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The official Adele thread; New album "25"
Topic Started: Dec 5 2010, 11:30 PM (14,984 Views)
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Unfortunately, the recorded version of "Someone Like You" isn't as good as the Jools Holland live version. :sadalexz:
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I just had my first listen to this album. I don't know what to say, Saying loving it seems like an insult.
I wish I could let her know how proud she has to be on this, In all seriousness this is amazing.

One thing I also have to say, if you're in a 'bad' place right now or unhappy in love.. good luck with this album, it's very heavy when it comes to this but beautiful.

I need more tissues.. jesus..
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Jan 17 2011, 07:27 AM
I need more tissues.. jesus..
no, you need to go to bed NOW! :spank:
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Jan 17 2011, 07:34 AM
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Jan 17 2011, 07:27 AM
I need more tissues.. jesus..
no, you need to go to bed NOW! :spank:
I'm just now starting to loose energy..
but I asked for an earlier appointment so I have to stay awake again all day :)

I can tell them that I am exhausted but they whipe their ass with that information.
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BBC Review

"Genuinely brilliant second album from the London singer."

One of the few real beneficiaries of The X Factor effect – her version of Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love has been darting about the top 40 since the audition rounds, showing more staying power than poor Joe McElderry’s last two singles combined – Adele’s stock has risen significantly since becoming the first recipient of the Brits Critics’ Choice award. Since then she’s picked up Grammys and broken the States as a bonus, so the pressure was clearly on for her next move to deliver big. And, oh my, with 21 doesn’t she just.

The last few years have seen those who started strongly become mightily unstuck on their sophomore efforts. For every Lily Allen there’s been a Kate Nash or a Duffy – the latter’s comeback, Endlessly, seems to have fallen on significantly fewer ears than the 2.8 million who liked her debut – so it’s a treat to hear that no such problems beset 21. It really is so marvellous, you’re almost compelled to stand up and applaud it after the first listen.

With a top-notch production team behind the album, including Rick Rubin and Paul Epworth, every track is a highlight. Current single, Rolling in the Deep, is a modern soul stomper about an errant ex; the literally banging Rumour Has It channels the avenging rock‘n’roll soul of Wanda Jackson; there’s a fine, mellow, acoustic bossa nova-y take on The Cure’s Lovesong. Don’t You Remember is a classically styled ballad, which feels like the sort of tune you’ve known all your life – many are certain to bawl along to it the next time their hearts are broken; and the blues-bruised I’ll Be Waiting could’ve come from any Willie Mitchell-produced southern soul session. Final track Someone Like You, just voice and piano, is an actual thing of beauty, placing the listener in one of those moments where you feel you’re in the presence of a future standard. You can imagine it being both honked through by talent show contestants and transcended by veterans alike.

21 is simply stunning. After only a handful of plays, it feels like you’ve always known it. It will see Adele become an even greater award magnet come the end of the year, leaving her contemporaries for dust. Genuinely brilliant.
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Adele - 21

(XL) UK release date: 24 January 2011

4.5 stars
by John Murphy

With her extraordinary voice, reassuringly dirty laugh and down to earth personality, Adele Adkins seemed manna from heaven from those looking (musically at least) for 'the new Amy Winehouse' back in 2008.

Her debut album, 19, certainly had some standout moments but was marred by an over-reliance on filler tracks - understandable enough for a debut. But there was more than enough potential there to bode well for the future.

With 21, that promise is well and truly delivered upon. And the Winehouse comparisons aren't likely to disappear - for, in a similar way that Back To Black was a massive step up in quality from Frank, 21 represents Adele's coming of age.

As the old adage puts it, from great pain comes great art. And it really seems as if Adele has been through the emotional mill here. Almost every song oozes pain, sadness and anger, but with enough swagger to banish any accusations of self-pity.

