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Adele - 19 - 2008 - 404 

Artiest: Adele 
 Album: 19 
 Jaar: 2008 
 Bitrate: 
 Genre: Soul / Pop 
 Label: XL 
 Land: Verenigd Koninkrijk 
 MusicMeter link ::: .musicmeter.nl/album/104706
 Rating: 318 stemmen | met een gemiddelde van 3,60 (MusicMeter) 

ARTiST: Adele 
ALBUM: 19 
BiTRATE: 166kbps avg 
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz 
LABEL: XL Recordings 
GENRE: Pop 
SiZE: 54.53 megs 
PLAYTiME: 0h 43min 33sec total 
RiP DATE: 2008-01-25 
STORE DATE: 2008-01-28 

Track List: 
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01. Daydreams                        3:40 
02. Best For Last                    4:18 
03. Chasing Pavements                3:30 
04. Cold Shoulder                    3:11 
05. Crazy For You                    3:28 
06. Melt My Heart To Stone           3:23 
07. First Love                       3:10 
08. Right As Rain                    3:17 
09. Make You Feel My Love            3:32 
10. My Same                          3:15 
11. Tired                            4:18 
12. Hometown Glory                   4:31 

Release Notes: 
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YouÆve got to hand it to the Brits committee. It must be hard to think of new 
categories û especially when, over in the States, the Grammys extend to awards 
that may well encompass Best R&B Performance By A Non-Asthmatic or Best Song 
Recorded In A Studio With On-Site Organic Juice Bar. 

In a genius coup, though, 2007 saw the Brits introduce a prize rewarding artists 
for what they havenÆt yet done but might go on to do. In three weeks, when she 
receives the first CriticsÆ Award, Adele AdkinsÆs debut album will have been in 
the shops for all of two weeks. 

If we feel like we already know the musical territory where she resides, itÆs 
probably a post-Winehouse thing. Her nu-Amy status may seem a little too easily 
conferred. And yet the cap fits in all sorts of unavoidable ways. The 
street-smart London upbringing and the big ballsy soul timbre are both in 
evidence. And, like Winehouse, thereÆs something emphatically unreconstructed 
about her view of relationships. Like much of the album, Best for Last was 
written after, to use her words, ôI was cheated onö. 

ôThough IÆm trying my hardest, you go back to her/ And I think that I know 
things may never change,ö she sings, confessing, ôThe meaner you treat me/The 
more eager I am.ö 

In other words, she wants to stand by her man, but finding a man to stand by is 
proving difficult. What recurs time and time again û especially on Daydreamer 
and Make You Feel My Love û is its authorÆs appetite for the search. 

A cursory listen may lead you to conclude that Adele has a voice way in excess 
of her years. In terms of technical ability, thatÆs true. The instrumentation 
seems designed to usher you to that conclusion: a dash of jazz bass, the odd 
string arrangement that seems to take its cue from Massive AttackÆs Unfinished 
Sympathy. 

But this is really a series of cries from the bearpit of young love, and none 
the worse for that. Indeed, no one has put words and music to the long, wet, 
workaday Tuesday afternoons of unrequited love as well as she does on Crazy for 
You. When, on Cold Shoulder, she sings ôWhenever you look at me, I wish I was 
herö, you feel like bringing her a mug of warm sweet milk and a saucer of 
HobNobs, before trying to convince her that no man is worth this sort of 
heartache. She may well agree. But would she believe it if you told her that no 
album is worth this sort of heartache? Probably not. And, when you hear 19, 
neither will you.