Amy Winehouse DEAD
Sid Bonfire
Crisstti
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237
So sad. She was so talented. Hope she is at least at peace now, and
that her family and loved ones can find it too here.
RIP.
AllaBest
Really, Crisstti!
This just breaks my heart!
She was so talented!
Relive her Grammy performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQtE2RrDAF8
JV
> On 7/23/2011 12:49 PM, Sid Bonfire wrote:
>
> >http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237
>
> What does this have to do with the Beatles you silly fucktard?
You stole my identity, Nick.
johnty
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237
Another member for the 27 club.
Given her lifestyle it doesn't come as a surprise, sad though it is.
Crisstti
I was surprised, though.
Fattuchus
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237
I just heard the terrible news. Heartbreaking. She had so much to
live for.
Frank from Deeeetroit
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237
Sad news, but I do not think anyone is surprised. She was a stand
alone female artist with her talent, way above all of the lip-sync,
computer processed female singers of the day.
Frank
PS - Will be sitting in my second row seat for Macca this time
tomorrow evening at Comerica Park.
Fattuchus
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237
Here's one way to remember Amy and her talent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brp515JORqk&feature=related
Amy does a lovely jazz version of All My Loving.
Frank from Deeeetroit
What a voice at such a young age. Amy had a Helen Shapiro influenced
hairstyle and eye make-up thing. There was a whole lot of un-used
future in her.
Nice version of All My Loving.
Frank
who?
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237
I saw it first. I just didn't post it here.
who?
I kept seeing her name in the headlines, but I still have
no clue about her music.
Nil
rec.music.beatles:
> I kept seeing her name in the headlines, but I still have
> no clue about her music.
There's an easy remedy for that, you know.
Jim Beam
You ain't missing much.
Jim Beam
>
> >http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237
>
> Another member for the 27 club.
Only in age, not talent.
> Given her lifestyle it doesn't come as a surprise, sad though it is.
Those demons are a bastard to shake loose.
Fattuchus
wrote:
Yes, she reminded me of Helen Shapiro, although I don't know if
Shapiro was truly one of her influences.
Fattuchus
I enjoyed her music. For a 21st century star, Amy was very unique. A
great voice and a blend of jazz, soul and early 1960's music.
topaz
wrote:
I hope you had a fantastic time at the concert!!!
topaz
You took the words out of my mouth....she has joined the 27 club, very
tragic.
Well they have a hell of a band up there in heaven
topaz
Drugs, sex and rock and roll.....not necessarily a life prolonging
combination.
Perhaps we should be grateful that more rockers do not die this way.
I suppose I am assuming drugs has something to do with this untimely
death
Reminds me of the song Rockstar by Nickelback
who?
> On 23 Jul 2011, "who?" <yourimageunre...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
> rec.music.beatles:
>
> > I kept seeing her name in the headlines, but I still have
> > no clue about her music.
>
> There's an easy remedy for that, you know.
:-)
who?
I listened to her sing 3 songs in youtube. The music is good.
Didn't care for her voice. You're right.
Crisstti
The Nice Mean Man
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237
La-De-La-De-Da...
Who the fuck cares? Just another commercialized twat created by the
music industry for the kiddies
The Nice Mean Man
johnty
> On Jul 23, 4:35 pm, johnty <john...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jul 23, 5:49 pm, Sid Bonfire <marog...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > >http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237
>
> > Another member for the 27 club.
>
> Only in age, not talent.
>
Maybe, but dying young guarantees that, given time, they will become
the greatest ever in some minds.
really real
>
> Who the fuck cares? Just another commercialized twat created by the
> music industry for the kiddies
Actually, I thought Amy was incredibly talented. She sang with the
authority of a great 60s soul singer, and had modern upbeat & clever
lyrics. I thought she was one of the best things that has happened to
music this century
AllaBest
Absolutely!
She had it the max!
What has happened is very sad.
Maybe there will be a reason for her death that we have not supposed.
AllaBest
Not really.
