| Product Summary | | Label: Cbs/epic/wtg Records | | UPC: 00886973185926 | | Release Date: 7/12/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 208430003 | | Item#: M4C3MM | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 24730 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Daydreamer ~ Adele |  | | 2. Best For Last ~ Adele | | | 3. Chasing Pavements ~ Adele | | | 4. Cold Shoulder ~ Adele | | | 5. Crazy For You ~ Adele | | | 6. Melt My Heart To Stone ~ Adele | | | 7. First Love ~ Adele | | | 8. Right As Rain ~ Adele | | | 9. Make You Feel My Love ~ Adele | | | 10. My Same ~ Adele | | | 11. Tired ~ Adele | | | 12. Hometown Glory ~ Adele | |
| Limited enhanced pressing of this 2008 debut album from the singer/songwriter featuring the enhanced video for 'Chasing Pavements' added as a bonus track. 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.
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Adele (vocals, guitar); Matt Allchin, Michael Tighe, Ben Thomas (guitar); Neil Cowley (piano, Hammond b-3 organ, Wurlitzer organ); Jason Silver (keyboards); Sam Koppelman (glockenspiel); Tom Driessler (bass guitar, tambourine); Stuart Zender (bass guitar); Seb Rochford, Louis Sharpe, Pete Biggins (drums); Liam Howe (programming); Jack Penate, The Life Gospel Choir (background vocals). | | Audio Mixers: Tom Elmhirst; Loz Brazil; Jim Abbiss; Richard Wilkinson. | | Arranger: Chris Elliott. | | British singer-songwriter Adele received a lot of attention for singles that appeared in 2007, and for her fresh yet seductively familiar blend of soul, blues, jazz, folk, and pop. 19, the artist's full-length debut, makes good on the hype by providing 12 lush tracks that showcase Adele's achingly beautiful voice and her skill at turning a phrase, not to mention startlingly honest songs and smart, carefully balanced arrangements. Fans of Feist, Norah Jones, and Amy Winehouse should sit up and listen; they'll all find familiar qualities to appreciate in Adele, and some new ones as well. |
Producer: Jim Abbiss; Mark Ronson |
Engineer: Richard Wilkinson |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 06/24/2008 | | Original Release Date : 2008 | | Catalog ID : 1859 | | Label : Columbia (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00886973185926 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.76)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] shows off a vocal instrument that smokes the competition. Check out 'Cold Shoulder,' a lover's blues, produced by Winehouse's secret weapon, Mark Ronson..."Entertainment Weekly (p.70)
- "Over crafty retro-soul arrangements helmed in part by BACK TO BLACK producer Mark Ronson, Adele croons lovelorn lyrics in a smoky voice much more mature than her 20 years would suggest." Q (Magazine)
(p.105)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Adele's songs possess an ageless classicism....These are extremely grown-up songs in terms of emotional scope and musical arrangement." Clash (magazine)
(p.62)
- Ranked #38 in Clash's "The 40 Best Albums of 2008" -- "[A] mature, heart-stopping collection that defied her years with a gorgeous voice to match." URB (Magazine)
(p.88)
- "[T]he acoustic ruggedness of the instrumentation appears significantly well-thought out and certainly matches Adele's heartfelt chops." |
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