Aimy Winehouse -- who knows her?

I have her Back to Black CD, a good listen. Nice blend of vintage and modern. Doesn't sound like much else out at the moment, more enjoyable to me than Josh Stone. The music seems largely based on her life experience, which I prefer, thus comes off a authentic. Some catchy tunes, short straight forward tracks, I like it. One of the better pop CD's I've purchased thus far this year. Caught her live on TV once and she was a mess, looked drunk or stoned but she wrecked the songs and admitted as much. But that is her vibe and you get it right away, or not.

She is a complete package, perhaps too complete in some respects. She is a brilliant, highly skilled and charismatic singer, but clearly has personal demons that are likely to kill her, and, or her career way too soon.

Her phrasing, intonation and vocal timbre sometimes remind me of Sarah Vaughn, sometimes of Nina Simone, but, perhaps, most of all Carmen McCrae. Compare Amy's version of "Moody's Mood for Love" from the "Frank" CD (brilliant...BTW) with Carmen's "The Best is Yet to Come" from the "Sarah:Dedicated to You" CD, and, perhaps, you'll see what I mean.

She also writes great songs. They are melodically and rhythmically quirky and startlingly direct emotionally, and have the great melodic hooks that press the infinite repeat button in your brain. Just try to get "You Know I'm No Good" out of your head after hearing it twice.

I knew this chick was amazing 10 seconds after I heard her singing "Rehab" on Leno one night. She also looked like she had just finished sleeping off a 3-day bender. So...catch while you can cause I'm pretty sure she won't see 30.

the cut just friends has great bass and ska rhythm

I have not heard her but her "Back to Black" Cd is reviewed in the June edition of Stereophile magazine. They give the performance 3 1/2 *'s and the sonics 4 *'s (all out of 5). They allude to "bad girl image" but are quite complimentary of singing and especially her songwriting.

I can't believe that stereophile rated the sonics 4 out of 5... at best the CD is compressed to hell..
I love the music and her voice but the recording it bad!!!

I'll have to wait for live cd or something and hope they didn't mess it up.