Amy Winehouse (IMHO one of the best of 2007 so far)

[Beattyful]

i'm definitely not judging amy - but, it's a damn shame that she is dealing with so many issues/demons/addictions right now. she's only 23 years old. went into a coma for a hot sec last month while doing a pub crawl - was fucked up on heroine, ex, blow, weed AND likka. i mean, DAYUM! i couldn't imagine how that drug cocktail would feel. yikes.

her recent album, back to black, is one of my favorites right now. amy has an AMAZING voice. so soulful, but way more real sounding than that joss stone character (whom i immediately think to compare her too - you, soulful white girl from the U.K.) - she clearly has dealt with some pain.

i don't care for the remix at all - i think i would prefer hearing all of her songs as she originally created them.

[RX]

i'm definitely not judging amy - but, it's a damn shame that she is dealing with so many issues/demons/addictions right now. she's only 23 years old. went into a coma for a hot sec last month while doing a pub crawl - was fucked up on heroine, ex, blow, weed AND likka. i mean, DAYUM! i couldn't imagine how that drug cocktail would feel. yikes.

her recent album, back to black, is one of my favorites right now. amy has an AMAZING voice. so soulful, but way more real sounding than that joss stone character (whom i immediately think to compare her too - you, soulful white girl from the U.K.) - she clearly has dealt with some pain.

i don't care for the remix at all - i think i would prefer hearing all of her songs as she originally created them.

i feel you...and, you know, she's not unlike a WHOLE bunch of jazz and blues artists at that same age. pain is fodder for some awesome shit tho, right?

i hope she doesn't become a statistic.
i hope she can afford to stay true to her nature.

[The Crazy Life That Is Alarick T]

No offence, but IMO 2007 hasn't been a great year if this is one of the best.

Ditto, But to each it's own...

[raw stylus]

Restless Soul Feat. Zansika - And I Know It - Seasons Limited.

[Soleful]

i feel you...and, you know, she's not unlike a WHOLE bunch of jazz and blues artists at that same age. pain is fodder for some awesome shit tho, right?

i hope she doesn't become a statistic.
i hope she can afford to stay true to her nature.

I was thinking the same thing that both of you wrote. It's a shame really. That it takes coming as close as possible to the brink to realize your true talent.

Raw Stylus, that tune you posted while nice doesn't come close to the rawness of Amy's angst & pain in her voice. I guess that's the difference between the two. One is totally in touch while the other is just ok or nice.

[Grey Marl]

it's a good tune -great vibe, alix can really hit the spot with some of his mixes

house lives in 2007 IMHO many great records

[djmarbll]

I haven't even heard the house remix, but I do like Amy's album. Her band is the Dap Kings from Brooklyn, who also work with Sharon Jones. Jones had that early Motown sound before Amy Winehouse made it mainstream again.

[cloaked]

the alix a remix is ok to me. i prefer some of amy's earlier/older remixes from her first album that is being released in the US in about a month.


take the box(seiji remix)
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF271073-01-04-01.mp3

in my bed(bugz in the attic dub)
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF271073-01-03-02.mp3

f*ck me pumps(mj cole)
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF271073-01-02-01.mp3

[blackwax]

the alix a remix is ok to me. i prefer some of amy's earlier/older remixes from her first album that is being released in the US in about a month.


take the box(seiji remix)
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF271073-01-04-01.mp3

in my bed(bugz in the attic dub)
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF271073-01-03-02.mp3

f*ck me pumps(mj cole)
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF271073-01-02-01.mp3

i like the older stuff
not a fan of the new stuff at all
certainly not the best of the year IMO

[cloaked]

I haven't even heard the house remix, but I do like Amy's album. Her band is the Dap Kings from Brooklyn, who also work with Sharon Jones. Jones had that early Motown sound before Amy Winehouse made it mainstream again.

i love sharon jones and the dap kings.

how long do i have to wait for you
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF237267-01-01-11.mp3

what have you done for me lately
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF193400-01-01-03.mp3

['Magic' Juan]

i love sharon jones and the dap kings.

how long do i have to wait for you
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF237267-01-01-11.mp3

what have you done for me lately
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF193400-01-01-03.mp3

I like these. Any album recommendations?

