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  " We only said "goodbye" with words / I died a hundred times"  wails the songstress on the album's title track. A raw and heartbreaking story, Back to Black depicts a woman struggling with her personal demons. Though it was promoted to be an album strictly about heartbreak, it turned out to be more self-reflective. Temptation, loneliness, addiction, depression & self-sabotage are all topics that were covered throughout the 10 track album. These topics, however, were not the usual criteria for the standard pop album. There weren't (and still aren't) songs topping the billboard charts that contain lyrics like " I'm gonna lose my baby / So I always keep a bottle near." Amy Winehouse didn't sugarcoat things, and Back to Black is a strong testimony to this.     Amy Winehouse's storytelling chops are introduced to us with the first track Rehab. The song is a retelling of a situation that actually happened in her life. Those cl...

      Much different from their "classical meets garage rock" 1967 debut album titled " The Velvet Underground & Nico " and their proto-punk sophomore 1968 album " White Light/White Heat ", The Velvet Underground's 1969 self-titled album proved to be a turning point in their overall sound and career. Most of the tracks included on this album have more of a softer sound and Lou Reed's personal touch to the lyrical content provided an inside look into his life and thought process at the time.       The opening track, "Candy Says", is a soft, biographical song about Warhol Superstar, transsexual icon, and Velvet Underground muse Candy Darling. It features member Doug Yule on lead vocals and documents Darling's desire to escape her birth gender. The song also, according to Lou Reed, is about "something more profound and universal, a universal feeling I think all of us have at some point. We look in the mirror and we do...