Back To Black

Amy Winehouse | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: March 13, 2007
• Release Date: March 13, 2007
• Label: Universal (UC)
• Copyright: (C) 2007 Universal Island Records Ltd. A Universal Music Company.
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• Total Length: 35:20
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• ASIN: B000V9HWJW
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,161 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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73 of 94 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not such a, April 15, 2007

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Vereen "rivergirl" (Thomasville, GA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Back to Black [Clean Version] (Audio CD)

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.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Eight Deletions, September 24, 2007

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Mark in Texas - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back to Black [Clean Version] (Audio CD)

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.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece, March 24, 2007

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Back to Black [Clean Version] (Audio CD)

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.