Amy Winehouse Music:

		List Price: $13.98		Label: Republic Salesrank: 5477 Released: March 13, 2007
		Our Price: $9.00
		Used Price: $7.95
		Media: Audio CD

Back to Black [Clean Version] 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. Addicted

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."

Back to Black [Clean Version] Reviews:
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.