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Album Description: 2008 debut album from the singer/songwriter. Citing her influences as diverse as Etta James, Jill Scott, Bjork, Dusty Springfield, Billy Bragg, Billie Holiday, Jeff Buckley, The Cure and Peggy Lee, Adele is a truly unique new artist. With her mix up of R&B and Soul served up with a healthy dash of feisty London attitude, she spins beautiful dark stories of loves won and lost and sometimes just daydreamed about. 12 tracks. XL. Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-05
British Soul
I love this CD. I am a fan of British singers and am glad that I added this one to my collection. She has a beautiful voice and her songs are very personal. Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-05
Let Adele be Adele...
I absolutely love this album. I do not often listen to the mainstream radio stations or music television, but I happened to catch a clip of "Hometown Glory" and it was beautiful so I did some searching and found this album. I'm glad I did.
I do not understand why everyone has to compare her to other people. I think she creates amazing music in her own right. Yes, she has a bit of the raspy retro sound as a few others who have recently hit the charts, but is that really a bad thing? How many rock bands have similarities? Country? Rap? I think it's great to have a broad variety of music that is actually worth listening to.
Let Adele be Adele. Rating:
Date: 2008-07-04
Add Adele to the British Invasion of 'New Amys.'
While the Amy Winehouse cautionary tale continues to play out in the tabloids, several other UK singers seem to be in a catty competition to take center stage as "the next Amy Winehouse." Nineteen-year-old London soul and jazz singer, Adele (Adele Laurie Blue Adkins ), has been called one of "the new Amy Winehouses." The girl can sing, and 19 is a remarkable album. Like Amy Winehouse (Back to Black), blue-eyed Duffy (Rockferry), and Estelle (Shine), Adele's songs have Etta James and Dusty Springfield retro influences. Driven by the hit soul singles "Hometown Glory" and "Chasing Pavements," a Dylan cover, "Make You Feel My Love," and a Sam Cooke cover, "That's It I Quit I'm Movin' On," 19 establishes Adele as a "bright-eyed innocent with bags of talent" (Thompson, The Times, 30 December 2007). The success of Adele's album has consequently resulted in a public catfight amongst the other new Amys. British hip-hop singer Estelle has criticized Adele for misrepresenting the true black essence of soul music, and blue-eyed Duffy agrees. Thus far, the old Amy has no comment. Album tracks include
1. Daydreamer
2. Best For Last
3. Chasing Pavements
4. Cold Shoulder
5. Crazy For You
6. Melt My Heart To Stone
7. First Love
8. Right As Rain
9. Make You Feel My Love
10. My Same
11. Tired
12. Hometown Glory
Limited Edition Disc 2
1. Right As Rain
2. Melt My Heart To Stone
3. My Same
4. That's It, I Quit, I'm Moving On
5. Chasing Pavements
G. Merritt
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Date: 2008-07-01
Blue- Eyed Soul
I was suprised,because "Chasing Pavement" does not give an accurate description of what you will here. There are great songs. The CD seems short, but they do give you a bonus CD. Rating:
Date: 2008-06-25
Fantastic Album!!
Seriously I love this album! I can't stop playing it. It's the type of CD you play when your in a lax mood. Fav tracks would have to be Hometown Glory and Cold Shoulder. This is a must have, Enjoy :o) |