Not always.
gemjack
<maro...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237
Yes, who could have ever seen this coming?
-gj
Fattuchus
Glad you liked it.
Fattuchus
I agree with you, really real. I remember I had never heard of her
until a year or
two ago when you mentioned her to me here. Glad you mentioned Amy and
her
wonderful music.
moonpie
Is it "her" music? I dont know anything about her. Did she write it
all, arrange it, play it?
Or was she a singer who showed up and sang what the producer told her
to?
Too many are like that... but some are not.
really real
>
>
> Is it "her" music? I dont know anything about her. Did she write it
> all, arrange it, play it?
>
> Or was she a singer who showed up and sang what the producer told her
> to?
>
> Too many are like that... but some are not.
From today's NYTs
While Ms. Winehouse had many songwriting collaborators on “Frank,” her
lyrics already showed her acerbic, unsparing eye on both the people she
observed and herself. “I Heard Love Is Blind,” written on her own, has a
chord progression like a Tin Pan Alley ballad, with lyrics that describe
a tryst with someone who looked like her boyfriend, and try to explain
how it wasn’t really infidelity: “You left me here alone, I drank so
much and needed to touch/Don’t overreact, I pretended he was you/ You
wouldn’t want me to be lonely.”
That friction between retro music and bluntly contemporary lyrics — to
the point of raunch — was perfected on “Back to Black.” On that album
Ms. Winehouse worked with a D.J.-turned producer, Mark Ronson, who could
recreate the anatomy of vintage soul and R&B down to the studio room
tone. (The surprise of hearing cuss words in a classic soul setting was
still a fertile enough strategy, years later, to get Cee Lo Green
nominated for record and song of the year at the Grammy Awards this year
for what was called “The Song Otherwise Known as ‘Forget You.’ ”)
In songs she wrote largely on her own Ms. Winehouse sang about her
misery after a breakup, and about temptations she could not fight off:
alcohol, drugs, sex and addict boyfriends. But with girl-group harmonies
around her, and arrangements harking back to Motown, Stax and ska, she
sounded shrewd and knowing, a woman who recognized all her own
weaknesses and could see beyond them. Her beehive hairdos and
out-to-there eyelashes only made her appear more amused, more in
control, at least at the beginning.
In her music Ms. Winehouse could sketch out her troubles and laugh them
off, with a resilient beat and that insouciant flutter in her voice.
Outside the recording studio, as a human being separate from her art,
she couldn’t do that. Her songs, it turned out, would be wiser than she was.
Fattuchus
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:54:00 -0700 (PDT), Fattuchus
>
AFAIK, Amy wrote or co wrote a lot of her material; also, unlike some
pop stars, she was not "manufactured."
Her musical style and her appearance was her choice.
moonpie
wrote:
what did she play? piano? guitar? both? neither?
Fattuchus
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:27:57 -0700, really real <reallyr...@shaw.ca>
According to her bios, Amy played guitar. But when she performed live
she just sang.
Fattuchus
Fattuchus
This must be an early performance. I'm guessing . . . . she must have
been about 20 here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8NapCCrTEU&feature=related
What an incredible voice.
Jim Beam
>
> - Show quoted text -
Her song "Rehab" sounds exactly like "The Name Game",
with different words.
marcuscp
Well, they both feature baritone saxes and a soul beat so that must be
true. Different melody and chords are merely minor matters, both songs
are sung by chicks and both are in the key of C. Guilty as charged, JB.
who?
I just listened to 4 songs from her Back to Black CD.
It's not her voice that I like so much, it's the music.
She only recorded 2 CD's?
really real
>
> Her song "Rehab" sounds exactly like "The Name Game",
> with different words.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Take the Name Game, slow it down, give it smart lyrics, sing it sultry.
What's not to like?
Fattuchus
Yes, two official CD's. IIRC Winehouse's first one was called "Frank"
and it was quite successful in England. I think it eventually went
platinum. She was about 19 or 20 when she recorded that one.
The second one, Back to Black, made her an international sensation.
