:
- 03/13/2007
- Label:
- Republic
- UPC:
- 602517229679
User Reviews: Back to Black
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RETRO OLD SOUNDING CRAP
, February 12, 2008Reviewer: Yahoo! Shopping User -
A Wonderful Work of Art
, April 25, 2007Reviewer:
Stevanilla - See all Stevanilla's reviews Pros: Tears Dry On Their Own, Rehab, Trouble
Cons: very retro to the point you would think that some of the music was really old.
The soft retro sounds of this album allow for the strong introduction of Amy Winehouse's exceptional voice. She sounds like a 50 something year old ex-jazz smoker that smokes 2 packs a day but instead she is a vivrant sexy British woman who is quite young. Despite her young appearence they are a deception that covers the soul of someone who's emotions run as deep as an old soul. An absolutely phenominal album and definately worth its buck.
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Pro Reviews: Back to Black
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews The story of Back to Black is one in which celebrity and the potential of commercial success threaten to ruin Amy Winehouse, since the same insouciance and playfulness that made her sound so special when she debuted could easily have been whitewashed right out of existence for this breakout record. (That fact may help to explain why fans were so scared by press allegations that Winehouse had deliberately lost weight in order to present a slimmer appearance.) Although Back to Black does see her deserting jazz and wholly embracing contemporary RB, all the best parts of her musical character emerge intact, and actually, are all the better for the transformation from jazz vocalist to soul siren. With producer Salaam Remi returning from Frank, plus the welcome addition of Mark Ronson (fresh off successes producing for Christina Aguilera and Robbie Williams), Back to Black has a similar sound to Frank but with much more flair and spark to it. Winehouse was inspired by girl group soul of the '60s, and fortunately Ronson and Remi are two of the most facile and organic RB producers active. (They certainly know how to evoke the era, too; Remi's "Tears Dry on Their Own" is a sparkling homage to the Motown chestnut "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," and Ronson summons a host of Brill Building touchstones on his tracks.) As before, Winehouse writes all of the songs from her experiences, most of which involve the occasionally riotous and often bittersweet vagaries of love. Also in similar fashion to Frank, her eye for details and her way of relating them are delightful. She states her case against "Rehab" on the knockout first single with some great lines: "They tried to make me go to rehab I won't go go go, I'd rather be at home with Ray" [Charles, that is]. As often as not, though, the songs on Back to Black are universal, songs that anyone, even Joss Stone, could take to the top of the charts, such as "Love Is a Losing Game" or the title song ("We only said good bye with words, I died a hundred times/ You go back to her, and I go back to black"). - John Bush, All Music Guide |
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Pros: None that I can think of
Cons: Sounds dates
All music has same tone and is drab, dated and sounds like something my grandmother would listen too. What crap. I can't believe all the hype about her. I can't stand her music.