Amy Winehouse Reaction! Back to Black Full Album Review! Father & Son 1st time Hearing Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse's "Back To Black" is up for review today, and we give our reactions to the Amy Winehouse album in a track by track format! This is the first time we have listened to “Back to Black”! Our thanks to Patreon supporter Josh who suggested this album to us, be sure to send him some love in the comments below if you enjoyed this review!

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Quick Facts:
• 2nd and final Studio Album released in October 2006.
• Won numerous awards at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Rehab"; the album received nominations for Album of the Year and won Best Pop Vocal Album, Winehouse won Best New Artist and Mark Ronson won for Producer of the Year.
• #1 in UK and best-selling album of 2007 in the UK, #2 in US
• Rolling Stone #451 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
• Critics loved it.

Winehouse predominantly based the album on her tumultuous relationship with then-ex-boyfriend and future husband Blake Fielder-Civil, who temporarily left her to pursue his previous ex-girlfriend. Their short-lived separation spurred her to create an album that explores themes of guilt, grief, infidelity and heartbreak in a relationship. Influenced by the pop and soul music of 1960s girl groups, she collaborated with producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson, along band The Dap-Kings, to assist her on capturing the sounds from that time period while blending them with contemporary R&B and neo-soul music. With the Dap-Kings—Three of the horn players from the group played a baritone saxophone, a tenor saxophone, and a trumpet. Ronson recorded the trio to create the "'60s-sounding metallics" on the album. The drums, piano, guitar, and bass were all done together in one room, with the drums being recorded with one microphone. There was also lots of spill between the instruments. The album is noted to resemble Phil Spector's Wall of Sound.

All tracks written by Amy Winehouse, except where noted

1. Rehab - Produced by Ronson, lyrics are autobiographical and address Winehouse's refusal to enter a rehabilitation clinic. lead single #7 in UK, #9 in US becoming her only top 10 hit in US. Has been referred to as her "signature song". Won 3 Grammys for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Rolling Stone #194 on 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time.

2. You Know I'm No Good - 2nd single #18 in UK, Uptempo about Winehouse cheating on a "good man that loves her", and therefore cheating herself out of a healthy relationship. The lyrics also entail Winehouse as being "helpless" while trying to understand and resist her own self-destructive compulsions.

3. Me & Mr Jones –Jazz and reggae-influenced she sings about accepting that she never made it to a Slick Rick concert, but yet refuses to skip a Nas show as they were both close friends (Nas' last name is Jones). The song's title plays off the 1972 "Me and Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul.

4. Just Friends –Is about "[a woman] trying to pull away from an illicit affair", with lyrics indicating, "The guilt will kill you if she don't first".

5. Back to Black – 3rd single #8 in UK. Rolling Stone #98 on their list of the 100 best Songs of the '00s.

6. Love Is a Losing Game – 5th and final single, is a sentimental ballad that invokes love as a pastime that could be "addictive and destructive". George Michael’s desert island disc.

7. Tears Dry on Their Own – 4th single #16 in UK. While the melody and lyrics are composed by Winehouse, the music behind her voice is a sample interpolation of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's 1967 song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough",

8. Wake Up Alone –written by Winehouse and Paul O'Duffy, sentimental ballad that "chronicles [the] time right after a breakup [and] when you're trying not to think of the person by keeping busy.", but when night time comes, so do [the] thoughts of said person."

9. Some Unholy War –

10. He Can Only Hold Her –

11. Addicted – bonus track included on the expanded versions of Back to Black, pertains to Winehouse's experiences with marijuana.

Fave Tracks – He Can Only Hold Her, Rehab, Back to Black

Overall Score – Trey 8.5/10, Shawn 8.25/10

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