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Feel wired with her style, eyes liner, hair, costume, but I fall in love with this song, indeed.
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Amy Winehouse
Back to Black
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AMG Review of Back to Black
John Bush
All Music GuideThe 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 R&B, 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 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 R&B 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").
Tears Dry On Their Own
Amy Winehouse, Live in London town 20 July
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Boring I realise to point out what we all already know... but I just have to say that Ms Weinhaus was astoundingly great on Friday night, just the right mix of tattoo'd-toughness and wounded vulnerability... what could so easily be another lame Stax/Motown-revue pastiche is in fact deeply real, personal, contemporary, and dramatic. Car-crash-story her career may be; when she shows up she's the ...
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Amy's in a black mood
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Eden Sessions, Amy Winehouse, July 17EDEN had been fielding calls all day from people worried that the notoriously fragile diva Amy Winehouse wouldn't be turning up for last night's gig, as she had already cancelled a number of other performances due to "exhaustion".Bookmakers William Hill had been taking bets at 2-1 all week on whether she would turn up. Then there was the notorious interview ...
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Amy Winehouse has invaded my consciousness
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There's not much that I can say about Amy Winehouse that hasn't been said already. Still, her album is RIDICULOUS good, and a refreshing throw-back to "simpler" times long past."Wake Up Alone" rings with such honesty that I haven't been able to ignore it since first listening to it. It's the kind of song that you listen to at those wee hours when memories of love lost threaten to choke out th...
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Amy Winehouse- Just What this Midwestern Girl Needs
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Finally! I've been waiting for a woman to stumble in to a mic and start growling. Not in an angry, loud, full of herself way that gets sooo cliche..but in a soulfull, sexy, and unapologetic way that Amy Winehouse brings to her album Back to Black.At the end of her video for her album titled song, Amy tosses a rose on to a grave that represents her heart. I would like to send her about a thousan
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New Review: Back To Black by Amy Winehouse
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My review of Amy Winehouse's Back To Black is up now at Blogcritics Magazine. Frankly, I say some things in it that might get me crucified around here. Why? Well, read the opening paragraph:Amy Winehouse has gained a lot of critical acclaim for her second album (and first U.S. release) Back To Black. It features the style of 1960's pop/soul updated ever so slightly for the 2000s. This is cer...
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My favourite Amy Winehouse song - beautiful lyrics - Love is a Losing Game
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Such emotion, I feel like crying just watching her sing this.
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Is that a place where wine bottles live...?
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I tried to fight it for as long as possible... but. girl can sing.she does this sick cover of Carole King's "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"... man. it's crazy good. don't believe me? check it out.
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Amy Winehouse Spring Tour dates
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In support of her new album, she will be doing a brief tour of the US (and Toronto), starting late april. 4/26/07 - San Francisco, CA - Popscene - w/The Klaxons, Kaiser Chiefs 4/27/07 - Indio, CA - Empire Polo Grounds4/30/07 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre5/2/07 - Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theater5/3/07 - Chicago, IL - Schubas5/6/07 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre Of The Living Arts5/7/07 - Boston, MA...
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One for the Ages?
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could be late in the game here, but i have just discovered Amy Winehouse...and i haven't loved a new CD like this in years. thank you music gods, for back to black.
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things aren't always what they sound
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how did this 23 year old white girl from england end up sounding like a black doo-wop girl from the 50's? i don't know but she rocks! this is my favorite song of hers right now, try and resist it's allure, you won't be able to.
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Ms. Boozy comes to U-S-and-A
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... great review of winehouse's soph-moe effort by David Marchese on salon.com:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Amy Winehouse's second album is a ballsy, brassy, neo-soul affair with enough surly attitude to stand down a ship full of sailors. That it also happens to have been made by a tattooed 23-year-old Jewish Londoner with a beehive hairdo only adds to its unexpected charm. Winehouse's...
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Amy Winehouse :: BBC One Sessions
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Amy Winehouse recently recorded a BBC One Session at Bayswater's Porchester Hall. I don't know if it has been broadcast in the UK already, but some delightful person, whose handle is UKGhettoPrincess, has posted the clips on YouTube. The sound and the visual are slightly out of synch, but both are of pretty good quality. So go and enjoy yourself silly. (You'll also see that Amy has moments of e...
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Britney Spears covers Amy Winehouse
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In an effort to stop her down spiraling career, Britney Spears has decided to do a cover of the popular hit "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse. Reviews are mixed.Enjoy your sunday people!
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Didn't someone tell you to respect your elders?
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From generation to generation, children are taught to respect their elders. Apparently this does not hold true once you have hit superstar status. Or in the case of Amy Winehouse, once you have a #1 hit in the U.K. Winehouse recounted a meeting with the newly knighted singer and labelmate at a recent awards ceremony, where she refused to stand, or allow her father to stand, during an ovation ...
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Amy Winehouse's Latest Bender: 'I Am A Legend...I Want To Take Drugs'
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You'd think $20 million would buy Amy Winehouse some class. On the heels of grabbing the 10 spot on the Young Music Millionaires (aged 30 and under) list with her estimated net worth of £10 million, Winehouse will report to police regarding not one, but two alleged assaults near her Camden Town digs in north London on Wednesday night (April 23rd).(Do I make you want to vomit?)Winehouse supposed..
