A 10-track unofficial vinyl compilation that surfaced in 2011, the year of Amy Winehouse's death, and never went away. The release pulls together the major singles from Frank (2003) and Back to Black (2006), plus a handful of soundtrack cuts and the Mark Ronson "Valerie" — the kind of one-LP "best-of" that the Winehouse estate never officially issued. It's been pressed and re-pressed across the years on every imaginable color of marbled vinyl: pink, clear, dark grey, neon red, magenta, green, gray marble, and yellow.
Because it's a bootleg, you won't find chart positions, certifications, or liner-note credits for this album — but the songs on it are the ones that made Winehouse one of the defining voices of the 21st century, and the only convenient way to hear them on a single LP.
Cool stuff:
- Unofficial release — there's no label listed on the spine, no booklet, no proper credits, and the pressing has come back over the years on at least eight different vinyl colors
- The tracklist mixes the Mark Ronson "Valerie" hit with the Baby J remix featuring Rukus, Precha, Alex Blood and Malik — a UK garage-leaning take that was never on a proper Winehouse album
- Includes "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" from the Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason soundtrack — one of her loveliest covers, often missed by fans who only own the two studio LPs
- Features "Best for Me" with Tyler James, a duet that lived on Tyler James's debut and has rarely been compiled elsewhere
- Back to Black itself was certified Diamond in the UK (3 million copies) and Platinum many times over in the US — the songs assembled here are some of the most-streamed, most-covered tracks of the 2000s soul revival
Spin it for: the songs that made Winehouse — the Ronson "Valerie," "Rehab," "Back to Black," "You Know I'm No Good" — collected on a single LP that the official catalog never quite got around to releasing.
Standouts: "Valerie" · "Rehab" · "Back to Black" · "You Know I'm No Good"
Sources: Discogs master · Discogs (pink pressing) · Discogs (gray marble) · Going Underground Records