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Post by vinyl on Mar 11, 2007 14:17:17 GMT -5
Addicted isn't on the American version, right?
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Post by SHOOTER on Mar 11, 2007 20:32:51 GMT -5
Addicted isn't on the American version, right? No. For some dumb reason, her label replaced it with the remix of "You Know I'm No Good". Would it have been that hard to just add one more song?
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Post by Cooler than ever! on Mar 11, 2007 16:52:13 GMT -5
I'll be buying it, but it wont be this Tuesday.
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Post by vinyl on Mar 11, 2007 17:06:54 GMT -5
Addicted isn't on the American version, right? No. For some dumb reason, her label replaced it with the remix of "You Know I'm No Good". Would it have been that hard to just add one more song? It's not like Addicted is that great a song (I mean it's fun and everything but definitely the weakest track) but; why not 12 songs? Oh well. It's not like I'll be buying it again anyways lol.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Mar 12, 2007 11:33:09 GMT -5
Billboard.com:
ARTIST: AMY WINEHOUSE
SINGLE: YOU KNOW I'M NO GOOD
If such a tactic exists in today's problematic music biz, Universal is taking the easy way out launching U.K. sensation Amy Winehouse, whose relaxed old-soul vocals -- think Shirley Bassey chilling on a Quaalude -- serve as an adventurous-but-fluent fit for lesser-regimented airwaves at home. Here, she's been incompatibly aligned with Ghostface Killah, who assaults an otherwise cool, bumpy, horn-ridden, trampy track with a ferocious discordant sputter at the midsection, in a blatant attempt to lend rhythmic radio cred before selling the story to top 40.
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Post by jaxxalude on Mar 12, 2007 15:06:09 GMT -5
POPMATTERSAmy WinehouseBack to Black(Universal Republic) US release date: 13 March 2007 UK release date: 30 October 2006 by Christian John WikaneUnder the InfluenceAny artist who begins and ends her album with songs entitled “Rehab” and “Addicted” has a story to tell. Indeed, Amy Winehouse has many stories to tell. “Rehab”, for one, chronicles her refusal to enter rehab at the behest of her management company; doing so would probably anesthetize the raw feelings that make Back to Black such an addictive listen. The follow-up to Winehouse’s acclaimed debut Frank (2003), Back to Black is clearly influenced by the sensibilities of 1960s pop and soul. With production by Salaam Remi (Joss Stone) and Mark Ronson (Lily Allen), Winehouse’s tales come alive in a stirring mélange of Muscle Shoals and Funk Brothers-driven Motown. Thematically, Winehouse wanders through girl-group territory, making explicit the anguish of heartache that the Supremes only ever hinted at; her blunt lyrics are like a foreign language to that era. It’s at first jarring to hear Winehouse twist the sweet sound of, say, a Mary Wells song on “Me and Mr. Jones” with a voice soaked in gin and smoke: “What kind of f**kery are we? / Nowadays you don’t mean dick to me”. But Winehouse is sincere: this particular marriage of words and music mirrors the bittersweet dichotomy that sometimes frames real relationships. Like it or not, Amy Winehouse might just be singing about you. While the album’s first singles, “Rehab” and “You Know I’m No Good”, are essential listening, it’s the three songs at the album’s center that make Back to Black an artistic success worth keeping on repeat. The ebb and flow of longing one experiences in a break-up is the tear-stained thread that connects “Love is a Losing Game”, “Tears Dry On Their Own”, and “Wake Up Alone”. “Love is a Losing Game” is the beginning of the end. It’s imbued with Winehouse’s resigned realization that a relationship is destined to fizzle. For the first time on the album, she forsakes her brave, don’t-f**k-with-me front and faces the “futile odds” with a nuanced sensitivity. This kind of approach saves Winehouse from being a one-note trouble (wo)man, while the superb singles do quite the opposite. “Tears Dry on Their Own” recasts the spirit of its instantly recognizable source material, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” (the original Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell duet). Sampling a beloved soul classic is usually a dangerous move, but when executed with strokes of innovation, the results give sampling a good name. Here, the song is an ode to Winehouse’s independence, even though her heart is broken. In contrast to Marvin Gaye’s soaring vocal, Winehouse flips the melody in the verses so that it descends rather than ascends: I don’t understand why do I stress the man? when there are so many bigger things at hand We could have never had it all we had to hit a wall so this in-ev-it-able withdrawal The way she spits out the syllables of inevitable conveys a forced admission that she might be better off without her man. She’s walking away (i.e., independence) but looking over her shoulder (i.e., longing) too. Raise your hand if you can relate. “Wake Up Alone” dissects the low of going through the day without someone who was a constant presence. Winehouse keeps herself busy, trying not to concern herself with loneliness. “I stay up, clean the house / at least I’m not drinking / run around just so I don’t have to / think about thinking”. “Wake Up Alone” brings Winehouse “back to black”, if you will. The darkness of ill-fated love consumes her. Winehouse certainly has the blessing of many muses, since high-points abound on Back to Black. Each song is like a three-minute vignette of romantic angst: she revels in her own infidelity on the sizzling “You Know I’m No Good” and warns a