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Adele - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 21, 2012, 10:34 am
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Re: Adele - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 21, 2012, 10:36 am
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[center]What Is The Best Adele Album Of All Time?
Circa 2011
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Re: Adele - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 21, 2012, 10:36 am
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[center]Adele (19) 2008
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Like most people on the planet, I didn't "discover" Adele until
21 became a monster hit. Now, I knew of Adele before when she
came out and even heard a couple of songs and I thought they
were pretty damn good. But for whatever reason, I never sought
her out in large part because she just got lost in the sea of
new Artists that were continually being groomed for mass
consumption. So, with the huge success of the first couple of
songs off of 21, I bought the album and became a huge fan of
hers. Of course after I had exhausted 21 to the max, it was time
to go back and see where it all started. That brings me to...
...19. Now, I gotta say, I wasn't a fan of her debut. Upon
listening to 19, I thought it was a decent album, just nowhere
near the level of 21. I think the biggest hurdle I had to get
over with 19 were the song arrangements and the track order. Now
over time the album has grown on me, but there is that little
something that is keeping me from truly connecting to the entire
album. Once again, it has to do with the different style of
songs that goes against making this one, big cohesive record.
What's funny is that on the album some of the songs that I seem
to be fighting against, I actually love when she sings them
live. I'm talking about Crazy For You and First Love
specifically.
The songs that I immediately got and that still knocks me out is
Chasing Pavements and Hometown Glory. To me, both of these songs
are the crown jewels here. And try as you may, once you hear
them, they get stuck on your head for days on end. Originally I
gave 19 a 3 Star rating, but over time it has gone up to 4
Stars. Will it ever get to 5 Stars with me? Who knows? Come back
in a year or two and see what I think of it then.
Favorite Songs: Daydreamer, Chasing Pavements, Melt My Heart To
Stone and Hometown Glory.
The album cover is what it is.
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19 Music Videos
Adele - Chasing Pavements
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Adele - Cold Shoulder
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Adele - Make You Feel My Love
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Adele - Hometown Glory
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Re: Adele - Discography
By: Mac Date: February 21, 2012, 12:44 pm
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My slowly peeling away the onion skin of Adele was slightly
different. I had picked 19 up when it first came out and
honestly didn't pay that close of attention to it and literally
forgot about it.
Then I was hearing Chasing Pavements on occasion, but with radio
the way it is around here, the 'rock' stations would never play
this. I don't listen to pop or top 40 stations because they
irritate me. So mostly I was getting Adele music from hearing
about her, sound clips from the media. I still didn't jump back.
Then when 21 was getting massive attention even before it came
out, I started to pay much closer attention. Rolling In the Deep
which I'm sure Chip will cover just sucked me in immediately.
That's when I went back to 19. I listened to it over and over.
It still was not that impressive. But I have grown to love
Chasing Pavements and Hometown Glory.
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Re: Adele - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 21, 2012, 12:47 pm
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So, what rating would you give 19?
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Re: Adele - Discography
By: Mac Date: February 21, 2012, 12:57 pm
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Average. It comes out of the gate without great expectations...
as a whole. But the two songs mentioned I think should be
purchased by everybody on the planet. The rest... *meh
*my meh indicates that even the average song is a million times
better than the forgetful crap that comes out of a majority of
music today.
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Re: Adele - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 21, 2012, 1:03 pm
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*my meh indicates that even the average song is a million times
better than the forgetful crap that comes out of a majority of
music today.
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Word.
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Re: Adele - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 22, 2012, 3:25 pm
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[center]Adele (21) 2011
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Listening to 21, it makes me want to go back and drop a star in
the rating for 19. This monster album is just worlds above her
debut. The thing that makes this one so much better are the
songs themselves. The have better hooks and showcase her bluesy
style far more effectively. And overall, it's a more cohesive
album that the first one doesn't have at all. And the other
thing that makes this a winner is the track order. Where her
debut failed in that department, 21 starts it off with the right
song; Rolling In The Deep. You couldn't ask for a better song
to kick things off.
There are so many great songs here that I'm actually stumped at
which one I would call the best. That's a very rare treat to
have to face. So, I guess I could say that my favorite
is............I dunno. Too hard to choose.
Fave Songs: Rolling In The Deep, Rumor Has It, Turning Tables,
Set Fire To The Rain,One and Only and Someone Like You.
Okay, I think it's a toss up between Rolling In The Deep and Set
Fire To The Rain. I would say that Rain gets the slight edge on
this particular day and time.
Album cover rocks.
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Adele - Rolling In The Deep
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Adele - Someone Like You
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Re: Adele - Discography
By: Mac Date: February 22, 2012, 5:02 pm
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Well it got grammy's out the ass for a reason :P
[quote]There are so many great songs here that I'm actually
stumped at which one I would call the best. That's a very rare
treat to have to face. So, I guess I could say that my favorite
is............I dunno. Too hard to choose.[/quote]
Hands down favorite that sets my hair on end is One and Only.
The rest of the album is stellar and enjoy them from fantastic
to just great. ;)
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Re: Adele - Discography
By: Mac Date: February 23, 2012, 6:18 am
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[glow=red,2,300]Adele first artist to go double platinum on
iTune[/glow]
Like many artists before her, global pop star Adele experienced
a post-Grammys album sales boost, selling 730,000 copies of 21
in the past week. Unlike every other artist in history, however,
Adele is the first person to sell 2 million copies of one album
on iTunes in the U.S.
The album, which has been out stateside since Feb. 22 of last
year, reached double platinum status on the heels of Adele�s
Grammy appearance: She won six awards and performed for the
first time since being sidelined by vocal cord hemorrhaging and
subsequent microsurgery.
The new figures, posted on the Columbia Records Tumblr blog
Wednesday, mark the biggest sales week for 21. The album has hit
number one on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart 21 times and has
sold 7 million copies in the U.S. and 18 million copies
globally.
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