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Alright, Still | 
| Artist: Lily Allen
Label: Regal
Category: Music
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Rating:  98 reviews
Sales Rank: 246
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 094637173923
EAN: 0094636702827
ASIN: B000FMGWRS
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Smile | | • | Knock 'Em Out | | • | LDN | | • | Everything's Just Wonderful | | • | Not Big | | • | Friday Night | | • | Shame For You | | • | Littlest Things | | • | Take What You Take | | • | Friend Of Mine | | • | Alfie |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Being, as she is, the daughter of prominent British actor Keith Allen, the cynics could easily dismiss the rise of Lily Allen as an act of backroom nepotism, talent-free starlet helped to the stage by the right connections. One listen to her debut album IAlright, Still/I, dispels any doubts about young Ms Allen's star quality. Possessed of a feisty wit and taste for urban storytelling that should see her compared to Mike "The Streets" Skinner, these eleven tracks of sunshine-friendly reggae pop cover topics including frustrating potential closing-time suitors ("Knock `Em Out"), being happy when your ex is having a bad time ("Smile"), and having a little brother who likes a bit of a smoke--and not just of the tobacco variety ("Alfie"). Wisely, however, Allen doesn't let the grittiness of the subject matter tarnish the golden pop suss of the songs, a suite of gleaming productions by names including Mark Ronson and Gwen Stefani collaborator Greg Kurstin that take inspiration from at the lighter end of reggae and vintage rocksteady. Doubtless some corners of the press will pillory her as a poor role model, but there's an engaging honesty to the likes of "LDN" - a love song to a city filled with teenage muggers, pimps and crackwhores, narrated by someone who's cycling because "the filth took away my license". Like father, like daughter .--iLouis Pattison/i
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 It's more than alright! May 19, 2007
Justin Sydew (Middleton, Lancashire United Kingdom)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
First of all, I should point out that yes, while Lily does talk with a 'posh' accent and sing in a 'chav' accent, and her music is quite 'chavvish' in flavour, I sincerely doubt that it's a move to sell records. I suspect it's simply the sort of music she is into, and if we all went by that argument, then we should also lambast the likes of Eric Clapton for playing 'black' music, and so forth.
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br /Onto the album - while most of the single pulls are reggae-flavoured (Smile, LDN), there is also straightforward pop (Everything's Just Wonderful, Alfie), although Lily's delivery is far from sugar-coated. Her lovely soft voice weaves effortlessly through the music and her sense of rhyming and timing are inspired at times. The album does come with a Parental Guidance sticker for a reason, though - Lily has slipped in the odd swear word in just about every song, or a reference to sex, so while the cursing isn't constant, be warned that the c-word does crop up, as does the t-word in Alfie and in both cases you get the feeling that Lily slipped them in because she finds it funny and could have easily left them out.
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br /Subject matter seems to be split fairly equally between wry observations of the world around her (Friday Night, Knock 'Em Out) and digs at her ex-boyfriends (Smile, Not Big). Each song is varied and strong enough to stand out from the one that comes before. My personal favourites are Knock 'Em Out with its stuttering drumbeat (about unwanted attention from undesirables), Everything's Just Wonderful (a well-written anthem about the burdens of most young people these days) and Friend Of Mine, although I think that just abut every song on here is a winner. However, Take What You Take is an awful pop-by-numbers song which should have been left off in favour of the far more superior B-side Nan, You're A Window Shopper.
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br /I believe that this is a fine album and one that proves Lily Allen to be a consummate songwriter and singer.
The UK's brightest star. May 16, 2006
Mr. D. S. Cooke (Totnes, Devon United Kingdom)
31 out of 37 found this review helpful
Lily Allen has done a 'mike skinner' and created an album full of songs that catch something ephemeral in Britain and in London in particular. she has, as the streets man has done, been able to find a way to articulate a feeling that has yet to be articulated. the album is packed full of songs that tell stories of people she knows, peoples she's watched and the city she lives in. like a mini snap-shot of a summer day in LDN she has caught it all in a brief moment in time. everything perfectly balanced. and as she sees it.
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br /Her songs are very summery and the release date is no coinsidence, she will be the feelgood artist of the summer. this years Jack Johnson to the masses. She already has a huge following on the internet and it continues to grow, with airplay on radio 1 and the beginnings of a set of live shows in London she is going to be HUGE.
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br /check out LDN. getting alot of airplay and deservedly so. amazing talent!
Truly, brilliant November 5, 2006
H. Clarke (Essex ,United Kingdom)
22 out of 28 found this review helpful
I got this album after months of umming and ahhing. Having bought Smile as a single it was only when LDN came out I thought, "Sod it, go out get it." And I'm so glad I did. Listening to it in the car on the way home was a truly enjoyable experience. Lilly has found a knack of creating songs of normal situations. It's like she has read many young girl's mind and written down their thoughts and created songs. I LOVE Friday Night which has a spooky kind of feel to it and Littliest Things made me cry; who knew that someone else starts remenising when she sees couples kiss?
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br /I will be singing this girl's praises until the cows come home, or until her new album comes out at least!
A truly amazing voice October 12, 2006
M. Dickens (MK,UK)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Lily Allen may possess the most effortlessly beautiful voice I have heard since Karen Carpenter. It may seem a strange comparison since their styles are very different but anyone who witnessed her performance on The Jonathan Ross Show can be left in little doubt. I don't think I've ever heard a live performance that was so close to perfection. Lyrics composed in cockney slang flow like honey and sound even sweeter - how does she do that? Lily's song writing and unique delivery mark her out as a performer of truly rare ability.
dont read the newspaper hype just try it you will like it July 22, 2006
H. E. Perkins (deeping gate)
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
This has to be the suprise album of the summer, i was dreading a collection of pop style poop and this girl proved me wrong...its smart its sassy its funnier than the streets and is so over playable no wonder radio 1 has played smile to death. Alfie for those in the know will have you in stiches...ms allen writes about what we all think, ok 1 out of the 11 tracks raised an eyebrow think it was either track 9 or 10 but you forgive her as when the suns beating down nothing this year will put a better grin on your moosh. after a pretty awful 3rd album from the streets this will put your head back in line and seeing as you can buy it used on amazon for under £6 whats that ??? a packet of bensons..go on give it a try i dare you. And girls track 5 will have you all nodding in agreement i never want to cross this girl....
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