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Originality	Average
Lyrics	Thought-provoking
Quality and consistency of tracks	One hit and lots of B-sides
How does it compare to the artist's other releases	Average
Value for Money	Good

Advantages:	Specials tunes and valerie
Disadvantages:	Seems to glamorise rock lifestyle with drug abuse, wrong msg 2 our youth

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

It about time we had an artist who can deliver something which is considered to be alittle different nowadays, we have became to used to cheesy pop tunes and it is refreshing to have such a young artist who delivers such powerful vocal talent.
She is clearly an individual who stands to be counted and deserves recognition!
My favourate is valerie and the specials songs of course!However, amy needs to sort herself out, walking out of hotel rooms with blood marks from hitting up in  her feet is shameless, has she no dignity,self respect, it seems she doesnt have much of an opinion of herself.
When she sings sober or clean or even both, she's good, however, its pain staking listening to her struggling to get the tones right, i dnt know alot about music, but i know she's outa her head half the time and outa key!!!! stupid girl, glamorising drug abuse, it aint no rock star lifestyle-its actually quite dark.
She seems to be on the dwn ward spiral esp with pete docherty hangin around her-say no more...

I like most of the album, although cd1, can seem to be a bit of a drone in the backround...I really like the specials-monkey man is excellent, amy really vamped it up, putting her own stamp on it.
Cd 2(bonus cd) is in my opinion the best one, her songs- relate to her lifestyle, experiences, like crying on the kitchen floor(lyric) over a lover. Often people write and sing etc about their lives and it can be a good thing, to express yourself, although the drug issues are ever prevalent in her songs which seems to advocate the issue, all I am saying is there are so many impressionable youths today!