Daytripper

"Frank" never really hooked me, but "Back to Black" is a fantastic album. You are correct though, Adele is a much more soulful singer than Winehouse was. So weird to use past tense. Another great singer with a big voice who doesn't get the attention she should is Beth Ditto. That last Gossip album was quite possibly the best album of 2009 (IMO). Ditto's vocals and range absolutely knocked my socks off.

PopcornTreeCt

I love Adele but I wonder without Winehouse's rise to fame would we ever know about Adele? I think Winehouse opened the door for her.

atlantamoi

Hell no. No way. This is not a putdown on Adele. I love that there are popular soul tunes that touch back to the 60's. While Winehouse wasn't necessarily completely original, her popularity totally opened the doors for these other women.

atlantamoi

Okay, she had one really popular song, but that wasn't exactly what you said in your first post. "Good" and "popular" rarely mean the same thing in my book when it comes to music. I can understand why people wouldn't want to follow the career of an addicted mess. But I treat Amy's music pretty much the way I've treated any other musician and that's by focusing on the tunes and not their personal life. We've had discussions like this before (not you and me specifically), but I'd have to toss out the majority of my recordings if I had to like the personal lives of each artist.

I thought Back To Black was a massive improvement on Frank for what it's worth.

hal9000

You're right, my first post could have been more clear. And I agree, for the most part I can look past addiction or other legal problems when it comes to entertainers that I enjoy. For example, I do believe Michael Jackson had some pretty fucked up issues stemming from his abusive father i.e., "hanging out" with young boys but I still like listening to Off The Wall and Thriller. And I'm not even a Michael Jackson fan... but I'm a huge fan of Quincy Jones, the producer of both those albums.

I also agree with you about Amy's Back To Black album, from start to finish it's pretty tight, and I prefer it much more than Frank. But I find myself skipping tracks on both those albums, unlike Adele whom I can listen to her albums start to finish and all over again... sweet, sweet music. Adele's voice just "does" it for me, it drips like honey, it's that good.

Amy's career was overshadowed by her drug addiction and it should have been the other way around. Her death/drug addiction is unfortunate... she should have been way more prolific in the past 5-6 years. Amy could have easily knocked out an album a year (or every other), instead she let her demons slowly destroy her. I blame her death on the person that gave her her first "line, bump" or "hit."

mickey65

Looks as if her dad may have a couple more albums to release - once he gets copyrights on the covers cleared:

http://globalgrind.com/music/amy-win...#ixzz1zr9ri2zt

Can't wait!