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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Republic
Salesrank: 532
Released: March 13, 2007 |
| Our Price: $6.33 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Back to Black Track Listing:
1. Rehab
2. You Know I'm No Good
3. Me & Mr. Jones
4. Just Friends
5. Back to Black
6. Love Is a Losing Game
7. Tears Dry on Their Own
8. Wake Up Alone
9. Some Unholy War
10. He Can Only Hold Her
11. You Know I'm No Good [Remix]
Editorial Review:
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."
Description of Back to Black:
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
Back to Black Reviews:
Reminds me of a modern Dinah Washington 
2009-11-06 - 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 
2009-10-11 - 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.
Well, It Is at Least Better Than "Frank"! Although It's No Good... 
2009-09-22 - Many people love or hate Amy Winehouse. Some of the haters don't even know her music. I don't hate her but I have to say that her music isn't so excellent. I appreciate that she created a new music direction for soul but I think that Duffy has better songs and a better voice. Amy's voice sounds like she would need some help. There's a couple of good songs, and actually there's no bad songs at all but I would say that there's no enough great songs that this would be classic. It isn't even a great album. I would say that this album is quite average. Still, I have heard the album "Frank" and there was only three good songs. This album can be a huge step forwards in Amy's carriere but I still wait her better albums.
Stars: Back to Black, Rehab, You Know I'm No Good
Bad package Vinyl was delivered damaged 
2009-07-30 -
I am a consumer of Amazon books and this kind of problem almost doesn't happens, but this time the product I bought was delivered damaged, the cover of the vinyl came very mashed. What we can do about that?
Amy Jade is that chick!!!
2009-07-24 - The more I listen to this CD, the more I love it. I wish R&B singers were this creative.