Opening track Rolling In The Deep is a fine case in point. Produced by Paul Epworth, who creates a powerful wall of sound built on some phenomenal drumming, it sets the tone of the album perfectly, with Adele warning her unfortunate ex-lover "don't underestimate the things that I can do", before proclaiming "you're gonna wish you had never met me". It's up there with Robyn's Dancing On My Own as one of the great 'woman scorned' songs of recent years.

Advance word for 21 suggested that Rick Rubin would produce the album. As it turns out, he's at the helm for just four tracks, with names such as Epworth, Jim Abbiss (producer for Arctic Monkeys amongst others) and Ryan Tedder (the man behind Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love) also featuring. Nobody outshines Adele herself though - this is an album with her personality firmly imprinted upon it.

Rubin does produce a cover of The Cure's Lovesong. While not quite making the song her own, as she did with Bob Dylan's Make You Feel My Love, it's still a fine, lovelorn rendition. Rumour Has It has more sass, a brilliant blues/soul anthem with more fantastic drumming and a cute lyrical twist at the end, while He Won't Go is outstanding, a soaring soulful number that recalls prime Mary J Blige.

The only real misfire is the overproduced power ballad of Set Fire To The Rain. It's a decent enough song, but Adele's always sounded best when it's just a piano and a voice. And she more than proves that notion with the two best songs on the album, Turning Tables and Someone Like You.

Turning Tables is a fragile piano ballad which really shows off Adele's wonderful voice to its best effect - almost cracking with emotion at times, she really lives the lyrics. Yet, to quote a track from her debut, she saves the best till last with the torch ballad Someone Like You - just piano and that voice, it casts Adele as the spurned lover, turning up outside her ex's house, now moved on and settled down, begging for a second chance. It's desperately sad and utterly, utterly gorgeous.

21 really is one of the great 'break-up' albums, and the first truly impressive record of 2011. Here is a timely reminder that British soul hasn't lost its mojo.
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'lovesong' is GORGE
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meh, I prefer the original. not bad though
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Over 208,000 copies sold in its first week in the UK! :shock:

Her debut album is at #4 too. :shock:
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2/5/11 Billboard 200

Wks On / LW RK / TW RK / Artist / Title / LW Scans / TW Scans / % Chg / RTD Scans

3 118 107 ADELE 19 3,763 4,416 17.4% 894,820
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A friend of mine in Dublin has done a cover of "Someone Like You". He's sooo good! :drama:

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Feb 6 2011, 11:59 PM
A friend of mine in Dublin has done a cover of "Someone Like You". He's sooo good! :drama:

flawless!!!!
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Yeah, he's such a talented guy. Very sweet too.
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Feb 7 2011, 12:09 AM
Yeah, he's such a talented guy. Very sweet too.
he somehow looks familiar, does he preform sometimes?
I didn't have sex with him I'd remember that :p

actually I wouldn't but that's a different story
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Feb 7 2011, 12:18 AM
I didn't have sex with him I'd remember that :p

actually I wouldn't but that's a different story
omg :lmao:
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Feb 7 2011, 12:21 AM
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Feb 7 2011, 12:18 AM
I didn't have sex with him I'd remember that :p

actually I wouldn't but that's a different story
omg :lmao:
I remember now I think, we have a mutual friend who is a photographer in Dublin and I think I've seen him at a gallery or an after party!
no sex!
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Feb 7 2011, 12:22 AM
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Feb 7 2011, 12:21 AM
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Feb 7 2011, 12:18 AM
I didn't have sex with him I'd remember that :p

actually I wouldn't but that's a different story
omg :lmao:
I remember now I think, we have a mutual friend who is a photographer in Dublin and I think I've seen him at a gallery or an after party!
no sex!
:lol2: That could be true alright. He's had lots of arty shots taken of himself, so they were probably taken by that photographer you were sexingknow.
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Feb 6 2011, 11:59 PM
A friend of mine in Dublin has done a cover of "Someone Like You". He's sooo good! :drama:

mind the gap
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You really are *SUCH* an almighty bitch!!!

You listen to that and that's the only thing you can think of to say. Wow.
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