She was nominated for 6 Grammies for that one and won 5.
The Nice Mean Man
Shouldn't you be getting ready for bed-time?
TNMM
marcuscp
Here's some bedtime reading for you Herr TNMM;
http://www.slate.com/id/2299967/?wpisrc=obinsite
Jim Beam
Same song different words.
Jim Beam
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> - Show quoted text -
Inter-change the words with the music and it's the same.
marcuscp
Yeah..........right, except "TNG' has only 2 chords doing basically
the same pattern throughout while "R", off the top of my head as I hum
it to myself, has at least 6 and distinct sections, to wit. But apart
from that they're identical, like Get Back and Highway to Hell.
King Size Johnson
> I just heard the terrible news. Heartbreaking. She had so much to
> live for.
Yeah, there were so many drugs that she hadn't abused yet. Also, she
hadn't redone every Motown hit yet.
My condolences to the London crack dealers.
mcnews
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237
if you enjoy new bluesy fem artists try hope waits.
Dave The Rave
>
> >http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237
>
>
There is a book titled "27" (I don't have all the publ. info) but it
details a large number of famous people that died at 27. Not all
muscians.
Dave The Rave
Fattuchus
Here's an early clip of Amy singing and playing guitar.
Fattuchus
Fattuchus
Interview with Amy. Interesting.
The Nice Mean Man
Sorry.... I never read the links of an enemy. Know why....? Because
you WANT me to. :)
TNMM
johnty
>
> Not really.
>
Yes, really. It's already happening
gemjack
Have to say, I'm impressed for the first time with her.
-gj
marcuscp
Curses, foiled again!
Jim Beam
>
> - Show quoted text -
You are deaf, listen to them back to back.
Jim Beam
>
> - Show quoted text -
Then George should not have been found not guilty.
Take the earplugs out and listen to both songs.
Then tell me that "Rehab" and the "The Name Game" don't sound the same.
Nil
rec.music.beatles:
> Then George should not have been found not guilty.
> Take the earplugs out and listen to both songs.
> Then tell me that "Rehab" and the "The Name Game" don't sound the
> same.
OK: They don't sound the same. At all. I say you're projecting.
There's a superficial resemblence in the horn section and general
approach of the rhythm section, but the melody and harmony are
completely different.
p.s. George should not have been found guilty, but that's irrelevent to
this discussion.
Jim Beam
> On 27 Jul 2011, Jim Beam <Tenbeers1...@yahoo.com> wrote in
> rec.music.beatles:
>
> > Then George should not have been found not guilty.
> > Take the earplugs out and listen to both songs.
> > Then tell me that "Rehab" and the "The Name Game" don't sound the
> > same.
>
> OK: They don't sound the same. At all. I say you're projecting.
>
> There's a superficial resemblence in the horn section and general
> approach of the rhythm section, but the melody and harmony are
> completely different.
Not a musician, as a listener, "Rehab" is more of a rip-off than,
"My Sweet Lord" is to "He So Fine".
>
> p.s. George should not have been found guilty, but that's irrelevent to
> this discussion.
That is what I wanted to say, but fucked-up.
BlackMonk
There is a vague similarity, but that's it and the similarity only lasts
for a few seconds. One could just as easily say it sounds "just like "A
Certain Girl" because it's reminiscent of that for a few seconds, too.
It's just a stylistic thing.
The Nice Mean Man
> > Who the fuck cares? Just another commercialized twat created by the
> > music industry for the kiddies
>
> Actually, I thought Amy was incredibly talented. She sang with the
> authority of a great 60s soul singer, and had modern upbeat & clever
> lyrics. I thought she was one of the best things that has happened to
> music this century
I just listened the the whole of Frank, and all I can say is... she
out-Badus even Erykah. Not bad for her type. No, not bad at all..
TNMM
The Nice Mean Man
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Dig....??
Oh, yeah... I forgot... and "smells bad", too.
Bet you like it, though.
Nigger-lover
The Nice Mean Man