Duffy

[DominicMars 1,761]

Can't believe nobody has brought Duffy up here :'( Her music can be in the same vein as Amy Winehouse and Lana Del Rey's, and she also has a very unique voice. After her sophomore album she dropped off everyone's radar for some reason.


Studio Albums/EPs -
Rockferry (2008)
Deluxe (2009)
Endlessly (2010)



Selected Singles -
Mercy (UK #1)
Warwick Avenue (UK #3)
Stepping Stone (UK #21)
Rain on Your Parade (UK#15)
Well, Well, Well (2010)
Whole Lot of Love (2015)

If anyone's a fan here, please comment! I've been scouring the web trying to find decent quality versions of her live tracks, radio performances, and b-sides. PM me if you would like/may have anything!

Edit:
I recently made a live compilation of Duffy's bbc performances, the tracklisting is as follows

Mercy (Live on Radio 1 Live Lounge)
Ready for the Floor (Live on Radio 1 Live Lounge) *Hot Chip Cover
Stepping Stone (Live on Radio 1 Live Lounge)
Borderline (Live at Radio 1 Big Weekend 2008) *Madonna Cover
First Cut is the Deepest (Jools Holland New Year Show 2007) *Cat Stevens Cover
You Do Something to Me (Live on Radio 1 Live Lounge)
Wonderwall (Live on Radio 2 Great British Songbook)*Oasis Cover

Message me if you're interested! Or have anything to contribute
 

[drewby 9,215]

I love her

 

Her 2nd album flopped horribly and then she took a hiatus, but she did two songs semi-recently for a movie

[Trash Magic 26,727]

i got in to whole lot of love like 2 weeks ago. always loved her and have been listening to her again this year

[DominicMars 1,761]

Rockferry is really great. Always been a fan but just discovered (the Warwick Avenue b-side) Loving You and Fool For You. Stellar production.


Some people may not know thatbDuffy worked with both EG White and Bernard Butler on her first album. Butler produced LDR's Afraid and EG White produced Oooh Baby and TLOTS I think. I'm too lazy to double check.


Bernard Butler actually kind of talked shit in a recent interview I found :'(

[DominicMars 1,761]

Bernard Butler on working with Duffy....

The first interview is from 2013 and the second article is from 2014

 

You talk about Dusty Springfield, Duffy has been compared to her, did you enjoy working on her debut album and did you anticipate the success that Duffy would have with Rockferry?

 

Bernard Butler: I didn’t see that coming. I did all of the stuff with her, we did it in my bedroom and we did it all there and we were working on and off for three years. Rockferry was the very first song we wrote and we wrote it within an hour of our first day. For the next three years we did work endlessly and we did 6 or 7 songs for the album and she was also working with other people. At the end we pulled it together at the end with a compilations of the best songs. We had no idea what was going to happen. She was a real fizzbomb and a effervescent person and got quite happy and I got the feeling that behind the smile, there was quite a nervy and a lot of nervous energy. I always liked her and it was a crazy time. We didn’t expect it to escalate the way it did.

 

Were you disappointed not to be involved with the second record?

 

Bernard Butler: No, because I chose not to be. She was doing it in a different way. We did a few things around the time she was going to start to record the second album and I just said you’re writing about being famous here and when we met we was writing about Rockferry, this tiny place that she related to but went onto become an 8 million selling record. I had a feeling that it just wasn’t right and I just let it go.  She did the second record her own way and she sort of live by the sword, die by the sword in a way for that album. It was a hard time for her and there was no way of following that album up and it was incredibly hard. I always wanted to get out when I felt that the record wasn’t going to be as good. This was the same with Suede. I really like her and I’m protective of her and people are to quick to knock her down after her second record.

http://louderthanwar.com/bernard-butler-in-depth-interview-with-former-suede-man-who-turned-into-one-of-the-best-producers-of-his-generation/

also this article - "Bernard Butler: 'Duffy went off the rails'"





 

[drewby 9,215]

Bernard Butler on working with Duffy....

 

The first interview is from 2013 and the second article is from 2014

http://louderthanwar.com/bernard-butler-in-depth-interview-with-former-suede-man-who-turned-into-one-of-the-best-producers-of-his-generation/

 

also this article - "Bernard Butler: 'Duffy went off the rails'"

 

I kind of see where he's coming from because Endlessly was weirdly inauthentic. Her signature vocals became too sharp and the disco vibe she had going on bore no resemblance to any part of what made her first album great

[DominicMars 1,761]

I'm working on a Duffy mixtape with b-Sides and radio sessions if anybody is interested! Just waiting on a few promo singles for FLAC rips

[SlowGinFizzzz 15,305]

OMG how could I forget about her! I even have the Rockferry deluxe edition CD, there are some great songs on it. But after the disappointment that Well, Well, Well was, it seems like her career ended rather abruptly. 

 

Edit: OK wait, she posted this on her Facebook page a couple months ago. Looks like she's working on something new.