[cloaked]

I like these. Any album recommendations?

i believe that they are currently on tour. the band is great(they were Amy's backing band when she toured). i would love to see them with Sharon who i feel is a much stronger vocalist. somebody should get Sharon Jones to sing on some house records.

Naturally
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/168138-01.htm

Dap dippin with the Dap Kings
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/193400-01.htm

['Magic' Juan]

Thank you.

[Martin Red]

I didn't know she could play guitar

[Martin Red]

but way more real sounding than that joss stone character (whom i immediately think to compare her too - you, soulful white girl from the U.K.) - she clearly has dealt with some pain.

Joss is a middle class english bird from the whitest part of Engand and Amy is a middle class girl from London, Joss thinks she's American and Amy thinks she's a black jazz singer from the 1950's.


Pain ? self created, I pity those that deserve pity.

[Martin Red]

tragic story for this chick. hope she gets it together

I hope the problems in Zimbabwe go away (etc)

[Martin Red]

She and her hubby recently got into a physical confrontation:

http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/cele...t-home-201753/

she carries on not turning up for gigs it's her fans that will be confrontational, nah perhaps not, her fans are as rebellious as a herd of sheep.

[Martin Red]

record of the year?? good record, no doubt, but...

stop di blood claat hype machine and let me off...

blame memes, there's always going to those that respond heavily to marketing, these people are called dickheads ta-rah-tid

[Martin Red]

A FEW months ago on this page I asked: "When did the kids take over the place?"

It was a deliberately provocative question aimed at making us, the adults, think about the world we have created for our children. The world that makes them what they are today.

Now comes disturbing evidence from Unicef, the United Nations children's charity, that the kids of Britain are sad, lonely and sick. They rank joint bottom 20th in the child well-being league of advanced nations.

We rank worst for children with kind and helpful friends, worst for having "fair or poor" health, and worst for having under-age sex.

We rate second-worst for single-parent families and for children in households with incomes 50 per cent less than average.

These are shocking figures and I'm not surprised the Government has ducked the issue by saying they are old and out-of-date. Hmm. Does anybody really believe that things have got any better recently?

The truth is that under Thatcher's "greed is good" rule in the 1980s, society underwent a profound change. Nothing mattered except material possessions. Grab what you can while you can, and the devil take the hindmost. Don't love your neighbour, exploit him.

Those were the watchwords, and we are still living with the atomised society they created, in which children are encouraged to be consumers of sexualising magazines and clothes, behave like irresponsible, loudmouthed, drug-fuelled "celebrities" and reject personal relationships in favour of material success. The music industry is also guilty. Rap is crap, but it sells and it promotes violence. Brit-winner Amy Winehouse promises to misbehave on cocktails of vodka, Baileys, banana liqueur and Southern Comfort. What kind of role model is she? ...................................http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columni...name_page.html

[Martin Red]

[Pang]

Dude, whats with the Joss & Winehouse bashing?

[The Crazy Life That Is Alarick T]

Dude, whats with the Joss & Winehouse bashing?

['Magic' Juan]

she carries on not turning up for gigs it's her fans that will be confrontational, nah perhaps not, her fans are as rebellious as a herd of sheep.

[Martin Red]

leave her alone...her addictions are just more apparent than others.

We did it all. We did whatever we could get our hands on back in the seventies. We did fucking handfuls of mushrooms, pills, Ludes, coke. Whatever it was, we just fucking swallowed it, ok? That's what we did! People go, "Well why didn't you go into rehab?" We didn't have rehab back in the seventies. Back in the seventies rehab meant you'd stop doing coke, but you kept smoking pot and drinking for a couple more weeks. You know? "Yeah, give me a case of Budweiser and an ounce. I gotta slow down! Jesus Christ! I'm outta control. Look at the size of my pants for Christ's sake!"