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Winehouse Wins Big, Hancock Defeats and West Moves The Crowd At The 50th Grammys
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Amy Winehouse may have won the most trophies at last night's Grammys and Kanye West may have delivered the night's greatest performance, but neither of them walked away with evening's biggest award. Perhaps the most surprise victory came when Quincy Jones and Usher announced the winner for the night's highest honor and Herbie Hancock's Joni Mitchell tribute album River: The Joni Letters beat ou...
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To me, it's really interesting how we let what we see on the media so severely shape our opinions and thoughts on particular subjects. As train wrecks go, she's certainly on the fast track in someone's death pool, but what if, just what if you let the music stand on it's own and you judge objectively? Is that possible these days when the media barrels over independent thought like "Nikita Kol...
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Doctors Say Amy Winehouse May Have Brain Damage, Likely Won't Survive Another OD
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It's been a while since we heard anything good about Amy Winehouse and I fear it may be all bad until the end. An end we might witness before a new album. Winehouse's doctors have been quoted in numerous publications this month, saying that the troubled star likely won't survive another overdose and that she "may have permanently damaged her brain in the process"! Many of you probably remembe...
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Skin of Her Teeth
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Yes, I’m still quietly seething about missing, nay, not even knowing about the Amy Winehouse/Klaxons live two-fer at San Fran’s intimate nightclub 330 Ritch last week. First, I read a post by 1234chainsaw about his misadventures with concert cancellations (http://mog.com/1234chainsaw/blog_post/68990), and – make no mistake – I felt his pain. Then, our pal Rawkiddo checked in with his tale
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Amy Winehouse Caught On Video Doing Crack
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A video of singer Amy Winehouse smoking crack from a crackpipe is available for viewing on UK Tabloid "The Sun's Web site":http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article710911.ece. (Another UK tabloid The Mirror obtained video footage of supermodel Kate Moss and then-boyfriend Pete Doherty sniffing some Charlie back in 2005).The mag seemed to lead a covert operation where a fellow...
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MOG-Olympics! (Tabloid Division)
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Diligent MOGger Blair a.k.a. satisfiedmind2 got into the Olympic spirit last week and began posting his own music-scene medal-winners, his personal MOG-Olympics, starting with the "Best Song Title of the Year So Far" event: http://mog.com/satisfiedmind2/blog/180987To date, he's done five in all. I was inspired, and suggested "Hottest Guitar Hook/Lick" and "Craziest Lyric," but, at the time, I w...
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Amy Winehouse A Closet Racist?
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I've noticed this video has been making it's rounds online so I figured I'd share.Filmed by Wino's husband Blake, in it Amy and a friend have a little sing song of a pretty damn racist. Sure, people say some stupid stuff and that doesn't all the time mean their a racist, but you'd figure people in the spotlight would watch what they say. ??In a perfrect world,?? I guess well, the real world isn't
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Winehouse Confirmed For Nelson Mandela 's 90th
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Amy Winehouse has officially been added to the lineup of artists set to perform at a special London concert marking the former South African president's 90th birthday."As previously reported,":PR the troubled pop diva was summoned for the event, but it was uncertain if she would accept the invite or not.Also confirmed are Leona Lewis, Queen, Razorlight, Annie Lennox and Shirley Bassey are set t...
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Back To Black
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Just found this on youtube (Pekka, you've made my morning more than you know!), it's the video for Back To Black:Love.Have a good Sunday morning :)
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Find The Discrepancies In Amy Winehouse Wax Figure
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While Amy Winehouse might "not like":http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/07/15/amy_winehouse_dislikes_wax_figure the idea of being immortalized in wax, her parents seem to be lingering to whatever last glimpse of a sane daughter they can get. When I saw the wax figure I was really disappointed with the wax sculptors at the world famous Madame Tussauds in London for not making it quite...
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UMusic Tells Winehouse No New Record If You Don't Stop The Drugs
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Winehouse may be "working on some new music with her Back in Black producer Mark Ronson":http://mog.com/mollifire/blog_post/156335, but that doesn't mean fans are gonna be seeing a follow-up to the album anytime soon. Seems Winehouse's label Universal has given the neo-jazz singer "(and boozer)":http://mog.com/Pop_Savant/blog_post/156138 an "ultimatum.":http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz
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Cambridge U English Students Tested On Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday & Amy Winehouse Lyrics
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Cambridge University English students were presented with an unusual question on their final exam this month. The formula was familiar enough - compare the following piece with works by different writers. But instead of comparing Milton, Blake, Shakespeare or Wordsworth, students had to compare Sir Walter Raleigh's "As You Came From The Holy Land" with one of the following:Bob Dylan's "Boots ...
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Hilarious: Amy Winehouse Fights With Cab Driver
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I'd be pissed too if I were a cab driver and Amy Winehouse made me wait an hour and a half for her and then didn't pay. After being called to her flat in London and ordered to wait, a cab driver finally lost his patience and upon approaching her place had a little spat via intercom. Most of the paparazzi recording the incident feel bad for the driver, while Winehouse points out the obvious -- t...
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Fan Who Was Punched By Winehouse Says It's "Part Of The Glastonbury Experience"
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1 more Glasto post before diving into newer news... The 25 year old fan who was abused by Amy Winehouse spoke to BBC about the incident. James Gostelow is in good spirits about the ordeal, stating: At the end of the day it is all part of being at the front and being pushed by thousands of people. It is all part of the Glastonbury experience. He also commented, "Not everyone can say they have ...
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