1. KleineSean

   10

   People that criticize this album are really heartless. Of course it's not going to sound like a studio recorded album, most of the songs are demos and different versions of some of her songs. However, [I think that what we should pay attention to in here is the amazing job her producers have done with just a few old demos and we should also pay some respect to Amy. I'm not exactly the ultimate Amy Winehouse fan but I appreciate what her producers and her label have done. Take it as if it were a tribute for Amy.… Expand

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2. good-time

   10

   'Hidden Treasures' is not a studio album nor a complitation of greatest hits, so it's not fair to judge it as one. It's enjoyable to listen to and makes you feel nostalgic.… Expand

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3. aarondu

   3

   This is not an 'album', it is a collection of hazy b-sides and hastily re-produced recent demos released just in time for the Christmas gift shopping season. It's not an album to please her fans (though it's nice to hear the great new track "Between the Cheats", the best track here by far) and as such, it seems like a coarse and disappointing way to cash in on the recent interest in Winehouse's music after her early death. There's not a single weak track on the singer's touchstone album, Back To Black--there's a real sense that that album was planned to be as strong, cohesive, and distinctively Winehouse as possible. With the late singer drinking herself to death and only able to record a couple demos post Back to Black, Ronson (the producer here) has no such editing privileges: he's obviously grasping at straws, including mostly material from Winehouse's Frank era and demos from Back to Black. (Frank, by the way, is decidedly timid compared to Back to Black; with Winehouse's vocals especially nasal and her pronunciation a little too polite.) So on Lioness, we're left with a Winehouse cover of "The Girl from Ipanema" that's orchestrated all wrong for her voice, too fast and high; a limp version of "Tears Dry on Their Own" that makes me feel like I just downed a bottle of Nyquil; and a lovely version of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" that was already released...in 2004! Overall, a desperate and disrespectful attempt to wring one more album out of a dead and incredibly talented drunkard. It would have been better to end her discography on Back to Black.… Expand

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