polyamorous lover about his ways on the ska-inflected “Just Friends” ("The guilt will kill you if she don’t first"). The riveting title track recalls the foreboding atmosphere of the Shangri-La’s “Remember (Walking in the Sand)”, and “He Can Only Hold Her” boasts some of Winehouse’s best singing on the album. Only a few tracks preclude Back to Black from being uniformly excellent. “Some Unholy War” seems to drag well beyond its 2:22 duration, while “Addicted” is a contrived effort to glamorize the artist’s much-publicized wayward proclivities. Closing the album is Hot Chip’s remix of “Rehab”. It’s completely unnecessary and I’m hesitant to even consider it an “official” part of the album ... but there it is. No doubt Amy Winehouse already has another album’s worth of stories to share. Hopefully, she’ll try on a few different styles before her unique appropriation of ‘60s soul becomes rote, but the fact that Back to Black is markedly different from Frank indicates a rabid desire to grow with each release. For the time being, Back to Black finds a fearless artist saying whatever she damn well pleases. And we best listen up. RATING:
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Post by jaxxalude on Mar 12, 2007 15:07:20 GMT -5
URB MagazineAmy Winehouse: Back to Black IslandIf contestants on American Idol were allowed to be as drunk and British as the show's judges, Amy Winehouse would be the most fascinating train wreck of a winner in the show's disgustingly popular history. Winehouse's sophomore album comes three years after her sparse debut and the production is entirely split by Nas co-hort Salaam Remi and URB cover dude Mark Ronson, taking the songstress's soul to another level. Back to Black is overflowing with the '60s Supremes warmth that has been fully absent from the "standards" of today's R&B. Opener "Rehab" is a surly stance of defiance in the face of societal norms and the pressure of holding together a crumbling world. Winehouse's very public British celebrity makes the single's authenticity more than apparent, but it's Remi's destructively tepid horns and complicated keys that make the Motown vibe respectfully faithful. The title cut is similarly bona fide, with a teardrop piano and Winehouse at her sulkingly best. Her troubled voice is personal and her persona troubled, making for not only good reality television. . .but a hell of an album, too. Reviewer: Skinny B
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Post by jaxxalude on Mar 12, 2007 15:07:48 GMT -5
NY TIMESAMY WINEHOUSE“Back to Black”(Republic) At first the songs on Amy Winehouse’s second album, “Back to Black,” could almost be unknown soul oldies from the 1950s and 1960s. The drums, strings and horns have a vintage production style, and Ms. Winehouse’s tart voice and sly, sultry phrasing sound largely unprocessed. Then the anachronisms kick in, from current slang and beats that hint at hip-hop to four-letter words and blunt references to sex and drugs. A 23-year-old English songwriter, Ms. Winehouse is decades too young for ’60s nostalgia, but she has come up with a wonderfully time-twisted batch of songs. While the success of Gnarls Barkley’s backdated, reconstituted soul may have opened an American market to Ms. Winehouse, she’s not a debutante. Her first album, “Frank,” appeared in 2003 and was a hit in Britain. Its music was closer to neo-soul, with sample-driven vamps behind her jazzy phrasing, but the songs were equally blunt. Now Ms. Winehouse has shifted from Erykah Badu toward Macy Gray, juggling allusions in songs that reach back to Phil Spector and Motown. She claims her lyrics are autobiographical, which would make her a real handful: a drinking, pot-smoking, compulsive cheater whose main excuse is the title of her current single: “You Know I’m No Good.” But she also has pangs of conscience and moments of loyalty and longing. As knowing as she is about her attitude and her musical references, she also gives her songs a heart. Ms. Winehouse is to perform tomorrow night at the Bowery Ballroom; the show is sold out. JON PARELES
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Post by jaxxalude on Mar 12, 2007 15:08:07 GMT -5
CONTACTMUSICDAD FEARS WINEHOUSE NEEDS REHABAmy Winehouse's dad fears his soulful daughter might have to go, go, go to rehab despite her lyrical protestations due to her heavy workload. The 23-year-old singer is currently working on world domination by playing a host of concerts in the States including the talent-spotter's dream of a festival South by South-West in Austin, Texas. But all work and, err, a fair amount of reported play is making Amy tired and emotional. Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, dad Mitch said his little girl's voice is "close to collapse" as her heavy schedule is taking over since her split from her boyfriend, the chef Alex Claire. "I'm not ruling out rehab. Amy needs a break. Her workload is absolutely manic," said Mitch. Commenting on her breakup, Mitch added: "She's an emotional girl. Her schedule has caused problems with Alex. He wants to see her. I don't know if that's the reason for the break-up but wouldn't you want to see your boyfriend now and again?" Mitch's fears were announced after the Brit-winner cancelled two gigs at Shepherd's Bush empire last week due to "unforeseen circumstances". The Back to Black singer apologised to disappointed fans for the cancellation while a statement said: "She hasn’t taken these decisions lightly and hopes that her fans will understand." ===============================//===================================== Not even a month ago, according to him, her daughter didn't have no drinking problem. Now he fears she needs rehab. Maybe she just needs to cut her father off her business, really.
