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Discussion: The New Sound of the UK: The End is Here
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Originally posted by Qwerty
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For shame.
Maybe You Know I'm No Good instead then. Maybe Ace will be the unhappy poster himself, I can't see Amy going too high, except with Valerie and Rehab.
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I knew the Florence massacre was coming, but it doesn't hurt any less. I especially wish "What the Water Gave Me" could have done better. That song is incredible!
Also, what's with all the hate for "Make You Feel My Love"? Is there any other track in this rate that is more purely beautiful? People have such short attention spans around here.
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Originally posted by Ace Reject
Who's ready for 24 - 21?
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Let's do it!
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"Mercy" needs to be top 20. It's the only song left for Duffy
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Ready.
Hometown Glory, You've Got the Love and some Lily need to go (LDN, Not Fair, Who'd Have Known).
Maybe some Amy since she has the most left.
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Member Since: 11/15/2009
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Originally posted by Green
"Mercy" needs to be top 20. It's the only song left for Duffy
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I think Ace said every girl made the Top 20, so she's safe for tonight
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I can't quite remember what's left, but I'm ready to see "Mercy," "Valerie," "LDN" and "Set Fire to the Rain" go.
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Originally posted by supaspaz
I can't quite remember what's left, but I'm ready to see "Mercy," "Valerie," "LDN" and "Set Fire to the Rain" go.
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Nope.
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Member Since: 11/17/2010
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Quote:
Originally posted by supaspaz
I can't quite remember what's left, but I'm ready to see "Mercy," "Valerie," "LDN" and "Set Fire to the Rain" go.
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Ch....
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Member Since: 6/25/2011
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Originally posted by supaspaz
I can't quite remember what's left, but I'm ready to see "Mercy," "Valerie," "LDN" and "Set Fire to the Rain" go.
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I take back everything I've said over the past month. You are a dumpster baby.
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24.
Amy Winehouse - Stronger Than Me
Average Rate: 7.984
Highest Score: 10 (4x)
Lowest Score: 6 (4x)
Now it's time to say goodbye to the beginning, as Amy's very first single, Stronger Than Me, exits the competition. Amy wrote it with collaborator Salaam Remi, and, although it was her first - and biggest - flop (peaking at #71), she won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song in 2004.
Some more words from The Singles Jukebox?
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Originally posted by Kat Stevens
Amy was never fond of her first album Frank, nor the label that put it out. I was ‘working’ for Island at the time, as an unpaid dogsbody in the press department. My main task was leafing through the morning’s delivery of papers and magazines, snipping out anything that mentioned our artists, sticking it to a bit of A4, photocopying it seven times, then carefully filing everything away in the big cabinet.
Amy wasn’t in the gossip magazines yet (the usual suspect there was Kym Marsh from Hear’Say who we technically hadn’t dropped yet) and the foul-mouthed girl certainly wasn’t in Just 17 with Busted and the Sugababes. Apart from a few one-paragraph reviews rehashing the press release, the only big interview spread she had was with the Sunday Times Magazine, which was slightly bigger than A4 and particularly difficult to photocopy. I had to make several attempts to shrink it down before it would fit in Amy’s tiny section of the filing cabinet. While I waited for the machine to chug away I stared at Amy’s sulky face and read her ‘refreshingly honest’ interview answers. I learned that she had named the album after her dog, that she drank in the worst pubs in Camden, and that lead single “Stronger Than Me” was a slickly-produced bitching letter to an incompetent, over-emotional boyfriend.
By the time I left Island, “Stronger Than Me” had totally tanked at #71, but that was OK because Sunday Times Magazine readers didn’t buy singles and it won an Ivor Novello instead. I would wager that it is the only song to win an Ivor Novello that includes the phrase “are you GAY???“. I’m quite glad Amy didn’t write a snarky song about my awful photocopying skills, even though I gave up in the end and chopped half her head off.
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I liked it. A solid 8. It placed well, but there are plenty of other songs that deserve to leave now.
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9.5. And it was one of the weaker singles on Frank
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I like pretty much everything about "Stronger Than Me"—Amy's attitude, her voice, the groove—but her Back to Black work simply excites me more.
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How dare anybody give drumming song not a 10??!!!
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Originally posted by madonnas
How dare anybody give drumming song not a 10??!!!
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I don't like it.
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Member Since: 2/17/2012
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Quote:
Originally posted by Clump
I don't like it.
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I'm crying for your salvation.
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Member Since: 8/30/2011
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Quote:
Originally posted by madonnas
I'm crying for your salvation.
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I love Florence, the song just doesn't connect with me for some reason.
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