Because that's the big thing now. Rehab is the big fucking secret now. Isn't it, huh? Yeah, you can do whatever you want. Just go into rehab and solve your problems. Isn't that the big celebrity thing? That's what I'm gonna do. Yeah, I'm gonna get famous. Then when my career starts to flag, I'm gonna go into three months fucking bender. Ok? Coke, and fucking pot, and smack, and fucking booze, and drive over people, and beat up my kids, go into therapy, go into rehab, come outta rehab, be on the cover of people magazine, "Sorry! I fucked up!" That's what they do, man. They go into rehab and they come out and they blame everybody except themselves. They blame their parents, right? That's the way. Everybody comes from a dysfunctional family all of the sudden, huh? Rosanne Barr comes from a dysfunctional family? Not Rosanne! She seems so normal to me! The Jacksons were dysfunctional!? Not the Jacksons! These people give each other new heads for Christmas for Christ's sake!

I am sick and tired of hearing that fucking speech. You know? These people come out of rehab they always have the same story. "Well you know, I became an alcoholic because my parents didn't love me enough. And then I became a junkie because my parents didn't love me enough. And I went into hypnosis and therapy and I found out that parents used to hit me." Hey! My parents used to beat the living shit out of me! Ok? And looking back on it, I'm glad they did! And I'm looking forward to beating the shit out of my kids, aren't you? For no reason whatsoever. *thbbt* "What'd you hit me for?" "Shutup and get out there and mow the lawn for Christs sake!" There's therapy for ya! Mowing the lawn and crying at the same time. "The Leary kids in therapy again. Their lawn looks great, it's unbelieveable!"

God.. "I'm just not happy. I'm just not happy. I'm just not happy because my life didn't turn out the way I thought it would." Hey! Join the fucking club, ok!? I thought I was going to be the starting center fielder for the Boston Red Socks. Life sucks, get a fucking helmet, allright?! "I'm not happy. I'm not happy." Nobody's happy, ok!? Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette, or a chocolate cookie, or a five second orgasm. That's it, ok! You cum, you eat the cookie, you smoke the butt, you go to sleep, you get up in the morning and go to fucking work, ok!? That is it! End of fucking list! "I'm just not happy." Shut the fuck up, allright? That's the name of my new book, "Shut the Fuck Up, by Doctor Denis Leary. A revolutionary new form of therapy." I'm gonna have my patients come in. "Doctor, I.." "Shut the fuck up, next!" "I don't feel so.." "Shut the fuck up, next!" "He made me feel so much better about myself, you know? He just told me to shut the fuck up and nobody had ever told me that before. I feel so much better now." Whining fucking maggots.

And all these people quitting. I think it's a good thing, AA. And the recovery and rehab, because I've got some friends who'd be dead without those programs, but you know something. Now we've got a new problem. Because now they quit drinking and drugs, they're completely stressed out, and they decide to work out, which is fine. I'm not a workout guy, but I understood Nautilus. It made sense. There were arm machines and leg machines. But have you seen these people who are using the stair-master? Huh? Have we turned into gerbils ladies and gentlemen? People are paying money to go into a health club and walk up invisible steps over and over again for an hour and a half. "Where are you going?" "I'm going up! And I paid for it too! I can stay here as long as I want!" Folks, you wanna go up and down stairs, move into a fifth floor walk up on the lower east side. Ok? What's next? A fucking chair master!? "I sit down. I get up. I sit down. I get up. I sit down. I get up." The door master. "I open the door. I close..." What the fuck?


http://www.endor.org/leary/

[Martin Red]

Dude, whats with the Joss & Winehouse bashing?

What What ?

SCUM , both of em, thick, materialistic little bitches both of em, don't get all Oprah on me now, they are the black and white minstrel show in a dress, fuck em both, plastic as Pams knockers, no respect from me. although I did buy her first song 'take the box' with Seiji's remix, (same as Blackwax), but that was before her media machine made sure I didn't buy shit all else, waste of money imho, sort of stuff you'll look at in 5 years and think why the fuck did I buy that.

Joss Stone, she can fuck right off, plastic little wannabe yank, fuck her, she probably only saw her first real black person in her teens, before that she probably only saw them on telly, now the bitch thinks she's Aretha fucking Franklin.