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Back to Black [Clean Version] | ![Back to Black [Clean Version]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510rf3wzDyL._SL500_.jpg)
| Artist: Amy Winehouse
Label: Republic
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
Buy New: $9.55
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 55719
Format: Clean
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 000855502
UPC: 602517246621
EAN: 0602517246621
ASIN: B000NA1Z1A
Release Date: March 13, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Rehab | | • | You Know I'm No Good | | • | Me & Mr Jones | | • | Just Friends | | • | Back to Black | | • | Love Is a Losing Game | | • | Tears Dry on Their Own | | • | Wake Up Alone | | • | Some Unholy War | | • | He Can Only Hold Her | | • | Addicted |
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Album Description
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."
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Not such a April 15, 2007
Vereen (Thomasville, GA)
59 out of 72 found this review helpful
THIS REVIEW DEALS ONLY WITH THE EDITING OF CURSE WORDS FOR THE CLEAN ALBUM.
I bought the clean version of this album because she uses the "f" word in several songs on the other version and I have young children. The edited version is a disappointment. The curse words are clumsily half-blotted out, leaving an awkward space in the songs, while the phrase, "You don't mean [...] to me" remains untouched. I will still have to press the skip button, which negates the whole point of buying a clean version! If the Black Eyed Peas and Jay-Z can come up with alternate lyrics for some of their edited songs, then certainly Amy Winehouse's handlers could have done the same.
 Masterpiece March 25, 2007
Pieter (Johannesburg)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
From the opening track Rehab I knew this was going to be a great album. Winehouse has a truly soulful voice that expresses all the different moods of the genre. Besides Rehab, my favourite track is called Love Is A Losing Game, a gem of a song in the lost love tradition with a beautiful melody. Another great one is You Know I'm No Good with its powerful sax. And Me & Mr Jones is a stunner. The music gains a distinctive flavour through the use of samples from classic 1960s pop songs, while the lyrics are intelligent and mature. There is a certain authenticity to this seamless blend of funk, torch, R&B and pop music that reaches the heart and soul. And it's rare to find an album these days where every single track is memorable; Back To Black has thus been a very pleasant surprize. I am sure Winehouse wil prove to be a major talent in the years to come, judging by this excellent CD.
Oh My (insert word here)-ing God! I am an Amy Winehouse convert.... April 4, 2007
D. Pawl (Seattle)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
People, if you haven't bought this album yet, go buy it today. There is a reason that people love this woman. Yes, she is unapologetically blunt (when it comes to sex, drugs and everything in between), yes, she dabbles with drugs in real life, and yes, her sound is authentic and DAMN good. I think I'm in love with that voice. I'll tell you why.....
Amy's voice is at once sexy, sensuous, expressive and seductive, and her band is seamless (great horn and percussive section!). What's more, her lyrics are fantastic and unabashedly honest (at times lewd, yes, and allude to her addiction to blow AKA cocaine). She is probably best known for "ReHab," "You Know I'm No Good" and "Back to Black." I feel like I am back in 1960, listening to soul, and then the expletives come pouring out....but, smooth as silk. You can't blame the girl for being angry. I don't know if Amy has just had some tough luck with men, or whether they just take delight in treating her like trash. At any rate, this woman totally channels the rush of emotions that comes with broken relationships, as well as the rush of drug addiction. If you want to hear a good example of the broken-ness, I reccomend "Me & Mr. Jones." (or most of the other tracks!)
This woman is amazing. I just hope (and I say this with sincerity), that she doesn't overdose before her remarkable career truly fluorishes worldwide. Note: As I said before, this album is explicit and has references to sex and drugs (quite graphic sex, at times). Still, this is one of the best soul albums I have heard. She puts Christina Aguilera and all of those wannabees to shame......Praise the lord, soul has returned!
 Eight Deletions September 24, 2007
Mark in Texas
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
Great on every level November 23, 2007
M. DePonte (Griswold, CT)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
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