Back To Black (2CD Brilliant Edition)

I Didn't Know What To Say When I Heard About Amy Winehouse's Death. My Favourite Songs By Her Are "Rehab, You Know I'm No Good, Me & Mr Jones, Back To Black & Tears Dry On Their Own. I Love Amy Winehouse's Music, (Even Though I'm Actually An 8 Year Old!

Take Queen, the grandfathers of rock, Madonna, the queen of pop, mix them together and this is what you get. Whereas we are more familiar with Amy's private life than her day job, this drug-taking, cocktail drinking, free-swearing, bouffant hair-wearing, loose-limbed, monster eye-lined chick is the new Princess of Rock/Pop- so move over Britney. If only she knew which planet she was on.
2003's Frank, the singer's debut album, sold worldwide thanks to her extravagant hit single Rehab and its vivid literal relation to her mainstream lifestyle of drug-addictions, booze and her unwanted force towards rehab. In a nutshell...Winehouse. Over the course of the overtly black-and-white tracks, Amy ticks every box for a chic, classic album. From the sexually charged vocals, to the agonisingly honest lyrics, the laid-back beats with the minimal guitar work, combined with the soft trumpets, creates her soulful jazzed edge, much like her playfully-arrogant interpretation of Amy Amy Amy.
Winehouse's songs like Take the Box, I Heard Love Is Blind and Fuck Me Pumps shape a critical but sophisticated watch on not only her meddled life but also the music scene. Her latest album Back to Black is a pure soul package that reflects a significant link to the agonies of love. Hit singles Rehab, Back to Black and You Know I'm No Good have everything: chimes, piano and implausible, beyond belief, jazzy vocals. Mark Ronson even pushed her back up the singles chart when they united with an equally ambitiously good ear for sound, to reproduce the Zutons' own Valerie. And it seems like everyone can't keep their hands off her, with the likes of the equally drugged up, disorderly scrambled Pete Doherty (you know what I was getting at, two of a kind and all that), and the 80's legend George Michael. Both have revealed they are looking forward to working with her- along a music sense.
Yet when she's not high on drugs or too drunk to stay awake during an interview, Amy is a refined Rock goddess, Pop princess and R'n'B artist, with a strong jazz influence. Assuming that we all agree to forget her outrageous actions and focus on her solidified jazz feel, then she is sure to be sticking around. Let's just hope that she doesn't forget.

If you like her buy it as it wont dissapoint..very deep lyrics

Amy whinehouse is like Nigel Kennedy--Funny haircut and stubble-no seriously,huge musical talent,obstructed by a strange fascination to lurid headlines which obscure the fact that they are prodIigiously talented.
Whinehoudse has a great voice thatis full of soul and passion'that has the aching passion of Bessie Smith.and the power of Janis Joplin and look what happenend to them.
Listen to"Rehab" and this could be classic 60's soul as could be"Love is a losing game"and the version of "Valerie"on the bonus disc is a revelation Amy is young and despite her problems ,she has made her great album.

Worth it for the bonus disc, but the actual album is patchier than most will admit. A great singer with a wonderfully emotive voice, but not the genius songwriter that some tout her as. Unfortunately this may be her swan song as anyone I know who has seen her doing the festivals this year feel she is beyond a comeback.

This album truly is a classic of our time. She has the typical lifestyle of the rich and tragic, such as Jim Morrisson, Hendrix, Joplin, Monroe and Elvis. She is a master of her art and suffering for it too.

Every track on the CD is a masterpiece. She writes with emotion and tongue in cheek sassiness. The well known tracks such as Rehab, Back to Black, and I'm No Good are fantastic but the little known ones on the album such as Me and Mr Jones are amusing as much as they are amazing.

This Album is the best UK female creation this decade has to offer. Buy it, listen to it and love it... as previously mentioned, enjoy her now while you can, she may not be with us for much longer.

Love this album - buy 'Frank'.

she has a great voice, its a shame she doesn't appreciate what she has, buy this album because soon she won't be making anymore

Dunno what the last two people who reviewed this are on...but they are totally deluded. This album is an absolute masterpiece and even if you dissaprove of Amy's lifestyle, you cannot deny she has an absolutely amazing voice and every song on this album is an absolute classic. Buy it now, you will not be dissapointed.

A truly awful CD and a real let down. The songs on it just don't live up to singles she has released. I had high expectations for this but I won't be listening to it again in a hurry.

'Pvdhoo' can't have listened to much music if he/she thinks Back To Black has poor sound - a lot of the sounds on the first CD are purposely retro, harking back to classic Motown and Ska, for example the drum sound on Just Friends. It's all a matter of taste and opinion of course, but my opinion is that this album (not the extra stuff, just the original CD) is pretty much faultless - a mix of strong melodies and rhythms, some amazing lyrics (think about what she's saying about life and love), and emotive vocals. So far, the best thing she's done.