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Mar 12, 2007 15:56:24 GMT -5
Her dad is just saying that she just needs a break. Relax and rest wise not really rehab.
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Post by Cooler than ever! on Mar 12, 2007 17:39:50 GMT -5
What is up with her single? Is it doing anything at radio?.
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Post by vinyl on Mar 12, 2007 20:54:57 GMT -5
Thanks for those reviews. :)
Her album's out tomorrow in the Satesss.
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Post by eljefro on Mar 12, 2007 20:58:33 GMT -5
Me either!! She'll be on sale for $7.98 @ Target!! that's where I'll be buying mine...cheap...
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Post by oscillations. on Mar 12, 2007 23:04:24 GMT -5
She's on Letterman right now! (Well at 12:30ish!)
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Post by joker on Mar 12, 2007 23:24:07 GMT -5
I'll tune in for that. 3 hours to go out west.
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Post by XXIX on Mar 12, 2007 23:30:48 GMT -5
What the hell is that on her head? LOL.
Her back-up singers scare me...
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Post by Sara on Mar 12, 2007 23:32:41 GMT -5
Haha I'm glad she's singing Rehab. :[ This song has been playing nonstop on my ipod all week.
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Post by oscillations. on Mar 13, 2007 1:15:20 GMT -5
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Mar 13, 2007 10:51:26 GMT -5
Out today in the USA...
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Post by banet2001 on Mar 13, 2007 11:28:12 GMT -5
An 83 is a great rating. I may have to listen to the album now. I will be seeing her live on May 3rd, although I do think it is unfair that New York gets to see Amy Winhouse with the Pipettes and the rest of the country does not get the Pipettes. >:(
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Post by hidizzyguy on Mar 13, 2007 11:58:02 GMT -5
There have been very few artists that I have discovered through these boards and have grown to love......
Amy happens to be one of those artists... I would NEVER have thought of listening to her at all had there not been this buzz around the boards......
What a great album..... I've been listening to it non-stop since the weekend.....
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Post by reception on Mar 13, 2007 15:03:39 GMT -5
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Post by eljefro on Mar 13, 2007 15:12:37 GMT -5
I bought it...there was only 3 left at Target.
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Post by XXIX on Mar 13, 2007 18:56:59 GMT -5
There have been very few artists that I have discovered through these boards and have grown to love...... Amy happens to be one of those artists... I would NEVER have thought of listening to her at all had there not been this buzz around the boards...... What a great album..... I've been listening to it non-stop since the weekend..... Yeah... oscillations has that effect on everyone, LOL. If it wasn't her for her and Grey's Anatomy I don't know what people here would do? LOL.
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Post by oscillations. on Mar 13, 2007 20:49:10 GMT -5
lmao I appreciate it, but I don't think I can take credit for introducing Amy to these boards. ;) Her music speaks for itself. I hope this can see a Top 50 debut & make an upward trajectory from there!
And banet: I agree about the Pipettes! They have 2 sold out shows at Luna Lounge (Brooklyn), too. But they need to do a proper solo US tour. I think upon the album's stateside release, we'll be given that opportunity.
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Mar 13, 2007 21:12:52 GMT -5
BECAUSE TEARS DRY ON THEIR OWN! I'm glad I was in Europe 3 years ago because I would not have been able to find this chick nowadays. When I first heard "F!ck Me Pumps" she had me hooked!
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Post by SHOOTER on Mar 13, 2007 22:20:58 GMT -5
FINALLY!!!
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Post by Mikal on Mar 14, 2007 13:31:32 GMT -5
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Post by vinyl on Mar 14, 2007 17:41:35 GMT -5
Everyone is loving Amy now, ha. :)
35-40k it should be, according to HDD.
Oh & - at least New York gets Amy. This Summer - if she's still in America - I'll try to go to one of her concerts even if it's quite far from MTL.
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Post by AutomaticBR on Mar 14, 2007 20:57:27 GMT -5
her album "Frank" was released in the US? any idea of how much it sold?
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