Product Description

'Back To Black' is the second album from London-based chanteuse Amy Winehouse. Combining a strong, jazzy vocal style with often frank lyrical content recounting tales of love and loss, Winehouse is a truly talented songwriter with a good ear for melody, making this album an essential purchase. Includes the single 'Rehab'.

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 35 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Customer Reviews

Listen beyond the image
I had dismissed Amy Winehouse as a silly young woman with tattoos and a beehive hairstyle, always in the press for the wrong reasons. Then I heard the song Rehab, and my jaw dropped when I found out who was singing. At once I realised what the fuss was about. What an extraordinary voice. I would never have guessed that a girl from North London had a vocal talent that wouldn't have been out of place in 1960s Memphis.

On this album, Winehouse's voice soars over arrangements which are a throwback to Motown's glory days, and her lyrics are biting and witty. The whole package comes to a peak on the title track.

I suspect some will compare this to Alanis Morrissette's Jagged Little Pill. I beg to differ. That cacophonous whine is very tough to listen to. Back To Black is an amazingly melodious slice of modern melodrama.

This is a superb album. The reason why it is destined for classic status is because the music is not contemporary. I know it may be an odd comparison, but the theme song for the TV series Red Dwarf is timeless because it was in the style of music written 20 years before.

I just hope that Amy Winehouse can sort out her troubled life, so that she either finds tranquillity, or maybe produces more gems like this.

Like Galileo
..there are people who have views that go against accepted mainstream thinking and who are generally vilified for their beliefs. However, time usually bears out their views to be right. Like the world is spherical (ish) and not flat, so Amy Winehouse is merely an ersatz, end of the pier mock Dusty Springfield cabaret act and not the saviour of pop music. A classic case of the Emperor's new clothes, eventually all you people lauding her to the heavens will come to realise this and in a couple of years time will sheepishly admit you were going through a kitsch phase and will be carting of your copies of Winehouse CDs to the nearest branch of Sue Ryder.The only reason she stands out are (literally) because of her ludicrously coiffured barnet and because the mainstream is awash with lame identikit landfill indie bands. I predict her much deserved slide back into obscurity (remember Dido?)will soon beckon as everyone becomes heartily sick of all the media reported rehab visits, sparring with her loser husband, drunken brawls with paps and audience members and her sullen demeanour, aggressive attitude and lack of humour and humility. She is not a tortured genius and this album is little more than a 60s soul pastiche helmed by the most overrated producer in music history.

back to black is a classic amy winehouse is a legend!!
amy winehouse is a legend her voice is amazing and uniqiue she sound like a old 60s singer with a modern twist to it her voice and the music clever sounds old but with a slight modern feel to it genius mark ronson is cool he produced the album well done mark he was on the sunday night project he seems nice and cool well if you havent got this album buy it!! if youre like me and love 60s music buy it if you listened to it and never knew who she was or anything about her private life you would think its was from the 60s with the phil spector sound which is cool the phil spector back to mono 1959-1969 the box set is amazing i got it for £10 few months back what a bargain its now about £60 i think still worth it for the nifty book with all the lyrics and includes the classic christmas album!! highly recommended buy it and if you like phil spector you may also love burt bacharach and joe meek joe meek is the brittish phil spector or burt bacharach he produced some gems like what do you want to make those eyes and me for and green door the original by frankie vaughan and he is most famous for telstar by the tornados an absolute classic!! my music taste is varied if you like back to black you may like dusty in memphis by dusty springfield its fab or river deep mountain high the album by ike and tina turner but my favourite singer ever is karen carpenter what a voice and i love freddie mercury elvis presley and minnie riperton and i like some rock queen pink floyd led zeppelin david bowie there fab i like all music mainly except rap dance no melody to it just boom boom LOL each to there own though what you waiting for get this album cant wait for her next album!! amy youre fab keep strong and ignore the press there nasty its talent that counts also get the deluxe edition its fab too!!