Okay I know when I've been pwned.
― Clothing the Gotterdammerung Doors (noodle vague), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link
eppy you know that 'me and mr jones (fuckery)' is about her crush on nas?
the first album has flaws (it's patchy, and she bellows rather than sings too much) but search 'amy amy amy', 'fuck me pumps' and 'take the box' - they're all fantastic.
― lex pretend (lex pretend), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― lex pretend (lex pretend), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― alext (alext), Thursday, 18 January 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link
She talked onstage about the Nas thing Lex (with Jigga in the house even) and yeah, I've listened to Frank for the past week; "patchy" is the word.
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
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― It's Tough to Beat Illious (noodle vague), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link
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― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I guess I always hope when somebody is publicly self-destructing that it's part of the persona they're creating. It would kinda make sense that on the back of an album of melancholy booziness she'd method act the character a bit.
― It's Tough to Beat Illious (noodle vague), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
I haven't heard any of her stuff (apart from 'Rehab') properly yet fwiw.
― about:coffee (fandango), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
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― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link
So, Back to Black was released here today, and they took "Addicted" off the record and put that Ghostface remix of "No Good"on instead. WHY?!? Ghostface is basically just screaming over the track, he's totally off beat.
― Quinn Omori, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Jazz singer Amy Winehouse is leading the field for the Mojo awards with three nominations including song and album of the year. Winehouse, who was named best British female artist at the Brit Awards earlier this year, is followed by the Arctic Monkeys with two nods. The Sheffield band are shortlisted for best song and best live act, where they face veteran rock group The Who. Bob Dylan's US chart topper Modern Times is in the running for best album. 'Sky the limit' Reader of Mojo magazine and users of their website handed two nominations to Texas rock group Midlake, in the best album and breakthrough act categories. Other nominees in the song of the year category are The Gossip for Standing In The Way of Control and Scottish band The View for Same Jeans. Singer Johnny Cash is posthumously nominated for catalogue release of the year, for the reissue of his 1969 concert at San Quentin. This is his second nomination in a row in the category, while he gained two further nods in last year's shortlist. The Mojo awards ceremony will take place in London on 18 June, at which the magazine will bestow a number of honours including the Hall of Fame and lifetime achievement awards. Editor-in-chief Phil Alexander said of Amy Winehouse: "Now the sky is the limit for her. There is nothing that can stop her apart from herself."
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 01:39 (sixteen years ago) link
― Lawrence the Looter, Thursday, 10 May 2007 02:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I suspect you're missing something *and* it's not for you. Not sure what anyone can tell you. Soul is in the ear of the beholder, I guess.
― Alba, Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
Yes, I really like and enjoy soul.. But this is quite hollow-sounding to me. Like a ritzy, gestalt 'La La Land' tribute to soul which doesn't really enhance or improve upon its influences save for chucking in a few swear words and modern references.. Always found 'Rehab' very clunky as a song, while Back to Black sounds like a Shirley Bassey tribute act.. I mean, I get that people like to hear this, but for the level of praise heaped on, I'd have expected something more... original? Perhaps it's down to set and setting. Her music immediately transports me to depressing provincial bars and clubs in mid-2000s UK.
Anyway, I'll shut up now as it's NAGL to denigrate a deceased star on her own thread when clearly she has a lot of stans here.
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
oh man. I'd say so. possibly blunted a bit by all of the retro people that tried to catch the same wave in the early 10s.
I had heard her name a bunch around 2007, but sadly, more for her "lol she's a trainwreck" escapades and less the music, but I remember hearing "Rehab" and being so taken by her voice, every inflection, and the immediacy of the track. so I bought the album.
had it been all "Rehabs", I think I woulda enjoyed it for a novelty and then never listened to it again, but Back to Black has this aire of authenticity without kitsch that many of the other retro acts were missing. and the anachronisms, ie the profanity/modern slang, that she brought to the sound worked, without coming across as ironic or detached. she was just infusing her own personality onto the existing template.
That she was trying to recreate 60s girl group sound was obvious, but a lot of retro acts focus too much on the aesthetics, and hope it'll do the job even with subpar songwriting. Obviously, Amy did care about the aesthetics - the harmonies on "Me and Mr Jones" are produced in a way that practically SOUND out of the 60s, but the songs almost feel like they could also work in a modern context.
"Love is a Losing Game" is so understated compared to the rest of her songs, the lyrics devastating, her voice a bit more muted, the strings gorgeous and not feeling "tacked on". "Tears Dry On their Own" is the type of song I woulda danced to as a kid on oldies radio, and that she later released a different stylistic version of that song that was equally amazing just proved her brilliance.
I couldn't stop listening to this album and only this album for probably two months. I got Frank later and I love it too, but it doesn't quite hit the heights of B2B.
I was legit devastated when she died.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
There's so much to love on Back to Black, not least the nerve (and skill) to write a great new song on the backing track of an old one (Tears Dry/Ain't no Mountain High) and have it sound genuine and personal instead of just a gimmick.
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
Great post Neanderthal. I'll go back and listen to some of the deeper cuts with that in mind
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
Rehab was the one I never really got into till much later. Until I'd watched the Amy documentary, to be specific.
― Alba, Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
the production is what’s retro 60’s sounding, and it’s easy to think she’s copping on a trend but it’s her style of singing & natural affinity for it that is what made & makex her specialher voice is more on par with jazz singers like Dinah Washington. that’s what’s special - her voice, and her instincts & phrasing, turning her own voice into an instrument of its oen. check out her live covers of old standards, or any of her early live performances & it’ll make more senseor she’s just not yr bag & that’s ok too
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 December 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
damn neanderthal is otm as fuck
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 December 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
my appreciation of her grew significantly after her death and in my mind Back to Black is one of the greatest albums of the century so far. Ronson's production can be overbearing and gimmicky sometimes but in this case it was in service of an amazing talent.
― akm, Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
i absolutely love her 2-tone tracks on the expanded edition of B2B.no production excess, just her live in the studio with a band providing her with the sounds she clearly loves.
― mark e, Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
dog latin, the Al Usher remix of Tears Dry On Their Own (lush disco) or the Mylo or MJ Cole remixes of Fuck Me Pumps might provide a way in for you?
― insecurity bear (sic), Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
(or the More Fish version of You Know I'm No Good)
― insecurity bear (sic), Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
I'll check em!
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
also a good reason to finally take a deep dive into Ghostface's catalogue which is long overdue
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
More Fish version of You Know I'm No Good
love this track
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 December 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
i absolutely love her 2-tone tracks on the expanded edition of B2B.no production excess, just her live in the studio with a band providing her with the sounds she clearly loves.― mark e
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 5 December 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
― dinnerboat, Thursday, December 5, 2019 10:12 AM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Huh, learned from this that the song was written first, and then adapted to Ain't No Mountain:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKW3upDoxsg
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
that was superb, thank you!
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
I kind of forgot about all my mp3s and have had a few fantastic nights digging through them. I ran across a Rhodes piano demo of Love Is A Losing Game that is A+++
Of course it's on YouTube now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Pn6DH7zlU
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 5 July 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link