Edited September 25, 2016 by SlowGinFizzzz

[DominicMars 1,761]

UGH FUCK I need something new from her so badly!

Rockferry Deluxe is so good, but I prefer some of the singles' b-sides (although Fool For You slays :'( )

[SlowGinFizzzz 15,305]

I've been scouring the web trying to find decent quality versions of her live tracks, radio performances, and b-sides. PM me if you would like/may have anything!

 

Edit:

I recently made a live compilation of Duffy's bbc performances, the tracklisting is as follows

 

Mercy (Live on Radio 1 Live Lounge)

Ready for the Floor (Live on Radio 1 Live Lounge) *Hot Chip Cover

Stepping Stone (Live on Radio 1 Live Lounge)

Borderline (Live at Radio 1 Big Weekend 2008) *Madonna Cover

First Cut is the Deepest (Jools Holland New Year Show 2007) *Cat Stevens Cover

You Do Something to Me (Live on Radio 1 Live Lounge)

Wonderwall (Live on Radio 2 Great British Songbook)*Oasis Cover

 

Message me if you're interested! Or have anything to contribute

Maybe you could send me the live tracks you have? 

[evalionisameme 13,499]

Release that mixtape I love the soft rock and soul of her first album

[SlowGinFizzzz 15,305]

Edit:

I recently made a live compilation of Duffy's bbc performances, the tracklisting is as follows

 

Mercy (Live on Radio 1 Live Lounge)

Ready for the Floor (Live on Radio 1 Live Lounge) *Hot Chip Cover

Stepping Stone (Live on Radio 1 Live Lounge)

Borderline (Live at Radio 1 Big Weekend 2008) *Madonna Cover

First Cut is the Deepest (Jools Holland New Year Show 2007) *Cat Stevens Cover

You Do Something to Me (Live on Radio 1 Live Lounge)

Wonderwall (Live on Radio 2 Great British Songbook)*Oasis Cover

Do you still have that live compilation? 

[californianfreak 3,479]

YAAAS LOVE DUFFY

 

Warwick Avenue is one of my favourite all time songs 

 

And Rockferry is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.

 

Ugh I need to get back into her and listen a lot more like I used to

[SlowGinFizzzz 15,305]

YAAAS LOVE DUFFY

 

Warwick Avenue is one of my favourite all time songs 

 

And Rockferry is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.

 

Ugh I need to get back into her and listen a lot more like I used to

Rockferry is one of the best albums I know. But somehow I always kinda forget about it for some months and then rediscover it haha.

 

I love the fact that there's the original album, the deluxe edition and all the B-sides from the singles. When will Lana?

[californianfreak 3,479]

Rockferry is one of the best albums I know. But somehow I always kinda forget about it for some months and then rediscover it haha.

 

I love the fact that there's the original album, the deluxe edition and all the B-sides from the singles. When will Lana?

 

Same I always go long periods without listening to Duffy and then remember Rockferry!!

 

Oh god this would actually be a dream come true if Lana did B-sides too 

 

Ugghhh can you imagine UV B-sides?! Now that would be incredible 

[SlowGinFizzzz 15,305]

I got Rockferry on vinyl today and I love it!

But it's a shame that the deluxe edition bonus tracks are not available on vinyl.

[SlowGinFizzzz 15,305]

2020!

 

http://instagram.com/p/B6Ln5nbB7s8/

[SlowGinFizzzz 15,305]

Wow. 

http://instagram.com/p/B8_95uYhFMQ/

You can only imagine the amount of times I thought about writing this. The way I would write it, how I would feel thereafter. Well, not entirely sure why now is the right time, and what it is that feels exciting and liberating for me to talk. I cannot explain it. Many of you wonder what happened to me, where did I disappear to and why. A journalist contacted me, he found a way to reach me and I told him everything this past summer. He was kind and it felt so amazing to finally speak. The truth is, and please trust me I am ok and safe now, I was raped and drugged and held captive over some days. Of course I survived. The recovery took time. There’s no light way to say it. But I can tell you in the last decade, the thousands and thousands of days I committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart again, the sun does now shine. You wonder why I did not choose to use my voice to express my pain? I did not want to show the world the sadness in my eyes. I asked myself, how can I sing from the heart if it is broken? And slowly it unbroke. In the following weeks I will be posting a spoken interview. If you have any questions I would like to answer them, in the spoken interview, if I can. I have a sacred love and sincere appreciation for your kindness over the years. You have been friends. I want to thank you for that x

Duffy

Please respect this is a gentle move for me to make, for myself, and I do not want any intrusion to my family. Please support me to make this a positive experience.

[Actor 1,555]

Please guys, pleasee, is there someone who have something in FLAC

 

[cherryblossoms 10,269]

Can someone in the UK rip Something Beautiful in 320kbps please?

I ripped the audio but I'm in the US and BBC streams outside of the UK are restricted to like 96kbps